A group of masked thieves in California pushed past a security guard and stole $50,000 worth of merchandise from a Gucci store last week, police said Tuesday. Reserve officers with the San Jose Police Department were working a second job at the Valley Fair Mall on Oct. 5, when they …
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EXCLUSIVE: The son of a 77-year-old retired Vermont biologist who passersby found shot to death on her favorite hiking trail this month is speaking out as the investigation into her unsolved slaying nears its second week. “How does this happen, and why do people feel emboldened to take the life …
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CHICAGO – Mayor Rahm Emanuel and several Chicago aldermen are offering what they call a reparations package for the victims of torture under the city’s former police commander, Jon Burge. The city said Tuesday that the package will include an apology, a $5.5 million fund and city services, such as …
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A powerful and feared gang leader in Haiti who was once a math and physics teacher was killed in a neighborhood within a sprawling seaside slum that he controlled for years, local media reported on Monday. The death of Iskar Andrice, who also has been identified as Iscar Andris, raised …
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ADetroit woman has been arrested after she allegedly abandoned her baby on a beach at nighttime in Florida, with the child being found shivering near the water as waves washed over him. Shamika Mitchell, 37, was arrested by police last week and charged with child neglect after she allegedly left …
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The teenage girls accused in the dragging death of a woman whose arm was severed during a New Orleans carjacking last year pleaded guilty Monday and were sentenced to 20 years in prison. The teens were convicted of attempted manslaughter in the death of 73-year-old Linda Frickey. The guilty pleas …
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A St. Louis man who spent 11 years behind bars for a killing before his conviction was overturned is suing the city and detectives who worked on his case, claiming the conviction for a crime he didn’t commit violated his constitutional rights. Lamont D. Cambell’s lawsuit claims that a faulty …
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Six years after Missouri police ruled Elizabeth “Libby” Caswell’s 2017 death a suicide, her family and a nonprofit organization that conducted an investigation into the case say she died by strangulation. The Justice Project at Alliance for HOPE International, a nonprofit combating domestic violence and other forms of abuse, conducted …
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A congressional staffer sparked a social media firestorm and rocked Capitol Hill on Friday after having sex with another man in a Senate hearing room on video that was eventually leaked. The situation unfolded on Friday afternoon when the Daily Caller published the video with the blurred out faces of …
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French authorities grounded a flight from the United Arab Emirates to Nicaragua carrying 303 Indian passengers after receiving a tip that it could be carrying victims of human trafficking, prosecutors said Friday. Special investigators are questioning all those aboard and two people are in custody pending further examination, the Paris …
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