A city bus in Seattle crashed into a building on Saturday afternoon, killing a woman who was outside, after a collision with another vehicle, authorities said. The fatal crash happened around 3:30 p.m. at the intersection of 5th Avenue and Battery Street in the Belltown area when a red sedan …
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A suspect has been arrested in Los Angeles after a homeless man discovered the torso of a woman stuffed inside a plastic bag while digging through a trash bin Wednesday morning, authorities said. The remains were found around 6:15 a.m. near a dumpster outside a strip mall near the intersection …
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WASHINGTON – A new report says African Americans and Hispanics have improved health care and are less frequently victims of violent crimes this year than last. But the State of Black America report also shows that these minorities still lag behind whites when it comes to most areas of social …
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ST. LOUIS – Police are searching for three young men after a light rail passenger in St. Louis was attacked after being asked what he thought about the “Mike Brown situation.” Officers released details Friday after a passenger who wasn’t involved posted video of the attack on social media. The …
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SEATTLE – Dorothy “Dottie” Thomas, the research partner and wife of the Nobel laureate who pioneered the bone marrow transplant, has died in her Seattle-area home at 92. Her death Friday was announced by the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle. Her husband, the late Dr. E. Donnall Thomas, …
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BOSTON – A federal judge continued questioning prospective jurors Thursday in the federal death penalty trial of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Those questioned included people who said they cannot be impartial because they already believe Tsarnaev is guilty, people who said they could not impose the death penalty …
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SATELLITE BEACH, Fla. – Rescuers working late into the night freed 19 manatees who were stuck in a storm drain in central Florida. Capt. Jay Dragon of the Satellite Beach Fire Department said early Tuesday that the 19 manatees were all alive and were returned to the Indian River Lagoon …
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POCATELLO, Idaho – An eastern Idaho couple now has nine new puppies after they saved a pregnant dog that had been shot and left to die on the side of the highway. Beth Stenberg saw the brown and white border collie lying in the grass on the side of Interstate …
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LOS ANGELES – A mountain lion that’s a local celebrity has moved in under a Los Angeles home but authorities hope to dislodge him. Jason Archinaco, who owns a home in the hilly Los Feliz area, says workers installing a home security system encountered the cougar around noon Monday. Archinaco …
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10:55 a.m. The jury in the trial of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (joh-HAHR’ tsahr-NEYE’-ehv) has been shown two photographs of him as a child. The photos were displayed Wednesday during the testimony of the son of the family’s landlord in Cambridge. Sam Lipson described Tsarnaev as a “very sweet” …
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