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Hofstra student killed by police during break-in
In what police are describing as a crime of opportunity, a wanted man with a criminal history dating nearly 15 years entered a front door that had been left open at a New York home near Hofstra University. A short time later, the intruder, Dalton Smith, and a 21-year-old college ...
Police face difficult deadline in destroying guns
Phoenix police are in a race against time in processing guns that the city purchased at recent gun buyback events. A new Arizona law that hasn't yet taken effect bars cities and counties from destroying guns turned over to police at buyback events and instead requires that the guns be ...
Obama exhorts good deeds by Morehouse graduates
President Barack Obama, in a soaring commencement address on work, sacrifice and opportunity, on Sunday told graduates of historically black Morehouse College to seize the power of their example as black men graduating from college and use it to improve people's lives. The president said his success was due to ...
Fate of LA pot shops left to voters
Los Angeles politicians have struggled for more than five years to regulate medical marijuana, trying to balance the needs of the sick against neighborhood concerns that pot shops attract crime. Voters will head to the polls Tuesday to decide how Los Angeles should handle its high with three competing measures ...
OBAMA TELLS MOREHOUSE GRADUATES TO SET AN EXAMPLE
c.2013 New York Times News Service ATLANTA — President Barack Obama came to Morehouse College, the alma mater of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., on Sunday to tell graduates, 50 years after King’s landmark “I Have a Dream” speech in Washington, that “laws and hearts and minds have ...
Ohio superintendent leaving, shooting delayed plan
A northeast Ohio superintendent who guided the district after a school shooting that killed three students is stepping down, one year later than originally planned. Chardon Schools Superintendent Joseph Bergant will resign effective June 7. A public reception honoring Bergant was held before last week's monthly board meeting. Bergant originally ...
NY 'frisk' judge calls criticism 'below-the-belt'
The federal judge presiding over civil rights challenges to the stop-and-frisk practices of the New York Police Department has no doubt where she stands with the government. "I know I'm not their favorite judge," U.S. District Judge Shira A. Scheindlin said during an Associated Press interview Friday. It was another ...
Fla. gov. steps up pace on signing death warrants
Gov. Rick Scott is signing death warrants at a pace rarely seen in Florida since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976. Scott already has signed five death warrants this year, including three in a recent span of less than four weeks. Only one of the five condemned men has ...
Manchester continues to grapple with new refugees
After being exiled from his native Bhutan at age 4, Chuda Niroula spent the next two decades in a Nepali refugee camp with no running water, no electricity and never enough food. Almost two years ago he arrived in Manchester as one of the 60,000 to 80,000 refugees taken in ...
Snohomish transit organization rejects anti-gun ad
The main transit organization in Snohomish County is declining to run advertisements from a statewide gun control group on public buses. The Daily Herald of Everett reports (http://is.gd/4fKXzv ) that Community Transit's board adopted a new policy May 2 banning political advertisements. Board members said the new policy was not ...
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