East Bay journalist says Eric Swalwell's conduct toward women was an open secret among local Democrats
A veteran California political journalist who has covered Rep. Eric Swalwell since his days on the Dublin City Council says the congressman's alleged behavior toward women "was known by all levels of our local government and the Alameda County Democratic Party", and has been since shortly after Swal...
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Atlanta police arrest 14-year-old for murder after 12-year-old fatally shot inside home
A 14-year-old boy in Atlanta now sits in juvenile detention, charged with murder after a 12-year-old was shot and killed inside a southeast Atlanta home Saturday afternoon. The shooting happened, police told local media, while the two boys were playing with guns in a bedroom. Atlanta Police Departme...
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Tulare County deputy killed in ambush while serving eviction notice; suspect run over by armored vehicle
A Tulare County sheriff's detective was shot and killed Thursday morning while serving a routine eviction notice in Porterville, California, after a suspect who had apparently been lying in wait opened fire on deputies in what became an hourslong standoff. The gunman, identified as David Eric Morale...
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Arizona teen presumed kidnapped in 1994 found alive with a family, career, and new identity in Missouri
For more than three decades, investigators in rural Arizona treated the disappearance of Christina "Tina" Marie Plante as a likely abduction. She was 13 years old when she walked away from her home in Star Valley on May 15, 1994, telling people she was headed to a nearby horse stable. She never came...
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Minnesota man convicted of first-degree murder after killing and mutilating his own mother in 2020 attack
A Sherburne County jury convicted 26-year-old Eric Leif Jordahl of first-degree murder Thursday for killing his mother, 62-year-old Rosalie "Rose" Johnson, inside their home on July 23, 2020, a case marked by details so disturbing they defy comprehension. The conviction carries an automatic life sen...
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Brian Hooker fell overboard during Bahamas arrest as wife Lynette remains missing, lawyer says
Brian Hooker, the husband of missing American woman Lynette Hooker, tumbled into the ocean during his own arrest by Bahamian police, just days after he reported his wife fell from their small boat and vanished in rough seas near Elbow Cay. His lawyer says he had to be rescued from the water by the s...
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Ohio Supreme Court backs police: Traffic stops don't end just because the original reason was wrong
The Ohio Supreme Court handed law enforcement a significant win, ruling that police officers who pull over a driver based on a mistaken belief, say, a headlight that turns out to be working, do not have to cut the stop short the moment that mistake becomes clear. The decision reversed an appellate c...
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Brooklyn protester pleads guilty to torching 11 NYPD vehicles in predawn arson spree
Jakhi Lodgson-McCray, a 22-year-old Brooklyn activist, stood in federal court Wednesday and admitted he scaled a fence into a locked police parking lot in Bushwick and set fire to 11 NYPD vehicles, an act that caused more than $800,000 in damage and now carries a mandatory minimum of five years in f...
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Tulare County deputy shot and killed serving eviction notice in Porterville ambush
A Tulare County Sheriff's Office deputy was shot and killed Thursday morning in Porterville, California, after a 60-year-old man allegedly opened fire with a high-powered rifle as deputies arrived to serve a final eviction notice, a routine civil action that Sheriff Mike Boudreaux said turned into a...
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Oklahoma state trooper killed in head-on crash on I-35 that also claimed mother and child
An Oklahoma Highway Patrol trooper, a 36-year-old woman, and a 4-year-old child are dead after a vehicle crossed the center cable barrier on Interstate 35 in Oklahoma City and slammed head-on into the trooper's northbound patrol unit Wednesday morning. Investigators are now asking the public to help...
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