A teenager has revealed in an interview that she plans to marry her father and have children after dating for two years. The unnamed 18-year-old revealed in an interview with New York Magazine her romantic relationship of almost two years with her biological father after being estranged from him for …
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MARTINEZ, Calif. – A former California Highway Patrol officer has been sentenced to three years’ probation for sharing explicit photos from the cellphones of two women while they were under arrest. The San Francisco Chronicle reports (http://bit.ly/1z7brao ) the judge also gave Sean Harrington six months in jail Tuesday, but …
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LUBBOCK, Texas – One man is dead after the small aircraft in which he was flying crashed into a TV tower while approaching an airport in West Texas. Lubbock Fire Department Division Chief Steve Holland said the area surrounding the KCBD-TV tower in southeastern Lubbock was still being searched Wednesday …
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A Texas man was convicted of duping investors with tales of a fake Walt Disney theme park and resort project. Thomas W. Lucas Jr., a member of a Dallas-area real estate famiy, was convicted on seven wire fraud counts and one count of making false statements to the FBI. It …
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AUSTELL, Ga. – A metro Atlanta man told police a spider thief snuck into a crawlspace under his home and stole five of his 18 pet tarantulas. Austell police say they’ve issued an arrest warrant for a man accused of possessing the arachnids. Dwayne Melton tells WSB-TV (http://bit.ly/1MOqNI2) the spiders …
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. – A man who set sail from South Carolina two months ago was rescued on the overturned hull of his sailboat 200 miles off the coast of North Carolina, and he said he got by rationing his water and praying for help. “Every day I was like, ‘Please …
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HARTFORD, Conn. – A transportation official says railroad maintenance crews get little or no supervision and fail to document their work on a New York commuter line where six people died in a fiery crash in February. The New York Post reports Monday (http://bit.ly/1GD00x4 ) that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s …
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ORLANDO, Fla. – The trial of the remaining three former band members charged in the hazing death of a Florida A&M drum major is set to begin. Jury selection is expected to occupy much of Monday. Defendants Benjamin McNamee, Aaron Golson and Darryl Cearnel are being tried together, and each …
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BALTIMORE – A mother who was caught on video smacking her 16-year-old son around after he threw objects at police said when they made eye contact, he knew he was in trouble. “I’m a no-tolerant mother. Everybody that knows me, know I don’t play that,” Toya Graham, a single mother …
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FERGUSON, Mo. – Leaders of the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson, Missouri, are considering removing or replacing a makeshift shrine to Michael Brown that has lined the middle of the street where he was killed since last summer. The shrine to the unarmed black 18-year-old who was shot and killed …
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