RIVERTON, Wyo. – One of the last of the Marlboro Men has died in Wyoming. Darrell Hugh Winfield was 85. He died Monday at his home in Riverton, Davis Funeral Home said. The Marlboro Man was a macho cowboy whose image in advertising from the 1950s to the late 1990s …
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ATLANTA – Police are searching two planes at Atlanta’s main airport after authorities received what they described as credible bomb threats. Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport spokesman Reese McCranie said the threats targeted a Delta flight and a Southwest flight that landed safely Saturday. McCranie said he did not have additional …
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Police say a woman selling drugs made a big mistake that landed her in jail — she mistakenly called an Albuquerque police detective. KOB-TV reports that 30-year-old Renea Lucero was arrested last week when she called the detective at his department-issued cellphone and made the officer an …
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NEW YORK – Jurors are watching the confession of a man who claimed to have choked 6-year-old Etan Patz (AY’-tahn paytz) in a New York store basement in 1979. Pedro Hernandez is on trial for murder and has pleaded not guilty to killing Etan. His attorney Harvey Fishbein says the …
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HARLAN, Ky. – The cold might not bother Disney’s Queen Elsa, but it’s wreaking enough havoc in Kentucky that a police department announced a joke warrant for the popular “Frozen” character’s arrest. Police in the small, rural town of Harlan posted a Facebook message Wednesday about Elsa. They wrote: “Suspect …
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WASHINGTON – California lawmakers and interest groups are ramping up efforts to win national-monument designation for four scenic vistas in the state, from vast stretches of the Mojave Desert to redwood stands along the Pacific Coast Highway to canyons and mountains near wine country. The national monuments designation typically takes …
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JACKSON, Miss. – Lawyers hired by the family of Mississippi hanging victim Otis Byrd say they are hiring independent experts to conduct an investigation separate from that being pursued by state and federal authorities. Attorney Dennis Sweet III says family members do not believe Byrd died by suicide. Byrd was …
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Los Angeles police were looking for at least one suspect in a series of attacks that left one person dead and four others injured in a normally quiet neighborhood west of downtown Thursday. The Los Angeles Times reported that the attacks happened within a span of around 10 minutes shortly …
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PIEDMONT, Ala. – A man driving to work in Alabama suddenly noticed his stolen pickup truck following him, setting off a chain of events that included a pursuit, a crash and an arrest. Calhoun County Chief Deputy Matthew Wade told WBRC-TV (http://bit.ly/1IVD8Xh ) a man called police Friday after noticing …
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – Hundreds of people, including many in period costume, retraced the steps of Abraham Lincoln’s funeral procession Saturday to kick off a weekend of events to meticulously re-enact the slain president’s final journey home on the 150th anniversary of his burial. Ranks of soldiers in Union blues and …
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