HOLLYWOOD, Fla. – The search for a missing 3-year-old boy ended Friday where it began a day earlier, inside a Florida home where the child’s body was discovered in what police called an “obscured” location. Hollywood Police Chief Frank Fernandez offered few details during a Friday morning news conference that …
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WORLAND, Wyo. – A pilot flying with his young grandson encountered engine trouble but safely landed his small plane on a rural Wyoming highway without hurting anybody. The only damage occurred when the wings of the single-engine plane clipped some road marker posts as the pilot maneuvered away from traffic. …
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SAN FRANCISCO – Two climbers trying to become the first in the world to use only their hands and feet to scale a sheer granite face in Yosemite National Park in California are almost to the top, a spokeswoman said Tuesday. Kevin Jorgeson, 30, of Santa Rosa, California, and Tommy …
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BOSTON – Jury selection has been postponed in the trial of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (joh-HAHR’ tsahr-NEYE’-ehv). The U.S. District Court in Boston will be closed on Monday due to a prolonged snowstorm expected to dump up to two feet of new snow on the socked-in region. Jury …
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BRIDGEPORT, Conn. – A threatening letter that disparages black police officers has been found in mailboxes at a Connecticut police department. Bridgeport officials said Wednesday state police are investigating the letter, which begins and ends with the term “white power.” The letter singles out black officer Clive Higgins, who was …
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TUCSON, Ariz. – The parents of the first American killed by Islamic State militants say the U.S. government failed them during their son’s long capture. Diane and John Foley spoke before a large crowd at the University of Arizona on Thursday. The panel included Terry Anderson, the former Associated Press …
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ELYRIA, Ohio – An infant’s parents have been charged with child endangering after police say they couldn’t agree which one would take care of their 3-month-old over the weekend and the father left her at a McDonald’s outside Cleveland. Twenty-two-year-old Rachel Jaajaa and 29-year-old Aaron Tate were arrested Monday. Police …
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ALEXANDRIA, Va. – Local and state officials in Virginia have asked a judge to toss out a lawsuit filed by a deaf man who says he spent six weeks at a county jail unable to adequately communicate. A hearing on the lawsuit filed by Ethiopian immigrant Abreham Zemedagegehu (zeh-MAY’-deh-geh-GAY’-hoo) was …
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ORLANDO, Fla. – Prosecutors rested their care Thursday and the judge denied a standard defense request to acquit the final three former Florida A&M band members charged in the hazing death of a drum major. Defense attorneys said that prosecutors had failed to show there was a conspiracy and that …
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NEWARK, N.J. – Federal prosecutors have announced a court proceeding involving the 2013 traffic jams on the George Washington Bridge, an investigation that has loomed over New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie as he considers a presidential run. An 11 a.m. court hearing is scheduled for Friday, and the U.S. attorney’s …
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