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Former Chicago Police Officer and Two Members of Latin Kings Street Gang Sentenced www.privateofficer.com
--A former Chicago Police officer and two members of the Latin Kings street gang were sentenced to prison today in Hammond, Indiana federal court for racketeering conspiracy and related crimes. Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Justice Department's Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney David Capp of the Northern District of Indiana made the announcement following the sentencing ...
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5.7-magnitude earthquake shakes Northern Calif
Rafael Abreau, a geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey's National Earthquake Center, says the temblor struck at 8:47 p.m. and was centered six miles west northwest of Greenville, and 26 miles southwest of ...
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New York tour operator cancels Bronx ghetto tours
NEW YORK, NY - A New York company offering tours of Bronx neighborhoods has shut down after officials objected to its advertising that claimed to give visitors "a ride through a real New York City 'ghetto'," according to a statement from Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. The tour's controversial description states that when thinking of the Bronx, people envision ...
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Watch Bridge Collapses in Washington State
This is a live picture from a helicopter our sister station KO MO. And Seattle Washington this is about two hours north of Seattle portion of the bridge on I five -- -- -- -- root river. Collapse ...
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Camera Captures Miami Beach Police Saving Suicidal Man
MIAMI BEACH (CBSMiami) – Miami Beach Police officers are being credited with saving a suicidal man from jumping off a roof of a South Beach parking garage. The 50-minute ordeal happened Tuesday at the garage on 16th Street and Collins Ave., according to the police ...
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I-5 bridge collapse in Washington state sends cars people into water
MOUNT VERNON, Wash. – An Interstate 5 bridge over a river north of Seattle collapsed Thursday evening, dumping vehicles and people into the water, the Washington State Patrol said. The four-lane bridge over the Skagit River collapsed about 7 p.m., Trooper Mark Francis said. There was no immediate estimate of how many people were in the water or whether there were any injuries or deaths, ...
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2 full-time rangers added to patrol Capitol Hill Pioneer Square parks
Three violent assaults at Cal Anderson Park on Capitol Hill this month have prompted the city to add two full-time park rangers, who will patrol there and at Occidental Square in Pioneer Square. Additionally, Seattle police will step up summer-emphasis patrols to ensure public safety as warm weather and long days draw more people to the city’s parks. "The rangers are a force ...
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Bridge collapses over Skagit River on I-5 in Washington
washington state say one lane of the skajit river bridge has collapsed and sent people and vehicles into the water below. the bridge is about 40 years old but was reportedly expanded from two lanes to four about five years ago. the collapse happened around 7:00. there are no reports of injuries or death but cars and debris is in the water. traditionally this is a weekend of heavy traffic and i-5 ...
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Obama ‘America does not take strikes to punish individuals’
america does not take strikes when we have the ability to capture individual terrorists. our preference is always to detain, interrogate and ...
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Man survives kidnap ordeal in New York
Police have rescued a businessman from a New York City warehouse where he had been held captive for a month by kidnappers who demanded a $3-million ransom from his family in ...
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Part of Washington state freeway span collapses into river dispatcher
(Reuters) - Part of a freeway bridge over the Skagit River in Washington state collapsed on Thursday, sending vehicles falling into the water below, an emergency dispatcher ...
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Boy Scouts of America Lifts Ban on Gay Youth 61 Percent Voted for Resolution
May 23, 2013 7:04 pm After a contentious challenge to their membership policy, 1,400 delegates of the 103-year-old Boy Scouts of America youth organization voted overwhelmingly to adopt an amendment that effectively lifts the ban on homosexual youth in the organization on Thursday.The ban on gay adult scout leaders will remain.Sixty-one percent of the delegates voted in favor of the resolution ...
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How young American fell victim to drone strike
Jude Kenan Mohammad, who was born in Florida and raised in Raleigh, N.C., is the least known of the four U.S. citizens whom the Obama administration acknowledged it had killed in drone attacks overseas since ...
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Boehner Committee Can Decide Whether to Subpoena Communications Between IRS and White House
- Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-Ohio) said he will let the House Ways and Means Committee determine whether to subpoena crucial documents from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the White House that would reveal what the administration knew about the agency's targeting of conservative groups. The ...
