Friday, June 17, 2016

Gun Store Owner: We Alerted FBI to 'Suspicious' Customer Weeks Before Orlando Shooting and other top stories.

  • Gun Store Owner: We Alerted FBI to 'Suspicious' Customer Weeks Before Orlando Shooting

    Gun Store Owner: We Alerted FBI to 'Suspicious' Customer Weeks Before Orlando Shooting
    The owner of a Florida gun store said he tried to alert the FBI to a "very suspicious" man later identified as Orlando nightclub shooter Omar Mateen after Mateen tried to buy body armor and bulk ammunition from the store. Robert Abell, a co-owner of ...
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  • Hints of Deal Emerge as Lawmakers Make Late Push in Albany

    Hints of Deal Emerge as Lawmakers Make Late Push in Albany
    Photo Carl E. Heastie, the New York State Assembly speaker, on Thursday, which was to be the last day of the legislative calendar. Credit Nathaniel Brooks for The New York Times ALBANY — State lawmakers were assembling the skeleton of a long-awaited deal on a number of issues on Thursday evening, including a one-year extension of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s control of New York City schools and an ethics reform measure that would strip state pensions from elected officials co..
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  • Marines under investigation for Facebook post threatening gay bars

    Marines under investigation for Facebook post threatening gay bars
    SAN DIEGO –  The Marine Corps is investigating two active-duty Marines at Camp Pendleton for a social media post of a photo of a corporal in uniform holding an assault rifle and the message: "Coming to a gay bar near you!" Maj. Staci Reidinger said Thursday that fellow Marines alerted officials to the post, and authorities were able to track down the Marine in the photograph and another one who reposted it. According to the Marine Corps Times, the post appeared on a private Facebook group for m..
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  • Child dies after being found in hot car in north Houston - KTRK

    Child dies after being found in hot car in north Houston - KTRK
    HOUSTON (KTRK) -- Houston police say a three-year-old walked out of his family's home, got into the car in the front yard through the front door and climbed into the back seat. The child safety lock was on the back door, and he couldn't get out."He was a beautiful baby, a beautiful kid," says Efrain Lopez. "We had great times together all the time. I'm the grandfather. I travel for work and when I come back here a lot of times we just play around. All the kids, we wrestle just like nor..
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  • Lawsuits may offer fodder for Trump, Clinton attack ads

    Lawsuits may offer fodder for Trump, Clinton attack ads
    SAN DIEGO — The presidential campaigns of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are both trying to prevent the public release of videos that are critical to legal cases involving the candidates. Trump’s lawyers are intensifying efforts to stop the release of video of the presumptive Republican presidential nominee testifying under oath in a fraud lawsuit about the now-defunct Trump University. They told a federal judge in San Diego late Wednesday that the video could be used by the media and Trump’s..
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  • "Fire tornado"-like wildfire spreads in Southern California

    GOLETA, Calif. -- Hundreds of firefighters and a fleet of aircraft battled a 1,400-acre windblown wildfire tearing through coastal canyons in Southern California late Thursday even as blazes in Arizona and New Mexico threatened communities with thousands of residents.Hot, dry weather across the Western U.S. challenged firefighters.In California, crews for a second day struggled to douse flames amid steep and rugged coastal canyons northwest of Santa Barbara where brush hasn't burned for 60 year..
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Toledo and BG communities honor Orlando shooting victims .Vigil to promote solidarity, halt to violence against LGBT community .
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