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BALTIMORE (AP) — The family of Freddie Gray, who died after being critically injured in police custody, reached a $6.4 million wrongful death settlement with the city of Baltimore, resolving civil claims about a week after the first hearing in the criminal case against six police officers, officials said Tuesday. Six Baltimore police officers face […]
Serena Williams must play her older sister Venus Williams in order to take the Grand Slam Title at the US Open on Tuesday.
ANTIOCH, Ill. (AP) — Several hundred police officers from around the country attended a funeral Monday for a suburban Chicago lieutenant shot and killed last week, and residents of the area turned out by the thousands to watch the hearse go by. Charles Joseph Gliniewicz, who was 52 and on the cusp of retirement after […]
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Presidential candidate and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee will join protesters at a Tuesday rally outside the jail where a Kentucky clerk is locked in a cell over her refusal to issue marriage licenses to gay couples. Huckabee plans a private meeting with Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis, who was jailed […]
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday she does not need to apologize for using a private email account and server while at the State Department because “what I did was allowed.” In an interview with The Associated Press during a Labor Day campaign swing through Iowa, the front-runner for the Democratic […]
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio — without television cameras or any other media in tow — has been paying tribute to nine African-American worshippers were shot to death earlier this year. Before attending a town hall meeting Monday night in South Carolina, Rubio made a visit to the Charleston church […]
NEW YORK (AP) — The West Indian Day Parade, a rollicking, colorful celebration of Caribbean culture, music, style and food, rolled through New York City’s streets Monday but, once again, was marred by pre-dawn violence that left one man dead and an aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo in critical condition. Cuomo identified his wounded staffer […]
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Three cases of salmonella in Louisiana may be part of the outbreak that sickened 285 people in 27 states, killing a 99-year-old California woman, according to the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals. The Louisiana cases were in the Baton Rouge area, the northeast and the northwest, according to a […]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — An anchor for Fox News is suing Hasbro for more than $5 million over a toy hamster that shares her name — and possibly even her resemblance. Harris Faulkner sued Hasbro this week over its plastic Harris Faulkner hamster, sold as part of the Pawtucket, Rhode Island-based company’s popular Littlest Pet […]
ELIZABETH, N.J. (AP) — Two day care workers accused of instigating scuffles among young children as part of what one compared to the movie “Fight Club” pleaded not guilty Friday to child abuse charges. Erica Kenny, 22, of Cranford, and Chanese White, 28, of Roselle, entered their pleas on fourth-degree child abuse charges at a […]
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Charlotte police officers are being called back in from days off and vacations after five people have been killed and five others hurt in shootings during a violent Labor Day holiday weekend in North Carolina’s largest city. The dead include a 7-year-old boy killed during a birthday party around 9 p.m. […]
