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ROCHESTER, Minn. (AP) — Police say a 22-year-old woman accused of shoplifting arrived in style at a mall in southeastern Minnesota. Authorities say a limousine driver who took the woman to the Apache Mall in Rochester on Monday helped police to find her. Lt. Jim Evenson tells the Post-Bulletin that the woman stole about $300 […]
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — An ex-convict charged with fatally shooting a Memphis police officer during a struggle has told a judge he is indigent. Twenty-nine-year-old Tremaine Wilbourn is being held on $10 million bond on a first-degree murder charge in the Aug. 1 death of Officer Sean Bolton. He did not enter a plea during […]
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City hospitals will no longer allow the filming of reality TV in their wards without prior written consent. According to the New York Post, the Greater New York Hospital Association said in a statement that the ban “effectively puts an end to ‘reality TV’ in New York’s emergency rooms.” […]
MAHWAH, N.J. (AP) — A second man is in custody for allegedly making off with a bag containing $150,000 in cash that was mistakenly left behind by ATM workers in New Jersey. Police say 35-year-old Jamar Bludson and another man took the money that had been forgotten outside a Mahwah business on July 27. Officers […]
Chicago Little League team Jackie Robinson West may drop a lawsuit against the sport’s governing body in which it alleged the team was wrongfully stripped of the 2014 national title, reports ESPN. Jackie Robinson West, which lost to South Korea in the world championship game, was accused of using ineligible players by altering the league’s […]
FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — Police outnumbered protesters along West Florissant Avenue in Ferguson on Tuesday night, perhaps signaling the demonstrations around the anniversary of Michael Brown‘s death are starting to fade. The crowd of around 100 demonstrators was mostly calm and peaceful. Occasionally a few people would march or start a chant, but they spent […]
ANSE-A-PITRES, Haiti (AP) — Thousands of Haitians and people of Haitian descent have fled the Dominican Republic in recent weeks, and many of them have not gone far. People like Elissene Jean Louis and his family have been setting up flimsy homes along Haiti’s side of the border on the island of Hispaniola, building shacks […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton relented Tuesday to months of demands she relinquish the personal email server she used while secretary of state, directing the device be given to the Justice Department. The decision advances the investigation into the Democratic presidential front-runner’s use of a private email account as the nation’s top diplomat, and […]
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Before the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech to hundreds of thousands of people gathered in Washington in 1963, he fine-tuned his civil rights message before a much smaller audience in North Carolina. Reporters had covered King’s 55-minute speech at a high school gymnasium […]
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — A police officer who killed an unarmed college football player during a suspected burglary at a Texas car dealership was fired Tuesday for making mistakes that the city’s police chief said caused a deadly confrontation that put him and other officers in danger. Arlington officer Brad Miller, 49, could also face […]
FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — The latest in the events marking the anniversary of the death of 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri (all times local): 11 a.m. Members of an armed militia group patrolling the streets of Ferguson have drawn criticism from the county police chief overseeing security in the St. Louis suburb. St. Louis […]
HOUSTON (AP) — Neighbors of a family fatally shot in a Houston home were aware the household had problems, including a history of domestic violence, and worried about the six children who lived there. Carlos Sanchez, 40, who lived across the street from the family, recalled once finding the oldest child, 13-year-old Nathaniel, after dark […]
