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• 2 killed, 4 wounded in suburban NYC nightclub shooting

  25-12-2016 20:51
  
  MOUNT VERNON, N.Y. - Police have arrested a man they say opened fire on a packed suburban New York City nightclub, killing two people and wounding four others.
      
  Authorities say the suspect may have been ejected from the Mansion nightclub in Mount Vernon shortly before the 4:26 a.m. shooting on Christmas Day.
      
  Mount Vernon Mayor Richard Thomas said in a statement Sunday that the establishment's owner, O'Neal Bandoo, was killed. He says
  
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• DC police: Officer shoots, injures knife-wielding man

  25-12-2016 18:29
  
  WASHINGTON - District of Columbia police say an officer shot and injured a knife-wielding man who ignored commands to drop his weapon.
      
  Police say in a news the incident occurred about 11:30 a.m. Sunday when officers were called to the 3200 block of Walnut Street for a domestic disturbance. When they arrived, police say, the officers found a man armed with a knife. Police say the man ignored the officers' commands to drop the weapon and at least one officer fired,
  
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• British singer George Michael dead at age 53

  25-12-2016 17:40
  
  LONDON - George Michael, who rocketed to stardom with WHAM! and went on to enjoy a long and celebrated solo career lined with controversies, has died, his publicist said Sunday. He was 53.
      
  Michael enjoyed immense popularity early in his career as a teenybopper idol, delivering a series of hits such as "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go," ''Young Guns (Go For It)" and "Freedom."
      
  As a solo artist, he developed into a more serious singer and
  
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• Son of Trump's NY co-chair donounces dad for Obama comments

  25-12-2016 17:33
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. - The son of President-elect Donald Trump's New York campaign co-chairman has denounced his father's comments about President Barack Obama and his wife.
      
  Carl Paladino said in remarks appearing Thursday in a weekly publication that he hoped Obama would die from mad cow disease. He called Michelle Obama a male who should be "let loose in the outback of Zimbabwe."
      
  Paladino founded a Buffalo development firm now run by his
  
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• Man arrested for giving teen drugs and alcohol, raping her in park

  25-12-2016 15:32
  
  BATON ROUGE - BRPD arrested a man they say gave a teenage female drugs and alcohol and raped her in a park.According to police, Morris Dantzler, 62, offered the 16-year-old victim hard liquor and mojo, a synthetic marajuana, then met her at a park.Officers say Dantzler asked the victim "since you smoked up all my marijuana and drink all of my liquor, what are you going to give me in return."The victim told police that because of the influence of drugs and alcohol, the next thing she remembered w
  
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• January meeting set to discuss flood spending plans

  25-12-2016 14:16
  
  BATON ROUGE - Plans for spending more than $1 billion in newly approved federal flood recovery money will be discussed at a Jan. 6 meeting of the Restore Louisiana Task Force.U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro announced Friday that Louisiana would receive more than $1.2 billion - part of a disaster relief package approved by Congress earlier this month.Gov. John Bel Edwards said in a news release that federal rules require the state to present a plan to HUD before the mon
  
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• Man shoots girlfriend, her father, then himself

  25-12-2016 13:58
  
  PEARL, Miss. - Police in Pearl say a 22-year-old man fatally shot his girlfriend and wounded her father before killing himself on Christmas Eve.Jackson media report that police received a call Saturday about a man with a gun at a Pearl home.Pearl police said the shootings happened as officers arrived. The man who shot himself to death was identified as Matthew Wilson. His 17-year-old girlfriend, Heather King, was killed. King's father was wounded. Authorities said he was in stable condition. His
  
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• Christmas traffic accident kills Ville Platte woman

  25-12-2016 13:49
  
  VILLE PLATTE - A Ville Platte woman has died in a Christmas morning traffic accident.State police say 24-year-old Allison Gremillion was driving a Nissan Maxima eastbound on an Evangeline Parish road when she ran off the roadway.The vehicle ran into a ditch, struck an embankment and overturned.Gremillion was not wearing a seat belt and was fatally injured when she was partially ejected from the car.The accident happened at about 1 a.m.Permalink| Comments
  
