Crime
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Beyond the no-knock: Push in states to reform police tactics
Dec 17, 2020 6:00 am - PHILADELPHIA (AP) - After a year marked by police killings of Black men and women and mass civil unrest over racial injustice, some activists are taking aim at police ta...
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Model's 'tears of joy' as agent held over alleged sex crimes
Dec 17, 2020 6:00 am - LE PECQ, France (AP) - A former model who testified to French police that she was drugged and raped as a teenager by an associate of disgraced late financier Jeffrey Eps...
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US inmate scheduled to be executed tests positive for virus
Dec 17, 2020 6:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal prisoner scheduled to be executed just days before President-elect Joe Biden takes office has tested positive for coronavirus, his lawyer sai...
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Arlington Heights parolee charged with Hoffman Estates burglaryDec 17, 2020 12:00 am - An Arlington Heights man on parole for two 2018 residential burglary convictions was ordered held on $50,000 bail Thursday on charges that he and another man took cash a...
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Carpentersville man sentenced to 18 years on cocaine conviction
Dec 17, 2020 12:00 am - A Carpentersville man, who authorities said has ties to a Mexican drug cartel, was sentenced to 18 years in prison Wednesday for his connection to 16,000 grams of cocain...
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Algonquin murder suspect still awaiting extradition from ColoradoDec 17, 2020 12:00 am - The woman suspected in the murder of an Algonquin couple remains in a Colorado detention center as the state awaits extradition paperwork from the Illinois governor's of...
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Minnesota juvenile lifer walks free after 18 years in prison
Dec 16, 2020 6:00 am - MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - A Black man who was sent to prison for life as a teenager took his first steps of freedom to the sound of ringing bells and cheering family members an...
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Texas had fewest executions since 1996 due to pandemic
Dec 16, 2020 6:00 am - HOUSTON (AP) - Texas, the nation's busiest capital punishment state, carried out the fewest executions in nearly 25 years mainly because of the impact of the coronavirus...
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Investigation opened after women's symbol put on Polish flag
Dec 16, 2020 6:00 am - WARSAW, Poland (AP) - Prosecutors have opened an investigation into whether the Polish flag was publicly insulted after a family in Warsaw hung a flag from their balcony...
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Trump asking about special prosecutor for Hunter Biden case
Dec 16, 2020 6:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump is considering pushing to have a special counsel appointed to advance a federal tax investigation into the son of President-elec...