KANSAS CITY, Mo. – A black couple says officials at Emporia State University in Kansas have ignored their complaints about a racial incident and are retaliating against them for complaining. Angelica Hale is an assistant to the dean of the School of Library & Management. She says the problems began …
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PHILADELPHIA – Tickets will be available online Tuesday for a Pope Francis event at the Independence Mall in Philadelphia. The pope will be giving a speech on immigration and religious freedom in front of Independence Hall on Sept. 26. Officials say 10,000 tickets for that event will be available beginning …
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CHICAGO – A federal judge has approved a request from Jesse Jackson Jr. for a four-day furlough from home detention in Baltimore to attend his grandmother’s funeral in Greenville, South Carolina. The Chicago Tribune reports (http://trib.in/1Ofnwmn ) that the furlough will start Friday. Helen Burns Jackson died Monday at age …
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It started like something out of a sci-fi thriller: a glowing, pill-shaped object hovering over the skies of upstate New York. Photos captured near the Finger Lakes on Aug. 12 showed a slow-moving orb shrouded in a glowing mist, sparking a surge of UFO speculation in a community’s Facebook group. …
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A girls’ trip to a remote cabin in Kentucky nearly ended in tragedy when two women in their 80s took a soak in a hot tub and could not get themselves out of the heated water, rescuers said on Friday. The group was enjoying a dip in the hot tub …
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Trey Wright was over the moon for his new girlfriend, a cheerleader he’d been dating going into summer break from school, according to his mom. But after an apparent fight, she allegedly set him up to die, then visited the hospital before his family knew what happened. Two days after …
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Attacks targeting churches in the U.S. have increased significantly in recent years, according to a report, and the recent shooting at a Minnesota Catholic school is the latest example. In the report, the Family Research Council, an evangelical nonprofit and activist group, identified 1,384 incidents of hostility against U.S. churches …
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As investigators work to piece together the case against Charlie Kirk’s accused assassin, many questions remain surrounding the events leading up to and immediately after the moment the fatal shot was fired. Kirk was shot and killed while speaking at a Turning Point USA event at Utah Valley University on …
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A second man is in custody stemming from a San Antonio mass shooting that left a home riddled with bullets and a young girl dead. Bryan Salazar, 20, is now in custody and charged with capital murder, injury to a child, aggravated assault from a mass shooting and drug and …
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The suspect accused of killing Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University “left evidence everywhere” despite what appears to be extensive planning for the attack, according to a former FBI agent who now teaches criminal justice at the school. Tyler Robinson, 22, is accused of assassinating the …
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