MADISON, Wis – Police have evacuated the Wisconsin Capitol building in the wake of a bomb threat. Officers began evacuating the building shortly before 4 p.m. Wednesday as legislators were in the midst of debating the state budget in the Assembly chambers. They told everyone in the building to get …
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LOS ANGELES – An Alaska Airlines plane carrying 159 passengers made a safe emergency landing in Los Angeles after it was struck by lightning. Airline spokeswoman Bobbie Egan says the flight left Los Angeles International Airport around 12:40 p.m. Saturday and returned within the hour. The flight had been heading …
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HOUSTON – U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch says one of her top priorities remains alleviating an “epidemic of distrust” between communities and law enforcement. Lynch discussed tensions between minority communities and police agencies during a speech Monday in Houston at the national convention of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., the …
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RIVERSIDE, Calif. – A construction worker is dead after he was stung by bees that swarmed a Southern California construction site, Riverside Battalion Chief Tony Perna said. Three construction workers were stung Monday morning when a contractor grading a parking lot struck an underground sprinkler control vault that housed a …
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JACOB LAKE, Ariz. – Investigators are trying to determine how a 5-year-old Arizona boy died after he vanished from a campsite north of the Grand Canyon and triggered a massive search. A body believed to be that of Jerold Joseph Williams is going to be sent to a medical examiner’s …
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ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. – A man admitted Thursday that he brought millions of dollars in counterfeit poker chips to use in a casino’s poker tournament, a scheme that was uncovered when he clogged a pipe by flushing the chips down the toilet in his hotel room. Christian Lusardi, 43, of …
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MINNEAPOLIS – The dental practice of a Minnesota man who killed a well-known lion in Zimbabwe has reopened. Walter Palmer’s River Bluff Dental said in a tweet Monday that it was beginning to see patients again. The tweet said Palmer wasn’t at the office. Palmer’s office in suburban Minneapolis had …
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ATLANTA – Relatives of civil rights leader Julian Bond say they’re honoring his wishes to be cremated and his ashes spread in the Gulf of Mexico. Family members say a burial at sea will occur at 2 p.m. CDT Saturday in the Gulf in a private ceremony. Bond died last …
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DEVELOPING: A Texas sheriff’s deputy was shot and injured Friday near Houston, MyFoxHouston reported. The Harris County Sheriff’s Office told the outlet that around 8:30 p.m. local time, a county law enforcement officer was shot at a gas station in the northwestern part of Harris County.
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LAS VEGAS – Another part of the drought-ridden West is attempting to make water conservation sexy, this time with funny ads in Las Vegas. The Southern Nevada Water Authority this week launched a campaign on television, radio, print and social media themed: “There’s Nothing Sexier Than Saving Water.” The ads …
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