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Jeff and Rhonda Grayer's W.T. Stevens Construction will help bring back clean water to Flint residents.

Tashii Farmer died after Las Vegas cop Kenneth Lopera tasered him seven times before using a deadly chokehold on him following a foot chase over the weekend.

The young girl's mother stressed that the officer should no longer be allowed to work at the Texas school.

BOSTON (AP) — While other Harvard University students were writing papers for their senior theses, Obasi Shaw was busy rapping his. Shaw is the first student in Harvard’s history to submit a rap album as a senior thesis in the English Department, the university said. The album, called “Liminal Minds,” has earned the equivalent of […]

The city of New Orleans will take down a prominent statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee on Friday, completing the southern city’s removal of four Confederate-related statues that some called divisive. Unlike the first three statues, city officials plan to take Lee’s statue down during the day, with Mayor Mitch Landrieu planning a major […]

GLUCKSTADT, Miss. (AP) — Three young Mississippi men were arrested hours after a 6-year-old boy was found shot dead Thursday in his mother’s stolen car and the suspects will be charged with capital murder, authorities said. Madison County District Attorney Michael Guest announced at a news conference that authorities plan to charge Byron McBride, D’Allen […]

Police officers will get de-escalation training.

ALPINE, Utah (AP) — Rep. Jason Chaffetz announced Thursday he will resign from Congress next month, saying a “mid-life crisis” compelled him to step away from his chairmanship of the House Oversight Committee as it is poised to launch an investigation into President Donald Trump’s firing of the FBI director. The announcement by Chaffetz, 50, […]

He's already lost what little control he started his term with -- but what are the possible consequences for all Americans if President Trump is allowed to last until next fall's mid-terms?

NEW YORK (AP) — A man steered his car onto a sidewalk running through the heart of Times Square and mowed down pedestrians for three blocks Thursday, killing a teenager, then emerged from his wrecked vehicle wild-eyed and waving his arms before he was subdued by police and bystanders. The driver, a 26-year-old U.S. Navy […]

A newly leaked video showed a Balch Spring police sergeant tasering a handcuffed Black man nearly a year before the department fell into more controversy with the shooting death of teen Jordan Edwards.

One Texas teen could be registered as a sex offender because he had sex with his 12-year-old girlfriend and was arrested. The Houston Chronicle’s Brian Rogers reports: The teen, who was in seventh grade, is charged with aggravated sexual assault of a child. His girlfriend was a sixth-grader at the time. “He had consensual sex […]