A speeding vehicle rammed into jubilant supporters of President-elect Joseph Boakai at a victory celebration, killing at least three people and injuring at least 17 others, authorities said Tuesday. OPPOSITION CANDIDATE OFFICIALLY DECLARED LIBERIA’S PRESIDENT-ELECT AFTER INCUMBENT CONCEDES Police made an arrest following the crash late Monday but withheld the …
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A court in northern Italy convicted the parents and an uncle of an 18-year-Pakistani woman for her murder in Italy after she refused her family’s demands to marry a cousin in their homeland. Saman Abbas’ body was dug up in November 2022 in an abandoned farmhouse near the fields where …
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Police were investigating after a fiery two-vehicle collision killed two people and injured five others in Rochester, New York, early on New Year’s Day, officials said. The crash happened shortly before 1 a.m. Monday as officers were directing traffic after a concert let out at the Kodak Center theater complex, …
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An inmate at a federal prison in West Virginia has died after a fight at the facility, authorities said. FEDERAL INMATE CONVICTED OF DEADLY WEST VIRGINIA PRISON STABBING Andrew Davis, 39, was found with unspecified injuries from a “perceived altercation” with another inmate on Sunday at the Federal Corrections Institute …
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Former Delaware Gov. Mike Castle, a Republican moderate who championed creating the popular 50 State Quarters Program of commemorative coins while he served in Congress, has died. He was 86. The Delaware Republican Party announced that Castle died Thursday in Greenville but shared no other details. DEMOCRATIC SENATOR ADDRESSES WHETHER …
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Emergency services on the Spanish Canary Islands said Wednesday that more than 500 migrants reached there in four large wooden boats in a span of 24 hours earlier this week. One of the boats arriving on Tuesday was carrying 280 migrants, the islands’ emergency service said on X, formerly known …
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A man charged with the museum heist of a pair of ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland in the “The Wizard of Oz” was expected to change his plea to guilty in court Friday, pulling back the curtain on a whodunit mystery dating back 18 years. Terry Jon Martin, 76, …
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An armed federal fugitive suspected of breaking into homes was fatally shot when he pointed a rifle at West Virginia state troopers who were attempting to arrest him, police said. Troopers located Anthony Charles Meyers, 35, on Monday after getting a tip from the public, West Virginia State Police said …
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Advocates struggling to keep newly arrived migrant families off the streets in Massachusetts are relying on a patchwork of airport lounges, hospital waiting rooms and churches after the state capped the number of beds in family shelters and offered few options for those facing homelessness. The cap has impacted families …
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Nevada must pay $340,000 total to the ACLU of Nevada and eight people on a prison firefighting crew in a settlement reached earlier this week, but clears the state of admitting to claims including negligence, intentional infliction of emotional distress and cruel and unusual punishment. The settlement reached Tuesday by …
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