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Police: Man bit off part of another man’s pinky at Dallas train station
DALLAS — Police arrested a Dallas man over the weekend after he reportedly bit off part of another man’s finger at a commuter train station. Hubert Warren, 50, faces a charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. According to Warren’s arrest-warrant affidavit, Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) officers were...
U.S. new home sales rise 7% in June after 2 months of decline
WASHINGTON — U.S. new home sales rose at a modest pace in June but remained below sales levels earlier this year, suggesting low mortgage rates and a healthy job market aren’t encouraging many more purchases. The Commerce Department said Wednesday that new home sales increased 7% to a seasonally adjusted...
Documents: $6 million to family of Neil Armstrong in wrongful death
CINCINNATI — An Ohio hospital paid the estate of astronaut Neil Armstrong $6 million in a confidential agreement to settle allegations that post-surgical complications led to Armstrong’s 2012 death, according to court documents and a report in the New York Times. The 2014 settlement went to 10 family members, including...
Girl tossed in air after bison charges Yellowstone touristsVideo
YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. — Yellowstone National Park officials say a bull bison tossed a 9-year-old Florida girl into the air when the animal charged a group of about 50 tourists. Park officials say the bison rushed the group Monday after some of the tourists approached to within 5 to...
Judge temporarily blocks new Arkansas anti-abortion laws
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A federal judge blocked three new abortion restrictions from taking effect Wednesday in Arkansas, including a measure that opponents say would likely force the state’s only surgical abortion clinic to close. U.S. District Judge Kristine Baker granted a 14-day temporary restraining order shortly before midnight Tuesday....
Hundreds of black deaths in 1919 are being remembered
America in the summer of 1919 ran red with blood from racial violence, and yet today, 100 years later, not many people know it even happened. It flowed in small towns like Elaine, Ark., in medium-size places such as Annapolis, Md., and Syracuse, N.Y., and in big cities like Washington...
ICE releases Francisco Erwin Galicia, 18, wrongfully detained near borderVideo
HOUSTON — A U.S.-born 18-year-old was released from immigration custody Tuesday after wrongfully being detained for more than three weeks. Francisco Erwin Galicia left a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Pearsall, Texas, on Tuesday. His lawyer, Claudia Galan, confirmed he had been released, less than a day...
Diplomats’ brain scans show differences, add to Cuba mystery
CHICAGO — Advanced brain scans found perplexing differences in U.S. diplomats who say they developed concussionlike symptoms after working in Cuba, a finding that only heightens the mystery of what may have happened to them, a new study says. Extensive imaging tests showed the workers had less white matter than...
Man pleads guilty to vandalizing Cape Hatteras Lighthouse
CAPE HATTERAS, N.C. — The National Park Service says a North Carolina man has pleaded guilty to vandalizing the more than century-old Cape Hatteras Lighthouse by carving initials into its bronze door with a pocketknife. A park service news release Tuesday said 39-year-old Jamie Lester Underwood of Winston-Salem etched the...
3 family members charged in brawl at Disneyland that was caught on videoVideo
LOS ANGELES — Three members of a family involved in a violent brawl that was captured on video at Disneyland earlier this month have been charged in connection with the melee, Orange County prosecutors said Tuesday. Police were called to the park July 6 after a verbal confrontation between family...
Man who followed Tree of Life shooter pleads guilty to gun charge
WASHINGTON — A man whose relatives reported concerns about his behavior and far-right extremist rhetoric after last year’s Pittsburgh synagogue massacre pleaded guilty to a federal gun charge Tuesday. Jeffrey Clark Jr. of Washington, D.C., faces a maximum of 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to one count of...
Lawmakers approve $1 billion financial rescue for Ohio’s nuclear plants
TOLEDO, Ohio — A roughly $1 billion financial rescue for Ohio’s two nuclear power plants is on the way after lawmakers and the governor signed off on a plan Tuesday that will add a new fee to every electricity bill in the state. Backed mostly by Republicans, the legislation will...
