NEW YORK – The legal guardians for a 77-year-old woman in Rikers have sued New York City and a corrections officer, saying the inmate’s arms were broken when she was shoved to the ground after throwing a paper medicine cup. The civil rights lawsuit, filed in Manhattan federal court, seeks …
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BALTIMORE – Former U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. has been released from a halfway house in Baltimore, where he’d been living since his release from an Alabama federal prison in March. Jackson was released from the Volunteers of America halfway house shortly before 9 a.m. EDT Monday and left in …
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NEW MILFORD, N.J. – Authorities say a tree split in half and fell on a New Jersey woman after a night of heavy rain, killing her. New Milford police Detective Lt. Brian Long tells The Record (http://bit.ly/1JwTnOB ) that the Norwood maple tree split in half Wednesday morning and struck …
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HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. – Lifeguards have ordered everybody out of the water in Huntington Beach after a shark bumped a surfer. The surfer told authorities a 5-to-8-foot-long shark bumped the underside of his board Friday morning as he sat waiting for a wave. The surfer paddled about 30 yards back …
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RICHMOND, Va. – A Russian man charged with leading a Taliban attack against U.S. forces in Afghanistan has lost his bid to avoid trial in federal court in Virginia. U.S. District Judge Henry Hudson on Monday rejected Irek Hamidullin’s claim that he’s a prisoner of war and therefore cannot be …
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LOS ANGELES – Authorities searching for a gunman linked to a kidnapping, killing and wounding of two deputies have closed a stretch of the Pacific Crest Trail in the southern Sierra Nevada. Kern County sheriff’s spokesman Ray Pruitt said Thursday the search remains focused on a 5-square-mile portion of sparsely …
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WICHITA, Kan. – Police say a man is in custody after he brought a small improvised explosive device into a women’s health care clinic that provides abortions in south-central Kansas. Wichita Police Department spokesman Doug Nolte says officers responded to the South Wind Women’s Center around 3:30 p.m. Monday. He …
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PLAINS, Ga. – Members of a small Baptist church in southwest Georgia where former President Jimmy Carter frequently teaches Sunday school lessons are capping the number of people who can attend. Church representatives said in a statement that starting this Sunday, seats win the church will be limited to 400 …
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. – Thirty-year veteran teacher Twila Smith had scarcely begun the school year when a 14-year-old freshman entered her class and pulled a gun. He told her to cover the windows, lock the door and throw the keys and her 27 students’ cellphones on the floor. Smith said if …
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PHILADELPHIA – Secretary of State John Kerry is bringing the Obama administration’s campaign for public and congressional support for the Iran nuclear deal to Philadelphia. In a speech at the National Constitution Center, U.S. officials say Kerry will make the case that the agreement is the best way to prevent …
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