Multiple People Shot At New York City Hospital; Shooter Dead

NEW YORK ― A former employee at a New York City hospital shot multiple people Friday afternoon, killing a woman and wounding six other people before killing himself, police said.



Due to reports of a shooting incident at Bronx Lebanon Hospital, avoid the area of 1650 Grand Concourse. More...

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Could Donald Trump Win The Order Of Lenin?

In the movie “A View to a Kill,” the Russians award James Bond the Order of Lenin, for saving Silicon Valley, with the line “Where would Russian Technology be without America?” One wonders where Russia’s geopolitical ambitions be without the election of Donald...

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Soccer Santa Plays Scrooge In Brazil

Inflation, poor attendance, lackluster play and massive debts are causing Brazil’s football clubs to count their pennies this Christmas.
Players are griping because teams delay paychecks. Managers balk at signing for less money. Third party syndicates continue to hold shares of...

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Report: Chicago is Losing More Millionaires Than Any Other U.S. City

More millionaires left Chicago last year than any other city in the nation, according to a report by New World Wealth.
The research firm found Chicago had a net loss of nearly 3,000 millionaires, or individuals with at least $1 million in net assets (excluding their primary residence),...

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For the Record: My Opinion On Baylor And Art Briles

As a public rape survivor, I’ve been asked to weigh in on some difficult discussions. One of those is Baylor and Art Briles. When the Pepper Hamilton report regarding Baylor first broke in the media I was devastated. It was a traumatic experience for me and it caused me to revisit my own...

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‘Stop & Frisk' Policy Nabs Thousands of Kids in a Florida City, Finds 5-Year-Olds ‘Suspicious'

In the summer of 2010, a young black man was stopped and questioned by police on the streets of Miami Gardens, Florida. According to the report filled out by the officer, he was “wearing gray sweatpants, a red hoodie and black gloves” giving the police “just cause” to question...

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New York Police Recover Body Of Max Maisel, ESPN Writer's Missing Son

The Rochester Police Department has confirmed that a body found Friday in Lake Ontario is Max Maisel, the son of ESPN writer Ivan Maisel. Max Maisel disappeared nearly two months ago.
“[This is] merely the postscript to our sad story,” Ivan Maisel, a well-known sports writer, and...

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Detroit's Staggering Murder And Violent Crime Rate Are 'A Public Health Issue'

Following news that Detroit was exiting bankruptcy and officials talking with optimism about the road ahead, grim new statistics drive home how much there is to do before the city’s future truly appears bright. Detroit has the highest murder and violent crime rate of any major city in...

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Video Shows Cop Punching Woman In The Face, But She's The One Arrested For 'Assault'

A uniformed Arizona police officer who was filmed punching a woman has been placed on administrative leave while the incident is investigated.


“Our agency is very concerned by what is depicted in this video,” police in Flagstaff, Arizona, said in a Wednesday evening press release.


The...

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‘Dual Valley Bandit’ told police he was broke, lost business and home

The man accused of robbing six banks in the San Fernando and San Gabriel valleys in May before he was caught by Pasadena police officers told investigators he went on his crime spree because he lost his business and his home.
Shownee Shon...

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Brendan Dassey To Remain Behind Bars, Appeals Court Rules

Brendan Dassey, a Wisconsin man featured in the Netflix true crime documentary series “Making a Murderer,” will remain behind bars for now as the state fights a decision that overturned his conviction. 


In a one-sentence order, a three-judge panel from the 7th Circuit U.S. Court of...

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Instead Of Relying On America, Maybe Europe Should Create Its Own Nuclear Deterrent

After spending a quarter century treating NATO as an international social club to which every reasonably civilized European nation should belong, the alliance has begun to focus again on its original role as a military alliance. Rather than expect the U.S. to burnish NATO’s nuclear...

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What Dismissing Charges Against Hope Solo Means For Team USA

That long, audible sigh you heard Tuesday night was the U.S. Soccer Federation’s reaction to word that the assault case against goalkeeper Hope Solo had been dismissed.
Solo’s court case has been the elephant in the room for U.S. Soccer ever since she was arrested in June after...

