LONG BEACH, Calif. – Authorities say a man led police in Southern California on a chase while a baby was in his car. Long Beach Police Department officers were called early Saturday regarding a domestic dispute involving the suspect, a woman and a 5-month-old infant. When officers arrived at the …
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WASHINGTON – The focus of the Boston Marathon bombing trial figures to be as much on what punishment Dzhokhar Tsarnaev could face as on his responsibility for the attack. With testimony expected to start later this month, the Justice Department has given no indication it is open to any proposal …
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McRAE, Ga. – Authorities suspect a missing Georgia couple met a tragic end after traveling to meet someone replying to their ad seeking a classic car on the website Craigslist. Bud and June Runion vanished after leaving their suburban Atlanta home last week for the tiny city of McRae, located …
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WASHINGTON – It will soon be legal to grow small amounts of marijuana at home and smoke it on private property in the nation’s capital. But it can’t be sold, and the District of Columbia will not tax it. Mayor Muriel Bowser announced the city’s plans Tuesday to move forward …
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SANTA ANA, Calif. – A California appeals court has ruled that San Juan Capistrano’s tiered water-rates are unconstitutional. The 4th District Court of Appeal ruling Monday could have broader implications for other cities that use a similar pricing structure to encourage conservation. The ruling upholds an Orange County judge’s decision …
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AUSTIN, Texas – Investigators say a hoist suspended from a medical helicopter, which was carrying a nurse and patient from a Texas hiking trail, was spinning just before the nurse fell to her death. The National Transportation Safety Board on Tuesday released its preliminary report into the April 27 accident …
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SPOKANE, Wash. – An agreement has been reached to clean up the radioactive K West Basin on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, the nation’s most polluted nuclear weapons production site. The deal was announced Tuesday between the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Energy, which owns Hanford. The …
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OMAHA, Neb. – An Omaha zoo worker is hospitalized in critical condition after being bitten by a large dragon on Sunday. Paramedics were called to the Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium Sunday afternoon, and the female zoo worker was taken to the hospital. Few details about the incident were immediately …
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ROGERSVILLE, Tenn. – Six months after getting a 35-year sentence for killing her stepdaughter by forcing her to drink grape soda, a Tennessee prisoner is scheduled for an early parole hearing that could nearly halve her sentence. The Kingsport Times-News reports (http://bit.ly/1AL3fRf ) that a hearing for 58-year-old Mary Vaughn …
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A 5-year-old girl who was caught in a rogue wave and swept into the ocean with her grandfather off the coast of Northern California has died in a hospital, while rescuers have suspended the search for the missing man, officials said Sunday. The pair were on Martins Beach in Half …
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