SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — One of two so-called “San Francisco witch killers” was denied parole Wednesday, December 2, 2015 state prison officials said. A California parole board found Suzan Carson, 73, unfit for early release and scheduled her next parole consideration for 2030, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation spokesman Luis Patino said. Carson … Continue reading
DANIA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A jet plane’s engine caught fire Thursday, October 29, 2015 as it prepared for takeoff, and passengers had to quickly evacuate using emergency slides, officials said. Broward Sheriff Fire Rescue spokesman Mike Jachles said there were “some injuries” but offered no further details. Dozens of passengers could be seen in video … Continue reading
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A federal judge has ordered a risk assessment of all sex offenders in Minnesota’s restrictive civil confinement program to determine which can be put on a pathway for release. Judge Donovan Frank on Thursday, October 29, 2015 laid out what he says must be done to fix problems with indefinite detentions … Continue reading
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — When FBI Director James Comey told a national gathering of law enforcement leaders that cops might be easing up for fear of being caught on camera, the conference attendees included a South Carolina sheriff whose deputy was about to star in the nation’s next viral police video. Richland County Sheriff Leon … Continue reading
MUNCY, Pa. (AP) — State police used shotguns Thursday, October 29, 2015 to deflate a wayward surveillance blimp that broke loose in Maryland before coming down into trees in the Pennsylvania countryside. It could take days, or even weeks, to remove the blimp, which came down Wednesday, said U.S. Army Captain Matthew Villa. He said it is … Continue reading
NEW YORK (AP) — Though the fog of time may have clouded certain details, a parade of past scandals that each seized the public’s attention ring familiar to this day. There’s Lyle and Erik Menendez, privileged sons who offed their parents in their Beverly Hills, California, home in 1989. There’s Jean Harris, the girls’ school … Continue reading
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A police officer shot during a traffic stop in Albuquerque died early Thursday, October 29 just more than a week after an ex-convict opened fire on the decorated police veteran outside a pharmacy, police said. Chief Gorden Eden said in a statement that Officer Daniel Webster, who was shot on Oct. 21, … Continue reading
LOS ANGELES (AP) — SeaWorld announced Thursday, October 15, 2015 that it will challenge a state ruling that banned the company from breeding captive killer whales at its San Diego park. The announcement comes a week after the California Coastal Commission endorsed a $100 million expansion of the tanks SeaWorld uses to hold orcas in San … Continue reading
NEW YORK (AP) — A baby girl was thrown from a sixth-floor window of an apartment building to her death on Thursday, witnesses and police said, making her the third child killed that way in the city in three months. The 6-month-old girl’s mother, 27-year-old Tenisha Fearon, was in a Bronx apartment with her and … Continue reading
NEW HARTFORD, N.Y. (AP) — The latest on the fatal beating of a 19-year-old inside a church (all times local): 8:30 p.m. Hospital officials say the condition of a 17-year-old who allegedly was seriously beaten by relatives and fellow members of a central New York church is improving. That’s according to Lt. Timothy O’Neill of … Continue reading
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are getting the fourth quarter off to a weak start as investors wait for the government’s monthly jobs report. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 12 points, or 0.1 percent, to 16,271 on Thursday, October 1 2015. The S&P 500 rose three points, or 0.2 percent, to 1,923. The Nasdaq … Continue reading
ROSEBURG, Ore. (AP) — The latest on the deadly shooting Thursday, October 1, 2015 at a community college in Oregon (all times local): 1:05 p.m. The former president of an Oregon community college where a gunman opened fire, killing at least seven people, says the school has only one security officer on duty at a time, … Continue reading
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A group of mostly black women filed a racial discrimination lawsuit Thursday after they were removed from a train that tours Napa Valley wineries, saying it was humiliating to be thrown off a rail car when loud and inebriated white passengers were allowed to stay. The 11 women sued Napa Valley … Continue reading
ROSEBURG, Ore. (AP) — The latest on the deadly shooting Thursday at a community college in Oregon (all times local): 12:40 p.m. The congressman who represents the southwest Oregon city where a mass shooting happened at a community college says the incident is a “heartbreaking tragedy.” Authorities say the shooting Thursday at Umpqua (UMP’-kwah) Community … Continue reading
McALESTER, Okla. (AP) — The latest on the confusion over Oklahoma’s supply of lethal injection drugs, which prompted Gov. Mary Fallin to issue a last-minute execution stay for Richard Glossip (all times local): 2:15 p.m. Oklahoma’s attorney general says the state should delay all scheduled executions while it reviews how it received the wrong drug … Continue reading
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