An Ultimate Fighting Championship fighter has been placed on administrative leave from his job at a Minnesota high school after he insulted President Obama’s intelligence and challenged the commander in chief to a fight. Jacob Volkmann told Fox News Radio that he is under investigation by White Bear Lake High …
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LAS VEGAS – Laura Myers, a veteran Associated Press reporter and editor who led the news cooperative’s coverage of foreign affairs as the country reeled from the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, has died. The Las Vegas Review-Journal reported Friday that Laura A. Myers had died of cancer. The 53-year-old Las …
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Four of five black bears spared euthanasia after tearing up garbage in Anchorage have come to an unhappy end at their relocated home. State and federal gave officials on Sunday and Monday shot and killed a sow and three of her four yearling cubs after they continued …
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BALTIMORE – Police in Baltimore say a woman has died after jumping from a parking garage. Her 5-month-old son found in her car is also dead. Officers were called to a downtown parking garage about two blocks from the Inner Harbor around 8 p.m. Tuesday for a report of a …
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AUSTIN, Texas – A Texas police officer who pulled over a driver for illegal use of a cellphone ended up helping the woman, who was trying to call 911 while choking. Austin police on Monday released patrol car video taken during the July 5 incident. The video shows Officer Dustin …
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BALTIMORE – Baltimore’s Harbor Tunnel was temporarily shut down when cash spilled out of an armored truck and onto the roadway inside. The Maryland Transportation Authority Police say in a news release the tunnel was closed in both directions for about seven hours Wednesday night after money began falling out …
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. – A mysterious blast on a Rhode Island beach likely was caused by the combustion of hydrogen gas that had built up because of a corroded copper cable under the sand, investigators announced Friday. Officials have spent nearly two weeks trying to figure out what happened on July …
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BERKELEY, Calif. – Officials with UC Berkeley’s botanical garden say the garden had its busiest day in more than a decade as people flocked to get a whiff of the “corpse flower,” a plant known for its pungent odor. KPIX-TV reports (http://cbsloc.al/1ets61w ) that the Sumatran titan arum nicknamed “Trudy” …
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William R. White, a former member of the famed squadron of African-American pilots known as the Tuskegee Airmen, has died. He was 88. White was a humble family man who rarely talked about his war experiences, family members said Wednesday. White died July 24 at his home in Smithfield, his …
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TRENTON, N.J. – A New Jersey woman found to have neglected her child after leaving her 19-month-old in a car while she went shopping will get another chance to argue her case. The state Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the woman, identified only by her initials, will have her appeal …
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