Crime
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'DWI Dude' attorney sentenced for scamming drug traffickers
May 04, 2021 7:00 am - SHERMAN, Texas (AP) - A Texas lawyer known as the 'œDWI Dude'ť has been sentenced to more than 15 years in federal prison for falsely promising Colombian drug trafficker...
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As pandemic ebbs, an old fear is new again: mass shootings
May 04, 2021 7:00 am - PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Brianne Smith was overjoyed to get an e-mail telling her to schedule a second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. Hours later, her relief was replaced by...
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Deputy shooting becomes part of city's long history on race
May 04, 2021 7:00 am - ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. (AP) - The murder trial of former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin was wrapping up when Dakwon Gibbs told a friend that George Floyd's killi...
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Ethiopia 'at a crossroads' amid spiraling ethnic conflict
May 04, 2021 7:00 am - GONDAR, Ethiopia (AP) - Aba Yosief Desta preferred not to discuss the ethnicities of victims in the widening conflicts threatening Ethiopia's unity. A wooden cross in h...
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Ex-soldiers acquitted of 1972 murder of Official IRA leader
May 04, 2021 7:00 am - LONDON (AP) - Two former British paratroopers accused of the 1972 murder of an Official IRA leader in Belfast were formally acquitted Tuesday after the veterans' trial c...
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Supreme Court skeptical of low-level crack offender's case
May 04, 2021 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - Crack cocaine trafficking kingpins convicted more than a decade ago can ask courts to reduce their prison terms under a 2018 federal law. The Supreme C...
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Probation for ex-cop accused of kneeling on Black man's neck
May 04, 2021 7:00 am - DENVER (AP) - A former police officer accused of holding two door-to-door roofing company salesmen on the ground at gunpoint and kneeling on the neck of one of them who ...
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SKorea dairy company CEO resigns over virus research scandal
May 04, 2021 7:00 am - SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - The chairman of one of South Korea's biggest dairy companies has resigned over a scandal in which his company was accused of deliberately sprea...
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AP source: Sheldon Silver released from prison on furlough
May 04, 2021 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver has been released from a federal prison on furlough while he awaits potential placement to home confineme...
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German far-right crime rises; police arrest alleged neo-Nazi
May 04, 2021 7:00 am - BERLIN (AP) - Berlin police arrested a 53-year-old German man on suspicion of sending dozens of threatening letters to politicians, lawyers and journalists that were sig...