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NEW YORK (AP) — New York City police are questioning a suspect in the death of a subway rider who was shoved onto the tracks. New York Police Department spokesman Paul Browne says investigators recovered security video showing a man fitting the description of the assailant working with street vendors near Rockefeller Center. Police went […]
The defense for Trayvon Martin’s killer, George Zimmerman, is still attempting to build that self-defense case. Attorneys released a re-mastered photo of the suspect bloodied the night the confrontation occurred. The photo was previously presented before, however, this time around the image is higher quality and less grainy. Zimmerman’s defense vows to present related documents […]
Ella Edwards, the mother of a college student who died in 2009 unexpectedly launched an online petition asking the loan company First Marblehead Corp to forgive a $10,000 student loan taken out by her son Jermaine Edwards, that she could not afford to repay. Edwards, a 61-year-old who works part-time as a seamstress, had gained […]
Days after his murder-suicide, new details are emerging about what happened before Jovan Belcher turned the gun on his girlfriend, and then himself. According to reports, Belcher went out for dinner and drinks with another woman named Brittni Glass on Friday night and spent the night with her as well. Neighbors say that Belcher slept […]
ATLANTA (AP) — Potentially lethal carbon monoxide levels at an Atlanta elementary school with no detectors sent at least 42 students and seven adults to hospitals Monday and forced 500 more to evacuate, authorities said. Young children with oxygen masks over their faces were strapped to gurneys and others carried to ambulances by emergency officials […]
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — As investigators search for a motive to help explain why Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher killed his girlfriend and then himself, a discordant picture of the couple began to emerge. Belcher and his girlfriend, 22-year-old Kasandra M. Perkins, had lived apart briefly earlier in the year but had gotten back together […]
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — As investigators search for a motive to help explain why Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher killed his girlfriend and then himself, a discordant picture of the couple began to emerge. Belcher and his girlfriend, 22-year-old Kasandra M. Perkins, had lived apart briefly earlier in the year but had gotten back together […]
DETROIT (AP) — A Detroit father who inspired dozens of people to look for his missing 2-year-old daughter was sentenced to life in prison for her murder Monday while repeatedly insisting that she’s still alive. D’Andre Lane claimed Bianca Jones was abducted during a carjacking a year ago, a tragic, emotional story that led police […]
DETROIT (AP) — A Detroit father who inspired dozens of people to look for his missing 2-year-old daughter was sentenced to life in prison for her murder Monday while repeatedly insisting that she’s still alive. D’Andre Lane claimed Bianca Jones was abducted during a carjacking a year ago, a tragic, emotional story that led police […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Open your notebooks and sharpen your pencils. School for thousands of public school students is about to get quite a bit longer. Five states announced Monday that they will add at least 300 hours of learning time to the calendar in some schools starting in 2013. Colorado, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York and […]
A Texas mother, Sonja Cross, is upset with a local elementary school after learning her son was not allowed to use the bathroom because he had not earned allowance, The J.O. Davis Elementary teacher requires students to pay for trips to the toilet with “Boyd Bucks,” fake money used to reward the children for good […]
A Texas mother, Sonja Cross, is upset with a local elementary school after learning her son was not allowed to use the bathroom because he had not earned allowance, The J.O. Davis Elementary teacher requires students to pay for trips to the toilet with “Boyd Bucks,” fake money used to reward the children for good […]