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A Chicago Assault Victim Might Still Be Alive If Bystanders Had Cared Enough To Help

Bystanders ignored a Chicago assault victim lying lying on the street. Moments later, a taxi accidentally ran over his body and killed him.


Surveillance video released Wednesday and first obtained by the Chicago Tribune shows Marques Gaines, 32, getting into an argument with another man...

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Georgia Campus Sexual Assault Survivors And Advocates Oppose Last Minute Move To Pass Controversial Campus Rape Bill

Georgia’s controversial House Bill 51, which would require colleges and universities to report rapes (and other felonies) to the police whether or not the survivor consents, was unanimously tabled by the state Senate Judiciary Committee last Thursday to give the legislature more time to...

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Amidst Ferguson Conflict, Activists Decry Miami Cop Rehired After Killing Travis McNeil

As Ferguson, Missouri, has descended into a nightmarish vision of a dystopian police state, few have watched the growing clashes between protesters and authorities with a perspective quite like Sheila McNeil’s. As a young woman in Overtown, McNeil lived through Miami’s own...

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Man Charged With Stealing Hearse During Funeral

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A 28-year-old man has been charged with stealing a hearse from outside a Buffalo church while a funeral

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What Happened When Detroit Youth Had Honest Conversations With Police

As activists across the country question police tactics and the number of black men and boys killed by cops, a group in Detroit is hoping conversations with officers can begin to heal the mistrust some youth have toward authorities.
More than 50 teenagers, along with their parents and...

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Rapper's Bid For Clemency Nearly Rejected Over Lack Of Disciplinary Record In Prison

ST. TAMMANY PARISH, La. ― If you’re an inmate in prison for more than 16 years, you should be proud of yourself if you’ve never been cited for a disciplinary violation. 


However, lawyers for McKinley Phipps Jr., a hip-hop artist better known to rap fans as “Mac,” told “Crime Watch Daily...

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AK-47 Bandit, linked to Chino bank robbery, arrested in Nebraska; bombs found in Montana home

HELENA, Mont. >> Federal agents found homemade bombs in the Montana home of a man they suspect is the “AK-47 Bandit,” who is wanted for a string of bank robberies, including one in Chino, and is accused of shooting at a Kansas state trooper,...

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Jury Selection For 'Pharma Bro' Martin Shkreli's Trial Proving A Problem

Jury selection for Martin Shkreli’s trial on fraud began Monday, and it appears his lawyer has his work cut out finding an impartial panel.


By 1:00 p.m., close to 70 possible jurors, out of a pool of 130, had already been excused from the case, and none had been seated. While most were...

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NATO Sees Sharp Rise In Russian Disinformation Since Crimea Seizure

NATO accused Russia of escalating a disinformation campaign since the Kremlin’s 2014 seizure of Ukraine’s Crimea region, saying Russian websites such as Sputnik and RT had posted false stories, the alliance’s spokeswoman said on Saturday.


There is increasing concern among senior NATO and...

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Top Professional Athletes Gone Bad

What is it about professional competitors that seem to make so many set on self-destruction? After years of working out, training and imagining the big time, pro athletes often turn out to be their own worst opponent when it comes to enjoying a rewarding career and the perks that come with...

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Keep Guns Out Of Dangerous Hands In Orlando, In Chicago, In Every Community

Co-author Congresswoman Robin Kelly (D-IL)
The horrific mass shooting in Orlando was the deadliest in our nation’s history. In response, this week Democrats in both the House and the Senate said ENOUGH, and demanded action to stem the rising tide of gun violence in our country.
On...

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Women's Advocates Sue For Data On How Trump's Team Is Handling Campus Sex Assault

The National Women’s Law Center has sued the Department of Education in an effort to pry loose a trove of data related to the agency’s oversight and rules enforcement related to sexual harassment in U.S. schools. 


The nonprofit, which advocates for women’s rights, claims the Department of...

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Tanya Gonzalez Missing: Aunt Begs Person Of Interest To 'Bring Her Home'

The aunt of Tanya Gonzalez, a missing Florida woman, is pleading with the ex-boyfriend who police call a person of interest to return her unharmed.
“Bring her home,” said Yvette Oliver of her 28-year-old niece. “We want to see her and know she is OK. If you really love her...

