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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A building collapse that killed six people and injured 13 has brought swift and mounting fallout in a city where demolition contractors are lightly regulated, with a plaintiff’s lawyer calling it an entirely preventable tragedy that resulted from gross recklessness on the job site. One day after the tragedy, Philadelphia officials began […]
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — When Gloria C. MacKenzie went to a Florida supermarket near Tampa last month to buy a Powerball ticket, another person in line did something nice for the 84-year-old widow. “While in line at Publix, another lottery player [Mindy Crandell] was kind enough to let me go ahead of them in line […]
A Chicago high school student is facing charges after spiking a container of marinara sauce with some very spicy hot sauce, sending three people to the hospital according to the Chicago Tribune. The unidentified 17-year-old student is being charged with five counts of misdemeanor battery. Three cafeteria workers were treated by the school’s nurse before […]
MIAMI (AP) — Tim Duncan‘s NBA Finals game looks as good now as it did last decade. And last century. Duncan overcame a slow start to finish with 20 points and 14 rebounds, Tony Parker banked in a desperation jumper on a broken play with 5.2 seconds left and the San Antonio Spurs withstood LeBron […]
PARIS (AP) — Done with a dominating performance in the French Open semifinals, Serena Williams climbed the stairs leading from the locker room to the players’ lounge, looking to give her mother a hug. Smiling widely all the while, Williams greeted visitors, posed for photos and signed autographs on her way. It’s been more than […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Prostitutes in a sex-trafficking case that’s winding down in New York City say they and their pimps, Vincent George Sr. and Vincent George Jr., were one big happy family, enjoying a comfortable suburban life as “wife-in-laws” in Pennsylvania and commuting by night to work in Manhattan. But prosecutors say the women were […]
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities say a burglar’s decision to knock back a couple of beers during a break-in at an upstate New York home led to his arrest. Onondaga (ahn-uhn-DAH’-gah) County prosecutors tell The Post-Standard of Syracuse that 29-year-old Moses Wilson was stealing copper piping from a vacant rental home in Syracuse in early […]
Things got unnecessarily out of hand when a Providence news reporter went to interview a woman whose daughter was shot over the weekend at…
Chelsey Ramer (pictured) is a proud Native American, but when she attached a tribal eagle feather to her graduation mortarboard, she would reportedly not only be denied…
DULUTH, Minn. (AP) — An aspiring half-marathon runner in Minnesota attributed her unbearable back pain to a two-hour training session. A day later, she was cradling a newborn. Trish Staine, 33, says she had no idea she was pregnant before Monday’s surprise birth. The Duluth mother of three said she hadn’t gained any weight or […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The government says 1 in 10 youths at juvenile detention facilities around the country reported having been sexually victimized by staff or by other youths. The study by the Bureau of Justice Statistics found that among the more than 1,300 youths who reported victimization by adult staff, 9 out of 10 were […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The government has been secretly collecting the telephone records of millions of U.S. customers of Verizon under a top secret court order, according to the chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. The Obama administration defended the National Security Agency’s need to collect telephone records of U.S. citizens, but critics said it was […]
