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Colorado district attorney ‘incredibly frustrated’ he’s unable to prosecute cop found drunk in patrol car
BlakeDavidTaylor/iStock(AURORA, Colo.) -- A Colorado district attorney expressed frustration Thursday at not being able to prosecute an Aurora police officer who was found passed out drunk in his car last year, calling the department’s failure to launch a DUI investigation a double standard meant to protect one of its own.Offic...
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Holiday honoring Confederate generals swapped for Election Day in Virginia
bauhaus1000/iStock(RICHMOND) -- Virginia is trying to move on from its Confederate past, voting Thursday to eliminate a state holiday honoring Gens. Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson.The Virginia House of Delegates, which gained a Democratic majority this year after more than 20 years under GOP control, voted 55 to 42 in favor of the change...
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Man covered in blood during traffic stop later confesses to stabbing father to death, police say
Boca Raton Police Services Department(BOCA RATON,Fla.) -- A man covered in blood who was pulled over during an early morning routine traffic stop was later found to have allegedly murdered his father in a parking garage.It all started when police in Boca Raton, Florida, responded to a report of a deceased person, who appeared to have been stabbed to death, was found in a parking garage at about 7:
2 dead as storm slams its way across country to East Coast
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Severe weather has left one dead in Alabama and another killed in Tennessee as more than six dozen damaging storms are reported in the South from Louisiana to Tennessee -- including 12 reported tornadoes in Mississippi alone
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Person of interest in custody in shooting of 2 Maryland detectives
kali9/iStock(BALTIMORE) -- A person of interest is in custody Thursday afternoon following a massive manhunt for the gunman who shot two Maryland detectives."We have a person of interest in custody in reference to the shootings of our detectives," the Anne Arundel Police tweeted...
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New Yorkers kicked out of ‘global entry’ program because of immigration law
stellalevi/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- The Department of Homeland Security is kicking New Yorkers out of federal programs that allow certain travelers to speed through border checkpoints because of a new state law that paved the way for undocumented immigrants to apply for drivers licenses
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DOJ launches probe of troubled Mississippi prisons
eddiesimages/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- Alarmed by a string of murders, suicides and cellblock riots, the Department of Justice is launching a civil rights probe of the Mississippi prison system.DOJ officials said its Civil Rights Division's Special Litigation Section will look into the conditions at four prisons, including the penitentiary in Parchman, the state's oldest and most notorious lockup...
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Manhunt intensifies for suspect who shot two detectives: ‘End this lunacy’
Chalabala/iStock(ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY, Md.) -- The search is on for a gunman who shot two Maryland detectives, and police are pleading with the suspect to surrender.Officers are going door-to-door Thursday morning and some schools are closed as the manhunt intensifies...
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Joyce Mitchell released from prison five years after helping convicted killers escape
DanHenson1/iStock(NEW YORK) -- Former prison worker Joyce Mitchell was released from prison Thursday morning after helping two convicted murderers escape years earlier. Mitchell was released from the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility in Westchester County, New York, to community supervision, according to the Department of Corrections...
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One dead as storm slams its way across country to East Coast
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Severe weather has left one dead in Alabama as more than six dozen damaging storms are reported in the South from Louisiana to Tennessee -- including 12 reported tornadoes in Mississippi alone. Emergency Management Agency Director Kevin McKinney in Alabama's Marengo County said that one person died and another was injured from storm damage early Thursday morning...