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Dallas cop says she wishes neighbor had killed her instead
DALLAS — A Dallas police officer broke her silence Friday about the night she killed a young accountant who lived in the apartment right above hers, telling jurors that she has to live with the guilt every day and that she wished their roles were reversed. Amber Guyger tearfully told...
Member of secretive church gets probation in benefits scheme
RALEIGH, N.C. — A member of a secretive North Carolina church received 10 months of home confinement for taking part in an unemployment fraud scheme benefiting businesses with ties to the congregation. Diane McKinny, 66, of Rutherfordton, was sentenced by a federal judge in Asheville on Thursday, several months after...
Sheriff’s deputy slain near Houston was first Sikh officer
JERSEY VILLAGE, Texas — A sheriff’s deputy described as “a trailblazer” because he was the first Sikh deputy of the Harris County Sheriff’s Office when he joined the force 10 years ago, was shot and killed while making a traffic stop Friday near Houston. Deputy Sandeep Dhaliwal, 42, was pronounced...
Iran releases seized U.K.-flagged tanker
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran on Friday released a British-flagged oil tanker it had seized in July, while the country’s president, returning from an annual United Nations meeting, said he had been told the United States had offered to lift sanctions if Tehran returned to the negotiating table over its nuclear...
Take this bridge, get a million bucks. No one didVideo
There’s an old joke about selling bridges to people but this one was free. And it came with a million bucks. But no one would take it. The bridge had carried traffic over the Puyallup River in Washington State since 1925, according to KIRO-7. But two new bridges replaced it...
Florida teacher probed as quiz refers to Trump as ‘idiot’
PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. — A Florida middle school teacher is being investigated after a parent complained a quiz she gave students referred to President Donald Trump as an “idiot.” The principal at the Palm Beach Gardens school sent a letter to parents apologizing and saying the teacher has been...
Santa Barbara Zoo’s elderly elephant Little Mac euthanizedVideo
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — The Santa Barbara Zoo’s 48-year-old Asian elephant, Little Mac, has been euthanized after a sharp decline in her health. The zoo says Little Mac was euthanized Wednesday night in her exhibit yard, surrounded by keepers and staff. View this post on Instagram Last night we said...
Manhunt in Germany for suspected killer spotted on train
BERLIN — German police say a 52-year-old man suspected of killing a woman may have narrowly escaped capture by smashing a train window and fleeing before officers arrived. The news agency dpa reported Friday that the suspect, identified as Frank Naass, is wanted over the fatal attack on a 44-year-old...
Video: Baggage handlers fight under plane at San Antonio airport as passengers and crew watchVideo
Passengers and crew on a flight from San Antonio headed to Las Vegas were in for a surprise Thursday afternoon when they witnessed an apparent fight between baggage handlers who were slugging one another underneath a neighboring plane parked at the terminal. According to the crew member who sent the...
Ex-French President Chirac embraced European unity, opposed U.S. invasion of Iraq
PARIS — Jacques Chirac, a two-term French president who was the first leader to acknowledge France’s role in the Holocaust and who defiantly opposed the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, died Thursday at 86. President Emmanuel Macron paid tribute in a nationally televised speech to a predecessor he said...
U.S. deploys air defense systems, troops to Saudi Arabia
WASHINGTON — The U.S. is sending one Patriot missile battery and four ground-based radar systems to Saudi Arabia, the Pentagon said Thursday, in what officials describe as the first steps to help the kingdom protect itself against Iranian attacks. Two more Patriot batteries and a THAAD missile defense system will...
Flight diverted because passenger stuck in bathroomVideo
A stuck bathroom door sent a planeload of people to Denver. United Airlines flight 1554 was making its way from Washington, D.C., to San Francisco on Wednesday when one of the bathroom doors became stuck, KUSA-TV reported. The plane made an unscheduled landing in Denver, Emily Williams with the Denver...
