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Education Department giving Newtown $1.3 million
Schools in Newtown, Conn., will receive $1.3 million in federal aid to recover after the shootings that left 26 students and educators dead last year. Education Secretary Arne Duncan planned to announce the School Emergency Response to Violence grant during a visit to the state on Friday. The grant to ...
Today in History
Today is Friday, May 24, the 144th day of 2013. There are 221 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On May 24, 1883, the Brooklyn Bridge, linking Brooklyn and Manhattan, was dedicated by President Chester Alan Arthur and New York Gov. Grover Cleveland. On this date: In ...
Wis. budget committee approves DNA upon arrest
The Legislature's finance committee Thursday approved a plan in Republican Gov. Scott Walker's executive budget that would dramatically expand the state's powers to seize DNA from crime suspects. Wisconsin currently takes DNA only from convicted felons and sex offenders. Walker's plan would require police to seize DNA from anyone arrested ...
Sheriff: Beaten Bakersfield man's death accidental
Kern County's sheriff said the death of a Bakersfield man after a beating from deputies that was captured on video was an accident that happened primarily because of heart disease. Sheriff Donny Youngblood announced the autopsy results at a news conference Thursday on the May 8 death of 33-year-old David ...
Hawaii woman sues Salvation Army, claims sex abuse
A woman's lawsuit against the Salvation Army claims she was molested by a minister as a child in the late 1950s and that when the organization found out, he was simply moved from Oahu to Maui. Nancy Spencer's lawsuit filed on Maui this week claims she was about 11 years ...
Jurors deadlock on Jodi Arias penalty; retrial set
Jurors who spent five months determining Jodi Arias' fate couldn't decide whether she should get life in prison or die for murdering her boyfriend, sending prosecutors back to the drawing board to rehash the shocking case of sex, lies and violence to another 12 people. Judge Sherry Stephens gave a ...
2 cited for poaching abalone near Laguna Beach
California Fish and Wildlife officials say they cited two men for poaching abalone from a protected area near Laguna Beach. Lt. Eric Ford says wardens saw 47-year-old Juni Pong and 47-year-old Kuan Yee wearing full scuba gear as they entered the ocean at Moss Cove in Laguna Beach. After more ...
Deputy shoots man who grabbed her stun gun
San Diego sheriff's officials say a deputy shot a man after he grabbed her stun gun and fired it at her. U-T San Diego reports (http://bit.ly/16XMeUr ) Thursday that the shooting happened outside an apartment complex in Vista, after deputies arrived to investigate a report of a drunken person. Lt. ...
NYPD detective convicted of attempted murder
A veteran New York City police detective has been convicted of attempted murder in an off-duty shooting. Leopold McLean, of Queens, had been charged with wounding his girlfriend's ex-boyfriend in November of 2010. The unarmed victim was shot after he violated a restraining order by turning up at the woman's ...
NC inmate who disappeared from work release caught
Authorities say a Lincoln Correctional Center inmate who disappeared from a work release program has been recaptured. The N.C. Department of Corrections said 38-year-old Ronald Billings was captured around 9:45 p.m. in Conway, S.C. He's now in custody in the Horry County jail. A statement from the department said a ...
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