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LOS ANGELES- Guards at a downtown Los Angeles jail fired rubber pellets and pepper spray to swiftly quell a racially charged brawl involving more than 60 inmates, and several injured prisoners were taken to a hospital, a jail spokesman said.The altercation between Hispanic and African-American inmates erupted shortly after noon local time in a third-floor recreation area inside Tower One of the Tw...
NEW YORK -- Two fragments that could be human remains were found on the first day of sifting debris from construction sites around the World Trade Center site in a renewed effort to find 9/11 victims, officials said Tuesday.The two pieces were found Monday in the first day of a 10-week sifting operation. The city has collected about 60 dump truck loads of debris from construction areas around the ...
LITTLE ROCK / HOUSTON - Arkansas on Tuesday launched an investigation into an Exxon Mobil pipeline rupture that spilled thousands of barrels of crude oil into a housing development last week, just as forecast rain was expected to complicate the clean-up. Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel asked Exxon to preserve all documents and information related to Friday's spill and ongoing recove...
A San Francisco-area man surrendered and was being held on $1 million bail in connection with the theft of $1.2 million in gold and jewelry from a Northern California county courthouse, authorities said Tuesday.David Dean Johnson, 49, of El Cerrito, Calif., was being held at the Siskiyou County jail on burglary charges after he turned himself into sheriff's deputies shortly before midnight Monday...
A New Orleans parish released a shocking video on Tuesday that shows inmates doing drugs, gambling, waving a hand gun and drinking beer.It was the second day of a federal hearing on the Orleans Parish Prison spending money to fix and refurbish jails. It is not clear when the video was recorded.Manny Romero, a prison consultant who testified, said he had never seen such a dysfunction in a jail and ...
DENVER - An intruder who forced his way into the mountain home of a Colorado deputy district attorney was shot dead by either the prosecutor or her police officer husband, authorities said on Tuesday.The shooting, shortly before midnight Monday, comes two weeks after Colorado's prisons director was slain as he answered the front door to his home, and two days after the district attorney of Kaufman...
Scandal-tarred former governor Mark Sanford moved one step closer to political redemption on Tuesday, winning a special Republican primary runoff and setting the stage for a showdown with Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch for a seat in Congress to represent South Carolina's 1st Congressional District. Fueled by his high name recognition and fund raising advantage, Sanford defeated former Charleston...
An Arizona man who has maintained for 42 years that he had nothing to do with a horrific hotel fire that killed more than two dozen people pleaded no contest Tuesday in a deal that set aside his original conviction and freed him from prison."Welcome back, Mr. Taylor," Tucson Superior Court Judge Richard Fields said after accepting 59-year-old Louis Cuen Taylor's plea on Tuesday, reported The Arizo...
A Connecticut Roman Catholic priest pleaded guilty on Tuesday to selling 1.7 kilograms of methamphetamine.Monsignor Kevin Wallin, the 61-year-old former pastor of St. Augustine Parish in Bridgeport, was arrested on Jan. 3, accused of receiving shipments of crystal meth from a California distributor and selling drugs to an undercover officer six times between September 2012 and January 2013.Accordi...
A survivalist nicknamed “The Mountain Man” who for more than five years eluded officers tracking him in connection with numerous cabin break-ins, has been arrested, Utah authorities said.Iron County Sheriff’s officials said Troy James Knapp, 45, was taken into custody Tuesday morning near a reservoir in Sanpete County, central Utah, NBC station KSL TV reported.Knapp is suspected of breaking into d...