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• Fake news story sets off Israel-Pakistan Twitter clash

  25-12-2016 13:21
  
  JERUSALEM - A fake news story has touched off a tense Twitter confrontation between nuclear power Pakistan and Israel, which is widely believed to have a nuclear arsenal of its own.In an apparent response to a story claiming Israel's former defense minister threatened a nuclear attack against Pakistan if it sends troops to Syria, Pakistan's Defense Minister Khawaja Mohammad Asif reminded Israel that "Pakistan is a nuclear state too."Israel's Defense Ministry tweeted back Saturday, saying the ori
  
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• Funds put train station upgrades on track in 3 states

  25-12-2016 13:12
  
  BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Some of Alabama's largest cities are getting federal help for projects that involve upgrading their train stations or developing new ones.Al.com reports that Birmingham, Mobile, Anniston and Tuscaloosa are each getting a share of $728,957 in grants for Alabama.Also receiving grants are Baton Rouge, Gonzales and St. John Parish in Louisiana, and Biloxi, Gulfport and Pascagoula in Mississippi.All told, the three states are getting $2.5 million in federal money for train station-
  
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• 7 shot after fight leads to gunshots at NC party for 300

  25-12-2016 13:11
  
  MADISON, N.C. - An argument that escalated into gunfire at a North Carolina gathering for hundreds of people is being blamed for violence that required emergency care for seven people.The sheriff's office in Rockingham County didn't respond to messages from The Associated Press on Sunday about whether a manhunt is still under way for two suspected gunmen.Multiple media organizations reported the mass shooting broke out early Saturday at a Moose Lodge in Madison, about 25 miles north of Greensbor
  
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• Sheriff: Deputy kills woman threatening him with knife

  25-12-2016 13:08
  
  LAKE WALES, Fla. - A Florida sheriff's deputy fatally shot a woman who authorities say threatened him with a knife.A Polk County Sheriff's Office statement said 53-year-old Miriam Ann Savino called 911 requesting help Saturday afternoon for "a matter of life or death."Sheriff's spokeswoman Donna Wood said Deputy David Lockard found no medical emergency when he arrived at Savino's Lake Wales home.The Ledger reports Sheriff Grady Judd told reporters that Savino approached Lockard with a butcher kn
  
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• 4 Mississippi Supreme Court justices begin new terms in Jan.

  25-12-2016 13:02
  
  JACKSON, Miss. - One new justice and three returning ones are preparing to start their terms on the Mississippi Supreme Court.A swearing-in ceremony takes place Jan. 3 at the court building near the state Capitol.Circuit Judge Bobby Chamberlin of Hernando won a northern district Supreme Court race in November. He will succeed retiring Justice Ann Lamar of Senatobia.The three justices re-elected in November are James Maxwell of Oxford, who holds another northern district seat; Jim Kitchens of Cry
  
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• Police bearing gifts save holiday for 7-year-old

  25-12-2016 12:30
  
  GRETNA - After burglars made off with gifts from under the Christmas tree at a home in the New Orleans suburb of Gretna, police did more than just investigate.Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Deputies and Gretna police got together and bought replacements for 7-year-old Armon Dixon.Dixon's mother, Montreal Dixon, told New Orleans TV stations she got home from a party Thursday night to find that her home had been burglarized: Presents under the tree were gone and two TVs were stolen from upstairs rooms
  
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• Police: Knife-wielding man in Georgia shot by officers

  25-12-2016 12:08
  
  LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. - The Georgia Bureau of Investigation says a man is in critical condition after being shot by police answering a domestic call.Authorities say two officers who answered the call around 7 p.m. Christmas Eve were confronted by a man wielding a knife at a home in Buford, an unincorporated area of Gwinnett County.In a news release, Gwinnett County police say the man was shot several times. The officers were not injured.GBI spokesman Bahan Rich said in an email says the man was tra
  
