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Man gets probation for tattoo threat against cop
A man accused of using a violent tattoo to menace a Minneapolis police officer has pleaded guilty to making terroristic threats. Twenty-one-year-old Antonio Jenkins Jr. was sentenced Monday to probation. As Hennepin County Judge Lyonel Norris accepted the plea, he told Jenkins he needed to learn to control his impulses. ...
North Texas woman sentenced after fleeing trial
A North Texas woman who fled her trial after being convicted of child sex trafficking and compelling prostitution has been sentenced in absentia to 25 years in prison. The Dallas Morning News reports (http://bit.ly/18SxjMu) Jasmine Lanette Johnson was sentenced Monday after being convicted last week. Authorities continue to search for ...
Driver arrested in death of soccer ball dribbler
The driver Oregon police say fatally struck a man trying to dribble a soccer ball 10,000 miles from Seattle to Brazil for the World Cup has been arrested. Scott Van Hiatt, of Neskowin, was arrested Monday on a charge of criminally negligent homicide, said Lincoln City Police Chief Keith Kilian. ...
Bellevue police: Woman found dead in home
Police say that a woman was found dead inside her Bellevue home Monday and investigators suspect foul play. Bellevue police spokeswoman Carla Iafrate says the 35-year-old woman did not show up for work Monday morning, prompting co-workers to go check on her. They found her body inside her home. Iafrate ...
Investigators 'zeroing in' on Colo. wildfire start
Rain helped firefighters douse Colorado's most destructive wildfire in state history, while a new wind-whipped blaze in California forced evacuations and threatened homes Monday near Yosemite National Park. Investigators believed Colorado's Black Forest Fire was human-caused, and were going through the charred remains of luxury homes destroyed and damaged in ...
Texas, SD governors court Conn. gun makers
The governors of Texas and South Dakota visited Connecticut on Monday to court gun manufacturers that have threatened to leave since the state passed tough new gun-control laws this year in response to the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School. While gun makers may be unlikely to leave behind their ...
Reward increased in fatal drive-by shooting
A reward for information in the unsolved killing of a 15-year-old Seattle high school student slain in a drive-by shooting has been increased to $34,000. Crime Stoppers of Puget Sound said Monday that's the maximum reward available. Rewards are given for information leading to a suspect's conviction. Molly Conley, nicknamed ...
Jury convicts Arizona man in terrorism hoax
An Arizona man on trial for sending his 16-year-old nephew into a busy intersection last summer with a fake grenade launcher was convicted Monday of endangering the teen's life and carrying out a terrorism hoax. Jurors in Maricopa County Superior Court got the case Monday afternoon and deliberated two hours ...
Arizona prison inmate dies in apparent homicide
Authorities say an Arizona prison inmate is dead from an apparent homicide. State Department of Corrections officials say 63-year-old John Jones died Monday at the Lewis complex in Buckeye. DOC officials didn't immediately release any details about what happened to Jones. They say prison staff and medical responders administered CPR ...
Kobach seeks investigation into protest at house
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach said Monday he has asked state officials to investigate an immigration reform rally that was held outside his Wyandotte County home. Kobach and his family were not at his Piper home during the protest held Saturday by advocates of a federal overhaul of immigration ...
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