Friday, August 12, 2016

Texas attorney general says professors face discipline if they ban guns and other top stories.

  • Texas attorney general says professors face discipline if they ban guns

    Texas attorney general says professors face discipline if they ban guns
    College professors in Texas could face disciplinary measures if they prohibit handguns to be brought into their classrooms, state Attorney General Ken Paxton said Monday. Paxton filed a motion this week to dismiss a federal lawsuit brought last month by three professors at the University of Texas at Austin seeking to block the campus carry law, which took effect Aug.1. Texas has allowed licensed concealed handguns in public since 1995 but had previously made college buildings off limits. "Facul..
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  • Paul Ryan easily wins GOP primary

    Paul Ryan easily wins GOP primary
    "There is a lot of anger that Washington just isn't working," Ryan said in his victory speech. "In times as uncertain as these, it is easy to resort to division. It's simple to prey on people's fears. That stuff sells, but it doesn't stick. It doesn't last. Most of all, it doesn't work."He added: "We can't afford another four years like the Obama years, and let it be very, very clear, that is exactly what Hillary Clinton and her party are offering."Just a week before the primary, GOP presidentia..
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  • 3 Girls Injured In Fall From Ferris Wheel At Tennessee Fair

    3 Girls Injured In Fall From Ferris Wheel At Tennessee Fair
    Three girls were injured after falling at least 30 feet from a Ferris wheel at a county fair in eastern Tennessee on Monday evening. Two of the girls are in stable condition while another, who suffered a traumatic brain injury, is in critical condition. According to Dr. Bracken Burns, director of trauma services for Johnson City Medical Center, the youngest of the victims, a 6-year-old, suffered the head injury and had to be intubated at the scene and taken to a hospital. "She has been under th..
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  • California Wildfire grows, but damages still minimal

    California Wildfire grows, but damages still minimal
    California Wildfire grows, but damages still minimal August 10, 2016 Updated: August 10, 2016 4:10am A San Bernardino County firefighter is shrouded in dust and smoke as handcrew members and bulldozer cleared smoldering debris from a wildfire in Hesperia, Calif., Tuesday. Aug. 9, 2016. (James Quigg/The Daily Press via AP) A San Bernardino County firefig..
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  • Findings of Police Bias in Baltimore Validate What Many Have Long Felt

    Findings of Police Bias in Baltimore Validate What Many Have Long Felt
    Photo Baltimore police officers in May 2015 after reports that a gun had gone off in the area, in the wake of unrest that followed the April 2015 death of Freddie Gray from a spinal cord injury he sustained while in police custody. Credit Drew Angerer for The New York Times WASHINGTON — As a black man and a lifelong Baltimore resident, Ray Kelly has been stopped by the police more times than he can count. And as a community organizer who tried to document police bias af..
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  • NRA circles the wagons around Trump

    NRA circles the wagons around Trump
    The shotgun wedding between Donald Trump and the National Rifle Association has been rocky, but the gun rights group is standing by its man. Just hours after Donald Trump sparked yet another controversy with remarks that seemed, to some, to encourage violence against Hillary Clinton, the NRA offered its biggest gift yet to the Republican nominee – a $3 million ad buy attacking Clinton as a hypocrite.Story Continued Below The spot – which calls Clinton “out of touch” for living under Secret Ser..
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  • Pregnant Zika Victim Alerted Officials to Florida Outbreak

    Pregnant Zika Victim Alerted Officials to Florida Outbreak
    MIAMI—The woman who set off the Zika scare in Florida doesn’t have a clear connection to the neighborhood where the outbreak is believed to be concentrated. She hasn’t traveled to a country where Zika is circulating and she hasn’t had sex with anyone likely to be infected. These confounding facts are also laced with potential danger. The woman in her early 20s is pregnant. The woman is one of 21 cases health officials are...
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  • 'Horrible accident': Woman fatally shot by Florida cop role-playing as 'bad guy' during citizen police academy

    'Horrible accident': Woman fatally shot by Florida cop role-playing as 'bad guy' during citizen police academy
    Mary Knowlton arrived at the Punta Gorda, Fla., police station Tuesday night to learn how to be a community steward. The 73-year-old was there as a student in the citizen academy, a free, eight-week class intended to give an “up-close and personal look” at what makes government in the quaint Florida town work. On this night, the group of 35 would tour the station and talk with officers, an essential part of the academy curriculum that has gained popularity cross-country amid a heated national d..
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  • Witnesses: Shots fired in Ferguson after car hits protester

    Witnesses: Shots fired in Ferguson after car hits protester
    Gunfire broke out during a demonstration in Ferguson, Missouri, on the second anniversary of Michael Brown's death, disrupting what had been a peaceful gathering Tuesday night but apparently wounding no one.Witnesses told an Associated Press reporter that a car sped through a group of protesters who were blocking a street during the demonstration marking two years since the unarmed black 18-year-old's fatal shooting by a white police officer. They said the car struck a young man so hard that he..
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  • Man Killed by Deputy in Compton Not Involved With Carjacker

    Man Killed by Deputy in Compton Not Involved With Carjacker
    The Los Angeles Sheriff's Department acknowledged that a deputy shot and killed a black man who was mistakenly identified as a suspect in a carjacking, again bringing into question the appropriateness of a police agency's use of deadly force. Donnell Thompson, 27, was shot at close range by a deputy riding in the turret of an armored vehicle, one of two dispatched as officers searched for suspects in Compton after a car chase and shootout. Police said the shooting occurred after Thompson ign..
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