Egypt rights group: Nearly 2,000 detained since protests
CAIRO — An Egyptian rights groups said Thursday the number of people arrested and detailed in the wake of last weekend’s protests has risen to nearly 2,000 amid fresh calls for new rallies demanding President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi step down. Rare protests erupted in Cairo and several other provinces last Friday...
Video shows historic mansion being moved by bargeVideo
An old home needed a new place to stay, so a family decided to moved it by land and sea. On Wednesday, a historic mansion that’s spent 250 years on the same plot in Easton, Md., was loaded onto a barge and motored up Chesapeake Bay about 50 miles to...
Census: Inequality grew, including in heartland states
ORLANDO, Fla. — The gap between the haves and have-nots in the United States grew last year to its highest level in more than 50 years of tracking income inequality, according to Census Bureau figures. Income inequality in the United States expanded from 2017 to 2018, with several heartland states...
‘OK’ hand gesture, ‘Bowlcut’ added to hate symbols databaseVideo
COLLEGE PARK, Md. — The “OK” hand gesture, a mass killer’s bowl-style haircut and an anthropomorphic moon wearing sunglasses are among 36 new entries in a Jewish civil rights group’s online database of hate symbols used by white supremacists and other far-right extremists. The Anti-Defamation League has added the symbols...
Court to hear Alex Jones’ appeal in Sandy Hook case
HARTFORD, Conn. — Connecticut’s highest court is set to hear arguments on whether conspiracy theorist Alex Jones was wrongly penalized for an outburst on his internet show against a lawyer for relatives of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims. The state Supreme Court hearing is scheduled for Thursday. Relatives of...
Texas inmate executed for stabbing deaths of 2 stepsons
HUNTSVILLE, Texas — A Texas inmate who claimed he was intellectually disabled was executed Wednesday for fatally stabbing his two stepsons during a 2007 attack in which his wife also died. Robert Sparks received a lethal injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville for the slayings of 9-year-old Harold Sublet...
Guilty plea in case of man forced by police to lick urinal
HONOLULU — A Honolulu homeless man fearing he would be arrested reluctantly obeyed a police officer’s orders to lick a public urinal, according to court document made public Wednesday after a former officer pleaded guilty to failing to report the incident. And it wasn’t the first time. Officer John Rabago...
Georgia jogger saves baby deer stuck in fencingVideo
A Georgia woman who was out for a jog saw a baby deer caught in some iron fencing and sprung into action to save it. The heroics were caught on film near Stone Mountain Park in an east Atlanta suburb. The woman, who was identified on Twitter as Chloe Dorsey,...
Facebook says it isn’t fact checking politicians on the site
SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook says it does not fact check politicians’ statements on its site, even if they might be false. The social network operator says that’s because such statements could be newsworthy — and it doesn’t want to act as a “referee” for political debates. Facebook works with third-party...
Report critical of sheriff’s post-Parkland suspension
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The sheriff suspended by Gov. Ron DeSantis over the Parkland high school shooting should be reinstated, a Florida Senate official said Wednesday, arguing the governor failed to show the sheriff’s policies or alleged negligence were to blame for the massacre of 17 people. Florida Senate special...
An unrepentant Boris Johnson faces raucous Parliament
LONDON — An unrepentant Prime Minister Boris Johnson brushed off cries of “Resign!” and dared his foes to try to topple him Wednesday at a raucous session of Parliament, a day after Britain’s highest court ruled he acted illegally in suspending the body ahead of the Brexit deadline. Amid shouts,...
Nearly 25,000 ecstasy pills mailed to couple by mistake
A couple was expecting a shipment of dresses but got a bonus box with 24,800 ecstasy pills. The pair was enjoying breakfast at their home in Linz, Austria when the parcels arrived, reports CNN. One box contained the anticipated two dresses ordered online from the Netherlands. But the second parcel...
California farm region faces furry new threat: swamp rodents
LOS BANOS, Calif. — One of the most recent threats to California’s environment has webbed feet, white whiskers, shaggy fur and orange buck teeth that could be mistaken for carrots. “Boy, they’re an ugly-looking thing,” said David Passadori, an almond and walnut grower in central California. “And the way they...
