NEW YORK – Rule changes that govern how New York City jails operate will create highly restrictive Rikers Island housing units for dangerous inmates and also amend when and how solitary confinement can be used. The proposed amendments to inmate minimum standards were made public Friday. The board that oversees …
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PHOENIX – A Phoenix woman has died hours after giving birth to quadruplets. Nicole Todman, a family friend, says 36-year-old Erica Morales did not get to see her newborns before she passed away early Friday morning at Banner Good Samaritan hospital in Phoenix. Todman says Morales was about seven months …
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WASHINGTON – Federal authorities say they will conduct a safety inspection of Washington’s subway system following a fatal accident last month. In a news release Wednesday, the Federal Transit Administration said the inspection is intended to assess the strengths and weaknesses of the Metro transit network and identify areas where …
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CARLSBAD, N.M. – A project out of a New York college is set to offer free medical-screening programs for former workers at the federal government’s nuclear waste repository. The Worker Health Protection Program run by Queens College of the City University of New York will announce later this month details …
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PHOENIX – Convicted murderer Jodi Arias has declined to address a jury considering whether to sentence her to life in prison or death in the killing of her former boyfriend. Arias said Monday that she wanted to make comments to jurors but insisted the courtroom be cleared. She said she …
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AUSTIN, Texas – A nurse has died after falling from a hoist on a medical helicopter while rescuing a woman from a hiking trail in Austin, Texas. STAR Flight said in a news release that 46-year-old Kristin McLain became detached from the hoist Monday night while retrieving a woman who …
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BALTIMORE – Attorney General Loretta Lynch and other Department of Justice leaders are visiting Baltimore. The new attorney general’s visit Tuesday comes after protests over the death of Freddie Gray, who was fatally injured in police custody, and riots that prompted the governor to bring in the National Guard. Lynch …
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MEDFORD, Mass. – Tufts University students have ended an almost weeklong hunger strike supporting janitors who face layoffs, but say they’ll continue to protest. The student Tufts Labor Coalition says Saturday the five-day strike ended to protect the health of the four people who had been fasting for more than …
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California authorities have arrested a 26-year-old man in connection with the murder of a young woman found dead in an alleyway off Ocean Avenue in Laguna Beach last weekend. The Laguna Beach Police Department on Wednesday announced the arrest of suspect Dino Rojas-Moreno on a murder charge in connection with …
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BALLSTON SPA, N.Y. – Craig Ross Jr., the 46-year-old New York man accused of abducting a nine-year-old girl from her bicycle and holding her for ransom, is now accused of raping the child while he kept her captive in a camper behind his mom’s double-wide trailer. A Saratoga County court …
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