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Rod Covlin Arrested 6 Years After Wife's New Year's Eve Strangulation

A retired New York stock trader, set to lay claim to half of his dead wife’s $4 million fortune, has been indicted in connection with her mysterious death more than five years ago.


Rod Covlin, 42, is facing two counts of second-degree murder in the slaying of Shele Danishefsky...

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NYC Teens' Bar Mitzvah Projects Support Youth Baseball in Detroit

When I celebrated my bar mitzvah in October 1989 there was no such thing as a “bar mitzvah project” yet. I had a handful of requirements I had to achieve like chanting from the Torah, leading parts of the prayer service for the congregation and singing the Haftorah with my...

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Armed man in custody following 4-hour standoff near Porter Ranch

PORTER RANCH >> An armed man who barricaded himself in his home near Porter Ranch was in custody Saturday, surrendering at the end of a four-hour standoff.
Police received reports regarding a man with a gun firing a shot sometime before 9 p.m....

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Man Cited For Driving Motorcycle Through Crowd Of Trumpcare Protestors

A man was detained by police Wednesday after allegedly driving his motorcycle through a crowd blocking a San Francisco street in protest of the recently-revealed GOP healthcare bill, also known as Trumpcare.


Around 20 protestors, including seniors and people with disabilities, were...

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LA leader to seek ‘full investigation’ into all LAPD youth programs, following scandals

Los Angeles City Councilman Mitchell Englander is calling for an expanded probe into the Los Angeles Police Department’s various youth mentoring program, following the arrest Thursday of an officer who is suspected of having sex with an...

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Lawsuit Accuses Donald Trump Of Illegally Destroying White House Records

Two watchdog groups have sued Donald Trump over White House records, accusing the president of illegally destroying communications that must be preserved by federal law.


The suit — filed Thursday against Trump and the Executive Office of the President by Citizens for Responsibility and...

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Is LAPD’s cadet program in jeopardy after 7 cadets were arrested?

How could it happen?
It’s a question that’s been on the minds of everyone from elected officials to former cadets to the Los Angeles police chief.
The questions began after a group of teenagers in the Los Angeles Police Department’s...

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Michael Brown's Family Settles Wrongful-Death Lawsuit For Undisclosed Sum

The city of Ferguson, Missouri, has settled a wrongful-death lawsuit filed by the parents of Michael Brown, the unarmed black 18-year-old who was fatally shot by former Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson in 2014.


Federal district judge Richard Webber approved the civil settlement on...

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1 dead in crash near London mosque suspected as terrorism

LONDON >> A vehicle struck pedestrians near a mosque in north London early Monday morning, killing one man and injuring 10 other people in what police are investigating as a terrorist incident.
Police said the 48-year-old man who was...

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9/11 Memorial Architect To Design Charleston Church Shooting Monument

The architect who designed the 9/11 Memorial in New York City has been tapped to create a monument honoring the victims of the 2015 massacre at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina.


Church officials announced Saturday that Michael Arad, an Israeli-American and partner at the...

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Van Nuys man ordered detained pending trial on bankruptcy fraud charges

LOS ANGELES >> A Van Nuys man was ordered detained today pending trial on federal charges alleging he ran a foreclosure-avoidance scheme that raked in $7 million from distressed homeowners.
Michael “Mickey” Henschel, 68, was arrested Wednesday...

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18 Of The Most Profound Tweets In Reaction To The Philando Castile Verdict

The July 2016 killing, which was streamed on Facebook Live by Castile’s girlfriend Diamond Reynolds, is just one of a serial string of fatal cop shootings that allowed officers to walk away scot-free and many times, with their jobs intact. 


For Twitter users that could muster a reaction to...

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2 suspects arrested following dual chases in stolen police cruisers

LOS ANGELES >> Two suspects are in custody after each of them stole a police cruiser Wednesday and led authorities on chases that both ended with a crash in South Los Angeles.
Police located the two stolen police vehicles about 9:35 p.m. in...

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Alarming Video Shows United Worker Shoving An Older Passenger

A 73-year-old Texas lawyer is suing United Airlines after an employee shoved him to the ground and left him there.


