RALEIGH, N.C. – A pit bull mauled to death a 6-year-old boy who apparently had climbed over a 4-foot chain-link fence to get into a neighbor’s yard in western North Carolina, authorities said Wednesday. The Henderson County Sheriff’s Office was called to a residence in Hendersonville, south of Asheville, on …
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LINCOLN, Neb. – A man in Lincoln, Nebraska, has been cited for possessing pot inside a container that had been slapped with a label reading: “Not Weed.” The Lincoln Journal Star reports that Lancaster County deputies stopped the man’s vehicle around 9 p.m. Saturday. Officers found the plastic sour cream …
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. – A man who set sail from South Carolina two months ago was rescued on the overturned hull of his sailboat 200 miles off the coast of North Carolina, and he said he got by rationing his water and praying for help. “Every day I was like, ‘Please …
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A convicted sex offender serving life without parole was recaptured in Texas on Monday after escaping jail with the help of his mother a day earlier, authorities said. Robert Yancy Jr., 39, was captured at 8:05 a.m. in Matagorda County after two civilians recognized him at a park in Palacios, …
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SMITHFIELD, Va. – William R. White, a former member of the famed squadron of African-American pilots known as the Tuskegee Airmen, has died. He was 88. White’s son, Brandon White, says White died July 24 at his home in Smithfield. Brandon and his sister, Inetha Holmes, say their father was …
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A seventh suspect has been arrested for his alleged role in the brutal downtown Cincinnati beatdown that left six people injured in late-July. Gregory Wright, 32, is charged with alleged aggravated riot and aggravated robbery, according to the Hamilton County Jail. Wright was booked into jail at approximately 4:30 p.m. …
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Officials last week dismantled a sprawling illegal marijuana cultivation site hidden deep inside Sequoia National Park, hauling out thousands of plants and nearly a ton of toxic debris that had scarred the wilderness. Crews removed 2,377 full-grown marijuana plants and nearly 2,000 pounds of trash and infrastructure from a site …
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A bicyclist in a waterfront Florida town was killed in a hit-and-run crash after a serial traffic offender dragged her for blocks before leaving her to die on the side of the road, police said. Xavier Rigby, 22, was arrested after the Pinellas County Police Department said he fatally struck …
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The U.S. Customs and Border Protection has “temporarily” suspended operations at a port of entry near El Paso so that the personnel can assist in “processing noncitizens” who have arrived at the border, the agency said. CBP’s El Paso Office of Field Operations announced last week that starting Monday it …
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Dallas Police have released body camera footage of the shootout and arrest of an illegal immigrant who allegedly shot and killed his roommate in broad daylight and injured a police officer. Police say that last Thursday, Officers Derek Williams and Christopher Mazin were driving past a business located at 4847 …
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