Year: 2017

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Hospital officials: Attack left Flint airport cop with 12-inch gash on his neck

Jeff Neville/Facebook(FLINT, Mich.) -- The man who stabbed a police officer at the Bishop International Airport in Flint, Michigan, left the officer with an approximately 12-inch long laceration from his Adam's apple to the back of his neck, a hospital official said Friday morning.Lt. Jeff Neville was assaulted outside the airport's Transportation Security Administration screening area on Wednesday morning, allegedly by a Canadian man, in an attack that is being […]

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Michael Brown’s family wins $1.5 million settlement

Courtesy Brown Family(FERGUSON, Mo.) -- The family of Michael Brown, an African American teen whose fatal shooting by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, sparked large-scale protests, has settled their lawsuit against the city for $1.5 million, said Apollo Carey, the city attorney for Ferguson.The settlement amount was paid by the city's insurance company "on behalf of multiple defendants," the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.U.S. District Judge E. Richard Webber's […]

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Former US diplomat on advising American student’s family during North Korea detainment

Xinhua/Lu Rui via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- A former U.S. diplomat, who said he counseled Otto Warmbier’s family for over a year after he was detained in North Korea, said the conversation he had with the family after they learned Otto’s dire medical condition was one of the most emotional of his career. “It was a very, very, very emotional exchange,” Evans Revere told ABC News' Bob Woodruff in an […]

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LAPD officer accused of unlawful sex with 15-year-old in department’s youth cadet program

iStock/Thinkstock(LOS ANGELES) -- Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck says he personally arrested one of his own officers on Thursday.Beck arrested 10-year veteran LAPD officer Robert Cain in what has become the latest scandal involving the department’s youth cadet program. The 31-year-old officer is accused of having a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old female cadet.The chief, who usually does not make arrests, said “I told him you’re under arrest for […]

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VA man charged with espionage for allegedly delivering top-secret documents to China

iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- Kevin Patrick Mallory, 60, was arrested and charged Thursday with espionage and making false statements for allegedly delivering top-secret and secret documents to a suspected Chinese spy.According to the criminal complaint, Mallory traveled to Shanghai in March and April and met with someone who represented himself as working for a Chinese think tank. However, the Chinese intelligence service often uses this organization as a cover for its […]

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State News

Man and woman die in Montgomery County accident

Two people died in an accident on Highway 34 in Montgomery County Friday at 12:20 p.m. The Iowa State Patrol says Sara Venatta of Elliott was driving a Dodge minivan when she lost control and overcorrected. The van crossed the center line into the path of a pickup driven by 62-year-old Robert Drake of Corning. […]Powered by WPeMatico

todayJune 23, 2017

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Ernst says Medicaid coverage is part of discussion on Senate health plan

Iowa Senator Joni Ernst, a Republican from Red Oak, says she is still reviewing the Senate health care bill that was unveiled Thursday. She was asked at an event today what she would say to Iowans who are afraid they would lose their Medicaid coverage under the bill. “I would say we’re still going through […]Powered by WPeMatico

todayJune 23, 2017

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Ohio Congressman to give commencement address at Maharishi University (audio)

A Democratic Congressman from Ohio who champions the benefits of meditation will deliver the commencement address Saturday at Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield. U.S. Representative Tim Ryan says he’s hoping to inspire the 500-plus graduates to shake things up as they enter the working world. “We need a generation of disruptors, people who are […]Powered by WPeMatico

todayJune 23, 2017

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Iowa Supreme Court rules in rigged Hot Lotto case

The Iowa Supreme Court has weighed in on the convoluted case of the unclaimed Hot Lotto ticket. The Supreme Court ruled the charge of tampering with equipment to rig a lottery drawing against Eddie Tipton — the former security director of the Multi-State Lottery Association based in Urbandale — should be dismissed because of the […]Powered by WPeMatico

todayJune 23, 2017