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A New Hampshire police chief has resigned after a female college student accused him of promising to drop minor charges against her if she allowed him to take nude pictures of her, officials said on Thursday.David Seastrand, 50, police chief of New London, near the state capital Concord, quit his job effective immediately under a deal with the office of state Attorney General Michael Delaney,...
Boston police on Thursday announced the arrest of a man they suspect lured the mother of one of his children into an ambush where he restrained her as his current girlfriend stabbed her in broad daylight.Daquan Sparks, 19, has been charged with assault with intent to murder for allegedly holding the victim while Samia Jones repeatedly stabbed the woman in the shocking attack that took place Monday...
A University of Denver psychiatrist treating movie-theater massacre defendant James Holmes warned police of "homicidal statements" Holmes made one month before the Aurora, Colo., attack, according to a search warrant unsealed Thursday.Dr. Lynn Fenton reported to University of Denver Police in June that Holmes posed a threat to the public through violent comments he made to her, according to the ne...
A deadly double shooting rocked the police headquarters in Jackson, Miss., Thursday night.The incident began when cops brought a murder suspect to the headquarters building downtown to be interviewed Thursday afternoon, Jackson Police Chief Rebecca Coleman said.As the suspect was being questioned in a room on the third floor, two shots rang out.When other officers arrived, the suspect and one poli...
Outraged parents say some students at Coelho Middle School in Attleboro cried when they were told by a worker for the district's food service provider they could not eat on Tuesday. "There is no way any child in my school district will ever go hungry," Durkin told The Sun Chronicle. "Children need to eat." Students who cannot pay or whose accounts are empty are supposed to be given a cheese...
Georgia authorities are investigating an explosion at power plant 50 miles north of Atlanta.Four plant employee suffered a minor injuries and all others are accounted for, according a spokesperson for Georgia Power, owner of the plant. Only one of the four injured was sent to the hospital, and has been released.The explosion occurred as the plant was preparing for a planned maintenance outage at t...
An undocumented immigrant who applied for a law license in Florida cannot be admitted to the bar, the State Supreme Court said Thursday in a case being watched closely by both sides of the immigration debate.But the decision, according to legal observers, did not appear to be an actual rejection of the request made by Jose Godinez-Samperio, 26.Rather, the court indicated it would be deciding on th...
Violent white supremacist prison gangs have crawled into the national spotlight over recent weeks amid speculation that groups in Texas and Colorado might be linked to the seemingly separate and so far unexplained murders of prominent officials in both states.Colorado authorities sought two men allegedly associated with the 211 Crew on Thursday, saying they might be connected to the death of depar...
Two 18-year-old high school football players had been arrested, accused of the statutory rape of two 13-year-old girls. Their friends then rallied to their defense, attacking the girls on Twitter. And so, when the Twitter posts brought national condemnation to this old mill town, the principal of Torrington High School decided it was time to appeal to her students’ better natures. In her note on M...
A soldier suspected in the fatal shooting of a civilian employee at an Army base in Fort Knox, Ky., was apprehended for questioning on Thursday, according to the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command, commonly referred to as CID.The man apprehended by police in Portland, Tenn., and CID agents.The man is assigned to Fort Knox’s 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, CID said.Officials d...
