WASHINGTON – A foundation is awarding grants to 32 innovative projects working to improve cities, totaling $5 million in funding. The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation is announcing Tuesday that the Knight Cities Challenge will award grants in 12 cities from more than 7,000 proposals. The program was …
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NEW YORK – A New York state oversight panel wants federal prosecutors to probe the 2013 death of a mentally ill Rikers Island inmate who was locked in his cell for six days without care or medication. A report obtained by The Associated Press calls Bradley Ballard’s treatment “so incompetent …
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TOLEDO, Ohio – A judge’s ruling ordering Ohio officials to return six tigers, a lion and other animals to their owner is on hold for now. The judge on Friday issued a stay to his order from earlier in the week. That means Ohio officials will be able to keep …
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BISHOPVILLE, S.C. – South Carolina corrections officials say they’ve contained a disturbance at a maximum security prison. Corrections Department spokeswoman Stephanie Givens said in a statement that the incident began around noon Thursday at the Lee Correctional Institution in Bishopville. Givens says an officer was trying to search an inmate …
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TUCSON, Ariz. – The Arizona police officer who used his cruiser to ram into an armed suspect has a prior use of force record in New York City. Records show that Officer Michael Rapiejko of the Marana Police Department was sued in May 2008 by a man who said the …
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A deputy district attorney in Los Angeles is accusing her boss of strategically withholding information from the public about ousted former Sheriff Alex Villanueva until after he lost in his reelection bid last year, according to a new whistleblower retaliation lawsuit. Deputy District Attorney Amy Pellman Pentz, a former leader …
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Suzanne Morphew’s disappearance and murder has baffled the country since the mother of two vanished from a bike ride near her Colorado home on Mother’s Day in 2020. The case has since become even more muddied after District Attorney Linda Stanley – who filed since-dropped murder charges against Suzanne’s husband, …
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The Rev. Stephen Gutgsell, a Catholic priest working for a parish in Fort Calhoun, Nebraska, called 911 early Sunday to report an attempted break-in at his church about 10 miles north of Omaha. He was still alive when the first responding deputy arrived. The deputy entered the church rectory’s foyer …
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Police in Texas said a man charged in the shooting death of a veteran was out on bond from a previous arrest. Corey Antwon Thompson, 45, was arrested on Tuesday six days after the shooting death of 46-year-old Roderick Butler, according to the Dallas Police Department. Thompson was charged in …
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A year after being hit with a lawsuit from Brittanee Drexel’s mother, a South Carolina resort is disputing claims that it allowed the 17-year-old New Yorker to check in before she was kidnapped and murdered on a 2009 spring break trip. Drexel’s mother, Dawn Pleckan, filed a lawsuit on Jan. …
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