TEMECULA, Calif. – A mountain lion that was tranquilized after it wandered into the parking lot of a Southern California mall has died. The Riverside Press-Enterprise (http://bit.ly/1DT976j ) reports that authorities were called after people saw the animal Friday morning outside a Macy’s department store in Temecula. State Fish and …
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – States across the country are accelerating their drive for new revenue to repair aging road systems, moves that come as the amount of federal funding has been falling. Figures compiled by The Associated Press show the total amount of money available to states from the Federal …
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HARTFORD, Conn. – A transportation official says railroad maintenance crews get little or no supervision and fail to document their work on a New York commuter line where six people died in a fiery crash in February. The New York Post reports Monday (http://bit.ly/1GD00x4 ) that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s …
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There’s a rush this week to secure a border security accord in the Senate. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has shuttled back and forth to the Capitol multiple times for talks with Sens. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., and James Lankford, R-Okla. Things are so serious that Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, I-Ariz., even …
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A 39-year-old man was killed on Saturday after an encounter with a shark while surfing off Maui’s northern shore, according to the Maui Police Department. The victim has been identified as Jason Carter, 39, of Haiku, according to the Maui Police Department. In a press release, just after 11:15 a.m., …
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CUSHING, Okla. – Corrections officials say from 200 to 300 inmates were involved in a brawl at a private prison in north-central Oklahoma and that the facility is on indefinite lockdown. State Department of Corrections spokeswoman Terri Watkins says 11 offenders were taken to hospitals after the fight Wednesday afternoon …
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A sheriff in Virginia’s historic Shenandoah Valley area said the fatal home invasion stabbing of a country music singer’s mother is unlike “anything” he’s ever seen. Authorities said an intruder killed 62-year-old Holly Hatcher, a former teacher, around midnight on Aug. 3 at their home in Rockingham County. Michael Hatcher, …
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The third week of the 2023 NFL season had it all – a 70-point game, a few teams staying undefeated, a handful of others remaining winless and Taylor Swift mania taking of over the Kansas City Chiefs. Swift has been rumored to be dating Chiefs star Travis Kelce, and she …
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An elderly Jewish man attending a pro-Israel rally in California has died after a “physical altercation” with a pro-Palestinian protester, the Ventura County Sheriff’s Department announced on Monday evening. Deputies responded to reports of a battery at a demonstration on Westlake and Thousand Oaks Boulevards after a verbal altercation broke …
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WILLIAMSBURG, Va. – The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation in Virginia says it has offered to house Iraqi artifacts to protect them from destruction by the Islamic State group. The foundation says its president, Mitchell Reiss, made the offer to a team of Iraqi archeologists and museum experts who visited earlier this …
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