Days after President Donald Trump warned he would send the National Guard to Chicago, police said at least five people were fatally shot and 35 others wounded over the Labor Day weekend, according to reports. According to ABC7 Chicago, two women were found shot in a South Shore apartment on …
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FormerOhio State long snapper Michael Roen McCullough was arrested in Columbus early Friday morning after allegedly punching his girlfriend and strangling her during an argument, according to police records. McCullough, 25, was arrested by Columbus police just after 1:30 a.m. and booked into the Franklin County Corrections Center, where he …
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At least 58 people were shot in Chicago, with eight fatalities, this Labor Day weekend, according to NBC Chicago and at a juncture when its mayor vowed to block President Donald Trump’s efforts to combat crime. The shootings took place in a series of unrelated incidents, with the majority resulting …
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MEXICO CITY – Police are randomly checking people for guns at Mexico City’s 175 subway stations after a man opened fire inside a crowded station, killing two people and wounding five others. City officials say that more than 1,600 city police officers and 3,000 security officials have been assigned to …
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OKLAHOMA CITY – A 14-year-old Oklahoma boy was tied up for more than four years and locked in a bedroom closet where his mother and a male companion starved, beat and burned him repeatedly, authorities say. Oklahoma City police Sgt. Gary Knight said Tuesday that investigators still are interviewing people …
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ROME – Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi had his first meeting Saturday with Pope Benedict XVI since the Italian leader was implicated in a sex scandal that broke last spring. Vatican spokesman the Rev. Federico Lombardi says the pope spoke briefly with Berlusconi on Saturday at Rome’s Ciampino Airport. Lombardi says …
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MIR ALI, Pakistan – A missile fired from a suspected unmanned U.S. drone slammed into a car in a Pakistani tribal region close to the Afghan border Monday, killing four people, intelligence officials and residents said. The apparent American strike was the latest of more than 50 in the region …
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VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI denounced the failure of world leaders to agree to a new climate change treaty in Copenhagen last month, saying Monday that world peace depends on safeguarding God’s creation. He issued the admonition in a speech to ambassadors accredited to the Vatican, an annual appointment …
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BERLIN – Police say a pack of wild pigs popped under a fence onto a stretch of the German autobahn, shutting the highway down for hours. Police in Lower Saxony said Thursday that at about 2:30 a.m. the pigs apparently dug under a fence designed to keep them and other …
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An electric car maker plans to open a factory in a northern Indiana plant that once made parts for recreational vehicles. State and local officials planned to join executives from Think North America for an official announcement Tuesday. The plant in Elkhart will be Think North America’s first in the …
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