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Family of black man shot 14 times by police wants charges
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The family of a man killed in July by Sacramento police after 911 callers reported he was waving a knife and acting erratically demanded Monday that two officers face murder charg...
Oct 03, 2016
Ex-officer charged with rape, other counts after stops
NASHVILLE - A former police officer in Tennessee has been charged with rape in two separate incidents. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said that a Maury County grand jury on Monday returned indi...
Oct 03, 2016
Court overturns $12M sex abuse verdict against Boy Scouts
HARTFORD, Conn. - The state Supreme Court on Monday overturned a $12 million jury verdict against the Boy Scouts of America - the largest ever against the organization - in the case of a boy who said ...
Oct 03, 2016
Ohio police initiative to get review in deal with protesters
COLUMBUS, Ohio - Columbus officials will evaluate the effectiveness of a summer police initiative as part of discussions between the city council’s president and demonstrators who have protested...
Oct 03, 2016
Pence's critical role: Trump's emissary to evangelicals
DES MOINES, Iowa - Mike Pence musters all of his Midwestern earnestness as he describes Donald Trump as “a man of faith.” He says the Republican nominee is “a man I’ve prayed w...
Oct 03, 2016
2 officers on paid leave after child left in patrol car dies
KILN, Miss. - Two police officers in Mississippi are on paid leave after a 3-year-old daughter of one of the officers died unattended in a patrol car. Hancock County Chief Deputy Sheriff Don Bass said...
Oct 03, 2016
VP candidate Kaine's faith an influence, sometime struggle
RALEIGH, N.C. - The morning after Tim Kaine was named the Democratic vice-presidential nominee, his first stop wasn’t a rally or a swing state meet-and-greet - it was a church in Richmond, Virgi...
Oct 03, 2016
Obama, DiCaprio team up against climate change
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama and actor Leonardo DiCaprio teamed up on the White House South Lawn on Monday to sound a call for urgent action to combat climate change. Obama told a crowd gathere...
Oct 03, 2016
Kansas tax collections fall $45M short of mark in September
TOPEKA, Kan. - Kansas collected nearly $45 million less in taxes than expected in September, complicating the state’s budget picture five weeks before an election in which Republican Gov. Sam Br...
Oct 03, 2016
Cosby can't attend accuser's deposition in defamation suit
PHILADELPHIA - A federal judge in Philadelphia has barred Bill Cosby from attending the deposition his accuser gives in her defamation suit against a former district attorney. But the judge says Cosby...
Oct 03, 2016