A New York City Jewish man was repeatedly punched and robbed on the first day of Hanukkah outside his home in Brooklyn. The suspect approached the victim in front of 906 Eastern Parkway just after 7:30 p.m., police said. The victim, a 40-year-old male, was wearing “traditional Jewish attire,” per …
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A string of burglaries at affluent Pennsylvania homes has led to the arrests of four men from Chile who are believed to be connected to “South American theft groups,” authorities said Saturday. The four men were spotted around 6 p.m. Friday driving in the Meadowbrook sectionof Abington, where 12 affluent …
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A Tennessee elementary school’s plan to allow the Satanic Temple to host an after-school program in its library is facing backlash from the students’ parents and family members, one of whom insists the program is equipped to “negatively impact” children. The Satanic Temple plans to host its first After School …
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ALTOONA, Pa. – Authorities have filed charges a man in the discharge of a gun in a central Pennsylvania cathedral during a crowded Easter vigil Mass two months ago. Twenty-nine-year-old Matthew Crawford of Altoona is charged with reckless endangerment, disorderly conduct and discharging a firearm within city limits. Crawford had …
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TOLEDO, Ohio – A family filed a lawsuit Monday against a funeral home owner after the discovery of 11 bodies intended for cremation, some in a state of decay in a damp garage. The wife of a 55-year-old man who died in May accused the funeral home owner of mistreating …
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SAN FRANCISCO – A judge has relieved California’s attorney general of the duty to process a proposed ballot initiative that advocated killing anyone who engages in gay sex. Sacramento County Superior Court Judge Raymond Cadei ruled late Monday that the so-called Sodomite Suppression Act was patently unconstitutional. Cadei said it …
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NUTLEY, N.J. – Police are trying to figure out how a child’s gravestone ended up at a bus station in northern New Jersey. An employee found the headstone at the NJ Transit Bus Terminal in Nutley, about 15 miles west of New York City, on Wednesday. The headstone is engraved …
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GRANTS PASS, Ore. – One of Oregon’s first hemp farmers says a lack of seed is making it tough to get going. Josephine County Commissioner Cheryl Walker says fertile seed is expensive and hard to come by because the federal government prohibits imports. She figures it will take three years …
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ALBANY, N.Y. – A man refusing to say what he did with money from the sale of property during divorce proceedings is urging New York’s highest court to refuse to hold him in contempt. Arguing Thursday before the Court of Appeals, Sam Reed’s lawyer says Reed doesn’t have to testify …
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Failure wasn’t an option. With the entire case against Bryan Kohberger on the line, an Idaho prosecutor held steady and helped convince a judge to allow controversial DNA evidence to stand – despite the FBI violating its own policy to obtain it. Jeff Nye, chief of the criminal division at …
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