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• Red Rock Correctional Center employee facing charges of sexual misconduct with a minor

  09-02-2018 23:08
  
  Red Rock Correctional Center employee, 46-year-old Paul Scott Thornton is facing four counts of sexual misconduct with a minor charges, after a Florence resident reported seeing an adult male and juvenile female "making out" in the Anthem/Merrill Ranch area, according to the Florence Police Department.  
  
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• XOXO: Where To Rock This Weekend!

  09-02-2018 23:00
  Friday, Feb 9: Their ’60s-influenced sound fuses elements of the archetype of pop music—the three-minute song—with expressionism that is unafraid to expand and distort to evoke an emotional response.…
  
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• First child flu-related death reported in SC

  09-02-2018 23:00
  
  The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control announced that a child has died from the flu, the first this flu season in the state.  
  
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• Attic discovery tells different side of Montgomery Bus Boycott story

  09-02-2018 22:46
  
  Newly discovered documents that were tucked away and almost forgotten in a family's attic for decades show the financial impact of the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
  
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• Motley Co. teacher sentenced to prison for having sexual relationship with teen student

  09-02-2018 22:21
  
  Shonna Lynn Calaway, 48, of Matador, Texas, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings to 188 months in federal prison for having a sexual relationship with a 16-year-old student.
  
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• UPDATE: Tucson man, woman facing murder charges in death of 6-month-old son

  09-02-2018 22:09
  
  A Tucson man has been charged in connection with the death his 6-month-old son, city police said.
  
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• UPDATE: Tucson man accused of killing 6-month-old son pleads not guilty

  09-02-2018 22:09
  
  A Tucson man has been charged in connection with the death his 6-month-old son, city police said.
  
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• Tucson man accused of killing 6-month-old son

  09-02-2018 22:09
  
  A Tucson man has been charged in connection with the death his 6-month-old son, city police said.
  
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• Vail man facing charges in fatal hit-and-run crash

  09-02-2018 21:55
  
  A 22-year-old Vail man is facing a manslaughter charge following a fatal crash on I-19 Thursday, state police said.
  
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• Large cave found in Texas neighborhood

  09-02-2018 21:53
  
  A large cave was discovered in a Williamson County neighborhood.  
  
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• La. governor calls for special session to address $1 billion fiscal cliff

  09-02-2018 21:53
  
  Governor John Bel Edwards announced Friday he will call for a special session to address the state's more than $1 billion fiscal cliff.
  
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• Goodbye Flycatcher, Hello Seven-Story Apartment Building on Fourth Avenue

  09-02-2018 21:21
  The Flycatcher bar on Fourth Avenue may be torn up for student housing as early as this summer.The downtown hotspot is under contract with student-housing development company out of Memphis, Education Realty Trust Inc., or EDR. A neighborhood meeting was held on Wednesday, Feb. 7, where legal representatives for the company told local residents and business owners the seven-story project would not be student housing—an assertion that was met with skepticism from Tucson City Council member
  
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• Girls can't say no to boys at school dance

  09-02-2018 21:18
  
  A Utah mom is upset about a school policy in which sixth grade girls can't say "no" when boys ask them to dance.
  
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• Baby suffers 35 broken bones; foster father charged

  09-02-2018 21:07
  
  A foster parent in Indianapolis, IN, admitted to injuring a 2-month-old baby in his care and child welfare advocates are calling the case alarming. Doctors discovered that the baby had bruises on her body and 35 broken bones from her ribs to her hands, and now her foster parent is charged with neglect and battery.
  
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• 33 Awesome Ways To Have Fun This Weekend

  09-02-2018 21:03
  Beer Week: Trivia at Crooked Tooth. Sure, while drinking you might better remember the horrific blunders you made 10 years ago, but are you better at trivia?…
  
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• Tucson-based environmental group urges lovers to think of the animals with condom campaign

  09-02-2018 20:27
  
  A Tucson-based environmental group wants couples to think of wild animals before acting like them on Valentine's Day.
  
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• Crash closes portion of Country Club south of airport

  09-02-2018 20:12
  
  According to police, South Country Club Road is closed between Aerospace Parkway and East Old Vail Road.
  
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• Trouble Bruin: Arizona Smacked Down by UCLA, 82-74, at McKale Center

  09-02-2018 19:42
  Jaylen Hands sealed Arizona’s fate late in the first half of Thursday’s tilt between the mighty Bruins and the 13th-ranked Wildcats. Hands, who entered Thursday’s game averaging 11.1 points per game for the Bruins, went on an unbelievable one-man scoring barrage in the half’s final minute.…
  
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• Valentine condom campaign urges lovers to think of animals

  09-02-2018 19:26
  This undated photo provided by the Center for Biological Diversity in Tucson, Ariz., shows condom packages designed by Lori Lieber from the center's "Endangered Species Condoms" series, featuring rhyming maxims and Shawn DiCriscio's illustrations of animal species threatened by population growth. As part of the center's "Pillow Talk" program, hundreds of the condoms will be distributed for free during evening Valentine's Day events for adults on Friday, Feb. 9, 2018, at the Carnegie Science Cent
  
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• Officer slain, deputies wounded, suspect dead near Atlanta

  09-02-2018 19:26
  
  Authorities say multiple officers have been shot and a suspect is dead south of Atlanta.
  
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• Georgia sheriff: Officer and suspect dead, deputies wounded

  09-02-2018 19:26
  
  Authorities say multiple officers have been shot and a suspect is dead south of Atlanta.
  
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• Authorities: Officer, suspect dead in shooting near Atlanta

  09-02-2018 19:26
  
  Authorities say multiple officers have been shot and a suspect is dead south of Atlanta.
  
