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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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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A Washington jury last week convicted a Tacoma man on kidnapping and sexual assault charges after he held a woman captive in his garage for weeks, according to court records and local news. Henry Hauser, a 56-year-old repeat sex offender, could face life in prison without parole for his crimes, …
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A group of University of Wisconsin students participated in a demonstration on campus endorsing Hamas terrorists’ attack against Israel, and the university declined to condemn the chants heard at the event. The students were observed holding Palestinian flags in front of the university’s library as one woman was heard shouting …
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AKRON, Ohio – A northeast Ohio bridal shop that was linked to an Ebola survivor and later announced plans to close has put its building up for sale. Dallas nurse Amber Vinson visited Coming Attractions Bridal & Formal in Akron days before she was diagnosed with Ebola last fall. The …
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