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NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Dashboard video shows a police officer making a routine traffic stop. Cellphone video shows the officer shooting the fleeing motorist in the back. What remains a mystery is what happened during the minutes in between that led the polite officer to become a killer. The dash cam footage released by […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton will end months of speculation about her political future and launch her long-awaited 2016 presidential campaign on Sunday, according to people familiar with her plans. The first official word that Clinton will seek the Democratic Party’s nomination will come via an online video posted on social media. She’ll then […]
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A Wyoming man is facing sentencing after pleading guilty to a charge in connection with taking two locomotives from a coal mine and crashing them into another train — telling authorities he was angry at a supervisor. Derek Skyler Brux, 22, will learn his punishment Friday before U.S. District Judge Scott […]
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — The University of Oklahoma’s new chief of diversity programs says he knows why he’s the right fit for the job after a racist video roiled the school last month: He experienced discrimination when he was a student at the Norman campus in the 1990s. As a black Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity […]
An armed man kidnapped a woman, shot and critically wounded a Census Bureau guard and led police on a car chase through Maryland and Washington, D.C., on Thursday before authorities cornered him in an exchange of gunfire that left the suspect and a police officer wounded. The guard was brought to a hospital in critical […]
ROCHELLE, Ill. (AP) — At least one large tornado touched down Thursday night in northern Illinois, killing one person and injuring seven others in one tiny community as severe weather pummeled the Midwest. One person was killed in the tiny community of Fairdale, James Joseph with the Illinois Department of Emergency Management said. Rockford Fire […]
The family of Otis Byrd, the man who was found hanging from a tree in Mississippi last month, has hired a well-renowned medical examiner to…
Late today, the family of Walter Scott, the South Carolina man shot and killed by a police officer while fleeing after a traffic stop and the witness who captured the video of the fatal shooting, Feidin Santana, came together in Charleston, South Carolina. NBC News correspondent Craig Melvin was there as Scott’s mother thanked Santana […]
What’s the key to living a long and prosperous life? Just ask Jeralean Talley, who was recently named the oldest living person at the astonishing age of…
A White police officer in North Charleston, SC has been charged with murder in the shooting death of an unarmed Black man. Walter L. Scott…
At 84 years old, literary legend Toni Morrison has no intention of putting down her pen just yet. The New York Times Magazine put the…
For such an interesting candidate, Sen. Rand Paul formally announced his bid for the presidency in the most banal of ways. Speaking before a cheering…
