Tag: Violence
Floyd verdict won’t remove blocks to police accountability
The guilty verdicts in the George Floyd murder case felt like a watershed moment to many Americans. President Biden called the verdicts a “giant...
Florida school superintendent says he will be vindicated
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The Florida school superintendent charged with lying to a grand jury investigating circumstances surrounding the 2018 massacre on one of...
Group challenges segregated meetings about Chauvin verdict
MADISON, Wis. — A conservative legal group is challenging a Wisconsin school district over an email sent to families soliciting their participation in what...
Student’s Snapchat profanity leads to high court speech case
WASHINGTON — Fourteen-year-old Brandi Levy was having that kind of day where she just wanted to scream. So she did, in a profanity-laced posting...
Analysis: A reckoning on racism? Not for many leaders of GOP
NEW YORK — If the nation is in the midst of a historic reckoning on racism, most leaders of the Republican Party are not...
UAE urges Israel to stop Jerusalem violence in rare rebuke
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The United Arab Emirates on Monday warned that any moves to change the historic identity of Jerusalem threaten peace,...
Suit: LSU insulated athletes, coaches from victims’ claims
NEW ORLEANS — Seven women have filed a federal class action lawsuit against Louisiana State University, its governing board and several former and current...
Central Michigan QB seriously injured in off campus shooting
CHICAGO — An off-campus shooting left two Central Michigan University students, including quarterback John Keller, hospitalized Sunday for gunshot wounds.
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‘Jersey Shore’ star arrested on domestic violence allegation
LOS ANGELES — “Jersey Shore” star Ronnie Ortiz-Magro was arrested Thursday for investigation of felony domestic violence, police said.
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Evidence in Chauvin case contradicted first police statement
PHILADELPHIA — Moments after former officer Derek Chauvin was convicted of murder in George Floyd's death, copies of the original Minneapolis police statement began...