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FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — Investigators are trying to determine what triggered a “running gun battle” at a Central California motorcycle club’s annual dance that left one man dead, a dozen others wounded and hundreds of partygoers scrambling for cover. As the first of more than 100 law enforcement officers arrived early Saturday morning, shots were […]
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Josh Freeman has a new team, Minnesota has a new young quarterback and Tampa Bay has moved on. This was quite the eventful bye week for the Vikings and Buccaneers. Freeman’s agent, Erik Burkhardt, revealed the move in an exclamatory one-word tweet about his client Sunday night: “Vikings!!!” Burkhardt then confirmed to […]
An out of control 9-year-old South Carolina boy attacked his teacher after she seized his iPad because of his bad behavior, reports The Smoking Gun.…
Lashinda Demus (pictured right), who won a silver medal at the 2012 Olympic games, says that her husband, Jamel Mayrant (pictured), strangled her and also…
BrdsNBz, a sexual health education texting service for teenagers and their parents, was launched by the New Mexico Department of Health, MobiHealthNews reports. Short for…
Toni Jenkins, the 19-year-old waitress at a Tennessee Red Lobster who posted a picture to Facebook of a customer’s receipt that had “n*****” written on it, has received over $10,000 in donations since the incident. After her story went viral, a California man created a fund named “Tips for Toni” on youcaring.com, it has garnered […]
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A 9-year-old Minneapolis boy was able to get through security and onto a plane at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport without a ticket, an airport spokesman said Sunday. Security officials screened the boy at airport shortly after 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Metropolitan Airports Commission spokesman Patrick Hogan said. The boy then boarded a […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. commando raids in Libya and Somalia suggest the future shape of U.S. counterterrorism efforts — brief, targeted raids against highly sought extremist figures — and highlight the rise of Africa as a terrorist haven. The strikes also raise questions about where to interrogate and try captured terrorist suspects such as […]
After organizing a “historic and unprecedented extortion scheme” from City Hall, Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and his partner Bobby Ferguson may be sentenced to 28 years or more if prosecutors have their way. U.S. attorneys for Michigan’s Eastern District issued the memo that stated Ferguson should serve 14-28 years and Kilpatrick 28 years in prison. […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Authorities are investigating whether an undercover police officer present at a motorcycle rally witnessed a violent confrontation between an SUV driver and a swarm of bikers and didn’t immediately report it, a law enforcement official said Saturday. The officer came forward several days after the Sept. 29 rally to say he […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Police in Washington are reviewing the use of officers’ deadly force in the killing of a woman who tried to ram her car through a White House barrier, a shooting her family says was unjustified. The investigation will reconstruct the car chase and shooting, which briefly put the U.S. Capitol on lockdown, […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is beginning a new term with controversial topics that offer the court’s conservative majority the chance to move aggressively to undo limits on campaign contributions, undermine claims of discrimination in housing and mortgage lending, and allow for more government-sanctioned prayer. Assuming the government shutdown doesn’t get in their way, […]
