LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Jasmine Stone entered a Kentucky courtroom as the prosecution’s named victim in a domestic violence case. She left in handcuffs after recanting her assault claims against her boyfriend. Jefferson District Judge Sheila Collins ordered Stone jailed last week on a charge of filing a false report. Stone …
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More black men need to teach — that from filmmaker Spike Lee during a speech with Education Secretary Arne Duncan at Morehouse College in Atlanta this week. “We have more young black people in prison than enrolled in colleges and universities. That’s a frightening number,” Lee said. The U.S. Department …
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The Red & Black Cafe is no place for a man in blue. Police Officer James Crooker was asked to leave the vegan coffee shop in Portland, Ore., last month, a discriminatory move but not altogether uncommon at the java joint, a detective told FoxNews.com. Crooker, 36, a 2-year veteran …
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JEANNETTE, Pa. – If it’s the thought that counts, this one was way better late than never. A scratch-off lottery ticket bought as a last-minute Father’s Day gift has turned a Pennsylvania truck driver into an instant millionaire. The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (http://bit.ly/1SL1k4i ) first reported that 61-year-old Joseph Morrah, of …
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BUFFALO, N.Y. – A 3-month-old puppy has been rescued from a sewage drainage pipe buried under the front yard of a home in Buffalo. A couple who are dog sitting for their vacationing daughter say they took the teacup Yorkshire terrier named Baily out for a walk Wednesday afternoon and …
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A man and his 12-year-old grandson were found dead several miles apart along an Arizona desert after they went hiking, and authorities say the boy likely died while going for help. The bodies of Thomas Gillepsie, 63, and his grandson were discovered late Wednesday in the mountains near Gila Bend, …
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PARADISE, Calif. – A woman who became stranded and gave birth in a Northern California national forest says she took methamphetamine to get an energy boost after delivering her daughter. Amber Pangborn, 35, told the Chico Enterprise-Record (http://tinyurl.com/nnq4baw) that her daughter is healthy, but Butte County Child Protective Services placed …
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LOS ANGELES – A Cathay Pacific Boeing 777 bound from Hong Kong to Los Angeles International Airport has diverted to a U.S. air base in the Aleutian Islands. Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Ian Gregor says Flight 884 declared an emergency and landed early Wednesday morning at Eareckson Air Station in …
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COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Ohio parents who created a “visual bucket list” for their 5-old-old daughter who’s slowly going blind never dreamed they’d get to show her Italy. But Elizabeth “Lizzy” Myers and her family will travel to Rome sometime next spring thanks to Turkish Airlines. The airline’s general manager …
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ALBANY, N.Y. – The Erie Canal was an engineering marvel when it opened in 1825, linking the Hudson River to the Great Lakes and humming with commerce that opened up the West. Long ago eclipsed by railroads and interstates, the waterway has for many years been a historical curiosity that’s …
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