ALTOONA, Pa. – Police and the district attorney are reviewing whether charges will be filed against a man whose gun accidentally fired during an Easter vigil Mass in central Pennsylvania. Altoona police aren’t identifying the man who was grazed by the bullet about 11 p.m. Saturday at the Cathedral of …
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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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Mere months after drivers in Oregon got the green light to pump their own gas, one of the state’s biggest labor unions is trying to ban self-service again. “For decades, Oregon stood shoulder to shoulder with New Jersey as the last bastions of resistance to self-serve gas,” reads the petition …
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Dozens of religious and educational organizations are urging the University of California to reject a proposed ethnic studies admission requirement in light of an influential faculty council’s defense of the Oct. 7 Hamas massacre. “The ethnic studies faculty at the University of California have essentially taken off their mask and …
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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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Special Counsel David Weiss blasted Hunter Biden’s recent request to subpoena former President Trump and other former officials in a court filing on Tuesday. Weiss submitted the filing in Delaware federal court, arguing Biden’s request “is meritless and should be denied.” President Biden’s son had requested subpoenas against Trump, former …
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