A University of Oklahoma fraternity will close and its members have been suspended after video purportedly showing some of its members taking part in a racist chant was posted online late Sunday. The national organization of Sigma Alpha Epsilon said that an investigation had verified the contents of the 10-second …
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TOLEDO, Ohio – Chunks of ice breaking up along an Ohio river have pushed up into a cemetery and toppled dozens of headstones. Authorities say some parts of the cemetery near Toledo are covered with pieces of ice stacked 4 feet high. They estimate that about 90 percent of the …
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SAVANNAH, Ga. – The Navy has charged seven sailors in connection with the illicit videotaping of female officers aboard a submarine. Documents released Wednesday by the Navy show that the Georgia-based sailors served aboard the USS Wyoming and were charged last month. Three of those sailors also are charged with …
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SANTA ANA, Calif. – Preliminary lab results show that a Latin American holiday bread that made dozens of people sick this week in Southern California was laced with a synthetic drug. The Orange County health agency did not identify the drug in a Friday night statement or say how it …
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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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