FAIRBORN, Ohio – Many young people have an undying interest in zombies, so a southwest Ohio college professor focuses a class on them. Andrea Harris of Wright State University teaches “Zombies & Gender in Pop Culture.” Her spring class filled up rapidly, and she’s been asked to teach it again. …
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ANTIOCH, Calif. – Multiple law enforcement agencies are responding to a hostage situation at a Northern California gas station. Television news helicopters show police officers surrounding an Arco gas station in the San Francisco suburb of Antioch on Wednesday afternoon. Many of the officers have their guns drawn. Antioch police …
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FARMINGDALE, N.Y. – Five pilots have reported seeing green lasers while flying over New York and New Jersey. The Federal Aviation Administration says it happened to four planes between 9:30 p.m. and 10 p.m. Thursday over Long Island, about four miles northwest of Farmingdale. CBS New York reports that another …
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A jury acquitted a former Milwaukee police officer who was charged with reckless homicide in the death of a friend after a night of partying. Michael Mattioli, who was off-duty, told jurors that he was trying to restrain Joel Acevedo during a struggle in April 2020, but he denied choking …
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EXCLUSIVE: Sam Haskell IV, the Hollywood heir accused of killing his wife and her parents before disposing of garbage bags full of human remains, was behaving erratically and “paranoid” at a Los Angeles diner with his kids weeks before police found a headless torso in a dumpster that they believe …
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A St. Louis judge on Thursday will hear arguments in a lawsuit challenging Missouri’s abortion ban on the grounds that lawmakers who passed the measure imposed their own religious beliefs on others who don’t share them. The lawsuit was filed in January on behalf of 13 Christian, Jewish and Unitarian …
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Students and faculty members harshly criticized University of Arizona President Robert C. Robbins on Thursday over a $240 million budget shortfall that has sparked suggestions for cuts to student scholarships and instructor salaries. The angry complaints about the financial miscalculation consumed most of the first hour of a gathering of …
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Eight firefighters were injured battling a Thanksgiving night fire that displaced more than a dozen residents in West New York, New Jersey, officials said. WABC-TV reports that the fire was in an apartment above a pharmacy on Bergenline Avenue at 53rd Street. Video showed flames billowing from the building. Neighbors …
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California police are searching for a man who allegedly spray-painted antisemitic graffiti on a synagogue, an apartment complex and a city utility box. Klinton Dion, 32, is accused of applying antisemitic graffiti to various locations in Burbank, California, on Friday, according to Burbank police. Dion is wanted for a hate …
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A search along the Mississippi River for four crew members missing from a Bangladeshi bulk carrier vessel since Monday has been called off with the men still unaccounted for, according to the United States Coast Guard (USCG). The USCG had been searching the river around Belle Chassein Louisianafor the missingcrew …
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