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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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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Murder charges were reinstated against an Illinois woman who was accused of lethally poisoning a local police chief’s food with eyedrops. Charges were dropped against Marcy Oglesby, 51, in March after the trial judge sided with her defense team’s argument that Oglesby was deprived of her right to a speedy …
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A mom of two vanished during a cross-country trip from Alabama to Wyoming while she was with her ex-boyfriend, who has been charged with an unrelated federal crime. Katie Ferguson, 33, hasn’t been seen alive since October, and was officially reported missing to police in Cody, Wyoming, on Nov. 2, …
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A Texas man who was the first arrest by a Justice Department task force that investigates threats to election workers has been sentenced to two years in prison over posts made following the 2020 election, federal prosecutors announced Wednesday. Chad Christopher Stark, 55, was accused of posting threatening messages on …
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Police in California are looking for someone caught on camera stealing a Christmas tree from the roof of a family’s SUV. It happened around 5:20 p.m. Dec. 1 in a parking lot on Bridgepointe Parkway in San Mateo, police said on Facebook. “A vehicle pulled up next to the victim’s …
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Margarito Flores and his twin brother Pedro anxiously huddled in a lavish bathroom in South Zapopan, Mexico, as they prepared to call Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman to discuss a shipment of heroin they had just received. As Margarito paced, Pedro pressed the record button on his audiotape device and placed …
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All top-flight soccer matches in Greece will be played without fans in the stadiums for the next two months, in the latest crackdown on supporter violence following a sport-related riot last week that left a police officer with life-threatening injuries. The government said Monday that it would introduce emergency legislation …
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama inmate has died following an assault believed to have been committed by another prisoner, the state corrections department confirmed Wednesday. Derrek Martin, 38, died early Tuesday, the Alabama Department of Corrections said in a news release. ALABAMA INMATES FILE LAWSUIT AGAINST STATE, CONDEMNING PRISON …
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A Florida man was caught on video stealing ingredients to a make a screwdriver cocktail from an apartment, according to the Polk County Sheriff’s Office. Around 5:30 a.m., on Nov. 23, officials said a man was caught entering someone’s apartment, according to a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, …
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