Chicago’s former top detective spoke out about no-cash bail policies that wreak havoc on urban policing efforts after President Donald Trump signed an executive order banning the practice earlier this week. “Every place in the country where you have no-cash bail is a disaster,” Trump told the press before signing …
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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has blasted The New York Times for its reporting on a convicted Jamaican murderer who was deported by the Trump administration in July. The Times ran its headline as,“The Man Who’d Served His Time In U.S. Is Deported to an African Prison.“ The first …
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A Florida mother has been charged with child neglect after police say she left her toddler son in a running vehicle while swimming in the ocean to “meet sharks.” Allison Daugherty, 41, was taken into custody after a deputy with the Lee County Sheriff’s Office was told by a witness …
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Authorities in Hawaii have adjusted the number of deaths from the deadly Maui wildfire down to at least 97 people. Officials previously said they believed at least 115 people had died in the fire, but further testing showed they had multiple DNA samples from some of the victims. The number …
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A convenience store clerk in California was severely burned when a suspected shoplifter poured kerosene on him and set him on fire, authorities said. Deputies with the Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Office responded on Sept. 22 to the Appian Food and Liquor in El Sobrante, a San Francisco suburb, after …
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A man who sprayed the inside of a New York City subway train with gunfire and then slipped away in a stunned crowd is set to be sentenced Thursday in the morning rush-hour attack, which wounded 10 people and set off a citywide manhunt. Frank James, 64, pleaded guilty to …
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A Florida businessman took to the skies to hunt down his wife’s rare Rolls-Royce after brazen thieves stole the $250,000 luxury coupe from their garage in broad daylight. Bob Benyo, 61, the owner of Aerial Banners Inc., was so outraged by the Sept. 21 heist, he sent an airplane over …
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Georgia now has $10.7 billion in surplus cash that its leaders can spend however they want after the state ran a huge surplus for the third straight year. The State Accounting Office, in a Monday report, said Georgia ran a $5.3 billion surplus in the 2022 budget year ended June …
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Detroit, Michigan’s top law enforcement official says “no evidence has surfaced” showing the death of synagogue President Samantha Woll was motivated by antisemitism. Woll was found dead outside her home early Saturday morning. According to police, she had multiple stab wounds and a trail of blood leading to her home, …
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Two former New York City jail guards have avoided prison time for what authorities called their failure to intervene in a teenage inmate’s suicide attempt for nearly eight minutes until it was too late to save him from serious brain damage in 2019. Daniel Fullerton and Mark Wilson received conditional …
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