Baltimore’s former top prosecutor, who was one of the biggest voices advocating for police accountability and transparency, is asking the White House for a pardon ahead of her sentencing for her perjury and mortgage fraud convictions. The bid from Marilyn Mosby is being backed by the Congressional Black Caucus, which wrote President Biden a letter to advocate for her cause. …
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A Washington state trooper fatally shot a man with a hammer who had attacked state Department of Transportation workers along Interstate 5 north of Seattle, law enforcement officials said. Around 4 p.m. Thursday, state patrol troopers responded to a report of a road rage incident on the shoulder of I-5 northbound in Everett, the Snohomish County Multiple Agency Response Team …
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After 73 years and a long fight with the U.S. Army, a Korean War veteran from Minnesota who was wounded in combat finally got his Purple Heart medal on Friday. The Army notified Earl Meyer, 96, of St. Peter, last month that it had granted him a Purple Heart, which honors service members wounded or killed in combat. Meyer, who …
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Hundreds of Air Force members in dress blues joined Roger Fortson’s family, friends and others at a suburban Atlanta megachurch on Friday to pay their final respects to the Black senior airman, who was shot and killed in his Florida home earlier this month by a sheriff’s deputy. People lined up well before the start of the service at the …
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Surveillance footage shows a brutal mugging in downtown Los Angeles in which a man wearing a Rolex watch was beaten unconscious and robbed by another man. Police arrested suspect Pablo Garcia, 25, of Los Angeles for the robbery, which took place on April 28, 2024, in the 800 block of East 1st Street. Video released by the Los Angeles Police …
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Fox News’ “Antisemitism Exposed” newsletter brings you stories on the rising anti-Jewish prejudice across the U.S. and the world. IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER: -Anti-Israel rallying cry under review by Facebook is tied to ‘violent campaign,’ expert says- Hateful agitators cause a ruckus during commencements across the US- UN revises Gaza death toll, almost 50% fewer women and children killed than previously …
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Two Los Angeles mothers are at odds on opposite sides of California’s embattled criminal justice system: one grieving the loss of her two sons and the other trying to get her conviction for killing them overturned. Rebecca Grossman, a rich and powerful Los Angeles socialite, sped her Mercedes through a crosswalk and killed Mark Iskander, 11, and his 8-year-old brother, …
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The inmates accused of killing one of America’s most notorious gangsters in prison in 2018 reached plea deals this week, according to federal court filings. James “Whitey” Bulger was killed in his cell by three inmates who knew the infamous mobster was being transferred to U.S. Penitentiary Hazelton in West Virginia, one of the most violent federal prisons in the …
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The Environmental Protection Agency distributed about $3 billion to states last year to replace harmful lead pipes based on unverified data, according to an agency inspector general’s memo, likely meaning some states got too much money and others got too little. Investigators found two states had submitted inaccurate data, the memo dated Wednesday said. It didn’t name the states. The …
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A Las Vegas man is charged with open murder with a deadly weapon after allegedly shooting a neighbor as his wife was on a 911 call Monday evening. Eddi Moreno Jr. is accused in the shooting of Joe Moreno, 47, and a police report describes some of what led up to the incident. Moreno Jr., his wife and their family …
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