COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Authorities plan to discuss their investigation into an explosion near a Colorado chapter of the NAACP. The FBI has scheduled a news conference Friday to discuss the blast, which happened Tuesday outside a barbershop that shares a building with the Colorado Springs NAACP chapter. Authorities say …
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RALEIGH, N.C. – A lawyer has told North Carolina lottery officials that a client with a winning Powerball ticket is waiting to claim the prize. Lottery officials said in a news release Friday that the lawyer said the client has a winning ticket for the $564 million jackpot. Officials were …
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MINEOLA, N.Y. – A court ruling in New York last week about where sex offenders may live has rekindled a debate over whether such laws really work to protect children. New York’s Court of Appeals ruled that only the state has the power to tell offenders where they can and …
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WALKERTON, Ind. – A northern Indiana pizza shop that came under fire after its owners said their religious beliefs wouldn’t allow them to cater a gay wedding is closed indefinitely, and its operators say they’ve gone into hiding. Memories Pizza in Walkerton faced criticism this week after co-owner Crystal O’Connor …
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BALTIMORE – A woman whose address was listed in public court records as that of a police officer charged in the Freddie Gray case has been harassed by phone calls from bail bondsmen and visits from journalists to her home, her lawyer said Monday. Alicia White is afraid to walk …
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A Tennessee man accused of killing several women and girls across the city of Memphis in three separate shootings on Saturday was found dead Sunday morning after a multi-agency manhunt. Memphis police said Mavis Christian Jr., 52, was found dead from what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound at …
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As Oregon reaches the three-year anniversary of passing its trailblazing law decriminalizing hard drugs like heroin, meth and cocaine, death and devastation are pushing many to plead for its reversal. Opioid-related deaths in the Beaver State have skyrocketed to 955 this year, up from 280 in 2019 before the law …
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More people in Gaza could die from health problems such as infectious disease than from aerial strikes during the Israel-Hamas war, a World Health Organization spokesperson warned on Tuesday, pointing to Gaza’s collapsed health system and unlivable conditions in the territory. The World Health Organization said the war has caused …
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The Berkeley, California mayor issued a statement opposing the cease-fire resolution in the ongoing Israel and Hamas war, saying that the resolutions “will not end the violence abroad, but they do fan the flames of hatred here at home.” Berkeley Mayor Jesse Arreguín issued a statement opposing the cease-fire resolution. …
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A traveling nurse practitioner who prompted a weeks-long search after disappearing on a Northern California hiking trail last month died of exposure, according to officials and a local report. Ann Herford, a 66-year-old Michigan resident, was found dead on November 30 on a steep hillside near the Arnold Rim Trail …
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