A shelter-in-place order was lifted in Texas City, Texas, on Sunday hours after city officials said a chemical was released at a refinery. The city shared an alert about the situation at the Marathon Galveston Bay Refinery on its social media just after 9 a.m. local time. Several hours later, …
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Police in Atlanta are searching for a man accused of stealing an active Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent’s ID from her vehicle the day after Christmas. On December 26, just after 3:30 p.m., police told Fox News Digital that they were alerted to a vehicle larceny incident. When officers arrived …
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SALTON CITY, Calif. – Once-bustling marinas on shallow water in California’s largest lake a few years ago are bone-dry. Carcasses of oxygen-starved tilapia lie on desolate shores. Flocks of eared grebes and shoreline birds bob up and down to feast on marine life. An air of decline and strange beauty …
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ANN ARBOR, Mich. – Livingston Awards honoring outstanding work by journalists under age 35 were given to four reporters this week for their work covering Syria’s civil war, mishandled sexual assault complaints and lax training for armed security guards. The $10,000 awards are the largest all-media general reporting prizes in …
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MIAMI – The Coast Guard suspended its search Saturday in Biscayne Bay outside Miami for a missing sailor who was a member of the 2012 U.S. Olympic sailing team. Coast Guard officials in Miami say they received a report Thursday evening about an unmanned inflatable dinghy adrift in Dinner Key. …
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RICHMOND, Va. – Southwest Airlines says one of its planes veered off the taxiway after landing at Richmond International Airport in Virginia. The airline says in a statement that Flight 4636 was transitioning to the gate when it left the taxiway early Monday and went into the grass. No injuries …
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MUNCIE, Ind. – Indiana is forcing a senior center to stop offering prizes for card games in which residents pay a few dollars to play, saying the packages of cookies or toilet paper offered to winners makes the euchre games gambling. Judy Elton, director of the Delaware County Senior Citizens …
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HEMPSTEAD, Texas – The latest on the investigation into the death of a woman in a Texas jail cell (all times local): 8:30 a.m. A Texas TV station says it has obtained a voicemail from a call Sandra Bland made from jail in which she told a friend that she …
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SHEFFIELD LAKE, Ohio – Authorities say the body of a 4-year-old boy has been recovered from Lake Erie after a massive search in northern Ohio. The mayor and police chief of the city of Sheffield Lake told reporters that Sidney Heidrick’s body was found Saturday afternoon not far from where …
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TAMPA, Fla. – Researchers say they have positively identified the remains of a 15-year-old boy who died at a Florida reform school where guards were accused of brutality throughout its troubled history. University of South Florida anthropologist Erin Kimmerle said Tuesday the remains of Robert Stephens, who died in 1937, …
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