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More centers in DC area speak seniors' language
If Mohammad Rahro, 91, had gone to just any senior center in Maryland, chances are he would not have encountered someone who remembered the headmaster with four wives who rode to school each day on a beloved white donkey. Instead, on his first day at the Loving Care Adult Medical ...
Yamhill County brutality lawsuit moves forward
A federal judge says a 48-year-old man injured during a 2010 arrest can move forward with his lawsuit against law enforcement officers in Yamhill County. The lawsuit filed by Hipolito Aranda says he suffered a broken elbow and ribs at the hands of a McMinnville Police officer and a Yamhill ...
Afghan refugee can stay in US despite assault case
An appeals court has ruled that an Afghan refugee granted asylum in 1999 can stay in the U.S. despite pleading guilty to second-degree assault on a Montgomery County police officer. The Daily Record of Baltimore (http://bit.ly/14GrAmQ ) reports the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday reversed a final ...
Charlotte remembers 1963 desegregation 'eat-in'
In the spring of 1963, a prominent civil rights leader led dozens of protesters on a four-mile march from a predominantly African-American college campus to the center of Charlotte's downtown. Dr. Reginald Hawkins warned city leaders that if something wasn't done to end segregation, future marches might not be so ...
AP CEO calls records seizure unconstitutional
The president and chief executive officer of The Associated Press on Sunday called the government's secret seizure of two months of reporters' phone records "unconstitutional" and said the news cooperative had not ruled out legal action against the Justice Department. Gary Pruitt, in his first television interviews since it was ...
Officer who shot NY student faced harrowing choice
The police officer who accidentally killed a Long Island college student along with an armed intruder faced perhaps the most harrowing decision in law enforcement: choosing the split-second moment when the risk is so high that you must pull the trigger. That's the moment authorities say a Nassau County police ...
Suspect in NY bias shooting is charged with murder
The man who police say hurled homophobic slurs at a gay man on a Manhattan street before firing a single fatal shot to his head appeared in court Sunday to face a charge of murder as a hate crime. Elliot Morales, who appeared in Manhattan Criminal Court, is also charged ...
Suspect in NY bias shooting is charged with murder
The man who police say hurled homophobic slurs at a gay man on a Manhattan street before firing a single fatal shot to his head appeared in court Sunday to face a charge of murder as a hate crime. Elliot Morales, who appeared in Manhattan Criminal Court, is also charged ...
Quinn pushes for ban on high-capacity ammunition
Some of Illinois' top Democrats joined parents of Connecticut school shooting victims Sunday to call for a state ban on high-capacity ammunition magazines, a push made as lawmakers face a tight deadline on a contentious measure to legalize concealed carry. Gov. Pat Quinn, Senate President John Cullerton and state Sen. ...
Hofstra student killed by police during break-in
In what police are describing as a crime of opportunity, a wanted man with a criminal history dating nearly 15 years entered a front door that had been left open at a New York home near Hofstra University. A short time later, the intruder, Dalton Smith, and a 21-year-old college ...
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