Articles filed under Crime
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Authorities: Man fired automatic rifle-style pistol in neighborhoodMay 05, 2021 1:00 am - An Elgin man has been charged with aggravated unlawful use of a weapon, accused of firing an automatic rifle-style pistol in a residential neighborhood. Bail was set Tue...
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Senate committee advances bills on sex ed, decriminalizing HIV transmissionMay 05, 2021 1:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - Legislation that would overhaul sex education in Illinois and a measure to decriminalize the transmission of HIV were among several bills that passed the S...
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House GOP leader amps up pressure on Cheney over Trump barbsMay 04, 2021 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy amplified the renewed pressure on No. 3 House Republican leader Liz Cheney on Tuesday, citing rank-and-file concer...
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Man who fatally shot 3 at Kansas Jewish sites dies in prisonMay 04, 2021 7:00 am - An avowed antisemite who testified that he wanted to kill Jews and was sentenced to death after he shot and killed three people at Jewish sites in suburban Kansas City i...
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'DWI Dude' attorney sentenced for scamming drug traffickersMay 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 shootingsMay 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 raceMay 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 conflictMay 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 leaderMay 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 caseMay 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...