A deadly traffic stop where plainclothes Chicago police officers fired nearly 100 shots in under a minute has raised serious questions about the use of force and role of tactical officers in police …
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By SOPHIA TAREEN
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4/10/24
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A woman who worked at New Hampshire’s youth detention center three decades ago says supervisors and staff were dismissive at best and menacing at worst when she reported suspected abuse. Karen …
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By HOLLY RAMER
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4/10/24
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Rescuers on Wednesday were searching for a 30-foot-long gray whale with its tail entangled in a massive gill net last spotted off Northern California’s coast. The whale was spotted Tuesday near San …
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By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ
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4/10/24
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Assistant principal ignored warnings that 6-year-old boy had gun before he shot teacher, report says
A grand jury report says a former assistant principal at a Virginia elementary school ignored warnings that a 6-year-old had a gun in the hours before he shot his teacher. The 31-page report was …
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By BEN FINLEY and DENISE LAVOIE
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4/10/24
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Police say at least three people were shot and injured Wednesday at an Eid al-Fitr event in Philadelphia. Philadelphia Police Commissioner Kevin Bethel says the shooting occurred around 2:30 p.m., …
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By CLAUDIA LAUER and MICHAEL BALSAMO
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4/10/24
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Donald Trump’s lawyers are attempting for a third consecutive day to get a New York appeals court to delay his hush money criminal trial, which is slated to begin next Monday. The former …
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By MICHAEL R. SISAK and JAKE OFFENHARTZ
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4/10/24
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More than 190,000 women are currently being held in some kind of confinement in the United States — a number that’s been growing rapidly since at least 1980. But experts say programs aimed at …
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By SAMANTHA HENDRICKSON
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4/10/24
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Vermont's Goddard College is closing at the end of the semester after years of declining enrollment and financial struggles. The board of trustees announced the closing Tuesday and says the school …
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4/10/24
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Federal safety investigators are focusing on the electrical power system of the massive container ship that veered off course and crashed into Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge last month. …
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By LEA SKENE
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4/10/24
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An effort to amend the Maine Constitution to enshrine the right to an abortion is coming up short. The measure fell shy of a two-thirds majority in the Maine House on Tuesday night, failing to clear …
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By DAVID SHARP
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4/10/24
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Two-time Grand Slam champion Simona Halep tells The Associated Press she was nervous while flying to her first tennis tournament in 1 1/2 years. She had just successfully reduced a doping ban on …
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By HOWARD FENDRICH
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4/10/24
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A self-published doomsday fiction author is on trial in Idaho in the deaths of his wife and his new girlfriend’s two children. It’s a complex triple-murder trial that investigators say involves …
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By REBECCA BOONE
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4/10/24
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Opening statements are expected in the trial of an Idaho man charged with killing his wife and new girlfriend’s two youngest children, in an unusual case involving claims about zombies. Chad …
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4/10/24
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The mother of an autistic boy shown being hit and punched by a school bus aide released a copy of bus surveillance video. Jessica Vestal says she suspects the kind of abuse that went undetected …
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By COLLEEN SLEVIN
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4/9/24
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Nearly half a century after Francis Ford Coppola won the Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or for “Apocalypse Now,” he will return to the French Riviera festival to premiere his self-financed …
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By JAKE COYLE
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4/9/24
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An escaped mountain goat that somehow got stuck under a Kansas City bridge has survived a rocky rescue effort and now may be reunited with the owners who suspect he was stolen from their farm two …
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By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH
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4/9/24
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A former assistant principal at a Virginia elementary school has been indicted on eight felony counts of child neglect in the case of a 6-year-old boy who shot and wounded his first-grade teacher in …
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4/9/24
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Authorities say a teenager planned to attack churches in a northern Idaho city using a metal pipe, butane fuel, a machete and potentially his father’s guns. Eighteen-year-old Alexander Scott …
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By REBECCA BOONE
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4/9/24
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The sister of one of the victims of the deadliest mass shooting in Maine history is accusing state lawmakers of acting “nefariously” by pressing at the 11th hour for a so-called red flag law. …
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By DAVID SHARP
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4/9/24
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Plainclothes Chicago police officers fired nearly 100 gun shots over 41 seconds during a traffic stop that left one man dead and one officer injured last month. That's according to graphic video …
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By SOPHIA TAREEN and KATHLEEN FOODY
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4/9/24
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