SAN FRANCISCO – A California lawyer with an idea that has been called offensive, outrageous, reprehensible and illegal is putting the century-old process that gives citizens the right to make laws at the ballot box to its latest test. The state attorney general, Kamala Harris, took the unusual step on …
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RALEIGH, N.C. – Shoppers at a Harris Teeter supermarket in North Carolina’s capital city have gotten a very big break on their bills. WRAL in Raleigh reports (http://bit.ly/1En8IhS) the cash registers at the chain’s Cameron Village store crashed on Friday. The station quoted a store manager as saying his team …
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FIRE ISLAND, N.Y. – A search was underway for a missing tugboat crew member after three others were rescued Saturday when their boat sank in icy and stormy waters about a mile off Fire Island on New York’s Long Island, authorities said. One of the crew members managed to make …
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DETROIT – A woman’s frozen body has been found inside a freezer at a vacant apartment on Detroit’s east side. Detroit police officer Jennifer Moreno says 36th District Court officers found the body during an eviction about 10:45 a.m. Tuesday. Moreno says the officers found the body in the freezer …
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WILKES-BARRE, Pa. – A Pennsylvania man who gained notoriety with the 2003 discovery of at least five bodies in his yard is set to stand trial in two of the deaths. Hugo Selenski was charged nine years ago with strangling a pharmacist and the pharmacist’s girlfriend and burying their bodies …
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ALEXANDRIA, Va. – Former national security adviser Condoleezza Rice told jurors she was stunned to learn that a classified mission to thwart Iran’s nuclear weapons ambitions had been leaked to the news media. That leak is now the subject of a criminal trial in federal court in Alexandria. Prosecutors believe …
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SEATAC, Wash. – Two planes were evacuated upon arrival at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport on Sunday due to what a spokesman called a “security concern.” Airport spokesman Perry Cooper says a JetBlue flight from Long Beach, California, and a regional SkyWest jet from Phoenix were the planes involved. The flights arrived …
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MANASSAS, Va. – Police say a northern Virginia man was impersonating an officer when he pulled over a car being driven by a real cop. Prince William County Police say 27-year-old Shawn Michael Robinson of Alexandria pulled over an off-duty officer last Thursday. Police say Robinson was driving a white …
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WILKES-BARRE, Pa. – A jury on Wednesday convicted a man of strangling a pharmacist and the pharmacist’s girlfriend, whose bodies were found in his yard, as part of a plot to rob the pharmacist of the proceeds of an illegal drug ring. It was a victory for prosecutors who had …
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ORLANDO, Fla. – A beluga whale has died at SeaWorld Orlando after being treated for an infection associated with a fractured jaw. Sea World officials said Friday that the beluga whale Nanuq died Thursday. The cause of death won’t be known until a post-mortem examination, but the beluga whale had …
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