Saturday, May 14, 2016

Missing 9-Year-Old Carlie Trent 'Playing and Giggling' as She's Reunited with Little Sister and Her Dog Pat and other top stories.

  • Missing 9-Year-Old Carlie Trent 'Playing and Giggling' as She's Reunited with Little Sister and Her Dog Pat

    Missing 9-Year-Old Carlie Trent 'Playing and Giggling' as She's Reunited with Little Sister and Her Dog Pat
    Following her safe return home, 9-year-old Carlie Trent, who had been missing since May 4 after being allegedly kidnapped by her uncle, couldn't wait to be reunited with her family – especially her little sister and her dog Pat. According to NBC affiliate 11 Alive the Rogersville girl was seen "playing and giggling" with her younger sister Katie on a trampoline as she returned home after spending the night at a Johnson City hospital. Her aunt Linda Simpson – married to Gary Simpson, who is cha..
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  • Teens Heading to Prom Escape Limo Before it Bursts Into Flames

    Teens Heading to Prom Escape Limo Before it Bursts Into Flames
    A limo that was occupied with students en route to their high school prom in Natick, Massachusetts, on May 13, 2016, caught on fire. more +. 0 Shares. Email. A group of Massachusetts teenagers en route to their prom Friday were forced to bolt from ...
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  • TSA security line waits inevitable, DHS secretary says

    TSA security line waits inevitable, DHS secretary says
    But Johnson warned that wait times are inevitable during the busy summer travel season."We encourage people to have the appropriate expectations when they arrive at airports," Johnson said at a news conference at Reagan National Airport outside Washington. "Contemplate increased wait times as you travel."The Transportation Security Administration also will move to accelerate the hiring of 768 new security officers it had planned to bring on during 2016, Johnson said. The agency hopes to have tho..
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  • Ex-Phillips Exeter aide charged with 1973 sexual abuse

    Ex-Phillips Exeter aide charged with 1973 sexual abuse
    A former admissions officer at Phillips Exeter Academy turned himself in to police in Exeter, N.H., on Friday to face charges that he sexually assaulted a teenager decades ago, the first criminal charges brought as officials investigate dozens of reports of abuse at one of the nation’s top boarding schools.Arthur Peekel, who was charged with two misdemeanor counts of sexual assault, quietly left the New Hampshire prep school in 1973 after he was accused by a prospective student, Lawrence Jenken..
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  • 'Racist McShootface' -- George Zimmerman gun auction draws trolls

    'Racist McShootface' -- George Zimmerman gun auction draws trolls
    The top bidder for a time was one "Racist McShootface," although other bids from a "Tamir Rice" -- the name of a Cleveland child killed by police last year -- also appear in the list of offers for the weapon Zimmerman used in his 2012 Sanford, Florida, confrontation with 17-year-old Martin.The "Racist McShootface" bids were deleted Friday morning from the United Gun Group auction site, but the trolling prompted one apparently serious bidder to call the trolls "losers" and express hope that their..
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  • Many area schools already follow decree to accommodate transgender students

    Many area schools already follow decree to accommodate transgender students
    When Laurie Singh's son Alex came out as transgender, the first person he told outside of family was his seventh-grade guidance counselor who, along with other faculty at the Winnetka middle school, supported him and affirmed his gender identity.Yet Singh said she knows that's not the case for all students across Chicagoland and the nation, so she was grateful for the directive from President Barack Obama’s administration on Friday that schools must accommodate transgender students, including a..
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  • Sheriff Joe Arpaio, three others found in civil contempt

    Sheriff Joe Arpaio, three others found in civil contempt
    Federal Judge G. Murray Snow ruled Friday that Maricopa County, Arizona, Sheriff Joe Arpaio was in civil contempt in connection with a racial profiling case. Three of Arpaio's subordinates also violated court orders, the judge said."The court finds that the defendants have engaged in multiple acts of misconduct, dishonesty, and bad faith with respect to the plaintiff class (Latinos) and the protection of its rights," Snow wrote. "They have demonstrated a persistent disregard for the orders of th..
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  • Chicago Mayor Looks to Replace Agency That Reviews Police Conduct

    Chicago Mayor Looks to Replace Agency That Reviews Police Conduct
    Photo Mayor Rahm Emanuel of Chicago, at a City Council meeting last month. Credit Joshua Lott for The New York Times CHICAGO — Mayor Rahm Emanuel plans to get rid of the organization that is assigned to investigate claims of misconduct by Chicago police officers but has been widely criticized as slow, ineffective and rarely willing to demand serious disciplinary action.In an essay posted on the website of The Chicago Sun-Times late Friday afternoon, Mr. Emanuel said he ..
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  • Headless body found in Texas pickup truck

    Headless body found in Texas pickup truck
    Last Updated May 13, 2016 1:48 PM EDT BRAZORIA COUNTY, Texas -- Authorities in Texas say a man's headless body was found in a pickup truck parked at a boat ramp, reports CBS affiliate KHOU.The body was found May 3 in a blue Chevrolet pickup truck near the Austin Bayou waterway, and has since been identified as Jubal Dee Alexander, from Port Arthur, Texas.Alexander was living out of the truck after moving to Brazoria County to work at a plant, according to Brazoria County Sheriff's Capt. Chris..
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  • Pfizer moves to block its drugs from being used in lethal injections

    Pfizer moves to block its drugs from being used in lethal injections
    Drugs used in executions are no longer available through "the normal pharmaceutical market," said Robert Dunham, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center. Every U.S. drug maker with products that have been used in executions has gone on record to say they don't want that to happen any more, he said."States at this point have decisions to make," Dunham said.Lethal injection is the primary means of execution in all 31 death-penalty states. Since 1976, 1,436 people have been execu..
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