A man accused of slashing people with a large knife in recent weeks while riding a bicycle on a trail in Philadelphia and then charged in the cold-case rape and slaying of a medical student has now been charged in several other high-profile unsolved sexual assaults. Elias Diaz, 46, was …
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The “on-again-off-again” boyfriend of a Texas teenager murdered just weeks after giving birth has been arrested, according to a report. Trevon Wright, 17, was arrested Monday by the U.S. Marshals Task Force and taken to the Dallas County Jail, according to Dallas police. He was arrested and charged with murder …
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A 6-year-old girl was fatally shot inside a Dallas home on Wednesday, nearly two weeks after her 14-year-old brother was shot and later died, according to Fox 4 Dallas. The girl was insidea town home on N. Fitzhugh Avenue in Old East Dallas, off Fuqua Street and Fitzhugh Avenue, when …
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A prominent Cornell University professor has called the Ivy League president’s recent statement on continued antisemitism on campus mere “window dressing” as the school faces threats of the removal of federal funding. “Coming a day after a congressional letter putting Cornell’s federal funding at risk, the Cornell administration’s reaction seems …
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Those airline fees fliers pay to change reservations and check-in baggage really add up. According to data compiled by the U.S. Department of Transportation, fees charged in 2010 brought in $5.7 billion in revenue. The fees were introduced in 2008 to offset increasing fuel costs and the downturn in the …
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CROWNSVILLE, Md. – A woman and her baby are in good health after the mother gave birth on the side of a Maryland highway. The Capital (http://bit.ly/1QFsGep) reported that 35-year-old Heather Mewshaw gave birth to Lucia Mewshaw on Wednesday along Interstate 97 in Crownsville, about 30 miles east of Washington, …
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DENISON, Texas – Water draining into the spillway on a lake along the Texas-Oklahoma border has formed a whirlpool. The whirlpool formed on Lake Texoma near the Denison Dam spillway after heavy rains raised the lake to flood level. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Tulsa District manages the lake. …
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MECHANIC FALLS, Maine – Officials in Maine have used a drone to deliver a lifejacket to a boy stranded on a rock in the middle of a raging river. Two boys needed rescuing Tuesday afternoon after their tube overturned in the Little Androscoggin River. Only one was wearing a lifejacket. …
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WHITEFIELD, Maine – A Maine woman holding an essay contest to give away 47 acres of woodlands has abandoned the effort because she didn’t get enough entries. Martha Manchester of Edgecomb has owned the land in Whitefield since 1994. She tells the Kennebec Journal (http://bit.ly/1ezFj9e ) she’ll refund the $100 …
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Phone carriers say some customers in the Southeast who experienced outages with wireless and wired service have had service restored. AT&T spokesman Jim Greer said in an email Tuesday night that repairs are complete on a hardware-related problem and service is running normally. Greer said the outages …
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