LAUDERHILL, Fla. – Police in South Florida say an 11-month-old baby died after being left inside a sport utility vehicle parked outside their apartment near Fort Lauderdale. Lauderhill police spokesman Gregory Solowsky says the baby’s parents and four other children were unloading groceries on Wednesday afternoon and forgot to get …
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SOUTHAVEN, Miss. – A Tennessee man died after a witness says police in northern Mississippi police “hogtied” him on a stretcher. Multiple news outlets report that 30-year-old Memphis chemical engineer Troy Goode died in a hospital Saturday night, two hours after being detained by the Southaven Police Department. Southaven Police …
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – An Albuquerque, New Mexico, firefighter has been removed from the city’s dispatch center after telling a 911 caller who was trying to keep alive a gunshot victim to “deal with it yourself.” KRQE-TV reports (http://bit.ly/1I6VpPZ) 17-year-old Jaydon Chavez-Silver was fatally shot during a party on June 26. …
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LAMBERTVILLE, Mich. – A community in far southeast Michigan is remembering an elderly man who would wave at passing motorists every day as he waited for the mail carrier. Norman Hall died July 28 at age 88. Now an enlarged photo of him waving from a pontoon with the message …
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VINITA PARK, Mo. – A white Ferguson court clerk who was fired over racist emails uncovered by the U.S. Justice Department after a police officer killed 18-year-old Michael Brown has a new job with another St. Louis-area court. Vinita Park Mayor James McGee told The Associated Press on Friday that …
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WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. – Here’s a look at the latest developments in the Colorado mine spill. All times are local. 12:05 p.m. Tribal officials with the Navajo Nation have declared an emergency as a massive plume of contaminated wastewater from an abandoned Colorado mine flows downstream toward Lake Powell, which …
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SAN FRANCISCO – The California Highway Patrol has released the name of a woman they’re looking for who either jumped or fell from the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge trying to evade police in a stolen car. The CHP says Thursday that they’re seeking 25-year-old Erlynn Kay Sanchez-Edwards, whose last known …
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NEWTOWN, Pa. – A late World War II veteran’s prayer book found in New Zealand was safely returned to his wife in suburban Philadelphia after 70 years. WPVI-TV reports (http://6abc.cm/1JnUMHG ) a military family living in New Zealand found Anthony DeFinis’ military prayer missal with his name and military serial …
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WASHINGTON – A government survey shows most states have truck parking shortages every day and at all times of the day. They also don’t provide enough information to truckers on where they can park safely. Almost half of the state transportation departments surveyed by the Federal Highway Administration said truckers …
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SACO, Maine – Family and friends of a Maine woman who was killed in a supermarket knife attack remembered her as the rock of a beloved family in the community. About 600 people attended the funeral for Wendy Boudreau of Saco on Tuesday at Thornton Academy, where she worked in …
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