SALINAS, Calif. – A Northern California man has filed a legal claim over a police baton beating captured on video and posted online. The Monterey Herald (http://tinyurl.com/o8ss7o7 ) reported Thursday that Jose Velasco is demanding unspecified damages from the city of Salinas, California. If the city denies the claim, Velasco …
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. – California Attorney General Kamala Harris said Friday that she plans to review two undercover videos released by anti-abortion activists aimed at discrediting Planned Parenthood’s procedures for providing fetal tissue to researchers, to see if any laws were broken. Harris announced the move in a letter to four …
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Inspector General says a lack of managerial oversight at Los Alamos National Laboratory led to improper disclosures of sensitive information. In a summary of a report released last week, the inspector general says the lab’s classification officer at times misclassified …
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BOSTON – A judge has rejected a request from lawyers for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (joh-HAHR’ tsahr-NEYE’-ehv) to bar demonstrations near courthouse entrances by people who believe the bombings were part of a government plot. Tsarnaev’s lawyers argued that the fairness of his trial could be harmed by …
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A set of human remains that fishermen found “wrapped in heavy tire chains and anchored with a hydraulic jack” in a lake in Kentucky nearly 25 years ago has been identified as belonging to an FBI fugitive, state police have revealed. Kentucky State Police say with the help of “advanced …
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When Idaho had a rare measles outbreak a few months ago, health officials scrambled to keep it from spreading. In the end, 10 people, all in one family, were infected, all unvaccinated. This time, the state was lucky, said the region’s medical director Dr. Perry Jansen. The family quickly quarantined, …
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University of Alabama senior and Zeta Tau Alpha member Kylan Darnell has announced she is taking a “step back” from recruitment and from posting about the sorority rush craze sweeping college campuses. Darnell, the reigning Miss Ohio Teen USA, has spent the past three years sharing an inside look at …
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A group of hikers in Arizona stumbled across the body of a missing woman on Friday while trekking up a mountainside, authorities said. The hikers were approaching a mountain peak near Craggy Wash, north of Lake Havasu City, when they found the unresponsive individual, the Mohave County Sheriff’s Office search …
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Harvard University police are investigating reports that a man came to the university’s Kennedy School of Government to solicit donations for a charity connected to the Islamic State. Kennedy School spokesman Doug Gavel said in a statement Friday that there “does not appear to be a threat …
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BEIJING – China’s state news agency has accused the U.S. of having a “pirate-style sense of insecurity” in response to recent comments from Washington regarding Beijing’s territorial claims in the disputed South China Sea. The Xinhua News Agency on Saturday took issue with remarks by U.S. State Department spokeswoman Jen …
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