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NEW YORK (AP) — A Democratic state lawmaker was arrested along with five other politicians Tuesday in an alleged plot to pay tens of thousands of dollars in bribes to GOP bosses to let him run for mayor of New York City as a Republican. U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara called it an “unappetizing smorgasbord of […]
NEWINGTON, Conn. (AP) — Customers packed gun stores around Connecticut on Tuesday ahead of a vote expected to bring sweeping changes to the state’s gun control laws, including a ban on the sale of large-capacity ammunition magazines like the ones used in the Newtown shooting and a new classification for more than 100 types of […]
NELSON, Ga. (AP) — Backers of a newly adopted ordinance requiring gun ownership in a small north Georgia town acknowledge they were largely seeking to make a point about gun rights. The ordinance in the city of Nelson — population 1,300 — was approved Monday night and goes into effect in 10 days. However, it […]
NEW YORK (AP) — The New York City medical examiner’s office says two potential pieces of human remains have been found during the sifting of newly uncovered debris from the World Trade Center site. The office says the discovery was made Monday. About 60 truckloads of debris that could contain tiny human bone fragments have […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Schools across the nation should train selected staff members to carry weapons and should each have at least one armed security officer to make students safer and allow a quicker response to an attack, the director of a National Rifle Association-sponsored study said Tuesday. The task force that produced the report has […]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Condemned killer Steven Smith‘s argument for mercy isn’t an easy one. Smith acknowledges he intended to sexually assault his girlfriend’s 6-month-old daughter but says he never intended to kill the baby. The girl, Autumn Carter, of Mansfield, died because Smith was too drunk to realize his sexual assault was killing the […]
UNIONTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A former Pennsylvania jail inmate says he didn’t sneak a cellphone into the lockup in his prosthetic leg, though he acknowledged having it for a year as he pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct. Instead, 28-year-old Christopher Greer, of Uniontown, tells a judge the phone was in his cargo shorts when he […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says 480 workers on the president’s budget staff have been notified they may have to take days off without pay because of a partisan budget stalemate. Press secretary Jay Carney wouldn’t say whether notices have gone out to other aides to President Barack Obama outside the Office of Management […]
DENVER (AP)— Because of a paperwork error, the suspect in last month’s killing of Colorado’s corrections chief was freed from prison in January – four years earlier than authorities intended. Judicial officials acknowledged Monday that Evan Spencer Ebel‘s previous felony conviction had been inaccurately recorded and his release was a mistake. In 2008, Ebel pleaded […]
NBC Chicago is reporting that several teens were arrested after dozens of mob groups began attacking pedestrians on Chicago’s downtown Magnificent Mile area on Saturday night. Police responded to reports of disturbances near Michigan and Chicago Avenues. Police said 28 teens were arrested during the incident and no serious injuries were reported. The teens charged […]
BRADENTON, Fla. (AP) — A preliminary investigation supports a father’s account of shooting and killing a dog that bit his 11-year-old son in order to recover the boy’s severed pinky, a Manatee County Sheriff’s report said. The boy was at his home Friday evening when he approached the dog in its cage. As the boy […]
72-year-old Ilene Henry loves her some “American Idol”. So much so, that Henry devised a way to vote for her favorite “AI” singers over 100 times an hour. She told FOX 5 DC, “I’ve got it down to a science now and instead of counting the calls I keep hitting redial and I timed it […]
