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New York City subway scare suspect taken into police custody
NEW YORK (AP) — A homeless man from West Virginia faced charges Saturday for allegedly placing two devices that looked like pressure cookers in a New York City subway station, forcing an evacuation and snarling the morning commute, police said. Larry Kenton Griffin II, of Bruno, West Virginia, was awaiting...
Appeals court rules for reporter in public records case
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Tennessee Court of Appeals ruled on Friday that the state does not have the right to withhold ordinary public records just because they become part of a criminal investigation. The Friday ruling overturned a lower court's decision and clarified when the criminal investigation...
Kansas City, Kansas, police investigating shooting death
Kansas City, Kan. (AP) — Police in Kansas City, Kansas, are investigating the overnight shooting death of a man. Police say officers were called around 8 a.m. Saturday to an area in the North Town Fork Creek neighborhood for a report of a body found. Arriving officers found a man who had been shot. Medics...
Pedestrian struck and killed on highway onramp
PAWTUCKET, R.I. (AP) — State police are investigating a highway onramp accident that killed a pedestrian in Pawtucket. Troopers say 76-year-old Joao Daveiga, of Pawtucket, was struck while crossing the Lonsdale Avenue onramp to Interstate 95 south on Friday evening. Daveiga was later pronounced dead at...
Woman seriously injured in Portsmouth hit-and-run crash
PORTSMOUTH, N.H. (AP) — Police are investigating a suspected hit-and-run that seriously injured a pedestrian in Portsmouth. Investigators say the 19-year-old Portsmouth woman was found lying in the road unconscious around 1 a.m. Friday. Police believe she was struck by a vehicle on Woodbury Avenue. The...
Medical examiner rules Epstein death a suicide by hanging
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City's medical examiner ruled Jeffrey Epstein's death a suicide Friday, confirming after nearly a week of speculation that the financier faced with sex trafficking charges hanged himself in his jail cell. Epstein, 66, was found dead at the Metropolitan Correctional Center on Aug....
Police in fatal Colorado shooting return to active duty
DENVER (AP) — Two Colorado police officers put on leave after shooting a man as he ran away from them have returned to active duty, a department spokesman said Friday. Sgt. Alan Van't Land and Officer Blake Evenson were placed on leave after the Aug. 3 shooting that killed 19-year-old De'Von Bailey....
The Latest: Epstein lawyers dissatisfied with autopsy result
NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on the aftermath of Jeffrey Epstein's death (all times local): 7:50 p.m. Lawyers for financier Jeffrey Epstein say they're dissatisfied with the medical examiner's conclusions and plan to view prison videos themselves from a facility operating under "medieval conditions." Three...
Chicago police recover 60 guns during raid on home
CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago police officials say they were acting on intelligence when they seized more than 60 guns from a home on the city's West Side. Police Lt. Jeff Schaaf says Friday that officers served a search warrant late Thursday at the home in the Lawndale neighborhood. He said investigators believe...
Police seeking suspect in Shinnecock reservation homicide
SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. (AP) — New York state police are looking for a suspect in a shooting death on the Shinnecock reservation on Long Island. Authorities responded to a call just before dawn Friday reporting the homicide in the Suffolk County village of Southampton. The victim's name and gender were not...
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