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DALLAS (AP) — A series of shootings in the Dallas area killed at least four people and wounded others, but authorities said early Thursday that a suspect was in custody. Police were first called to a home in southwest Dallas around 10:30 p.m. Wednesday where they found four gunshot victims, two of whom had died, […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama will speak later this month at a ceremony commemorating the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington. The White House says the speech will be delivered during the “Let Freedom Ring” ceremony on the Lincoln Memorial steps on Aug. 28. No other details were released. Obama’s speech will come […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Some 60 years ago, a doctor in Baltimore removed cancer cells from a poor black patient named Henrietta Lacks without her knowledge or consent. Those cells eventually helped lead to a multitude of medical treatments and laid the groundwork for the multibillion-dollar biotech industry. It’s a saga made famous by the […]
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — An apparent bomb threat made in connection with a trans-Atlantic flight forced law enforcement officials and emergency personnel to meet the jet on the tarmac. USAirways Flight 777 from Shannon, Ireland, landed in an isolated part of Philadelphia International Airport shortly before 2 p.m. Wednesday. Passengers exited the Boeing 757 via staircases […]
DETROIT (AP) — Mike Duggan accomplished something in Detroit’s mayoral primary that may never have been done before: He won as a write-in. By early Wednesday morning, with most of the city’s 614 precincts reporting, Duggan and popular Wayne County Sheriff Benny Napoleon had clear leads over the rest of the field in the race […]
Harper Lee, 87, author of the literary classic, “To Kill A Mockingbird,” is battling financial exploitation and elder abuse at the hands of her former…
FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — The standby attorney for the soldier charged in the 2009 Fort Hood shooting rampage accused Maj. Nidal Hasan on Wednesday of deliberately charting a course toward a conviction and death sentence, abruptly halting the trial after only one day. Lt. Col. Kris Poppe, Hasan’s lead court-appointed standby attorney, said he […]
We’ll file this one under you can’t make this junk up! ! A Fort Collins Colorado teenager was arrested ironically while recording a music…
A 20-year-old Florida man was arrested Sunday after his mother called the police and said her son admitted to killing his girlfriend, WESH-TV reports. Law…
Towanda Reaves (pictured) has been charged with second-degree murder and child abuse, after Baltimore authorities say she rubbed the drug methadone on the gums of her…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) — The Chattanooga Times Free Press has fired one of its editorial page editors after he changed the headline on a column critical of President Obama. According to the paper, the headline read, “Take your jobs plan and shove it, Mr. President: Your policies have harmed Chattanooga enough.” The headline appeared Tuesday, […]
26-year-old Pastor Rodney Wills was fired from his position at a North Carolina church after he was spotted at a Rick Ross concert. Wills was a pastor at Mt. Salem Baptist Church in North Carolina for almost four years when he was unexpectedly fired. The deacon board voted 11 to 3 when they met to […]
