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NEW YORK (AP) — A reputed street gang leader who sought to convince a jury that amateur music videos featuring him rhyming about carrying guns and spilling the blood of rivals were pure fiction was sentenced Thursday to life in prison. Ronald Herron was convicted in June of murder, racketeering, robbery and other charges following […]

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday ordered California’s corrections department to provide a transgender inmate with sex reassignment surgery, the first time such an operation has been ordered in the state. U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar in San Francisco ruled that denying the surgery to 51-year-old Michelle-Lael Norsworthy violates her constitutional rights. […]

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HILL AIR FORCE BASE, Utah (AP) — President Barack Obama made his first presidential visit to Utah on Thursday, leaving him one state short of touching down in all 50 while in office. South Dakota is the only state he hasn’t been to. Obama arrived at Hill Air Force Base near Ogden, Utah, ahead of […]

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LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) — What’s it going to take to get people to use a lot less water in drought-stricken California, the Technicolor landscape of lush yards, emerald golf courses and aquamarine swimming pools? Residents may be about to find out as California imposes the first mandatory statewide water-use restrictions later this year. Gov. […]

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GARISSA, Kenya (AP) — Al-Shabab gunmen rampaged through a university in northeastern Kenya at dawn Thursday, killing 147 people in the group’s deadliest attack in the East African country. Four militants were slain by security forces to end the siege just after dusk. The masked attackers — strapped with explosives and armed with AK-47s — […]

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NEW YORK (AP) — The Boy Scouts’ New York chapter has hired the nation’s first openly gay Eagle Scout as a summer camp leader in public contrast to the national scouting organization’s ban on openly gay adult members. The Boy Scouts’ Greater New York Councils said Thursday that they have hired Pascal Tessier, an 18-year-old […]

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NEW YORK (AP) — Two women were arrested Thursday after undercover investigators determined they were trying to build a homemade bomb, prosecutors said. The public was never in danger, authorities said. There is evidence the women looked at Islamic State group propaganda on the Internet, prosecutors say, but authorities don’t believe they had direct contact […]

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GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Two current and one former prison employee who all belonged to the Ku Klux Klan planned to kill a black inmate as he was released in retaliation for a fight, officials said Thursday. The three men — Thomas Jordan Driver, 25, David Elliot Morgan, 47, and 42-year-old Charles Thomas Newcomb — […]

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7:10 p.m. (1610 GMT, 12:10 p.m. EDT) Kenyan Interior Minister Joseph Nkaissery says that more than 70 people have been killed in an attack by Somali-based Islamic extremists on a college in northeast Kenya. Nkaissery said that 79 people were wounded in the attack Thursday and four suspected attackers have been killed. He told reporters […]

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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama has signed into law a measure allowing people to write off donations they made this year to the families of two slain New York police officers. Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramoswere shot in their patrol car in Brooklyn on Dec. 20 by a man who then killed himself. Under […]

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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans’ coroner has classified the death of a man shot by a police officer in the chaos following Hurricane Katrina as a homicide. Coroner Jeffrey Rouse made the announcement Wednesday in the case of Henry Glover, whose body was burned by one police officer after another officer shot him on […]

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Threats against schools don’t just come written on bathroom walls these days. Spread using smartphone apps, social media and Internet phone services, anonymous reports of bombs or other threats of violence are forcing school evacuations and responses by police or other authorities. In the vast majority of cases, such a threat turns […]