FERGUSON, Mo. – A standoff involving Ferguson law enforcement officers and a man believed to have shot his brother in the head ended peacefully after hours of negotiations. Ferguson police spokesman Jeff Small says the suspect was taken into custody around 4:15 p.m. Tuesday. The incident began nearly four hours …
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MINNEAPOLIS – A Minneapolis man has been ordered detained after authorities say he threatened law enforcement officers after six other men were arrested for allegedly trying to join the Islamic State group in Syria. Nineteen-year-old Mahamed Abukar Said is charged with one count of impeding and retaliating against a federal …
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BAYPORT, N.Y. – Math teacher Carol Pitkewicz sees a common thread running through prom fashion over her decades at a Long Island high school. And she has that thread in her purse. For years, the soon-to-retire Pitkewicz has brought a travel-sized sewing kit to the Bayport-Blue Point High School prom …
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WASHINGTON – Transit officials in Washington have temporarily suspended all issue-oriented advertisements on the region’s rail and bus system. The move comes as the agency was asked to consider an ad with a provocative cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad. The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority’s board of directors voted Thursday …
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The third of four inmates who escaped from a dilapidated jail in Georgia nearly a month ago has been captured, authorities said Sunday. Johnifer Dernard Barnwell, 37, was found inside a home in the 3000 block of Alpine Drive in Augusta just after 8 a.m., the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office …
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One man was killed and three others wounded in a shooting Tuesday night in Springfield, Massachusetts. Police were called to the scene just before 6:30 p.m. and found three men shot. Two were discovered inside a truck and a third was on the ground. BOSTON-AREA HIGHWAY CLOSED AFTER MULTI-CAR PILEUP …
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David DePape, the suspect who admitted this week to striking Paul Pelosi in the head with a hammer after breakinginto his former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s residence in San Francisco last year, was found guilty of assault and kidnapping Thursday. A jury convicted DePape of attempted kidnapping of a federal …
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The cause of an oil leak that allegedly spilled over a million gallons of crude oil along the southeast coast of New Orleans is under investigation, according to the U.S. Coast Guard Heartland. The total volume of spilled crude was unclear, but the Coast Guard tells Fox News Digital initial …
Read More »A New Jersey gym teacher was jailed after a former student detailed their sexual relationship that spanned his high school career. Former Bridgewater-Raritan High School teacher Lydia Pinto, 38, was charged Nov. 8 with first-degree aggravated sexual assault and two counts of second-degree sexual assault. She was arrested without incident. …
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Keith Jesperson, also known as the “Happy Face Killer” who recently admitted to his eighth serial murder, said he has a new pen pal behind bars. Suspected Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann purportedly complained about jail food and exercise conditions and fretted that guards might be reading his mail, …
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