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Bloomberg accused of threatening to destroy New Yorks taxi industry
USA New York mayor Michael Bloomberg has found himself at the center of unwanted media attention after allegedly unleashing a profanity-laced tirade against the CEO of a large taxi fleet company over his opposition to the city's "Taxi of Tomorrow" plan. The altercation, which is said to have occurred last Thursday during a basketball game at Madison Square Garden's private ...
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Video Okla. couple survived tornado in their closet
Lewis and Janie Haywood huddled in their closet when the 200-mile-an-hour tornado blew through and destroyed their home Monday. Now they're facing the painful question of where to ...
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Video Teacher injured in Okla. tornado takes first steps
With a tornado and a baby on the way, doctors and nurses at the Moore Medical Center really had to deliver. Shayla Taylor survived, and her son was born at a hospital a few miles away. Elaine Quijano ...
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Kids teachers from destroyed Okla. school reunite
Class photos still decorate a classroom wall amid the wreckage of Plaza Towers Elementary School, where seven children were killed earlier in the week when a tornado hit Moore, Okla., Thursday, May 23, ...
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2 Dead in Drugstore Shootings in Tennessee
An East Tennessee pharmacy owner and a customer have been killed during a robbery that left a pharmacy tech and another employee wounded. District Attorney Jimmy Dunn said a former police officer in Bean Station was taken into custody shortly after the shooting and robbery Thursday at the Down Home Pharmacy. Dunn said the former officer, 37-year-old Jason B. Holt, took "a large ...
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Chicago Area Scouting Officials Endorse Inclusion Of Gay Youths
(CBS/AP) – Openly gay youngsters will no longer be banned from the Boy Scouts, after a vote Thursday by the national organization. An openly gay scout from Maryland, whose troop refused to expel him, praised the historic move of the century old scouting movement. "Simply because you’ve been taught something for a long amount of time doesn’t mean it's right," ...
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Obama in heated exchanges with Code Pink anti-war protester
1 of 2. Protester Medea Benjamin, co-founder of the Code Pink activist group, interrupts U.S. President Barack Obama as he speaks about his administration's counter-terrorism policy at the National Defense University at Fort McNair in Washington, May 23, ...
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Feds to review policy on media leaks
WASHINGTON -- President Obama said on Thursday that the Justice Department will review the policy under which it obtains journalists' records in investigations of the leak of government ...
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Video 523 Obama The war on terror like all wars must end baby born as tornado struck
Warning of the danger of keeping America on a "perpetual wartime footing," President Obama called for an end to the war on terror; and, With a tornado and a baby on the way, doctors and nurses at the Moore Medical Center really had to ...
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10 Things to Know for Friday
Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Friday: 1. HOW OBAMA IS DEFENDING DRONE STRIKES The attacks are legal, effective and necessary as threats evolve, he says in a speech outlining America's post-war counterterror policies. 2. BOY SCOUTS END BAN ON GAY YOUTHS The decision is unlikely to end a bitter debate over the ...
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Haas Waldorf share Senior PGA Championship lead
Jay Haas shot a 5-under 66 Thursday that gave him a share of the lead after the opening round of the 74th Senior PGA Championship. Duffy Waldorf, playing his 12th event on the Champions Tour, also posted a 66 in the first major tournament for senior players this year. Haas, a 16-time winner on the Champions Tour, captured this event in both 2006 and 2008. He is looking for his first win on the ...
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California prison labor?
California has a famously large budget deficit, budget cuts are being made to a number of state programs and services, but what hasn’t been considered is the cost avoidance potential of the state’s over 40,000 minimum-security prisoner’s, many of whom are already saving the state money by providing labor in return for shorter sentences.
With California budget deficit expected to be somewhere between $12 billion or as high as $25 billion for 2010 alone, state legislators have been anxiously looking for ways to reduce state expenses, cutting budgets wherever possible, but already existing programs operated by the state may present an opportunity for cost-savings in the areas of construction, services and maintenance of buildings and amenities. Read more
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