Nebraska state prosecutors are vowing to try a man for a fourth time following a third mistrial on charges accusing him of killing two people in an Omaha home in 2019. Last week, a judge declared a mistrial in the case against 24-year-old Nyir Kuek after jurors reported they were …
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A Tennessee man accused of raping a woman a year before he was charged with kidnapping and killing a schoolteacher will have his fate decided by a Memphis-area jury when he goes to trial in the sexual assault case, a judge has ruled. Shelby County Judge Lee Coffee on Wednesday …
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The parents of the 17-year-old who killed a sixth grader and wounded seven others in a shooting at his small-town Iowa high school last week said in a statement Monday that they “had no inkling he intended the horrible violence he was about to inflict.” Dylan Butler’s parents said in …
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A man died after he was buried alive while working on a septic system on Long Island, New York, on Monday, according to police. The worker, Lauro Pacheco, 38, of Bay Shore, was installing cesspool rings at a home in Head of the Harbor just before 2:30 p.m. when the …
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Popular artificial intelligence platforms can at times return results that plagiarize copyrighted content, a problem that may not have an easy solution. “This is a staggeringly difficult problem to solve as current AI cannot look at a blank canvas and create something original,” Christopher Alexander, the chief analytics officer of …
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Former Arizona prisons chief Charles Ryan is scheduled to be sentenced Thursday after pleading no contest to a disorderly conduct charge stemming from when police say he fired a gun inside his Tempe home and pointed a firearm at two officers during a three-hour standoff in 2022. The plea agreement …
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BUTTE, Mont. – A Montana man shot and killed his wife and three children, set a fire in the family’s remote cabin and then killed himself, officials in Anaconda-Deer Lodge County said. The shootings happened Sunday morning at a cabin in the forest about 15 miles southeast of the town …
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Federal authorities said Friday that intelligence they obtained about a possible threat to the U.S. homeland from Pakistan was based on a source who had lied to them the whole time. The development comes one day after Fox News reported that the U.S. government had obtained information indicating the group …
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An eighth-grader suspended after pranking a classmate with a bag of oregano following a lecture on the dangers of marijuana has a civil liberties group in his corner, but officials at his North Carolina school aren’t backing down. The boy was booted from his school for 55 days for the …
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MIAMI – Officials are searching for a serial groper at Florida International University in Miami-Dade County. University police say a woman reported that someone on a bicycle grabbed her backside as she walked near the Green Library on Sunday night. The Miami Herald (http://hrld.us/1JfXYoc) reports school officials have been searching …
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