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Yolanda Renee King, the 9 year old grand daughter of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke to the crowd at the March for Our Lives rally in Washington, DC. as Hundreds of thousands of young people came together to voice their ideas on gun violence in America. The young king gave a passionate emotional chant that everyone in the crow […]
TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — A Washington state teenager who was pulled from her bicycle in a mall parking lot four years ago and shocked with a stun gun by an off-duty officer working security has been awarded $500,000 in federal court. The jury issued the award to Monique Tillman on Thursday after she sued Officer […]
According to CNN, the city of Atlanta is under a cyberattack using a Ransomware application to attack city information systems. The malicious software takes over the systems and prevents or limits users from accessing their accounts until a ransom is paid. 11Alive says the city received a ransom demand in bitcoin for $6,800 per unit or $51,000 […]
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Protesters decrying this week’s fatal shooting of an unarmed black man marched from Sacramento City Hall and onto a nearby freeway Thursday, disrupting rush hour traffic and holding signs with messages like “Sac PD: Stop killing us!” Hundreds of people rallied for Stephon Clark, a 22-year-old who was shot Sunday in […]
PFLUGERVILLE, Texas (AP) — The mother of a man who lived with the suspected Austin bomber said Thursday that her son was handcuffed, taken into custody by SWAT officers and held overnight before police found the suspect who blew himself up. Jennifer Withers told The Associated Press that her 26-year-old son, Collin Thomas, who is […]
SEATTLE (AP) — A man who was released early from a Washington state prison due to a software glitch is suing the Department of Corrections, saying his re-arrest three years later to serve the remaining time was illegal and upended the life he had painstakingly rebuilt. Orlando Wright was released in 2012, 76 days early, […]
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Boko Haram extremists returned most of the 110 girls abducted from their Nigeria boarding school a month ago with an ominous warning, witnesses said Wednesday. The fighters rolled into Dapchi around 2 a.m. in nine vehicles and the girls were left in the center of town. As terrified residents emerged from […]
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Bill Cosby’s lawyers want T-shirts, buttons and other slogan-filled items banned from his upcoming sexual assault retrial after some accusers were seen with them in the audience at his first trial. Cosby’s lawyers argued in court papers on Tuesday that slogans like “We Stand in Truth” could influence jurors. They also want […]
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minneapolis police officer who shot and killed an Australian woman in July turned himself in Tuesday after a warrant was issued for his arrest, his attorney said. A jail roster said he was held on third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter charges. Officer Mohamed Noor shot Justine Ruszczyk Damond, a 40-year-old life […]
DETROIT (AP) — Alondra Alvarez lives about five minutes from her high school on Detroit’s southwest side but she drives there instead of walking because her mother fears for her safety. Once the 18-year-old enters the building, her surroundings take on a more secure feel almost immediately as she passes through a bank of closely […]