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Teen shootings in Denver suburb renew focus on gun violence

Editorial Bureau December 6, 2021

DENVER — It was lunchtime on a mild day in the sprawling Denver suburb of Aurora when a truck full of teens pulled into a high school parking lot where students were gathered, and gunfire rang out. Three were wounded as others ran in fear. One of the boys charged in the Nov. 19 shooting […]

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2 Louisiana insurance companies fail after Hurricane Ida

Editorial Bureau December 6, 2021

BATON ROUGE, La. — Insurance companies operating in Louisiana will be charged at least $100 million to pay the claims of two failed property insurers who went belly up in Hurricane Ida’s aftermath. But the cost of dealing with the insolvent insurers ultimately will fall on the state after companies recoup the dollars through a […]

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Jury to hear opening statements in Potter case this week

Editorial Bureau December 6, 2021

MINNEAPOLIS — Opening statements loom this week for a white former Minnesota police officer who said she drew her handgun by mistake when she fatally shot Black motorist Daunte Wright, but not before the two sides meet with the judge Monday to finalize jury instructions. Kim Potter, 49, is charged with first-degree and second-degree manslaughter […]

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4 dead after small plane crashes in California

Editorial Bureau December 6, 2021

All four people on board a small plane that crashed in California Saturday are dead, according to the Tulare County Sheriff’s Office. The identities of the victims have not been confirmed. It is unknown what led to the crash. Around 6:35 p.m. Saturday, deputies were called to the area of Road 68 and Avenue 288 […]

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US drugstores squeezed by vaccine demand, staff shortages

Editorial Bureau December 5, 2021

A rush of vaccine-seeking customers and staff shortages are squeezing drugstores around the U.S., leading to frazzled workers and temporary pharmacy closures. Drugstores are normally busy this time of year with flu shots and other vaccines, but now pharmacists are doling out a growing number of COVID-19 shots and giving coronavirus tests. The push for […]

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Third party to probe Oxford High’s actions ahead of shooting

Editorial Bureau December 5, 2021

PONTIAC, Mich. — A third party will investigate events at Oxford High School that occurred before a school shooting that left four students dead and six other students and a teacher wounded, the Michigan district’s superintendent said Saturday. Oxford Community Schools Superintendent Tim Throne said in a statement that he called for the outside investigation […]

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Stuck jet stream, La Nina causing weird weather

Editorial Bureau December 5, 2021

America’s winter wonderland is starting out this season as anything but traditional. The calendar says December but for much of the country temperatures beckon for sandals. Umbrellas, if not arks, are needed in the Pacific Northwest, while in the Rockies snow shovels are gathering cobwebs. Meteorologists attribute the latest batch of record-shattering weather extremes to

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Key moments surrounding Michigan high school shootings

Editorial Bureau December 5, 2021

OXFORD TOWNSHIP, Mich. — The parents of the 15-year-old suspect in the fatal shooting of four students at a Michigan high school have entered not guilty pleas to involuntary manslaughter charges. James and Jennifer Crumbley entered their pleas during a Zoom hearing, hours after police said they were arrested while hiding in a commercial building […]

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Key moments surrounding Michigan high school shooting

Editorial Bureau December 5, 2021

OXFORD TOWNSHIP, Mich. — The parents of the 15-year-old suspect in the fatal shooting of four students at a Michigan high school have entered not guilty pleas to involuntary manslaughter charges. James and Jennifer Crumbley entered their pleas during a Zoom hearing, hours after police said they were arrested while hiding in a commercial building […]

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Parents captured after son charged in Oxford school shooting

Editorial Bureau December 4, 2021

PONTIAC, Mich. — The parents of a teen accused of killing four students in a shooting at a Michigan high school were caught early Saturday, several hours after a prosecutor filed involuntary manslaughter charges against them, according to a sheriff’s office. James and Jennifer Crumbley were captured in Detroit, Oakland County Undersheriff Michael McCabe said […]