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A woman has sued a Tennessee police department after her son was shot and killed when he tried to drive away from a traffic stop with an officer leaning into the car. Linda Allen, whose son Eric Allen, 39, died in the November 2022 interaction with Mt. Juliet Police, filed …

A Virginia teenager has been accused by federal authorities of helping a man make his way to Syria to fight for ISIS, according to reports. The Washington Post says the 17-year-old was taken into custody by FBI agents who raided his home in Woodbridge, about 20 miles south of Washington …

Seven skiers at a Maine resort were injured after a chairlift stopped and began sliding backward down the mountain, officials and witnesses said. Four people were taken to a hospital from Sugarloaf Mountain Resort, though none are believed to have life-threatening injuries, resort spokesman Ethan Austin said. “It was really …

HAVANA – A Cuban delegate to talks with the United States says the two sides have held “a respectful, professional, civilized conversation” on human rights in Washington. Nevertheless, Anaysansi Rodriguez Camejo told Cuban state television that Tuesday’s talks “ratified that there are differences.” She’s Cuba’s ambassador to the U.N. in …

MARKHAM, Ill. – An expert on police tactics says “unreasonable and unnecessary” force was used by suburban Chicago police who fired beanbag rounds at a knife-wielding 95-year-old. Park Forest Officer Craig Taylor is on trial on a felony reckless conduct charge in the death of John Wrana. The victim refused …

SEATTLE – Marijuana-related calls to poison control centers in Washington and Colorado have spiked since the states began allowing legal sales last year, with an especially troubling increase in calls concerning young children. New year-end data show that the Rocky Mountain Poison and Drug Center received 151 calls for marijuana …

With another snowstorm expected to bring up to a foot of snow in New England, a New Hampshire town might be without snow plows. A fire destroyed a fleet of plows in the small town of Henniker. The fire started at the Henniker Highway Department Friday night after the plows …

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. – Leon Kent, who led a group of American soldiers that knocked out five German tanks and held up the enemy advance during the Battle of the Bulge, has died. He was 99. His family tells the Los Angeles Times (http://lat.ms/17gLdIM ) that Kent had pneumonia and …

SEATTLE – A new study is finding encouraging results for a first-of-its-kind Seattle program that aims to keep low-level drug offenders and prostitutes out of jail. The University of Washington review released Wednesday says participants in the program were up to 60 percent less likely to be arrested in the …

COLUMBIA, S.C. – Authorities say the caregivers of an 82-year-old woman allowed her to sit in the same chair, not moving for six months, until she died earlier this year. Prosecutors are deciding whether to charge Barbara Beam’s caregivers in her Jan. 2 death at her house in Greenville. She …