A grand jury has indicted a Baltimore teen and his parents on allegations they brought a gun to a high school campus in October and beat up a student shortly before classes were to start, prompting a shootout that left three young people wounded, city prosecutors said Tuesday. The shooting …
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One person was found dead after an early morning explosion and fire at a hotel in the heart of Pennsylvania’s Amish-related tourism area, authorities said Monday. State police in Lancaster County said the blast was reported shortly after 2:30 a.m. Monday at the Bird-in-Hand Family Inn in the Lancaster County …
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When Idaho had a rare measles outbreak a few months ago, health officials scrambled to keep it from spreading. In the end, 10 people, all in one family, were infected, all unvaccinated. This time, the state was lucky, said the region’s medical director Dr. Perry Jansen. The family quickly quarantined, …
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A stolen 17-inch Bigfoot statue – or maybe it was a trade for marbles – and a chicken-wielding woman’s alleged poultry pounding of her boyfriend were among a few of the most head-scratching crimes of 2023. In Glendale, Wisconsin, officers chasing a stolen car cuffed a feces-and-urine-covered suspect who hid …
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Vili Fualaau, the now-40-year-old whose illicit relationship and post-conviction marriage to his sixth-grade teacher made international news, said he is “offended” by the hit Netflix movie based on the ’90s scandal. Although the movie diverges from its real-life counterpart, with the couple meeting in a pet shop rather than a …
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The U.S. Virgin Islands reported an island-wide power outage on St. Croix on Monday that forced officials to close schools and government offices. RESIDENTS IN ST. CROIX SUE GOVERNMENT OVER WATER CONTAMINATED WITH LEAD AND COPPER The islands’ Water and Power Authority said in a statement that there was a …
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An American fugitive accused of faking his own death and fleeing the country to escape rape charges has been extradited from Scotland to Utah, where he was booked into jail, according to jail records. Nicholas Rossi, 36, was booked Friday afternoon into the Davis County Jail on two felony rape …
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A federal judge ordered Indiana to strike a provision in state law that allows people on humanitarian parole to obtain driver’s licenses but only if they are from Ukraine. The judge granted a preliminary injunction Thursday to a group Haitian immigrants in Indiana who have sued the state over the …
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WASHINGTON – The Treasury Department announced plans Tuesday to unload over the next several weeks warrants it received in insurers Hartford Financial (NYSE:HIG) and Lincoln National (NYSE:LNC) as part of the controversial TARP bailout. If completed, the sales would complete the government’s exit of its holdings in these financial institutions, …
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DETROIT – A woman who died in a Los Angeles-area car crash last September is the eighth person killed by exploding air bags made by Takata Corp. of Japan, U.S. safety regulators and Honda Motor Co. confirmed Friday. The woman was identified in a lawsuit as Jewel Brangman, 26, who …
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