Residents in a western Pennsylvania county are calling for the resignation of an official who is facing felony animal cruelty charges after authorities say her dog starved to death. Washington County Controller April Sloane, 43, was arrested last week at her county office. North Strabane police filed the charges after …
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Climate activists briefly disrupted the morning commute Thursday in Boston to put pressure on the state’s governor to ban fossil fuel infrastructure. The 15-minute protest blocked a roadway outside the South Station Transportation Center in downtown Boston. Boston police said there were arrests, but they did not have any details. …
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Hawaii Gov. Josh Green on Monday said he was requesting $425 million from lawmakers during the next fiscal year to help Maui recover from August’s wildfires — and millions more to reduce the risk of wildfires statewide. The proposed budget is Green’s first since a fast-moving wildfire killed at least …
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Criminal prosecutions have more than doubled in St. Louis since the city’s progressive prosecutor resigned under fire, a newspaper analysis found. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch found that St. Louis Circuit Attorney Gabe Gore filed more than 1,400 case over the three-period that started with his May 31 swearing-in. That compares …
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Two adults and two children were found fatally shot Sunday in a suburban Chicago home. Their bodies were found about 8:40 p.m. in Romeoville by officers sent to the home to conduct a well-being check, police said Monday. 3 TACOMA OFFICERS CHARGED IN BLACK MAN’S POLICE-CUSTODY DEATH Police officers found …
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Surgeons have transplanted a pig’s heart into a dying man in a bid to prolong his life – only the second patient to ever undergo such an experimental feat. Two days later, the man was cracking jokes and able to sit in a chair, Maryland doctors said Friday. The 58-year-old …
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The U.N. refugee agency said Thursday that some 186,000 migrants and refugees arrived in Southern Europe so far this year, the vast majority in Italy. Between January and Sept. 24, over 2,500 people seeking to cross the Mediterranean were found dead or are still missing, a significant increase from the …
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A Yellowstone County sheriff’s deputy shot and killed a man who fired a gun while officers were trying to serve him with an arrest warrant from another Montana county, the sheriff’s office said Thursday. Officers went to a residence about 22 miles northeast of Billings, near Ballantine, at 11:30 p.m. …
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Kentucky police officers shot a suspect in a residential break-in who did not comply with commands to drop a gun during a foot pursuit, officials said Tuesday. KENTUCKY DEPUTY WOUNDED AND SUSPECT KILLED DURING ATTEMPTED ARREST The shooting happened as officers responded to an early morning call from the home …
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Three teenagers were wounded in a shooting outside a west Baltimore high school around the time classes were starting Friday morning, officials said. The shooting adds to a recent uptick in youth violence plaguing the city this year, including several instances of Baltimore public school students being shot on or …
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