A convicted sex offender serving life without parole was recaptured in Texas on Monday after escaping jail with the help of his mother a day earlier, authorities said. Robert Yancy Jr., 39, was captured at 8:05 a.m. in Matagorda County after two civilians recognized him at a park in Palacios, …
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ST. LOUIS – A plane carrying the Mississippi State men’s basketball players made an emergency landing in St. Louis when one of its engines failed, and a spokesman said Sunday the team plans to take a bus home. The mishap occurred after the Bulldogs defeated the Missouri Tigers 77-74 Saturday …
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WASHINGTON – It will soon be legal to grow small amounts of marijuana at home and smoke it on private property in the nation’s capital. But it can’t be sold, and the District of Columbia will not tax it. Mayor Muriel Bowser announced the city’s plans Tuesday to move forward …
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An Oregon weekly newspaper has had to lay off its entire staff and halt print after 40 years because its funds were embezzled by a former employee, its editor said, in a devastating blow to a publication that serves as an important source of information in a community that, like …
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NORFOLK, Va. – Federal authorities say a wood-boring beetle in a cargo container at the Port of Norfolk is the first of its kind to be found in the United States. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection says agriculture specialists discovered the beetle among untreated wooden pallets from Poland. The …
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A U.S. Army soldier in Texas with a top security clearance has been charged with handing over sensitive information about the military’s main battle tank in exchange for Russian citizenship. Taylor Adam Lee, 22, was arrested Wednesday on charges of attempted transmission of national defense information to a foreign adversary …
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Approximately 600 employees at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have been terminated, Fox News Digital has confirmed. It comes as part of a major restructuring of the Department of Health and Human Services announced in March. At the time, HHS said the CDC would decrease its …
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Bryan Kohberger saw a news article about a white Hyundai Elantra having been identified as a suspect vehicle in the Idaho student murders and immediately panicked, according to the forensic team that analyzed his phone. “I think the vehicle was a huge stress point for him, because he had registered …
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An executive order signed by President Donald Trump is aiming to combat crime involving homelessness throughout the country, with cities such as Las Vegas seeing a crisis surrounding encampments overtaking communities and crippling the local area. Sin City has seen an uptick in homelessness throughout the community, with a 20% …
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A hiker in North Carolina died over the weekend after tumbling 150 feet over a steep cliff from a waterfall overlook along the scenic Blue Ridge Parkway, officials said. Rescuers responded around noon Saturday to the fall near Glassmine Falls, the Reems Creek Fire Department said in a statement. The …
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