As eclipse chasers prepare their trip to the path of totality, law enforcement and local governments in western New York are working behind the scenes to maintain order amid the astrological craze. At least a half million revelers – perhaps even a million – are expected in the area, primarily in Niagara Falls and Erie County, on Monday for the …
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Three long-retired Philadelphia police detectives must stand trial, accused of lying under oath at the 2016 retrial of a man the jury exonerated in a 1991 rape and murder. The case, if it proceeds to trial in November, would mark a rare time when police or prosecutors face criminal charges for flawed work that leads to wrongful convictions. PROSECUTORS WILL …
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Not a day goes by without Lawan Zanna remembering his daughter Aisha in prayers. She was among the 276 schoolgirls kidnapped 10 years ago when Islamic extremists broke into their school in northeastern Nigeria’s Chibok village. “It makes me so angry to talk about it,” said Zanna, 55, whose daughter is among the nearly 100 girls still missing after the …
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Squatting laws have become a frequent target of exploitation by savvy criminals who fraudulently move into vacant homes across the nation. Experts warn that the problem could be compounded by the ongoing immigration crisis, with migrants catching wind of the laws and taking advantage of them. “I have thought about invading a house in the United States,” migrant Leonel Moreno …
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A northern Virginia town has been excluded from a countywide police training academy after the town’s chief complained about Chinese signatures on trainees’ graduation certificates. Herndon Police Chief Maggie DeBoard complained that the academy director, Maj. Wilson Lee, used Chinese characters to sign the certificates that graduates receive when they complete training at the Fairfax County Criminal Justice Academy. In …
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An Oklahoma death row inmate convicted of shooting and killing two people in Oklahoma City more than two decades ago was executed Thursday morning. Michael DeWayne Smith, 41, was executed by lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary after his conviction and death sentence for the slayings of Janet Moore, 41, and Sharath Pulluru, 22, in separate shootings that took …
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A beloved Florida teacher was kidnapped by her estranged husband and fatally shot in front of their kids before he turned the gun on himself as police closed in. First responders found Jamie Felix’s 10- and 17-year-old children – unharmed – sitting with their mom, who died at the scene. Felix was a 45-year-old middle school teacher at Manatee Academy …
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Southern California sheriff’s deputies shot and killed a 17-year-old boy with mental health issues after he armed himself with a knife and locked himself inside a bathroom at a home, authorities said Wednesday. The teen was being transferred from a hospital, where he had been treated after cutting himself, to a mental health facility when he escaped on Tuesday, San …
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The Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Office has opened an investigation after a gruesome discovery was made when a resident found a human leg inside a community park. Officials said the leg was discovered at Warnimont Park on Tuesday, April 2, just before 5:30 p.m., “in or near the water” along Lake Michigan east of the golf course by the pump house. …
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The latest development in Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Rashee Rice’s car wreck in Dallas last weekend places him in the driver’s seat of a Lamborghini SUV involved in the collision. Rice’s lawyer, Royce West, told reporters at a news conference Thursday his client admitted to Dallas Police he was involved in the car crash. “Mr. Rice acknowledged that he …
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