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Dozens gathered Thursday night to remember Caleb Gordley, a Virginia teen who was shot by a homeowner after he mistakenly snuck into a neighbor's home early Sunday."Caleb had a lot of friends, a lot of people who loved him, even more than I ever knew," Caleb's father, Shawn Gordley, told News4's Shomari Stone.Gordley, of Loudoun County, was shot after he snuck into the home through a window, setti...
PITTSBURGH - Former city police Chief Nate Harper will plead guilty to charges that he conspired to steal city police funds deposited into unauthorized police credit union accounts and failed to file federal tax returns from 2008 to 2011, his attorneys said Friday. Harper's lawyers made the announcement at a news conference on a day of fast-moving developments in the federal investigation aft...
Attorney Jack Ebel testified before the Colorado Legislature two years ago that solitary confinement in a Colorado prison was destroying the psyche of his son, Evan. When Jack Ebel's longtime friend, Gov. John Hickenlooper, was interviewing a Missouri corrections official for the top prisons job in Colorado, he mentioned the case as an example of why the prison system needed reform. And once Tom C...
Nobody's going to win an Emmy for a parody of the TV show "Star Trek" filmed by Internal Revenue Service employees at an agency studio in Maryland. Instead, the IRS got a rebuke from Congress for wasting taxpayer dollars. The agency says the video, along with a training video that parodied the TV show "Gilligan's Island," cost about $60,000. The "Star Trek" video accounted for most of the...
North Dakota lawmakers approved measures Friday that would effectively ban abortion in the state, including a ballot referendum that would let voters declare that life begins at conception.Republican Gov. Jack Dalrymple, who has three legislative days to decide whether to sign or veto two of the three measures, hasn't signaled where he stands on the bills. The referendum doesn't need his signature...
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- A sign at the the newly renovated Birmingham airport fell on a family Friday, killing a 10-year-old boy and injuring his mother and two other children.Deputy Coroner Derrick Perryman said 10-year-old Luke Bresette was pronounced dead at Children's of Alabama. Two other children were being treated there, and the mother, Heather Bresette, was taken to University Hospital, whe...
Doian Oladipupo grabbed a phone and ran into her parent’s walk-in closet when she heard burglars enter her Chula Vista home near San Diego.The intruders came so close to discovering the 15-year-old that their voices could be heard during the 911 call.“Robin, Robin, bring it over here. Bring the bucket over here,” one burglar said.See original report at NBCLosAngeles.com“I can hear them. Don’t t...
A former chef who killed his wife and cooked her body for four days to dispose of her remains was sentenced on Friday to 15 years to life in prison.David Robert Viens, 49, was convicted of second-degree murder for the slaying of his wife, Dawn, in 2009.Before Viens was sent back into custody, the victim's sister, Dayna Papin, urged the court to continue to keep Viens locked up.See original stor...
Shell casings from the same type of ammunition that was used in the slaying of the top prisons official in Colorado were also found near the car of a paroled white supremacist who led Texas police on a wild chase and shootout, authorities said in court records filed Friday.Investigators are looking into whether the parolee, Evan Spencer Ebel, 28 — who died Thursday after the chase and shootout in ...
President Barack Obama’s nominee to fill one of the vacancies on the powerful appeals court in Washington withdrew Friday, two weeks after the Senate blocked her from a getting a confirmation vote.The National Rifle Association had opposed New York attorney Caitlin Halligan due to her involvement while Solicitor General for the state of New York in a lawsuit against gun manufacturers. The NRA said...
