MCKEES ROCKS, Pa. – Police say a small-town Pennsylvania politician engaged a SWAT team in a six-hour standoff after threatening his son with a bat and barricading himself in his home. McKees Rocks borough council president Keith Schwab was jailed Sunday on charges of terroristic threats and recklessly endangerment. An …
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LANCASTER, N.H. – The stepfather of a girl who was taken out of the United States a decade ago amid a custody dispute has posted $250,000 cash bail less than week after his arraignment in New Hampshire. Scott Kelley fled with his wife, Genevieve Kelley, and her then-8-year-old daughter in …
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Jillian Ludwig, an 18-year-old freshman at Belmont University in Nashville, was jogging in a public park just blocks away from campus on a sunny afternoon last Tuesday when a stray bullet struck her in the head, killing her. “Her roommate said she had been going [jogging] three to four times …
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Since October 7th, a shocking display of antisemitism has surged throughout American higher education and across campuses in all corners of the country. On “America’s Newsroom” Wednesday, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, diagnosed the “profound sickness” at America’s universities. The Harvard Law School graduate said major institutions in America have been …
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A 60-year-old ‘brat’ in Florida is facing charges after he hurled sausages at his older brother, police said. According to the arrest affidavit from the Pinneles County Police Department, 60-year-old Ray Allen got into a heated argument with his older brother in the backyard of their St. Petersburg’s home on …
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The California child molester who as a 26-year-old served time in a Los Angeles juvenile facility for attacking a 10-year-old girl in a Denny’s bathroom will serve 15 years in an adult prison for bashing his friend to death with a rock in the woods. Hannah Tubbs, also known as …
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HOUSTON – 12:45 a.m. CDT No appeals are in the courts as condemned Texas prisoner Gregory Russeau heads for execution for the slaying of a 75-year-old East Texas auto repair shop owner 14 years ago during a crack cocaine binge. The 45-year-old Russeau on Thursday evening would become the ninth …
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STATE COLLEGE, Pa. – A man living on the streets in central Pennsylvania has returned a lost purse containing nearly $400 to its owner — a single mother who is on welfare and battling brain cancer. The man tells WJAC-TV (http://bit.ly/1LnrRQP ) on Thursday that he was sitting on a …
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MINEOLA, N.Y. – A New York judge says a lawsuit filed by the family of a Hofstra University student killed in an off-campus police shooting can move forward. Newsday reports (http://nwsdy.li/1Csfoq3 ) the judge ruled against Nassau County’s bid to dismiss the wrongful death lawsuit. But the judge threw out …
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LAKE CITY, Fla. – A 5-year-old Florida girl died after a sturgeon leaped into her boat along the Suwannee River and struck her. Wildlife officials said Jaylon Rippy died after being struck Thursday night. Her mother and 9-year-old brother were also injured and taken to a Gainesville hospital. Their condition …
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