NEW ORLEANS – Viking River Cruises, a major European river cruise company, is coming to New Orleans and the Mississippi River. Gov. Bobby Jindal and Viking officials announced Tuesday that New Orleans will be the first North American home port for the cruise line. Jindal says the move means hundreds …
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The National Park Service is working on Wednesday to remove red paint and the words “Free Gaza” that appeared this morning near the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. “Vandalism was discovered in the area of Lincoln Memorial Circle and the Reflecting Pool,” theUnited States Park Policesaid in a statement. “National …
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A Florida woman is behind bars after she left her teenager and seven dogs in “vile living conditions” to go on a two-week-long Las Vegas vacation, according to police. The Putnam County Sheriff’s Office arrested Jessica Copeland, 37, on Tuesday on charges of child and animal neglect following calls from …
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The suspects recently arrested in connection with the cold case disappearance and death of a Georgia woman nearly four years ago allegedly tricked her son into thinking she was still alive after she died nearly four years ago. Matilde Gonzalez, 43, was last seen in Cobb County on Oct. 11, …
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The lawyer for a Philadelphia looter known as “Meatball” who livestreamed herself following a mob breaking into stores says criticism of her client is racist. Dayjia Blackwell, 21, filmed and followed a mob of looters as they broke into a series of stores last week, including at least an Apple …
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A Tennessee elementary school teacher accused of raping a boy when he was 12 years old implied that she is pregnant with his child in a phone call played in court this week, according to local reports. “I’m going to raise this baby. I can do this,” Alissa McCommon, a …
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Maine law enforcement officers investigating last week’s mass shooting in Lewiston have shared evidence that suggests the U.S. Army reservist Robert Card, who killed 18 people at a bowling alley and a bar, may have intentionally targeted individuals at those locations. On Tuesday, Maine State Police and the Maine Department …
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BOSTON – A survivor of the Boston Marathon attacks has written an indignant open letter to the admitted bomber. Rebekah Gregory lost a leg in the 2013 bombings and wrote the letter to Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (joh-HAHR’ tsahr-NEYE’-ehv) on her Facebook page after she testified in his federal death penalty trial …
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LAGRANGE, Ky. – A Kentucky death row inmate involved in a lawsuit against the state over how executions are carried out has died. A statement from the Kentucky Department of Corrections says Thomas Clyde Bowling died Saturday due to “complications stemming from cancer.” He was 62. Bowling was convicted of …
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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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