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Active shooting reported at Colorado apartment complex, shelter in place issued

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DENVER — Officers are on the scene Thursday morning of what police are calling an “active shooting” at a Broomfield apartment complex near the 1stBank Center, the police department said.

“This is an ACTIVE SCENE and is NOT SAFE,” the Broomfield Police Department said in a statement on social media at 8:07 a.m. “…Shots are still ...Read more

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Sean 'Diddy' Combs' $100 million sexual assault default judgment, explained

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LOS ANGELES — Billionaire rap mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs has been mired in numerous accusations of sexual assault and other misconduct in the last year.

On Monday, a Lenawee County circuit court judge in Michigan issued a $100 million default judgment against Combs, who was sued for sexual assault by inmate Derrick Lee Cardello-Smith.

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Maryland: Joppatowne High School upgrades security measures after shooting last week

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BALTIMORE — As Joppatowne High School students begin returning to classes after last week’s fatal shooting on campus, the school has updated security measures.

Principal Melissa Williams said in an announcement video that the school has received inquires on how safety will be improved. She said staff “have been diligently preparing to ...Read more

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Active shooting reported at Colorado apartment complex, shelter in place issued

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DENVER — Officers are on the scene Thursday morning of what police are calling an “active shooting” at a Broomfield apartment complex near the 1stBank Center.

“This is an ACTIVE SCENE and is NOT SAFE,” the Broomfield Police Department said in a statement on social media. “…Shots are still being fired.”

Shots were fired Thursday...Read more

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Gang 'challenge' in video led up to Sacramento's deadliest mass shooting, expert says in court

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Fifty seconds to a minute. Nearly 115 bullets.

That’s how long it took, and what it took, to kill six people and injure another 12 on April 3, 2022, during the worst mass shooting incident in Sacramento’s history.

A woman shielded her sister, Johntaya Alexander, with her body amid gunfire and watched a bloody ...Read more

Missouri judge upholds conviction of Marcellus Williams, scheduled for execution Sept. 24

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A judge upheld the murder conviction of Marcellus Williams, who is scheduled to be executed by the state of Missouri later this month.

The crucial ruling was Williams’ most likely chance at avoiding death by lethal injection on Sept. 24.

Williams, 55, was found guilty in the 1998 murder of Felicia Gayle in St. Louis ...Read more

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Want to walk in space? It might cost you more than money

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ATLANTA — A tech billionaire has become the first layperson to perform a space walk. Hundreds of miles above Earth, Jared Isaacman took part in an intricate performance of science and engineering that often comes with some serious health risks, even for professional astronauts.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX partnered with Isaacman to bring the Polaris...Read more

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Judge finds probable cause to believe ex-Chatfield staffers embezzled political cash

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LANSING, Mich. — Anne and Robert Minard, two top staffers of former Michigan House Speaker Lee Chatfield, are poised to face criminal trials after a judge determined Thursday there was probable cause to believe allegations they stole more than $600,000 from political fundraising accounts.

Ingham County District Court Judge Molly Hennessey ...Read more

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Top Georgia Republican endorses gun safety proposals after Georgia school shooting

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ATLANTA — House Speaker Jon Burns endorsed efforts Thursday to expand mental health care access, offer incentives for gun safety purchases and toughen penalties against people who make terroristic threats after a mass shooting at a Georgia high school brought fresh scrutiny of the state’s firearms policies.

The Republican told lawmakers he ...Read more

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Bill seeks to fortify Baltimore's legal footing in Key Bridge collapse, but experts are 'skeptical'

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BALTIMORE — In the days after the cargo ship Dali toppled Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge, the financial toll on the city was incalculable and overwhelming.

All water traffic to and from the city’s bustling port was halted, disrupting the shipments that typically come and go via trucks and trains. Baltimore’s emergency officials ...Read more

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Key AT&T insider to testify about alleged scheme to pay off Madigan associate

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CHICAGO — A former internal lobbyist for AT&T Illinois is scheduled to testify Thursday about an alleged arrangement to secretly pay thousands of dollars to an ally of House Speaker Michael Madigan for a do-nothing contract to win the powerful speaker’s support for the company’s legislative goals.

Stephen Selcke, who served in state ...Read more

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Fentanyl still deadliest drug in Florida as overall deaths decline and another synthetic drug rises

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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The number of Floridians who died from drugs last year decreased across the state, but one synthetic drug was noticeably on the rise and fentanyl is still the deadliest drug of all, according to a statewide report released this summer.

Both occurrences of and deaths caused by synthetic cathinones increased by over 100%...Read more

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Venezuelan gang arrests show threats, violence at Colorado apartment complexes

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DENVER — The Aurora Police Department on Wednesday publicly identified nine members of a Venezuelan gang charged in 14 separate criminal incidents over the last 10 months, including at least seven events at the apartment complexes that a property management company has said were “taken over” by the gang.

The alleged crimes connected to ...Read more

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Miami Beach proposes new sanitation, police spending in budget. Here are the highlights

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MIAMI — Miami Beach officials are proposing a nearly $1 billion budget for 2025 that would increase spending on law enforcement, street cleaning and other city priorities while keeping the tax rate flat as property values continue to grow.

The $952 million plan, unveiled Aug. 30 by recently hired City Manager Eric Carpenter, capitalizes on a ...Read more

The next tropical storm could form in the Atlantic soon. It's headed west, slowly

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MIAMI — All six named storms that formed this hurricane season have made landfall somewhere, including Francine, which crashed into Louisiana as a Category 2 hurricane Wednesday evening.

The next potential named storm — tropical depression 7 — could break that streak. The latest forecast track from the National Hurricane Center keeps ...Read more

Senate's most vulnerable list still dominated by Democrats

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WASHINGTON — The Democrats’ fragile hold on the Senate majority is likely to come down to the fates of a dirt farmer from north-central Montana, a Rust Belt populist and a trio of senators from battleground states.

Less than eight weeks out from Election Day, Montana’s Jon Tester and Ohio’s Sherrod Brown lead the list of Roll Call’s ...Read more

Judge strikes down city of LA's ban on new oil drilling

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LOS ANGELES — A high-profile law intended to phase out oil production within Los Angeles city limits has been struck down by a judge who ruled that the state, not the city, has jurisdiction over many aspects of drilling operations.

The ruling by Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Curtis A. Kin invalidated a law spearheaded by ...Read more

Aging, overworked and underfunded: NASA faces a dire future, according to experts

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Aging infrastructure, short-term thinking, and ambitions that far outstrip its funding are just a few of the problems threatening the future of America's vaunted civil space agency, according to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

In a report commissioned by Congress and released this week, experts said that a number ...Read more

Billionaire, SpaceX employee crewmate perform 1st commercial spacewalk

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ORLANDO, Fla. — The four crew of Polaris Dawn can breathe easy again after having vented the entire atmosphere of their SpaceX Crew Dragon so its commander and billionaire Jared Isaacman along with crewmate and SpaceX employee Sarah Gillis could venture outside the spacecraft and perform the first commercial spacewalk on Thursday.

The duo ...Read more

Mexico's judicial overhaul passes final test as states back plan

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More than half of Mexico’s state legislatures voted in favor of a judicial overhaul that has already been approved by the nation’s congress, allowing President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador to sign the controversial bill into law.

By Thursday morning, 17 of the legislatures in Mexico’s 31 states and its capital had backed the constitutional...Read more