Crime
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Negligence probed in deadly Beirut blast amid public anger
Aug 05, 2020 7:00 am - BEIRUT (AP) - Investigators probing the deadly blast that ripped across Beirut focused Wednesday on possible negligence in the storage of tons of a highly explosive fert...
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Trump encourages mail voting in Florida but sues in Nevada
Aug 05, 2020 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - In an abrupt reversal, President Donald Trump is encouraging voters in the critical swing state of Florida to vote by mail after months of criticizing ...
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Police: 28 dead cats, 1 dead squirrel found in Waukegan woman's homeAug 05, 2020 1:00 am - A 54-year-old Waukegan woman faces animal cruelty charges after authorities found 28 dead cats and one dead squirrel inside her home, police said in a news release Wedne...
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Police: Algonquin man tried to kill his ex-girlfriendAug 05, 2020 1:00 am - An Algonquin man has been charged with attempted murder, accused of hitting, choking and trying to shoot his ex-girlfriend. Alvin W. Thompson, 40, was arrested Wednesday...
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ComEd pleads not guilty in influence-peddling caseAug 05, 2020 1:00 am - Energy utility ComEd pleaded not guilty to bribery at an arraignment Wednesday despite previously admitting wrongdoing in an influence-peddling scheme that threatens to ...
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Hoffman Estates man gets 7 years for sexual assaulting woman he met on social mediaAug 05, 2020 1:00 am - A Hoffman Estates man was sentenced to seven years in prison and ordered to register as a sex offender Wednesday after he pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a woman h...
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Streamwood man charged in slaying of 10-year-old girl in ChicagoAug 05, 2020 1:00 am - The suspected driver of a car from which a 10-year-old girl was shot and killed as she watched TV in her grandmother's Chicago home has been charged with first-degree mu...
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Second suspect charged in attempted terrorism case in LombardAug 04, 2020 11:00 pm - A woman has been charged with attempted terrorism, for allegedly providing the materials for a Molotov cocktail for a man accused of planning to bomb the Lombard municip...
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Uganda reports 2 new gorilla babies in Bwindi national park
Aug 04, 2020 7:00 am - KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) - Two new baby gorillas have been discovered in a Ugandan national park where a beloved primate named Rafiki was killed in June, a wildlife official...
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Powerful Colombian ex-president ordered under house arrest
Aug 04, 2020 7:00 am - BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - Former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe will be placed under house arrest while the Supreme Court advances a witness tampering investigation agai...