Sunday, July 31, 2016

Virginia police officer denied service at restaurant and other top stories.

  • Virginia police officer denied service at restaurant

    A Virginia police officer was refused service at a restaurant Monday because one of the cooks refused to serve her while she was in uniform. Authorities said the uniformed Alexandria police officer was standing in line at Noodles & Company when the cook came out from the back and told the cashier, “You better pull me off the line, because I'm not serving that,” according to Fox 5 DC. The department said the cashier and the cook started to laugh and the officer left the restaurant. Police Chief ..
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  • Biden to speak at vigil for slain Baton Rouge officers

    Biden to speak at vigil for slain Baton Rouge officers
    BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Vice President Joe Biden and U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch are scheduled to speak at a Baton Rouge vigil honoring the three law enforcement officers who were killed by a gunman during a shootout outside a convenience store.Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards and relatives of the slain officers also are expected to speak Thursday during the ceremony at Healing Place Church, where a funeral was held last Friday for Baton Rouge Police Officer Matthew Gerald, 41.Gerald, She..
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  • John Hinckley, Who Tried to Kill Reagan, Will Be Released

    John Hinckley, Who Tried to Kill Reagan, Will Be Released
    Photo John W. Hinckley Jr. in 2003. Credit Evan Vucci/Associated Press WASHINGTON — John W. Hinckley Jr., who tried to assassinate President Ronald Reagan in 1981, will be allowed to live permanently with his elderly mother in Williamsburg, Va., leaving the psychiatric hospital where he has been imprisoned for several decades, a federal judge ruled on Wednesday.Judge Paul L. Friedman of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia wrote in his opinion t..
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  • Ramsey: A legacy of success and scandal - The Courier

    Ramsey: A legacy of success and scandal - The Courier
    Junior Bridgeman reads the letter to the U of L Board of Trustees submitted by James Ramsey outlining the terms of Ramsey's resignation as president. Scott Utterback, CJBuy PhotoUniversity of Louisville President James Ramsey(Photo: The Courier-Journal)Buy PhotoWhen James Ramsey, the former state budget director, was unanimously selected by the University of Louisville's board of trustees in 2002 as the school's 17th president, the school's marching band played the university fight song..
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  • Hillary Clinton's challenge: Igniting excitement

    Hillary Clinton's challenge: Igniting excitement
    Now it's up to her to deliver.As she takes center stage, Clinton faces a critical task: persuading Americans that she understands their frustration and economic anxiety at a time when many of them still do not trust her. The pressure is intense because the race is much tighter than most expected at this juncture, particularly among white working class voters in rust belt states like Ohio and Pennsylvania. With her sometimes-wooden demeanor and workman-like delivery, the former first lady has nev..
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  • 10 Things to Know for Today

    10 Things to Know for Today
    Jason Day smiles as he warms up on the sixth tee during a practice round for the PGA Championship golf tournament at Baltusrol Golf Club in Springfield, N.J., Wednesday, July 27, 2016. (Seth Wenig/Associated Press) By Associated Press July 28 at 8:04 AM Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today: 1. OBAMA PASSES BATON TO CLINTON Hillary Clinton has the stage, after the president named her the inheritor of his legacy and the cand..
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  • How Democrats Embraced Gun Control at Their Convention

    How Democrats Embraced Gun Control at Their Convention
    Christine Leinonen, a former state trooper from Polk City, Fla., stood stricken onstage, struggling to read the words about her son on the TelePrompTer at the rear of the convention hall. Christopher “Drew” Leinonen died six weeks ago, along with his boyfriend Juan and 47 others, in the massacre at Orlando’s Pulse nightclub. “Christopher was my only child, and as I used to tell him, you can’t do better than perfect,” his mother told the delegates at the Democratic convention in Philadelphia ..
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  • Bulldozer operator killed fighting growing fire near Big Sur

    Bulldozer operator killed fighting growing fire near Big Sur
    Photo: David Royal/The Monterey County Herald Via AP / / A burnt bicycle and car sit beside the ruins of a home that was destroyed by the Soberanes Fire in Palo Colorado Canyon on the northern Big Sur Coast on Tuesday July 26, 2016 in Big Sur, Calif. California's signature parks along the Big Sur coastline that draw thousands of daily visitors were closed Tuesday as one of the state's two major wildfi..
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  • Individuals, agencies dodge blame as Freddie Gray case ends

    Individuals, agencies dodge blame as Freddie Gray case ends
    BALTIMORE (AP) รข€” Fourteen months after the death of a black man whose neck was broken in a police van prompted massive protests, spawned rioting and toppled the careers of Baltimore's police commissioner and a Democratic mayor poised for re-election, no one will go to jail for the death.The city's top prosecutor was righteous in her rage Wednesday as she stood behind a lectern perched at the intersection where Freddie Gray was arrested in April 2015.Earlier in the day, Baltimore State's Attor..
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  • Florida middle school teacher not charged in hot car death

    Florida middle school teacher not charged in hot car death
    By Associated Press July 28 at 7:15 AM DELTONA, Fla. — A Florida middle school teacher won’t be charged in the death of a baby left in the backseat of her SUV while she taught class last year. The Volusia County State Attorney’s Office on Wednesday said there was “insufficient evidence” to prove an aggravated manslaughter case against Chanda Larson for the Sept. 18 death of 6-month-old Trenton Cason-Collins. The Daytona Beach News-Journal (http://bit.ly/2ay8ptB ) reports Trenton was in the c..
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