Minerva man dead after standoff, area now safe for residents
The Carroll County Sheriff's Department confirms a suspect is dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound after firing at police from a house on Monday.
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Steve Fishman was hitchhiking in Connecticut in 1975 when he accepted a ride from a chatty lone man in a Buick. Fishman was stunned a few months later to see the man’s face in news reports saying he’d confessed to a series of rapes and murders.
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Ted Cruz’s Hurricane Beryl Warning Goes Spectacularly Awry
Critics said the Texas Republican’s “stay safe” alert only served as a reminder of one thing.
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It was their dream home until the hoarder next door turned it into a pricey prison
Married schoolteachers bought their dream home in Sun Valley. Then a mentally ill neighbor's hoarding turned it into a prison.
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Catfish Couple Allegedly Drugged Man Before Stabbing Him to Death and Trying to Take Over His Home (Exclusive)
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Father charged with killing man who shot his son during a dispute in Cahokia Heights
Police found two men dead in the front yard of a Cahokia Heights home
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Woman Dies While Boating on the Fourth of July. Now 2 Men Have Been Charged with Boating While Intoxicated
Authorities said they received a call about a woman who had "fallen off a boat" in Texas' Lake Conroe earlier this week
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Tenn. Teen Who'd Been Missing for Days Is Found Dead in Woods, Teen Boy Charged with Murder
Trinity Bostic's remains were found along the side of a road in Hendersonville, Tenn.
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At least 100 people shot, 17 fatally, during violent Fourth of July weekend in Chicago – up 27% from last year’s holiday
Chicago experienced a spate of gun violence over the long Fourth of July holiday weekend during which 102 people were shot, including at least a dozen fatally, according to police reports.
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‘Top Chef’ & Food Network Daytime Emmy-Winning Chef Justin Sutherland Loses Deals In Aftermath Of Arrest
The fallout continues for celebrity chef Justin Sutherland, who was arrested June 28 in Minnesota for threatening to kill his girlfriend. A nonprofit in St. Paul said Friday that it’s canceling its partnership with Sutherland to develop a new concept for Golden Thyme Coffee and Café, which the nonprofit’s trust bought when the cafe’s owners …
- Modesto Bee
What Christian conservatives will never tell you about the Ten Commandments | Opinion
At best, the text known as the Ten Commandments invites deeper conversations about religion and ethics. At worst, it becomes a meaningless idol
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B.C. woman allegedly trained by ISIS charged with terrorism
A British Columbia woman caught in Syria during the war against ISIS has been charged with terrorism offenses, the RCMP said on Saturday. Kimberly Polman faces charges of leaving Canada to participate in a terrorist group as well as participation in the activities of a terrorist group. She appeared in court in Vancouver on Saturday morning and was scheduled to return on Aug. 2.
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‘close associate’ of Quebec gang leader arrested by B.C. RCMP
MONTREAL — Police in Quebec City say a man suspected of having close ties to the leader of Quebec street gang Blood Family Mafia has been arrested. City police spokesperson Pierre-Olivier Lévesque says 28-year-old Guillaume St-Louis Bernier was arrested in Kelowna, B.C., by the RCMP on June 30 following a police stop. A Canada-wide arrest warrant had been issued for St-Louis Bernier in March for drug trafficking and possession of stolen property charges. St-Louis Bernier is considered a “close a
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India's lawyers, activists protest against new criminal laws
Indian lawyers and activists are urging Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government to put on hold three sets of new criminal laws, arguing they will increase litigation in an already overburdened justice system and give excessive powers to police. India this month replaced its criminal justice system - the Indian Penal Code of 1860, the 1973 Code of Criminal Procedure and the Indian Evidence Act of 1872 - with new laws. The new laws, in force since July 1, expand police powers on pre-trial detention of an accused and introduce the death penalty for gang-rape of women aged under 18, among other provisions.
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4 killed in shooting during party at a Kentucky home; suspect died after a vehicle chase, police say
FLORENCE, Ky. (AP) — Four people were killed and three others were wounded in an early Saturday shooting during a party at a home in northern Kentucky, police said.
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Virginia School Board Member Sentenced In Jan. 6 Case Says He Won't Resign
“You're going to need a bigger wrecking ball to get me out of there,” Miles Adkins said of calls for him to step down.
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'Bringing a gun to a knife fight': LAPD continues to shoot people holding 'edged weapon' during mental crisis, analysis shows
A Times analysis shows that LAPD officers continue to open fire despite policies intended to reduce shootings of people who hold a knife or other sharp weapon during a behavioral crisis.
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Inside the Aniah Blanchard Case as a Suspect Awaits Trial
The 19-year-old stepdaughter of UFC fighter Walt Harris was kidnapped and murdered in October 2019 — and her suspected killer has yet to stand trial
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Mother Who Admitted Killing Son, 7, with Morphine to ‘Remove' Cancer 'Pain’ Dead at 77
"She was peaceful, pain free, at home and surrounded by her loving family," Antonya Cooper's daughter Tabitha said in a statement to the BBC
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Off-duty NYPD officer who was among 4 killed when drunk driver crashed into nail salon laid to rest
NEW HYDE PARK, N.Y. (AP) — An off-duty New York Police Department officer who was among four killed when a drunk driver plowed into a nail salon on Long Island last month was laid to rest Saturday.
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Police ID man, 28, killed in Scarborough shooting
A 28-year-old man has died after he was shot in Scarborough Saturday night, Toronto police say.Duty Insp. Dan Pravica said at approximately 10:20 p.m., officers were called to a gas station in the area of Warden Avenue and Ellesmere Road for reports of gunshots. Upon arriving, they located a man with gunshot wounds. The suspects had fired several shots into the victim's car before fleeing the scene, police said in a news release Sunday. Flowers left near a Scarborough gas station where a man was