OKLAHOMA CITY – The Oklahoma Supreme Court has reaffirmed in a 7-2 decision that a Ten Commandments monument on the state Capitol grounds must be removed. The state’s highest court on Monday denied a rehearing that had been requested by Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt. Chief Justice John Reif wrote …
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BILLINGS, Mont. – A man who was stopped along a road on Montana’s Crow Indian Reservation gunned down a family who tried to help him Wednesday, killing the couple and wounding their daughter, a relative said. The FBI confirmed that two people were killed and a third injured by gunfire …
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CHATSWORTH, Ga. – A third northwest Georgia woman faces a child cruelty charge after an 11-year-old boy was found trapped in a cage in a bedroom. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation says 64-year-old Gloria Jane Brown was arrested Tuesday and charged with first-degree cruelty to children and false imprisonment. She …
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FORT COLLINS, Colo. – Maybe pigs can fly. Authorities in northern Colorado say a 250-pound porker escaped relatively unscathed when it flew out of a trailer that was being pulled at about 65 mph on Interstate 25. The Fort Collins Coloradoan reports (http://goo.gl/RxdXaM ) the pig fell out of the …
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NEW ORLEANS – Sinking. It’s a daily reality in New Orleans, where the soil is compacting and compressing, taking New Orleans down ever so slightly more with each passing year. Much of this old French city is built atop former peat bogs and swampland long ago pumped dry. But on …
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CANBERRA, Australia – An overgrown sheep found lost in Australian scrubland was shorn for perhaps the first time on Thursday, yielding 42 kilograms (93 pounds) of wool, the shearer said. The woolly coat dwarfs that of New Zealand’s hermit ram dubbed Shrek who took six years to grow his massive …
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PEMBROKE PINES, Fla. – A manager has been fired and a drive-thru worker has been put on paid leave at a South Florida Arby’s restaurant accused of refusing to serve a police officer. The Atlanta-based company confirmed the disciplinary actions Friday. Pembroke Pines police say a sergeant attempted to order …
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Erik and Lyle Menendez are set to appear before California’s parole board this week — a pivotal moment nearly 30 years after they were convicted of murdering their parents in one of the country’s most infamous criminal cases. Erik’s parole hearing is scheduled for Thursday, followed by Lyle’s on Friday, …
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Bryan Kohberger is becoming a “jailhouse Karen” with numerous complaints filed about his living conditions less than a month after arriving in the Idaho prison where he will spend the rest of his life, experts said. Kohberger, a 30-year-old former criminology Ph.D. student who killed four University of Idaho undergrads …
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Former Secretary of State Antony Blinken appeared to have been kicked off a popular New York beach on Friday amid closures that were enforced due to dangerous conditions from Hurricane Erin. Photos show Blinken — who served under the Biden administration — and a friend relaxing on beach chairs in …
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