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• Stranger accused of spanking man's son in Georgia store

  09-02-2018 19:24
  
  Police say a stranger spanked a man's 2-year-old son at a grocery store in Georgia when the toddler kept asking his dad for a candy bar.
  
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• Farthest photos ever taken, from nearly 4 billion miles away

  09-02-2018 19:24
  
  The NASA spacecraft that gave us close-ups of Pluto has set a new record for the farthest photos ever taken.
  
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• Laughing Stock: Marga! Plus Parts and Flowers

  09-02-2018 19:17
  Marga!“I grew up thinking I'm an artist because I didn't know any other way,” says actor, stand-up comedian and writer Marga Gomez. “My parents were both creative.…
  
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• Locust Grove officer killed, 2 Henry County deputies wounded in shooting; suspect dead

  09-02-2018 18:20
  
  An officer-involved shooting is under investigation in Locust Grove. 
  
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• Ex-judge to serve 20 years for sex trafficking

  09-02-2018 18:17
  
  A former Campbell County Judge could serve 20 years in prison for human trafficking of adults and minors. 
  
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• Judge declares mistrial in 2002 double murder

  09-02-2018 18:14
  
  A Pima County judge declared a mistrial in the double-murder case involving the deaths of a Phoenix couple who disappeared during a trip to Tucson to buy a motorcycle in 2002.
  
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• UPDATE: Victim in GA War Veterans Nursing Home shooting identified

  09-02-2018 17:50
  
  A shooting has been reported at Georgia War Veteran's Nursing Home in Augusta. Richmond County dispatch confirms that there are injuries being reported.
  
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• UPDATE: Suspect named in GA War Veterans Nursing Home shooting

  09-02-2018 17:50
  
  A shooting has been reported at Georgia War Veteran's Nursing Home in Augusta. Richmond County dispatch confirms that there are injuries being reported.
  
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• VIDEO: High school seniors surprise teacher with new car

  09-02-2018 17:35
  
  In so many classrooms across the state, students begin the day with the Pledge of Allegiance, followed by a carefully crafted lesson plan put together by teachers like Jason Broome. 
  
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• Flu season still getting worse; now as bad as 2009 swine flu

  09-02-2018 17:12
  
  US flu season, still worsening, is now as bad as the height of the 2009 swine flu pandemic.
  
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• 12-year-old killed in shooting at McDonald's drive-thru was a spelling bee champion

  09-02-2018 17:04
  Officials with the Lubbock Police Department say a 12-year-old boy was shot in a vehicle in the drive-thru at McDonald's at 50th Street and I-27. Police say the shooting appears to be accidental.
  
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• Man who impregnated 3 Ohio sisters sentenced on rape charges

  09-02-2018 16:41
  A man who authorities say impregnated 14-year-old twins and their 12-year-old sister while living in their family's Ohio home has been sentenced to 27 years in prison.
  
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• Suspect in Vail homicides to appear in court after release from hospital

  09-02-2018 16:37
  
  Hernando Enriquez, 44, was arrested in connection with the Feb. 2 deaths of his wife Sandra Enriquez, 43, and daughter Isabelle Enriquez, 15. He is also facing an attempted murder charge for allegedly attacking his teenage son.
  
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• Suspect in Vail homicides appears in court after release from hospital

  09-02-2018 16:37
  
  Hernando Enriquez, 44, was arrested in connection with the Feb. 2 deaths of his wife Sandra Enriquez, 43, and daughter Isabelle Enriquez, 15. He is also facing an attempted murder charge for allegedly attacking his teenage son.
  
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• Teacher adopts former problem student and brother

  09-02-2018 16:04
  
  CNN reported a former teacher in Baton Rouge said a fourth grade student’s behavior was so bad she thought about quitting being a teacher, but later adopted the boy and his younger brother.
  
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• Mother gives birth, abandons baby in airport bathroom with handwritten note

  09-02-2018 14:35
  Tucson Airport Authority is searching for this woman they believe abandoned a newborn child in the airport bathroom on Jan. 14, 2018. Authorities are looking for a mother who they believe abandoned her newborn baby at Tucson International Airport with a handwritten note pleading, "I just want what is best for him and it is not me."
  
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• Bipartisan proposal would allow AZ voters to decide on recreational marijuana

  09-02-2018 14:06
  
  Voters would have another chance to weigh in on legalizing marijuana in Arizona under a proposal in the state House.
  
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• Rillito Park Racetrack gears up for 75th year of horse races

  09-02-2018 13:42
  
  The Rillito Park Racetrack opens for its 75th season of horse racing Saturday, Feb. 10. 
  
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• Florida woman says airline told her to flush emotional support hamster down the toilet

  09-02-2018 11:29
  
   A Florida woman says an airline told her to flush her hamster down an airport toilet because the emotional support rodent wasn't allowed to fly with her. 
  
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• Decades-long stolen painting cold case finally solved

  09-02-2018 09:51
  Hidden in the sea of treasures at the Manzanita Ridge Antique Shop sat an abstract expressionist masterpiece called "Woman-Ochre" by famed artist Willem de Kooning. This story actually begins in Tucson, Arizona over Thanksgiving weekend in 1985.
  
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• Man dies after shootout in Walmart parking lot

  09-02-2018 09:28
  
  One man is dead and another is in custody after a shooting in a Walmart parking lot Friday morning.
  
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• Trump faces legal challenge on border wall with Mexico

  09-02-2018 08:22
  
  An Indiana-born federal judge, whose Mexican heritage Donald Trump used to paint him as biased against him in a 2016 court case because of his immigration stance, will hear arguments in a lawsuit that could block construction of a border wall with Mexico.
  
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• High school class breaks world record with 44 sets of twins

  09-02-2018 07:46
  
  About 10 percent of the sophomore class at a Chicago-area high school is made up of multiples. 
  
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