SPRINGDALE, Pa. – Police say a police officer lost control of his cruiser on a slippery road before crashing through the wall of a veterinary clinic in Pennsylvania. Springdale borough police Chief Julio Medeiros says the officer from neighboring Springdale Township was responding to a call when he crashed at …
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BOSTON – As a judge questioned prospective jurors Friday in the trial of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, one woman described her struggle to try to push aside a haunting image she saw in the days after the deadly attack. “The image of him putting the backpack behind that …
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HONOLULU – The federal government will be paying a retired soldier $50,000 to settle his lawsuit over swallowing needles in a sandwich purchased at a Burger King on a Hawaii Army base. Clark Bartholomew, of Loudoun County, Virginia, filed the lawsuit in 2011 claiming one needle pierced his tongue when …
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A woman covered in blood showed up outside a home in Washington state over the weekend and claimed to have been held against her will for multiple days inside a nearby house, where responding police later found a man dead inside, authorities said. The injured 27-year-old woman told officers that …
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Undergraduates at Texas Christian University (TCU) will have to fork over more money to attend the private college than their peers at Havard University, following recent news of a tuition hike at the Fort Worth institution. TCU announced a 7.9% increase in undergraduate tuition beginning in the 2024-25 school year. …
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A Shih Tzu was rescued from a dumpster in Florida last week after workers at a Family Dollar store found a trash bag “with something moving inside,” authorities said Tuesday. The “heinous” incident happened on Dec. 14 in Lehigh Acres, the Lee County Sheriff’s Office said. “Stuffed inside the bag, …
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OVERTON, Texas – Two Texas girls whose lemonade stand was shut down because they lacked a permit will instead offer the drink for free. Television station KLTV reports (http://bit.ly/1JMtmci ) that 8-year-old Andria Green and her 7-year-old sister, Zoey, will take only donations for lemonade Saturday in Overton, about 120 …
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A fire erupted under a New Jersey PATH train on Monday morning and sent passengers fleeing out of the smoke-filled cars. The blaze started at 6:19 a.m. under an eastbound train at the Newport PATH Station, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said. The train filled with …
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West Virginia, South Carolina and Ohio governors on Saturday announced they will deploy their National Guard troops to the nation’s capital to support President Donald Trump’s initiative to restore cleanliness and public safety to Washington, D.C. West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey committed to sending 300 to 400 guardsmen and South …
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The University of South Carolina issued an “all clear” after the school warned of reports of an active shooter on campus Sunday evening. Campus officials added there was no ongoing emergency. Earlier in the evening, the school ordered students and staff on its Columbia campus to shelter in place, saying …
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