Records: City lawyers weak link in police accountability
By MICHAEL TARM, Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — When a federal judge concluded that a lawyer employed by the city of Chicago concealed audio evidence in a civil trial, the court issued a sharp rebuke, saying the recordings showed police lied about the events that led officers to shoot and kill a black motorist. Mayor Rahm Emanuel portrayed it as an isolated instance of unscrupulous lawyering, but City Hall lawyers have, in fact, faced similar criticism in nearly half a dozen police-miscon..>> view originalDonald Trump Repeatedly Compares Trade Deal to “Rape of Our Country” During Campaign Speech
During a campaign rally in St. Clairsville, Ohio, Tuesday, Donald Trump took a moment to criticize the often-criticized Trans-Pacific Partnership. Railing against the as-of-yet unratified trade deal has been a popular tactic on the campaign trail this year on all sides, but Trump, as he often does, took his rhetoric one step farther than is necessary, or appropriate, and characterized the trade agreement as "a continuing rape of our country”—three times. Here’s exactly what he had to say: *..>> view originalAlleged killer of pregnant woman and unborn child added to FBI Most Wanted list
Shanika Minor has been added to the FBI's most-wanted list after she allegedly killed a pregnant woman and her unborn child. (Youtube/FBI) Tamecca Perry was nine months pregnant. Her baby was due within the week. But on March 5, the neighbor’s daughter started an argument with Perry over loud music and perceived disrespect, the FBI said. The dispute escalated, and Perry was shot just outside of her Milwaukee home. After she retreated back inside, Perry died in front of her two children, th..>> view originalThe Latest: Firefighters in Arizona forced to use shelters
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — The Latest on wildfires burning in the West (all times local):7 p.m.Officials say evacuations are underway at a rural subdivision 50 miles northeast of Sacramento, California, as a wildfire climbs out of a steep canyon along the Middle Fork of the American River. Placer County Sheriff's spokeswoman Dena Erwin says homes near Todd Valley between the cities of Foresthill and Auburn are being evacuated as a 250-acre fire grows.She did not know how many homes are affected, b..>> view originalCrews fighting blaze at train collision site with 3 missing
In this photo provided by Billy B. Brown, two freight trains are on fire Tuesday, June 28, 2016, after they collided and derailed near Panhandle, Texas. Texas Department of Public Safety Lt. Bryan Witt says the accident occurred Tuesday morning near the town of Panhandle, about 25 miles northeast of Amarillo. No injuries have been reported. (Billy B. Brown via AP) The Associated Press By DAVID WARREN, Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — Three crew members were missing and one was hurt after ..>> view originalProsecutors: Dad, Son Fleeing Police Killed Utah Rail Worker
A father and son on the run from police after tying up five women in a Utah basement abducted and killed a rail line worker, beating him so severely that he was unrecognizable when his body was found in Wyoming, prosecutors said Tuesday. Flint Wayne Harrison and his son, Dereck James "DJ" Harrison, were charged in Wyoming with first-degree murder and kidnapping in the death of Kay Porter Ricks, 63. The Harrisons snatched Ricks during his May 12 shift maintaining Salt Lake City's light rail ..>> view originalHighlights of North Carolina government budget agreement
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Highlights of the final North Carolina budget agreement as proposed in legislation and the related “money report” crafted by House and Senate leaders. The $22.3 billion plan adjusts the second year of the already-approved two-year budget.The Senate gave preliminary approval to the measure Tuesday evening. The House was expected to take up the measure later in the week.Monetary figures are adjustments to what the legislature already budgeted for the year in the two-year plan:..>> view originalUConn mac and cheese student arrested again
University of Connecticut student Luke Gatti, age 19 hit and harassed a school cafeteria manager who refused to serve him bacon-stuffed mac and cheese because he was drunk. This video clip shows Gatti shoving the manager repeatedly and then cursing at ...>> view originalBenghazi report has no new evidence of wrongdoing by Hillary Clinton
WASHINGTON — Ending one of the longest, costliest and most bitterly partisan congressional investigations in history, the House Select Committee on Benghazi issued its final report Tuesday, finding no new evidence of culpability or wrongdoing by Hillary Clinton in the 2012 attacks in Libya that left four Americans dead. The 800-page report, however, included some new details about the night of the attacks, and the context in which they occurred, and it delivered a broad rebuke of government age..>> view originalGunfire and Panicked Calls on Police Log of Orlando Shooting
Photo Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Fla. The city on Tuesday released police logs and other documents from the killings there on June 12. Credit Chris O'Meara/Associated Press It took just 16 minutes.Emergency calls from inside the Pulse nightclub poured into the Orlando police in the early morning of June 12 from panicked and wounded revelers reporting the bloody scene as it played out. Dispatchers noted that they, too, could hear gunshots in the background, according to..>> view original
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