SEATTLE – Seattle is delaying its plan to equip police with body cameras until privacy issues can be considered, and public comment heard. The Seattle Times reports (http://is.gd/xSZzSb ) the city’s Community Police Commission issued a statement saying the new technology may have unintended consequences. The 12-member commission has struggled …
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Three people were killed and a Georgia county sheriff and one of his deputies were wounded late Sunday after a domestic dispute turned deadly. Deputies responded to a 911 call in Clarksville, Ga., about 85 miles northeast of Atlanta, at around 7:30 p.m. local time and found a woman dead …
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CLEVELAND – Zoo officials in Cleveland say a woman was dangling her 2-year-old son over a railing when he fell about 10 feet into a cheetah exhibit. Cleveland Metroparks Zoo says the toddler’s parents jumped in and pulled him to safety Saturday afternoon. The zoo’s executive director says the cheetahs …
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SALISBURY, Mass. – Dog tags a U.S. soldier lost on a Massachusetts beach 70 years ago have been returned to his son at the same place. Zachariah Fike, head of Vermont-based Purple Hearts Reunited, says the military ID belonged to World War II veteran Cpl. William Benn, who lost them …
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A Texas school district has apologized and reversed a decision that ousted a transgender student from a part in the musical “Oklahoma!” The school board in Sherman voted unanimously Monday to reinstate the original show and cast after a meeting in which dozens criticized them and spoke in support the …
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A suspect is still at large after surveillance video was released detailing the violent attack inside a Philadelphia transit station. Around 5 a.m. on Nov. 9, Philadelphia Police said a 51-year-old man was assaulted and robbed by a group on the 15th and Market Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) platform. …
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NEW YORK (AP) — RSV infections are rising sharply in some parts of the country, nearly filling hospital emergency departments in Georgia, Texas and some other states. To help counter the surge, federal officials on Thursday announced they were releasing more doses of a new RSV shot for newborns that …
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The Kentucky mother accused of fatally shooting her two young boys in the head in under 30 seconds called it an “accident,” a detective revealed Tuesday in court. Tiffanie Lucas is charged with two counts of murder in the Nov. 8 killing of little Maurice “Peanut” Baker Jr., 6, and …
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A Corvette crashed and burst apart in Florida on Saturday morning during a suspected street race that seriously injured the driver, according to authorities and a local report. Fire personnel responded just before 8:30 a.m. to a report of a vehicle crash at the intersection of State Highway 200 and …
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New York City Schools Chancellor David Bankson Monday staunchly denied allegations that the approximately 400 students who swarmed the halls of Hillcrest High School last week demanding the ouster of a Jewish teacher who supports Israel had been in any way “radicalized.” “This is a really good school with wonderful …
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