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NEW YORK (AP) — A two-alarm fire broke out in the basement of Macy’s flagship store Friday night, sending plumes of smoke into the air and forcing shoppers and store clerks outside while firefighters brought the blaze under control. No one was injured in the fire that broke out about 8:15 p.m. at the iconic […]
ROSEVILLE, Calif. (AP) — Police said a wanted parolee fired first in a shootout that left six officers injured and led to an hours-long standoff in a suburban Sacramento city before he surrendered. Roseville police spokesman Lt. Cal Walstad said that one officer with a jaw wound and a federal agent shot in the leg […]
RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) — A 13-year-old boy who became one of the nation’s youngest killers when he shot his neo-Nazi father to death as the man slept should be incarcerated in a state juvenile justice facility to protect him and the public, a judge was told Friday during a sentencing hearing. As the baby-faced, blond-haired […]
BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — A grand jury that reviewed evidence in the death of 6-year-old JonBenet Ramsey believed her parents were involved in the crime but didn’t say who killed the beauty queen, according to documents released Friday, 14 years after the grand jury made its recommendation. At the time, the panel recommended that both […]
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Oneida Indian officials who oppose the Washington Football Team nickname as a slur will meet with NFL officials next week in New York City, a tribe spokesman said Friday. The meeting agreed to by NFL officials earlier this month is scheduled for Wednesday in New York City, Oneida Indian Nation spokesman […]
Police are searching for Virginia teen Brianna Stewart (pictured), who disappeared after officers arrested her mother and charged her with reckless handling of a firearm,…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Subdued by fellow soldiers and arrested by local police, a Tennessee National Guardsman was being held Friday and awaiting charges in the shooting of two of his superiors at an armory north of Memphis. The sergeant first class, whose name was not released, had been disciplined before he opened fire with […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Pirates kidnapped two Americans working on a commercial ship near the coast of Nigeria, U.S. officials said Thursday. And the Nigerian navy ordered its forces to mount a rescue operation. “We are seeking additional information so we can contribute to the safe resolution of the situation,” White House spokesman Jay Carney said. […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The violent crime rate went up 15 percent last year, and the property crime rate rose 12 percent, the government said Thursday, signs that the nation may be seeing the last of the substantial declines in crime of the past two decades. Last year marked the second year in a row for […]
MILLINGTON, Tenn. (AP) — A member of the National Guard opened fire at an armory outside a U.S. Navy base in Tennessee, wounding two soldiers before being subdued and disarmed by others soldiers, officials said Thursday. Millington Police Chief Rita Stanback said the shooter was apprehended Thursday by other National Guard members, and that he […]
BROWNSBURG, Ind. (AP) — A central Indiana woman who promised to donate one of her kidneys to a man she barely knew has married him three years after his successful transplant surgery. Chelsea Clair and Kyle Froelich met at a 2009 car show when he was 19 and she was 22. Clair learned that day […]
La June Montgomery Tabron has been named as Kellogg’s newest CEO and president. La June joins a short list of six active Black CEO’s leading…
