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Florida city commissioner chastises cop at his own honors ceremonyVideo

Talk about irony. A Broward County, Fla. police officer who was expecting to be honored as “Officer of the Month” during a ceremony earlier this week was unexpectedly met with criticism when he got up to receive his award. According to the Sun Sentinel, sheriff’s Deputy Joshua Gallardo was headed...
Police: 5 hurt, knife-wielding suspect dead at Maryland mall

COCKEYSVILLE, Md. — Four people at an outdoor shopping mall were stabbed and a fifth person was beaten before officers shot and killed a suspect, police in Maryland said. The victims were rushed from the Hunt Valley Towne Centre north of Baltimore to hospitals Saturday afternoon but didn’t appear to...
Iran slams U.S. for barring Zarif from New York hospital visit

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran slammed the United States on Saturday for what it called an “inhumane” decision to bar its foreign minister, who was attending the U.N. summit meetings in New York, from visiting a hospitalized Iranian diplomat in the city. U.S. authorities were not allowing Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad...
Judge blocks sole use of databases to detain immigrants

LOS ANGELES — A federal judge Friday blocked Immigration and Customs Enforcement from relying solely on flawed databases to target people for being in the country illegally, the Los Angeles Times reported. U.S. District Court Judge Andre Birrote Jr. issued a permanent injunction barring ICE from relying only on the...
Dallas cop says she wishes neighbor had killed her instead

DALLAS — A Dallas police officer broke her silence Friday about the night she killed a young accountant who lived in the apartment right above hers, telling jurors that she has to live with the guilt every day and that she wished their roles were reversed. Amber Guyger tearfully told...
Member of secretive church gets probation in benefits scheme

RALEIGH, N.C. — A member of a secretive North Carolina church received 10 months of home confinement for taking part in an unemployment fraud scheme benefiting businesses with ties to the congregation. Diane McKinny, 66, of Rutherfordton, was sentenced by a federal judge in Asheville on Thursday, several months after...
Sheriff’s deputy slain near Houston was first Sikh officer

JERSEY VILLAGE, Texas — A sheriff’s deputy described as “a trailblazer” because he was the first Sikh deputy of the Harris County Sheriff’s Office when he joined the force 10 years ago, was shot and killed while making a traffic stop Friday near Houston. Deputy Sandeep Dhaliwal, 42, was pronounced...
Iran releases seized U.K.-flagged tanker

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran on Friday released a British-flagged oil tanker it had seized in July, while the country’s president, returning from an annual United Nations meeting, said he had been told the United States had offered to lift sanctions if Tehran returned to the negotiating table over its nuclear...
Take this bridge, get a million bucks. No one didVideo

There’s an old joke about selling bridges to people but this one was free. And it came with a million bucks. But no one would take it. The bridge had carried traffic over the Puyallup River in Washington State since 1925, according to KIRO-7. But two new bridges replaced it...
Florida teacher probed as quiz refers to Trump as ‘idiot’

PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. — A Florida middle school teacher is being investigated after a parent complained a quiz she gave students referred to President Donald Trump as an “idiot.” The principal at the Palm Beach Gardens school sent a letter to parents apologizing and saying the teacher has been...
Santa Barbara Zoo’s elderly elephant Little Mac euthanizedVideo

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — The Santa Barbara Zoo’s 48-year-old Asian elephant, Little Mac, has been euthanized after a sharp decline in her health. The zoo says Little Mac was euthanized Wednesday night in her exhibit yard, surrounded by keepers and staff. View this post on Instagram Last night we said...
Manhunt in Germany for suspected killer spotted on train

BERLIN — German police say a 52-year-old man suspected of killing a woman may have narrowly escaped capture by smashing a train window and fleeing before officers arrived. The news agency dpa reported Friday that the suspect, identified as Frank Naass, is wanted over the fatal attack on a 44-year-old...
Video: Baggage handlers fight under plane at San Antonio airport as passengers and crew watchVideo

Passengers and crew on a flight from San Antonio headed to Las Vegas were in for a surprise Thursday afternoon when they witnessed an apparent fight between baggage handlers who were slugging one another underneath a neighboring plane parked at the terminal. According to the crew member who sent the...
Ex-French President Chirac embraced European unity, opposed U.S. invasion of Iraq

PARIS — Jacques Chirac, a two-term French president who was the first leader to acknowledge France’s role in the Holocaust and who defiantly opposed the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, died Thursday at 86. President Emmanuel Macron paid tribute in a nationally televised speech to a predecessor he said...
U.S. deploys air defense systems, troops to Saudi Arabia

WASHINGTON — The U.S. is sending one Patriot missile battery and four ground-based radar systems to Saudi Arabia, the Pentagon said Thursday, in what officials describe as the first steps to help the kingdom protect itself against Iranian attacks. Two more Patriot batteries and a THAAD missile defense system will...
Flight diverted because passenger stuck in bathroomVideo

A stuck bathroom door sent a planeload of people to Denver. United Airlines flight 1554 was making its way from Washington, D.C., to San Francisco on Wednesday when one of the bathroom doors became stuck, KUSA-TV reported. The plane made an unscheduled landing in Denver, Emily Williams with the Denver...

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