INKSTER, Mich. – A judge has ordered police in suburban Detroit to release more dash cam video of the arrest of a black driver who was pulled over by two white officers, thrown to the ground and repeatedly punched in the head by one officer. Fifty-seven-year-old Floyd Dent was arrested …
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – The U.S. Department of Transportation is investigating an incident on Friday in which passengers on a United Express flight were diverted from Denver International Airport to the Colorado Springs Airport and spent nearly six hours on the tarmac before they were allowed to leave the aircraft. …
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FARMINGTON, N.M. – A middle school student in northwest New Mexico says she was sent to the principal’s office and asked if she sold drugs or was involved with a gang after she wore her rosary to school. Eighth-grader Latanyia Clah tells KOB-TV (http://bit.ly/1JD1mZR ) that she and her sister …
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – The last known surviving member of the German engineering team that came to the United States and designed the rocket that took astronauts to the moon has died. Oscar Carl Holderer died Tuesday at age 95 in Huntsville, Alabama. Son Michael Holderer says his father suffered a …
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NEW YORK – Two women who took a writing class at Columbia University found that their own stories were better than fiction. They were sisters born to the same teenage mother in the early 1980s and adopted by different families. The New York Times (http://nyti.ms/1Ebw3NL ) reports that Lizzie Valverde …
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An Alabama inmate scheduled to be put to death Thursday by lethal injection for the shooting death of his friend’s father urged young people to take a pause before making life-altering mistakes. Alabama is scheduled to execute Casey McWhorter, 49, for the Feb. 18, 1993, death of Edward Lee Williams, …
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A five-year-old boy was stabbed to death by his twin brother during a fight between the pair in California earlier this week, the Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office announced via a social media post. The incident took place Wednesday just before 4 p.m. at the family home on Tucker Road …
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Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin rejected on Tuesday the wording of a proposed ballot measure that, if approved, would repeal the state’s abortion ban and prohibit restriction of the procedure within 18 weeks after conception. Arkansans for Limited Government submitted the proposed popular name — The Arkansas Reproductive Healthcare Amendment …
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A man on death row in Oklahoma was executed Thursday morning for the fatal shooting of two men in 2001 and made a single request for his final meal. Phillip Dean Hancock, 59, requested only fried chicken — no sides — for his last meal, The Oklahoman reported, citing the …
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One person was shot dead and four others were injured after a gunman opened fire inside a homeless encampment in Las Vegas on Friday, with the shooting coming just hours after police in Los Angeles said they are searching for a serial killer who has allegedly killed three homeless people. …
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