NORFOLK, Va. – Federal authorities say a wood-boring beetle in a cargo container at the Port of Norfolk is the first of its kind to be found in the United States. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection says agriculture specialists discovered the beetle among untreated wooden pallets from Poland. The …
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SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. – The owners of the mountain cabin where rogue ex-Los Angeles police officer Christopher Dorner holed himself up during a deadly gun battle with deputies will be paid $200,000. San Bernardino County and Palmdale resident Candace Martin and her son Eric Funnell agreed to the settlement in …
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BISHOPVILLE, S.C. – South Carolina corrections officials say they’ve contained a disturbance at a maximum security prison. Corrections Department spokeswoman Stephanie Givens said in a statement that the incident began around noon Thursday at the Lee Correctional Institution in Bishopville. Givens says an officer was trying to search an inmate …
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Authorities are investigating after an apparent jailhouse video leaked showing convicted murderer Bryan Kohberger inside his maximum security prison cell. The video, shot from above, shows Kohberger seemingly placing an item on a shelf while standing inside his cell. “We are aware of the videos circulating online and are investigating …
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The mother of one of the four University of Idaho murder victims is asking a court to block additional releases of images taken inside her bedroom during the investigation, according to authorities. Madison Mogen, 21, and her best friend Kaylee Goncalves, also 21, were both found dead in her third-story …
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A cybersecurity expert warns that a scam that has been used to drain entire life savings or retirement accounts has become “devastating” for seniors. FBI Los Angeles on July 15 posted a reminder on X about the Phantom Hacker Scam, which has cost Americans over $1 billion since at least …
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It started like something out of a sci-fi thriller: a glowing, pill-shaped object hovering over the skies of upstate New York. Photos captured near the Finger Lakes on Aug. 12 showed a slow-moving orb shrouded in a glowing mist, sparking a surge of UFO speculation in a community’s Facebook group. …
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A suspected double murderer has been indicted in Alaska for allegedly threatening a Florida sheriff with “lasers that could blind for life” after he held a news conference denouncing anti-Semitic and pro-Nazi messages, federal prosecutors said Tuesday. A federal grand jury indicted Joshua Wahl, 31, for allegedly threatening Michael Chitwood, …
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The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research and American Press Institute poll of young adults and their news habits was conducted Jan. 5-Feb. 2 as part of the Media Insight Project, a collaboration between the two groups. It is based on online interviews with a nationally representative random sample …
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The daughters of Martin Luther King Jr. and former Alabama Gov. George Wallace are joining to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the end of the Selma-to-Montgomery voting rights march. Bernice King will read a speech by her father as a re-enactment of the more than 50-mile march …
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