Crime
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Community 'violence interrupters' work to stem rising crime
Aug 07, 2021 7:00 am - NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - When Rasheedat Fetuga became a teacher, she worked hard to help protect her students, many of them poor and from a nearby housing project. When o...
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Mentally ill and homeless: Arrest highlights system's flaws
Aug 07, 2021 7:00 am - OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) - The big brother Suzette Chaumette remembers was witty and kind, an aspiring historian at the University of California, Berkeley whose promise was ...
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Gas City woman guilty of murder in stepdaughter's slaying
Aug 07, 2021 7:00 am - MARION, Ind. (AP) - A jury has convicted a northern Indiana woman of the strangulation death of her 10-year-old stepdaughter. The Grant County jury deliberated about thr...
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Schaumburg adopts new hotel rules in response to local, regional rise in crimeAug 07, 2021 1:00 am - Schaumburg has adopted a list of new regulations for its 30 hotels intended to curb an increase in crime that Schaumburg Police Chief Bill Wolf says predates the pandemi...
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Police: Attack on woman that ended in Streamwood cul-de-sac began as argument in storeAug 07, 2021 1:00 am - Three people have been charged with mob action in a June 23 incident in Streamwood that police say was thought to be a road-rage attack, but turns out started as an argu...
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Former worker at school for disabled students admits to sexual assaultAug 07, 2021 1:00 am - A former Lake County special education teacher's aide accused of sexually assaulting and abusing a disabled student has pleaded guilty to two of 17 charges he faced. Isr...
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Capitol rioters enter 1st guilty pleas to assaulting police
Aug 06, 2021 7:00 am - A New Jersey gym owner and a Washington state man on Friday became the first people charged in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol to plead guilty to assaulting a law e...
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Germany: 2 officials probed over warnings in deadly flood
Aug 06, 2021 7:00 am - BERLIN (AP) - German prosecutors said Friday that they have launched a formal probe into whether two regional officials failed to properly warn residents ahead of last m...
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Arizona state senator accused of sexual conduct with minor
Aug 06, 2021 7:00 am - PHOENIX (AP) - The Arizona governor and Democratic lawmakers called Friday for state Sen. Tony Navarrete to resign after he was charged with sexually abusing a boy and a...
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Not guilty verdict for Hawaiian elders protesting telescope
Aug 06, 2021 7:00 am - HONOLULU (AP) - Four Native Hawaiians arrested in 2019 while protesting against construction of a giant telescope on Hawaii's highest peak were not guilty of obstructing...