A court in northern Italy convicted the parents and an uncle of an 18-year-Pakistani woman for her murder in Italy after she refused her family’s demands to marry a cousin in their homeland. Saman Abbas’ body was dug up in November 2022 in an abandoned farmhouse near the fields where …
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A Connecticut teenager accused of causing a car crash that killed a Hartford police officer and seriously wounded another was arraigned on new charges Thursday including manslaughter and driving under the influence. Authorities said Richard Barrington, 18, a high school junior, fled a traffic stop conducted by other officers, drove …
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Teachers in Portland, Oregon, temporarily shut down a major bridge Tuesday morning as they marched in a strike started roughly three weeks ago. Members of the Portland Association of Teachers union and their supporters stopped in the middle of the Burnside Bridge for about 15 minutes, KGW reported. By 9 …
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Cheryl Geidner figured council members in Volant, a tiny borough north of Pittsburgh, would adopt a preliminary year-end budget despite no discussions at public meetings on the proposed financials. She never figured they’d raise property taxes by 57%. “There had never been a mention of that,” said Geidner, a property …
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Sudan’s deadly conflict between a powerful paramilitary force and the army has reached a strategic city that had been a haven for hundreds of thousands of displaced people, and key humanitarian groups say they have been forced to suspend work there or flee. On Tuesday, Gen. Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, leader …
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Students at a suburban St. Louis school district can continue to take elective Black history courses, school leaders announced Thursday in a reversal of a vote last week by the conservative-led school board to end the classes. But the Francis Howell School District board first must approve a new curriculum …
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Wisconsin’s Republican-controlled Legislature ignored a special session that Democratic Gov. Tony Evers called for Wednesday in the hopes of passing a $1 billion package that would keep a pandemic-era child care program running, send more money to the University of Wisconsin and create a paid family leave program. Republicans in …
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A teenager working for a tree-trimming service died in northeastern Indiana when a log rolled out of a trailer and struck him, authorities said. INDIANA MAN DIES AFTER WORKPLACE INJURY AT EVANSVILLE PLANT, PROBE UNDERWAY Braeden Depew, 18, of Kokomo was pronounced dead at the scene Saturday morning on Montpelier’s …
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The Danish wind energy company Orsted has put up a $100 million guarantee that it will build New Jersey’s first offshore wind farm. But it will lose that money if the project is not operating by Dec. 2025 — a year after the deadline approved by state utility regulators. New …
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A 4-year-old boy playing in his backyard Wednesday afternoon was fatally mauled by one or two dogs, Detroit police said. The attack occurred just before 3 p.m. on the city’s west side, Cpl. Dan Donakowski said. “We’re not sure if it’s one or two dogs, but Animal Control has two …
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