WASHINGTON – Four Army Ranger instructors and 40 of their students have returned to duty after lightning struck near them while they were carrying out military exercises in Florida, the Army said Thursday. The students and instructors were hurt early Wednesday evening at Eglin Air Force Base while conducting training …
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ORIENT, Maine – Maine state police issued a distracted driving summons to a man they say crashed into a tree while taking a “selfie” with his passengers — injuring several of them. Police say 29-year-old Jordan Toner of Hampden was driving in Orient when he leaned over to take a …
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PHILADELPHIA – Three people were charged Thursday with running a $54 million Ponzi scheme built on promises of a green energy technology that would turn trash into fuel and “carbon-negative” housing developments, neither of which were ever developed, federal prosecutors said. Troy Wragg, 34, of Georgia, Amanda Knorr, 32, of …
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SALT LAKE CITY – Ohio State University is promising to take appropriate action if any students are found to be involved in the vandalism of ancient rock art in Utah. The Salt Lake Tribune reports (http://bit.ly/1IQgfT1) that school officials said Friday they are looking into whether students on a geology …
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The U.S. military has sent destroyers and thousands of Marines toward Venezuela as President Donald Trump doubles down on deadly drug cartels. At least three Aegis guided-missile destroyers — USS Gravely and USS Jason Dunham among them — are part of the mission, a source familiar with the situation told …
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Former Los Angeles Fire Chief Kristin Crowley has lodged a claim against the city, accusing Mayor Karen Bass of engaging in a “smear campaign” against her. Crowley “demands that Bass immediately cease and desist her defamatory and illegal public smear campaign of Crowley, retract her false statements about Crowley, and …
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The University of South Carolina issued an “all clear” after the school warned of reports of an active shooter on campus Sunday evening. Campus officials added there was no ongoing emergency. Earlier in the evening, the school ordered students and staff on its Columbia campus to shelter in place, saying …
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An Illinois man was arrested after he allegedly drugged his pregnant girlfriend with abortion-inducing pills, causing her to have a miscarriage, according to police. Emerson Evans, 31, was charged with two counts of intentional homicide of an unborn child, Bloomington police said in a news release. Officers were called to …
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A new report reveals that more than 14,000 migrants who had hoped to cross into the United States have turned back and reversed course due to the Trump administration’s hardline border enforcement policies. The new phenomenon, referred to as “reverse flow” migration, has mainly impacted migrants fleeing the economic and …
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Crime runs deep in Decarlos Brown Jr.’s family. The homeless felon accused of stabbing a young Ukrainian commuter to death on a Charlotte light rail train comes from a household where run-ins with the law have been a way of life. Court records and law enforcement documents viewed by Fox …
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