Author: Julie Walker
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Officials: Stabbings on New York subway leaves 3 hurt as officers shoot and kill knife-wielding man
NEW YORK (AP) — A man with a machete who attacked three people randomly at a major New York City subway station on Saturday morning was shot and killed by police, authorities said. Officers responding to a 9:40 a.m. emergency call of an assault at the 42nd Street-Grand Central station encountered the man. He was…
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Winter storm snarls U.S. holiday travel across Northeast, Great Lakes
BOSTON (AP) — More than a thousand flights were canceled or delayed across the Northeast and Great Lakes regions due to snow as thousands took to U.S. roads and airports during the busy travel period between Christmas and New Year’s. New York City received around four inches of snow Friday night into early Saturday —…
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Tropical Storm Nicole churns toward Bahamas, Florida
MIAMI • Tropical Storm Nicole churned toward the northwestern Bahamas and Florida’s Atlantic coastline on Tuesday and was forecast to develop into a hurricane over the next couple of days, forecasters said. A range of warnings and watches remain in place. Many areas are still reeling from damage caused by Hurricane Ian, which hit Florida’s…
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Officials: Power restored to federal jail in NYCt
NEW YORK • Power was restored Sunday night at a federal detention center in New York City where inmates had been living largely without heat or electricity for the past week, according to a statement from the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Protesters have gathered outside the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn in recent days following…
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Frank Serpico, others from NYPD, rally in support of Kaepernick
NEW YORK — A former New York City police officer, whose claims of police corruption in the 1970s were chronicled in an Al Pacino movie, joined dozens of current and former officers Saturday at a rally in support of getting quarterback Colin Kaepernick a job in the National Football League. The former San Francisco 49ers…
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Thousands of demonstrators across US say ‘Not My President’
Jaime Shimkus participates in the Not My President rally at the Capitol in Austin, Texas, Monday Feb. 20, 2017. Protesters rallied against President Donald Trump on Presidents Day. (Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman via AP) Jay Janner Marcel Ast, 10, from New Jersey, holds up a sign during a “Not My Presidents Day” rally at DuPont Circle…