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ESCONDIDO, Calif. (AP) — A former driver for Uber and Lyft was charged Wednesday with sexually assaulting several women while on the job, and Southern California investigators said that there are likely more victims. An 18-year-old college student reported that she was assaulted Friday afternoon after requesting an Uber car in a city near San […]
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Repair crews worked through the night trying to restore electricity to Puerto Rico’s 3.5 million people early Thursday after a fire at a power plant blacked out the entire U.S. territory. Officials said they hoped to restore service by morning, but some schools canceled classes for the day as […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Outraged Republican and Democratic lawmakers on Wednesday grilled the head of pharmaceutical company Mylan about the significant cost increase of its life-saving EpiPens and the profits for a company with sales in excess of $11 billion. Defending the company’s business practices, Mylan CEO Heather Bresch told the House Oversight and Government Reform […]
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — An unarmed black man shot dead in the middle of a Tulsa street last week by a white police officer had run-ins with the law dating back to his teenage years and recently served a four-year stint in prison. But those closest to Terence Crutcher described him as a church-going father […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the U.S. presidential campaign (all times EDT): 10:35 a.m. Boxing promoter Don King is praising Donald Trump as “the only gladiator” who can take on a system that King said is “rigged” and “racist” and “sexist.” King introduced the Republican presidential nominee to a group of pastors in Cleveland […]
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The Latest on police shooting and protests in Charlotte, North Carolina (all times local): 10:45 a.m. An outspoken leader of the Nation of Islam is calling for an economic boycott of Charlotte after a police officer shot a man to death. B.J. Murphy called for the boycott Wednesday at a news […]
CHICAGO (AP) — The Chicago Police Department plans to add 970 new positions over the next two years as it struggles to deal with a violent year full of killings and gun crimes. Chicago police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said Wednesday that the number includes 516 new officers, 92 field training officers, 200 detectives, 112 sergeants […]
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A defense attorney touched off a protest about race and free expression in a Las Vegas courtroom when she refused to remove a “Black Lives Matter” button from her blouse despite a judge’s request not to demonstrate what he called “political speech.” Clark County District Court Judge Douglas Herndon asked Erika […]
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Authorities in Charlotte tried to quell public anger Wednesday after a police officer shot a black man, but a dusk prayer vigil turned into a march that ended with a protester critically wounded by gunfire and the governor declared a state of emergency in the city. The man was not shot […]
Authorities rushed the man to Carolinas Medical Center where he was pronounced dead.
Officer Betty Shelby has claimed, via a lawyer, that she felt “threatened” by Terence Crutcher before she shot and killed him, according to Tulsa World. The 40-year-old African-American man was unarmed when Shelby fatally shot him Friday evening. Crutcher’s family says he was waiting for help on the road after his SUV broke down. The officer’s […]
For the second time in a week, a college student has been expelled from a university after using the N-word in a Snapchat post. Belmont University in Nashville kicked out a student Monday after he used the racist term to describe Black players on the Philadelphia Eagles who raised their fists during the national anthem. […]
