Seventeen public schools in Fairfield, Connecticut are in lockdown after three public schools received gun and bomb threats.
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$6.5m. to go to family of black man shot by police
(R Reports) – The family of Walter Scott, an unarmed 50-year-old black man who was shot in the back by a white police officer in South Carolina, will get a $6.5 million settlement from the city of North Charleston, officials say.
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Swimmer loses part of arm in alligator attack in Florida
A woman loses part of her arm after being attacked by an alligator while swimming in the Wekiva River near Orlando, Florida.
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‘Jetbike’ preparing for over 645kph world ‘two-wheeled land speed’ record
A Britsh team are preparing to break the land speed world record on two wheels with the “Jet Reaction” jetbike.
Three Mississippi men sentenced for hate crimes
(Next Media Online)- Three men were sentenced to federal prison on Tuesday for the 2011 hate-crime murder of 47-year-old James Craig Anderson. One of the defendants, Deryl Dedmon, 22, was given the longest sentence of 50 years in prison for running over Anderson with his pickup truck and fatally wounding him.
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