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(The Associated Press) The police officers who shot the suspect in a killing spree that left five people dead in South Carolina during the summer will not face any charges, a prosecutor said Friday.The three officers had no choice but to fire on Patrick Burris after he shot one of them when they confronted him in a home on July 6, said Gaston County District Attorney Locke Bell, who reviewed a ...
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(The Associated Press) The police officers who shot the suspect in a killing spree that left five people dead in South Carolina during the summer will not face any charges, a prosecutor said Friday.The three officers had no choice but to fire on Patrick Burris after he shot one of them when they confronted him in a home on July 6, said Gaston County District Attorney Locke Bell, who reviewed a ...
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(By DENISE LAVOIE, AP Legal Affairs Writer) A 100-year-old woman found strangled in a nursing home with a plastic bag over her head loved living at the home, where she happily played bingo and doled out daily hugs to other residents, her son said Thursday.Elizabeth Barrow was found dead in her bed last month by workers doing a routine check at Brandon Woods nursing home, Bristol District Attorn...
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(By Denise Lavoie, Associated Press) The son of a 100-year-old woman found strangled in a nursing home with a plastic bag over her head said Thursday his mother loved living at the home, where she was involved in activities and was upbeat and outgoing with staffers and other residents.Elizabeth Barrow was found dead in her bed last month by workers doing a routine check of patients at Brandon W...
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(The Associated Press) A ticket agent contractor who worked for Delta Air Lines in the U.S. Virgin Islands has pleaded guilty in a conspiracy to smuggle illegal immigrants into the United States.Felicia Browne was accused of helping three migrants bypass security and escorting them to a U.S.-bound plane in May 2008. The indictment said she allegedly received $5,000 from each migrant in return.
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(The Associated Press) The nation's third-largest drugstore chain is no longer making pregnant women show a prescription to get a flu shot.Cheryl Slavinsky, a spokeswoman for Rite Aid, says the policy change is for both seasonal flu and swine flu shots.
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(The Associated Press) Police in South Carolina have charged two people with forgery in the case of a Charleston woman missing about four months.Multiple media outlets reported Thursday that 29-year-old Ethan Mack and 30-year-old Heather Kamp have also been charged with obstruction of justice.
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(The Associated Press) Authorities have found the body of a 71-year-old woman after wading through a Jacksonville, Florida home filled with garbage piled eight feet high.The Florida Times-Union reports that officers were checking on Carina E. Decampo late Tuesday, after worried family members called to say they hadn't heard from her in weeks.
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(The Associated Press) A soccer mom who gained national attention when she openly carried a loaded gun to her 5-year-old daughter's game was shot dead Wednesday along with her husband in what appeared to be a murder-suicide, police said.Meleanie Hain and Scott Hain were pronounced dead Wednesday night at their home in Lebanon, a small city about 80 miles west of Philadelphia.
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(The Associated Press) Boomer may be a buster: Measuring 3 feet tall at the shoulders and 7 feet long from nose to destructive wagging tail, he might be the world's tallest living dog. Owner Caryn Weber says her 3-year-old Landseer Newfoundland keeps all four paws on the floor when he drinks from the kitchen faucet in her family's eastern North Dakota farm house.Boomer stares into car w...
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