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Stabbed teen flees through Bay Shore mall and collapses
bill.mason@newsday.comA teenager with multiple stab wounds to his back and torso ran fleeing through a Bay Shore mall late yesterday afternoon before finally collapsing near the entrance to a Macy's department store, police said. Christopher Findley, 19, of Bay Shore, was...Tags: Macy's, Police Investigations, Bay Shore
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Eric Holder pushed for controversial clemency
Attorney general nominee Eric H. Holder Jr. repeatedly pushed some of his subordinates at the Clinton Justice Department to drop their opposition to a controversial 1999 grant of clemency to 16 members of two violent Puerto Rican nationalist...Tags: Hillary Clinton, Eric Holder, Prosecution, Bank Robbery, Laws
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Videos of fatal police shooting in Oakland, Calif., spark violent protests, homicide probe
Associated Press WritersOAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — In grainy cell-phone videos played over and over on the Internet, police officers force an unarmed black man to the ground and hold him face-down on a crowded train platform. Suddenly one of the officers draws his gun and...Tags: Riots, Police Investigations, Law Enforcement, New Year's Day, Defense
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Teen wanted in Indiana homicide arrested in Neb.
A 14-year-old boy wanted in a homicide case in Indiana has been arrested at Boys Town in west Omaha. Police say Nevin Brooks, of Indianapolis, was arrested on Tuesday and was taken to the Douglas County Youth Center. Douglas County Attorney Don Kleine...Tags: Juvenile Delinquency, Murder, Police Arrests, Crimes
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Trucker shot, wounded on I-65 in Indiana
Police in Clinton County are investigating the shooting of a trucker on Interstate 65 northwest of Indianapolis. Sheriff's Detective Rick Morgan says the trucker, 42-year-old Thomas Neal of Whittington, Ill., was shot in the upper left arm while driving...Tags: Frankfort, Police Investigations, Indianapolis
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Joliet man held in girlfriend's fatal stabbing
Joliet police say they have arrested the boyfriend of a 21-year-old woman who was found dead of multiple stab wounds in a public park. Joliet Police Lt. Edgar Gregory says Brittany Brooks' body was spotted by a passer-by late Wednesday night. It was...Tags: Joliet, Police Arrests
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AP top news in Iowa at 4:58 p.m. CST
A settlement was expected Thursday in a federal lawsuit over the stabbing death of an 18-year-old student at the hands of another student at a meditation-based school in southeastern Iowa. Levi Butler was stabbed to death in the dining hall of the...Tags: Prosecution, Michael Turner, Football, Atlanta Falcons, Murder
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Getting tough on drunken driving will cost Wis.
Associated Press WriterGetting tough on drunken drivers won't be cheap. Two of the most talked about measures to strengthen the state's drunken driving laws come with large price tags, which may doom them given a projected $5.4 billion state budget shortfall....Tags: Prosecution, Milwaukee, Transportation, Police Investigations, Drunk Driving
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Police investigating alleged strip search of teens
Associated Press WriterThe families of two 14-year-old girls filed a lawsuit Thursday alleging an off-duty Chicago police officer illegally strip searched them in an effort to find a lighter she believed was used to set a small fire at the girls' school. The girls were pulled...Tags: Police Investigations, Law Enforcement, Employees, Justice System, Chicago Public Schools
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School Board Member Pawlowski Apologizes For Altercation, Says He'll Resign
The Hartford CourantA local board of education member arrested and Tasered by police this week is planning to resign from the board and has been placed on administrative leave from his state job. In an interview this afternoon, Henry J. "Hank" Pawlowski Jr., a former...Tags: Hartford Hospital, Vehicles, Censorship, Elementary Schools, Schools
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Summonses issued after construction worker's fatal fall
mitchell.freedman@newsday.com bart.jones@newsday.comFollowing the accidental death of a construction worker in Southampton Village, officials Thursday issued two summonses to the contractor at the scene for a code violation and unsafe working conditions. Facundo Gonzalez, 33, was killed Monday while...Tags: Architecture, Police Investigations, Metal and Mineral, Industrial Accidents, Business Enterprises
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Colombian drug baron shot dead in Spanish hospital
Associated Press WriterMADRID, Spain (AP) — A convicted Colombian drug baron with links to two major smuggling cartels was shot dead in a Madrid hospital Thursday, officials said. Leonidas Vargas, who was convicted of drug trafficking, was murdered in a hospital bed...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Organized Crime, Punishment, Police Arrests, Drug Trafficking
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