On Tuesday, Houston news station KPRC aired surveillance footage of the 2015 incident at Houston’s Bush Intercontinental Airport. 


The video shows passenger Ronald Tigner,...

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Jury begins deliberating sex charges against Bill Cosby

NORRISTOWN, Pa. >> The jury at Bill Cosby’s trial began deliberating Monday over whether he drugged and molested a woman more than a decade ago in a case that has already helped demolish the 79-year-old comedian’s good-guy image.
A...

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Three Court Cases Worth Noting

There are three separate court cases which are making news today, so I thought it’d be worthwhile to take a quick look at all of them, to see the potential impact they might have. The three cases are in very different stages of completion. One was just filed in federal court. One got a just...

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London Bridge attacker tried to rent larger truck

LONDON >> British police have arrested two more suspects over the London Bridge attack, and revealed that the carnage could have been worse had the attackers succeeded in their goal of renting a truck, rather than a van, to mow down...

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Anti-Muslim Hate Marches Across U.S. Draw Violence, Arrests

Hate marches that took place across the U.S. drew violence between white supremacists and counterprotesters on Saturday, leading to several arrests.


The “March Against Sharia” took place in cities including St. Paul, Minnesota, Seattle, Washington, and New York City. The marches attracted...

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Man convicted of killing 17-year-old girl in parking lot near Marina Del Rey

LOS ANGELES >> A San Diego County man was convicted today of gunning down a 17-year-old girl in the parking lot of a Marina del Rey-area shopping center last year.
The Los Angeles Superior Court jury deliberated about a day and a half before...

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Abandoned Baby Found In Jonas Brothers Backpack Outside Arizona Grocery

Police in Tempe, Arizona, are looking for any information about a baby girl found alive inside a Jonas Brothers backpack Sunday night.


A passer-by found the backpack holding the newborn child in a shopping cart in a grocery store parking lot, according to AZFamily.com.


The temperature...

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LAPD officer injured in Wilmington shooting; 1 suspect dead, 1 arrested

WILMINGTON >> A Los Angeles Police Department officer who responded to a shooting call in Wilmington Tuesday was injured, one suspect was killed and a second was taken into custody in what the department called an officer-involved...

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Andrea Constand Testifies Bill Cosby Drugged And Molested Her

Andrea Constand testified Tuesday about the night in 2004 she says actor Bill Cosby inappropriately touched her after giving her three pills. 


Cosby, 79, is on trial for aggravated indecent assault. He’s denied attacking the former Temple University employee in his home outside of...

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Target of Medicare insider trading case boasted he was unstoppable ‘beast’

In his prime, consultant David Blaszczak bragged that he made millions for his hedge-fund clients when he predicted important Medicare funding changes.
“Warren Buffett can eat it,” Blaszczak wrote in one email in 2013, referencing the...

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Violence Erupts In Portland Amid Alt-Right, Anti-Fascist Rallies

PORTLAND, Ore. ― For days, Portland has served as ground zero for American hate, heroism and healing. Today, it served as America’s battleground.


What started Sunday as two counterdemonstrations outside City Hall between anti-fascist protesters and members of the alt-right during a “Trump...

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Gabrielino High School track coach, 1984 Olympic silver medalist accused of inappropriate contact with student

SAN GABRIEL >> Police arrested a Gabrielino High School assistant track coach and 1984 Olympic silver medalist on Friday on suspicion of contacting a student for the purpose of engaging in inappropriate contact with a student,...

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Key Witnesses In A California Jailhouse Snitch Scandal Refuse to Testify

SANTA ANA, Calif. ― Six years ago, Scott Dekraai walked into a hair salon in Seal Beach and gunned down eight people, including his ex-wife. No one is disputing that. But what remains in dispute is his sentence as the court struggles to untangle a secretive jailhouse informant program that...

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LeBron James’ Los Angeles home vandalized with slur

OAKLAND >> LeBron James wanted to be with his family, to hug his wife and three kids back in Ohio.
Visibly shaken by an event he couldn’t control, Cleveland’s star struggled Wednesday to focus on his seventh straight NBA Finals or...

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