A multi-agency investigation led to the arrests of 11 people in Florida and the seizure of enough fentanyl to kill more than 1.7 million people, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said. Judd’s office worked with federal, state and local law enforcement to combat two Central Florida drug trafficking rings, known …
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A teenager in North Dakota was sentenced on Thursday to life in prison with the possibility of parole after a jury convicted him last year for the September 2022 shooting death of a man at a motel in Bismarck. State District Court Judge James Hill said he couldn’t discount the …
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ALLENTOWN, Pa. – One of two young sisters who fell from the 4th floor of a Pennsylvania apartment building has died. The Lehigh County coroner’s office says 3-year-old Tamara Arnette died Friday night, shortly after she and her 5-year-old sister tumbled from the window of an apartment building in Allentown. …
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As much as the bursting of the real estate bubble devastated the economy, destroyed hopes, and caused untold pain, there is a silver lining for would-be home buyers in today’s market. All that pain presents the potential for great bargains for the right buyer. In most American cities, the cost …
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BERKELEY TOWNSHIP, N.J. – Authorities say a teenager was killed when a stone slab weighing about 650 pounds fell on him outside a southern New Jersey business that makes countertops. Ocean County prosecutors say the 17-year-old was found at about 6:40 a.m. Saturday at Stone N’ Counters South LLC in …
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FLINT, Mich. – Relatives of a former U.S. Marine held in an Iranian prison since 2011 say they’re traveling to Vienna to press for his release as diplomats meet to discuss limits on Tehran’s nuclear program. In a statement released Thursday, Amir Hekmati’s family says his father’s health is deteriorating. …
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TOLEDO, Ohio – Ownership of secret recipes and ingredients from an Ohio restaurant made famous on the TV series “M-A-S-H” is at the center of a legal dispute between a grandson of the original owner and the current ownership group. The (Toledo) Blade reports (http://bit.ly/1JlijZi ) that Tony Packo’s Toledo …
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PANAMA CITY, Fla. – Police say a fight over gumbo spices ended with the fatal stabbing of a Florida restaurant worker and former Florida State mascot. Panama City police say 33-year-old Caleb Joshua Halley was working at Buddy’s Seafood Market last Tuesday when he and a co-worker, 26-year-old Orlando Thompson, …
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BOOTHBAY HARBOR, Maine – Police have found three bodies inside two houses in the coastal Maine town of Boothbay Harbor, and authorities believe they are from the same family. A spokesman for the Maine Department of Public Safety says two bodies were found Saturday inside a home on Lakeside Drive …
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RALEIGH, N.C. – A pit bull mauled to death a 6-year-old boy who apparently had climbed over a 4-foot chain-link fence to get into a neighbor’s yard in western North Carolina, authorities said Wednesday. The Henderson County Sheriff’s Office was called to a residence in Hendersonville, south of Asheville, on …
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