Miss America pageant leaving Atlantic City for Connecticut
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — The Miss America pageant is leaving one casino town for another. The Miss America Organization says this year’s pageant will be held at the Mohegan Sun Connecticut in Uncasville, Conn. It will be broadcast on NBC Dec. 19, in a switch from recent broadcaster ABC. The...
Pakistan PM says he’ll work with U.S. on Afghanistan accord
WASHINGTON — After years of tension between Washington and Islamabad, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan insisted Tuesday the two are now on the same page and said he will do his best to convince the Taliban to open negotiations with the Afghan government to resolve the war. The U.S. has...
Agreement affirms North Carolina transgender restroom rights
RALEIGH, N.C. — A federal judge approved a legal settlement Tuesday affirming transgender people’s right to use restrooms matching their gender identity in many North Carolina public buildings. The consent decree between the state’s Democratic governor and transgender plaintiffs covers numerous state-owned buildings including facilities run by executive branch agencies...
Venezuelan blackout eases in some areas; opposition rallies
CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuela’s opposition on Tuesday sought to harness anger over a massive blackout that deepened hardship nationwide, but turnout at a Caracas demonstration was relatively modest as many Venezuelans despair of an imminent solution to their plight. Lights came back on in parts of the capital and other...
Greased watermelons to replace piglets in California fair event
The decades-long tradition of children chasing piglets at the Sonoma County Fair is coming to an end. The the 83-year-old county fair’s Farmers Day in Santa Rosa, Calif., will no longer feature the pig scramble, an event featuring scores of kids ages 5 to 10 chasing freshly weaned piglets, reports...
Videos of water being dumped on New York police officers create stir
NEW YORK — Cellphone videos of people brazenly dousing uniformed New York Police Department patrolmen with water have sparked outrage and led police officials to urge the force not to tolerate the behavior. Police on Tuesday were looking into two recent instances captured on video clips widely circulated on social...
Florida lawmaker: Look into Epstein work release from jail
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A Florida lawmaker known as a champion for child sexual abuse victims asked Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday to authorize a state investigation into the circumstances of wealthy convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s freedom to leave jail on work release a decade ago. Democratic state Sen....
Cellphones sought in Puerto Rico as political crisis deepens
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A Puerto Rico judge issued search warrants for the cellphones of government officials involved in a crude and offensive online chat whose leak has set off a political crisis that threatens to bring down the U.S. territory’s governor. Kelvin Carrasco, a spokesman for the island’s...
Police: Overweight truck causes 113-year-old bridge to collapse
It may cost up to $1 million to replace a 113-year-old bridge in North Dakota after an overweight tractor-trailer truck tried to cross the historic structure and caused it to collapse on Monday afternoon, according to officials. According to the Grand Forks County Sheriff’s Office, Michael Dodds was driving a...
Goose freed from pizza driver’s car grille
One lucky goose got a second chance after becoming wedged in a car’s front grille. A Canada goose in Burlington, Vermont, may have thought it was cooked on Saturday when a Toyota slammed into it but it is expected to make a full recovery, reports WCAX-TV. “I saw a goose...
Sydney police find drug haul in van that hit police cars
SYDNEY — A driver has been charged after methamphetamine valued at more than $140 million was found in a van that crashed into police cars parked outside a Sydney police station, police said on Tuesday. A Toyota HiAce van hit the cars outside the Eastwood Police Station on Monday morning,...
Store worker’s body found behind cooler 10 years later
The body found behind a supermarket cooler in January has been identified as a man who went missing 10 years ago. Larry Ely Murillo-Moncada of Council Bluffs was 25 years old when he left his parents’ home in 2009, reports the Des Moines Register. The missing person case went unsolved...
Virginia school’s transgender bathroom ban is back in court
NORFOLK, Va. — Gavin Grimm, a young man who has become a national face for transgender student rights, returns to a Virginia courtroom Tuesday to challenge his former high school’s bathroom policy. A federal judge in Norfolk is considering whether the Gloucester County School Board violated Grimm’s rights when it...
