The Texas police officer filmed wrestling a teenage girl to the ground at a pool party — stoking racial tensions in a Dallas suburb — responded to two suicide calls earlier in his shift that took an emotional toll on him, his lawyer said. Officer David Eric Casebolt, 41, who …
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BELLINGHAM, Wash. – High school students grieved at a northwest Washington candlelight vigil after an SUV earlier jumped a curb and plowed into a group of teens out for a gym class walk, killing two boys and seriously injuring two others. About 30 students from Windward High School in Ferndale, …
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FREDERICK, Md. – Police say an ice cream truck driver in Maryland was gunned down as he was selling treats to children and a suspect has been arrested. Frederick police say 22-year-old Brandon Brown was fatally shot Saturday afternoon at Lucas Village, a subsidized housing complex. Lt. Clark Pennington, a …
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California police are searching for four suspects who avoided rising prices at the pump by allegedly stealing 528 gallons of gas from a Pasadena Mobil station early Monday morning. The suspects activated the station’s pumps with a type of card or other mechanism before pumping $2,465 of supreme unleaded gas …
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San Diego’s school board is fanning the flames of the national immigration debate, some residents of the California border city complained Wednesday after the Unified School District passed a resolution the night before condemning Arizona’s controversial new immigration law. The resolution, which passed unanimously, restricts school employees from traveling to …
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NEW YORK – A New York City teenager is being credited with using Facebook to track down the owner of a wallet she found on a city bus. Eighteen-year-old Michael Sally was on his way to Xaverian High School in Brooklyn on June 4 when his wallet apparently fell out …
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PIERRE, S.D. – A polygamous sect seeking more water for its South Dakota compound wants to block discussion of its faith and member’s personal details during a hearing with regulators. An attorney for the group argues the information isn’t relevant to the application to the South Dakota Water Management Board. …
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LOS ANGELES – A California appeals court has overturned a verdict because of what it called egregious misconducted by a state lawyer who portrayed an injured motorcyclist as a low-life Nazi biker. The 4th District Court of Appeal ruled Tuesday a Transportation Department lawyer ran roughshod over her opponent and …
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Police in Connecticut say a pair of severed human legs have been found near a railroad station in New Haven. Officer David Hartman, a New Haven Police spokesman, says a man flagged down an officer Wednesday morning and led him to the body parts, which were …
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. – A 15-year-old North Carolina girl has died after being kicked in the head by her father’s horse over the weekend. Officials with Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte told local news outlets that Destiny Stafford died early Monday from the injuries suffered in the Saturday accident. Friends said …
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