Tuesday, June 13, 2017

Mississippi, Alabama marking Confederate Memorial Day Monday and other top stories.

  • Mississippi, Alabama marking Confederate Memorial Day Monday

    Mississippi, Alabama marking Confederate Memorial Day Monday
    JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — State government offices are closing Monday in Mississippi and Alabama for Confederate Memorial Day.Georgia used to mark the holiday, but removed the Confederate reference in 2015. Now, the last Monday in April there is simply called State Holiday.In 2015, the Cullman County Commission voted to replace Confederate Memorial Day with Good Friday, and while it remains a state holiday in Alabama, many counties have done away with it and replaced it with another day off for cou..
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  • NYC house fire kills 5, including 3 children

    NYC house fire kills 5, including 3 children
    New York Fire Department personnel stand outside the scene of a deadly fire Sunday, April 23, 2017, in Queens Village in New York that killed multiple people, including children. The fire broke out Sunday afternoon on a street full of single-family homes in the middle class neighborhood of Queens Village. (Michael Appleton/Office of the Mayor via AP) (Associated Press) By Colleen Long and Jennifer Peltz | AP By Colleen Long and Jennifer Peltz | AP April 24 at 7:41 AM NEW YORK — Investi..
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  • Lube, Cialis & $4500Inside a Teachers Alleged Kidnapping of a 15-Year-Old

    Lube, Cialis & $4500Inside a Teachers Alleged Kidnapping of a 15-Year-Old
    Police have revealed a scandalous web of plans Tennessee high school teacher Tad Cummins allegedly had for his 15-year-old student.Before he allegedly kidnapped a 15-year-old student, former Tennessee teacher Tad Cummins was under police investigation for his relationship with the girl, a new criminal complaint reveals.Cummins, 50, was arrested Thursday in Siskiyou County, California, nearly 2,500 miles from the Tennessee town where he allegedly kidnapped 15-year-old Elizabeth Thomas on March 13..
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  • Can Bernie Sanders Save the Democratic Party?

    Can Bernie Sanders Save the Democratic Party?
    MESA, Arizona — Is this what unity looks like? Maybe. The reviews of the Democratic National Committee's national "unity tour" with Sen. Bernie Sanders and Chairman Tom Perez have been mostly negative. The Republican National Committee flooded reporters' inboxes with bad headlines from the past week and even the liberal New Republic declared the effort "failed." There was plenty of grist for the critics: Boos for Perez; blowback from pro-choice groups for Sanders; and even, as if proving t..
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  • 'Everyone tunes in': Inside Trump's obsession with cable TV

    'Everyone tunes in': Inside Trump's obsession with cable TV
    During a small working lunch at the White House last month, the question of job security in President Trump’s tumultuous White House came up, and one of the attendees wondered whether press secretary Sean Spicer might be the first to go. The president’s response was swift and unequivocal. “I’m not firing Sean Spicer,” he said, according to someone familiar with the encounter. “That guy gets great ratings. Everyone tunes in.”  Trump even likened Spicer’s daily news briefings to a daytime soap op..
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  • Obama Steps Back Into Public Life, Trying to Avoid One Word: Trump

    Obama Steps Back Into Public Life, Trying to Avoid One Word: Trump
    Photo President Barack Obama in 2016 in Tampa, Fla. On Monday, Mr. Obama will begin a series of public appearances in the United States and Europe. Credit Doug Mills/The New York Times WASHINGTON — Former President Barack Obama will return to his adopted home on Monday for his first public event since leaving the White House, holding a conversation with six young people in front of an audience at the University of Chicago.Mr. Obama has spent the three months since Inaug..
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  • The first brick hasn't been set, and Trump's border wall is already going south on him

    The first brick hasn't been set, and Trump's border wall is already going south on him
    Administration officials and lawmakers of both parties on April 23 discussed funding for President Trump's project to build a border wall as the deadline for passing a government funding bill approaches. (Bastien Inzaurralde/The Washington Post) Eventually, but at a later date so we can get started early, Mexico will be paying, in some form, for the badly needed border wall. — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 23, 2017 Mexico won't pay for it. Democrats hate it. Border-state Re..
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  • Police appeal to public for help finding missing 5-year-old; father arrested

    Police appeal to public for help finding missing 5-year-old; father arrested
    This undated photo posted on the South Pasadena, Calif., Police Department's Facebook page shows Aramazd Andressian, Jr., as they seek the public's help in locating him. 0 Shares. Email. Police in California appealed to the public for help finding a ...
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  • Victim's family on Arkansas execution: 'Ready for it to be done'

    Victim's family on Arkansas execution: 'Ready for it to be done'
    She believes that after Jack Harold Jones is put to death, a feeling of anticipation among her family members may likely give way to a mixture of relief and sadness over a loved one lost.Jack Harold Jones -- no relation to Darla Jones -- was convicted of rape and murder in 1996 for the death of Mary Phillips, 34, a year earlier in Bald Knob, Arkansas. Jones' pending death will bring closure for the family of Mary Phillips. They have trudged to clemency hearings over the years, crying and pleadin..
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  • Rare copy of Declaration of Independence found in England

    Rare copy of Declaration of Independence found in England
    CHICHESTER, England -- One historian called it the discovery of a lifetime: a priceless handwritten parchment copy of the Declaration of Independence. Beyond rare, the only one like it is the 1776 copy kept under glass at the National Archives in Washington, D.C.“We certainly weren’t looking for a copy of the declaration like this,” Harvard researcher Emily Sneff said. She and Harvard professor Danielle Allen came upon it while searching the globe for every known edition of the declaration, rep..
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