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iStock/Thinkstock(MINNEAPOLIS) -- In a joint statement on Monday, Minneapolis' mayor and police chief sought an independent investigation into claims that city police asked emergency medical responders to sedate dozens of criminal suspects and others over the past three years with the powerful tranquilizer ketamine, according to the Minneapolis Star Tribune.In some cases, suspects were allegedly handcuffed or otherwise restrained when they were sedated, and in other cases the individuals were […]

Google, FILE(RICHMOND, Va.) -- A predominantly African-American elementary school in Richmond, Virginia, is dropping its confederate general name and will soon be known as Barack Obama Elementary.A predominantly African-American elementary school in Richmond, Virginia, is dropping its confederate general name and will soon be known as Barack Obama Elementary.The Richmond Public School Board voted 6-1 Monday to change the name of J.E.B Stuart Elementary School, school district spokeswoman Kenita Bowers […]

Google Maps(LITTLE ROCK, Ark.) -- Women seeking medical abortions in Arkansas will have two weeks to access them after a court temporarily suspended a state-wide ban.Medical abortions -- those that use pills rather than surgery to end a pregnancy -- were banned in Arkansas after the Supreme Court declined to review a lower court's decision in late May.That meant that of the state's three abortion clinics, only one has been […]

ABC News(GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.) -- When the 9-year-old Guatemalan boy arrived at a Michigan foster care home, he was so afraid he couldn't eat.Over time, the boy confided to his foster parents, Karl and Jen, that he and his father had escaped violence and poverty in their homeland only to be greeted with more hardship when they arrived at the U.S.-Mexico border, where he watched his dad being taken from […]

National Park Service(SANTA MONICA, Calif.) -- National Park Service researchers in California discovered that a mountain lion they've been tracking since January has given birth to a little of four kittens.The kittens -- who are all female -- were found recently in Simi Hills, a small habitat wedged between the Santa Monica and Santa Susana mountain ranges, the Park Service said in a press release Tuesday.Researchers stumbled across the litter […]

iStock/Thinkstock(CHARLESTON, S.C.) -- One southern city wants to apologize for its past.City officials in Charleston, South Carolina, will vote on a resolution Tuesday that expresses regret for the centuries of human slavery that was administered and regulated by its former lawmakers."This is the modern city council which feels the need to make an apology for the institution of slavery in the city of Charleston," Charleston councilman William Dudley Gregorie, who […]

ABC News(CHICAGO) -- Chicago police released surveillance video this week showing a young thug punching a priest in the face after the clergyman confronted the young man about alleged breaking into his church. when he was trying to find out what the burglar did in his church.Father Matthew Compton was working on the second floor of the rectory of Thomas More Church on Chicago's south side last Friday when he […]

iStock/Thinkstock(DURHAM, N.C.) -- Three people died after being pulled early Tuesday morning from a pool in a North Carolina apartment complex near Duke University, authorities said.The two males and one female have not yet been identified. Durham police were questioning a fourth person who was at the scene, according to authorities.Police were called to the Chapel Tower apartment complex at about 3 a.m. Tuesday morning for reports of a possible […]

Joe Raedle/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Teen activist David Hogg and his younger sister Lauren Hogg rose to national fame in the aftermath of the Valentine's Day massacre at their high school in Parkland, Florida. The two survived when a gunman opened fire at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, killing 17 people with an AR-15-style weapon.In the wake of the tragedy, the siblings, along with their classmates and friends, launched the […]