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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans police and federal authorities were searching early Tuesday for a young man who is suspected of opening fire at a Mother’s Day parade in New Orleans, wounding 19. Police Superintendent Ronal Serpas identified the suspect late Monday as Akein Scott, 19, of New Orleans. Referring to blurry surveillance camera […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress was not told tea party groups were being inappropriately targeted by the Internal Revenue Service, even after acting agency Chief Steven Miller had been briefed on the matter. Miller was first informed on May, 3, 2012, that applications for tax-exempt status by tea party groups were inappropriately singled out for extra […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the news cooperative’s top executive called a “massive and unprecedented intrusion” into how news organizations gather the news. The records obtained by the Justice Department listed outgoing calls for the work and […]
It’s not right, and apparently it’s not okay for a passenger to belt a Whitney Houston song over and over again during a cross-country domestic flight. The six-hour American Airlines flight from LAX to New York’s JFK airport was forced to make an emergency landing in Kansas City after a woman refused to stop belting […]
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans police hope a $10,000 reward and blurry surveillance camera images will lead to arrests in a Mother’s Day shooting that wounded 19 people and showed again how far the city has to go to shake a persistent culture of violence that belies the city’s festive image. Video released early […]
MILAN (AP) — FIFA president Sepp Blatter was “appalled” when he learned of the racist chanting that caused AC Milan’s match against Roma to be suspended. Sunday’s game was stopped for 97 seconds during the second half when visiting Roma supporters would not stop chanting at Milan players Mario Balotelli and Kevin-Prince Boateng. The league […]
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A Philadelphia abortion doctor was found guilty Monday of first-degree murder and could face execution in the deaths of three babies who authorities say were delivered alive and then killed with scissors at his grimy clinic, in a case that became a flashpoint in the nation’s debate over abortion. Dr. Kermit Gosnell, […]
DETROIT (AP) — The first report by Detroit’s emergency manager declares that the city is broke and at risk of running completely out of money — a financial meltdown that could mean no paychecks or pension benefits and even deeper cuts in municipal services. If Detroit cannot avert disaster, the only remaining option appears to […]
POTTSVILLE, Pa. (AP) — Fire tore through a family’s eastern Pennsylvania home on Mother’s Day, authorities said, killing four young children, their father and another relative while their mother was across the street doing laundry at a friend’s house. The blaze broke out around 11:55 p.m. Sunday at the single-family home in Pottsville. Firefighters later […]
New information has emerged about the surprising death of Malcolm Shabazz’, the grandson of civil rights icon Malcolm X. According to the Associated Press, the…
A high school student in Riverdale, Ga., was suspended after he posted a picture of his principal’s mugshot to Instagram. SEE ALSO: Obama, In Texas,…
Chicago-area limousine driver Richard L. Madison was arrested Saturday night after he allegedly drove 23 high school students to their prom while drunk, the Chicago…