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• 2 Libyans charged in Malta with hijacking a flight

  25-12-2016 12:03
  
  VALLETTA, Malta - Two Libyan men have been arraigned in a Maltese court on charges of hijacking a domestic Libyan flight to the Mediterranean island of Malta.Defendants Moussa Saha and Ahmed Ali each entered pleas of innocent and wore bulletproof vests in their appearance Sunday. They face up to life in prison.The hours-long hijacking standoff Friday at Valletta airport ended peacefully after negotiations. Those on board the hijacked Afriqiyah Airways plane returned to Libya on a different plane
  
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• Iraq: Blasts in, around Baghdad kill at least 11

  25-12-2016 12:00
  
  BAGHDAD - Iraqi officials say separate bombings in and around Baghdad have killed at least 11 civilians and wounded 34 others.Police say the deadliest in Sunday's attacks, all carried out with bombs and targeting commercial areas, took place in the southeastern Nahrawan district and southwestern Suwaib district, where three civilians were killed in each. A total of 15 civilians were wounded in these attacks.Medical officials confirmed casualty figures. All officials spoke on condition of anonymi
  
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• Pope wishes Christmas peace to those scarred by war

  25-12-2016 11:55
  
  VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis has wished Christmas peace for people scarred by wars and those who lost loved ones to terrorism that he says is sowing "fear and death" in many cities and countries.Speaking from the central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica Sunday, Francis cited those suffering through the Syrian war, especially during the "most awful battles" in Aleppo. He pressed the international community for a negotiated solution. He urged Israelis and Palestinians to abandon hate and revenge.He
  
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• Powerful earthquake shakes Chile

  25-12-2016 11:40
  
  SANTIAGO, Chile - A powerful earthquake shook southern Chile on Sunday, prompting officials to order an evacuation of coastal areas to guard against a possible tsunami.The U.S. Geological Survey put the quake's magnitude at 7.7 and said it struck at 11:22 a.m. local time (9:22 a.m. EST; 1422 GMT) near the southern tip of Chiloe Island, about 25 miles southwest of Puerto Quello and at a depth of 20 miles. The area is relatively sparsely populated.Chile's naval oceanographic service declared a pre
  
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• Russian divers to work all night at plane crash site

  25-12-2016 11:33
  
  MOSCOW - Russian emergency crews are aiming to work all night searching the Black Sea off Sochi for victims and plane debris after a Russian Tu-154 carrying 92 passengers and crew crashed right after takeoff before dawn.More than 3,000 people - including over 100 divers flown in from across Russia - were working Sunday from 32 ships and several helicopters to search the crash site, the Defense Ministry said. Drones and submersibles were being used to help spot bodies and debris. Powerful spotlig
  
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• No sign of survivors at Russia plane crash site

  25-12-2016 11:33
  
  MOSCOW - The Russian Defense Ministry says rescuers are seeing no sign of any survivors of the crash of a Russian plane into the Black Sea.Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov says that "no survivors are seen" at the crash site about 1.5 kilometers (less than a mile) from the shore.The Tu-154 passenger plane with 92 people aboard plummeted into the sea two minutes after taking off from the city of Sochi. The plane belonging to the Russian Defense Ministry was heading to Syria, carrying members of the worl
  
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• Police searching for driver involved in fatal crash on North 22nd St.

  25-12-2016 11:03
  
  BATON ROUGE - Police are searching for the driver of a 2002 Ford F-150 that was involved in a vehicle crash that left one person dead on N. 22nd St. Saturday evening.According to BRPD, the fatal crash occurred around 7:50 p.m. Saturday in the 700 block of N. 22nd St.Police said the 2002 Ford F-150 was traveling northbound on N. 22nd St. at a high rate of speed when it crashed into the rear end of a 2016 Honda Civic, causing the vehicle to lose control. The F-150 then crossed the center line of t
  
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