A Mississippi woman with multiple arrests for crashing weddings and stealing gifts was arrested last week in her home state for doing it again, authorities said Monday. Sandra Lynn Henson, 56, was wanted in Alabama and arrested last Saturday at a wedding to which she was allegedly not invited. The …
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Gov. Gavin Newsom signed two laws Tuesday intended to compel California’s public university systems to make progress in their review and return of Native American remains and artifacts. Decades-old state and federal legislation, known as repatriation laws, require government entities to return these items to tribes. Those artifacts could include …
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A group of Republican senators led by Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tenn., are introducing legislation Thursday to redirect funds bound for Gaza to instead help replenish Israeli’s defensive “Iron Dome” system. The bill, which has 10 Republican co-sponsors as of Thursday morning, would require President Biden to transfer “all unexpended balances …
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LOS ANGELES – Police say a 21-year-old man suspected of participating in an illegal street race that killed two spectators in Southern California has been booked on suspicion of murder. Henry Michael Gevorgyan turned himself in Saturday night accompanied by his lawyer. Jail records show he’s being held on $2 …
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HOBOKEN, N.J. – A homeless man set himself on fire in the middle of a city street near where hundreds of revelers were hopping bar to bar for an annual St. Patrick’s pub crawl on Saturday night, police said. Hoboken police received a call about 11 p.m. that a man …
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JACKSON, Miss. – Mississippi’s attorney general is asking a judge to keep the identity of the state’s execution-drug supplier secret while he appeals her order to release the name. Hinds County Chancery Judge Denise Owens ruled earlier this month that the state’s public-records law requires officials to release the information, …
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GADSDEN, Ala. – An Alabama grandmother charged in the running death of her 9-year-old granddaughter is due in court. Etowah County Circuit Judge William Ogletree has scheduled a hearing for Friday morning in the capital murder case against 49-year-old Joyce Garrard of Boaz. The judge will make sure things are …
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MESA, Ariz. – An Arizona State University student is dead after she fell while rappelling from a cliff in the Tonto National Forest. The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office says 21-year-old Katelyn M. Conrad was rappelling in Coon Bluff, a popular recreation area near the Salt River, on Saturday morning when …
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ANNAPOLIS, Md. – Investigators have recovered a body believed to be the last person missing since a massive fire reduced a Maryland mansion to rubble with six people inside. Anne Arundel Fire Department spokesman Capt. Russ Davies said Monday that crews recovered a sixth body from the ruins and that …
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CHICAGO – A pregnant 19-year-old Chicago woman on trial in Indonesia for the death of her mother claims she’s innocent and is “petrified” about her future. Heather Mack tells the Chicago Tribune (http://trib.in/1C0FVMg ) that she loved her mother and had no reason to kill her. Sixty-two-year-old Sheila von Wiese-Mack’s …
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