SAN DIEGO – A U.S. Navy commander pleaded guilty Tuesday in a massive bribery scheme involving a longtime military contractor in Asia who allegedly offered luxury travel, prostitutes and other bribes to officers in exchange for confidential information. Jose Luis Sanchez, 42, is the highest-ranking official to plead guilty in …
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GALESBURG, Ill. – An Illinois man scheduled to be executed next month in Oklahoma for his role in a 1997 killing is raising questions about his case, telling a newspaper in his hometown that Oklahoma is going to “kill an innocent man.” Richard Eugene Glossip, born and raised in Galesburg, …
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LOS ANGELES – A man suspected of killing a retired dentist, taking three men hostage and wounding two deputies was likely using the famed Pacific Crest Trail to elude searchers for 18 days. Kern County Sheriff Donny Youngblood said Monday that investigators believe 34-year-old Benjamin Peter Ashley was headed back …
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HONOLULU – The University of Hawaii sophomore who lived in a 14th-floor campus apartment where a man fell to his death from a window ledge says he watched him and another man plummet to the ground. Twenty-four-year-old Thomas Bennett was pronounced dead at a hospital. Police say he tried to …
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RALEIGH, N.C. – The deaths of four people killed on zip lines and other challenge courses this summer has drawn attention to a regulatory safety net full of holes. After the death of 12-year-old Bonnie Sanders Burney, the North Carolina General Assembly swiftly passed a law requiring the state to …
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CASTLE ROCK, Colo. – Fort Carson says two soldiers injured when their Black Hawk helicopter landed hard in a suburban Denver forest in Douglas County remain hospitalized and in stable condition. The military installation in Colorado Springs says investigators from the U.S. Army Combat Readiness Center in Alabama’s Fort Rucker …
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NEW YORK – A lawsuit says a crew of prison guards known as the “Beat Up Squad” killed a handcuffed inmate in a New York City lockup. The lawsuit was filed Wednesday in federal court in Manhattan by the family of 30-year-old Samuel Harrell. It alleges that the “Beat Up …
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Three California men were arrested after allegedly tying up a man, stabbing him to death and recording the attack on a cellphone, authorities said on Wednesday after an ex-girlfriend alerted police of the video. The suspects – Dionicio Gutierrez Salazar, 36, Francisco Alvarez, 24, and Alexis Eduarto Garcia-Jiminez, 19 – …
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The illegal immigrant truck driver who is accused of causing a crash in Fort Pierce, Florida, that killed three people failed English and road sign tests, officials investigating the wreck said. Harjinder Singh, who crossed into the United States illegally in 2018 via the southern border, obtained a commercial driver’s …
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A home explosion outside of St. Louis, Missouri damaged more than 20 properties and reportedly left an 18-year-old with life-threatening injuries. The St. Louis County Police Department said at least three people were hurt in the blast that rocked a neighborhood in the northern part of the county Monday morning. …
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