BERLIN – A German court says a municipal bus mechanic can have hundreds of euros (dollars) in back pay for time spent changing into his work clothes — but not for time he spent showering. The state labor court in Duesseldorf said the man and the local transport authority in …
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Somorie Moses, a longtime pimp known for his “extreme violence,” has admitted to murdering his prostitute girlfriend and sex trafficking eight other women, per the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Eastern District of New York. On Jan. 13, 2017, prosecutors said, Moses beat Leondra Foster, 32, to death in their …
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Newly released dashcam footage shows a seething Portland man driving his Chevy through a crowded parade, sending revelers at the city’s annual Rose Festival running for cover before evading police. Due to a shortage of public defenders in Oregon, his former defense attorney, Chris Howard, told Fox News Digital 42-year-old …
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NEW YORK – The winners of the 2014 George Polk Awards in Journalism include reporters for The New York Times and the Miami Herald. The Times’ Rukmini Callimachi won for international reporting for her account of how European nations secretly paid ransoms to free hostages held by the Islamic State …
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BOSTON – Eight more prospective jurors have been questioned in the trial of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (joh-HAHR’ tsahr-NEYE’-ehv), and the judge says the case is getting closer to the start of testimony. It was not immediately clear Wednesday if additional prospective jurors needed to be questioned or …
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An American fugitive accused of faking his own death and fleeing the country to escape rape charges has been extradited from Scotland to Utah, where he was booked into jail, according to jail records. Nicholas Rossi, 36, was booked Friday afternoon into the Davis County Jail on two felony rape …
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Vermont State Police have released a sketch of an unidentified man they say witnesses saw on the Delaware and Hudson Rail Trail in Castleton last week at the same time 77-year-old retiree Honoree Fleming was found shot dead there. The sketch shows a man with short, disheveled hair, a round …
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Efforts to turn what was once the largest landfill site in the world into a public park hit a milestone Sunday with the opening of the first section open to the public, New York City officials said. The 21-acre North Park section of what has become Freshkills Park includes pedestrian …
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Florida police said Wednesday that a 13-year-old boy shot and killed his 6-year-old brother and wounded his 16-year-old brother before turning the gun on himself after a heated argument over food. The shooting occurred shortly after 6 p.m. in the suburban community of Hudson located in Pasco County, just an …
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SELMA, Ala. – The daughter of the late Martin Luther King Jr. is in Selma, Alabama for the 50th anniversary of the “Bloody Sunday” civil rights march. Bernice King says it’s important for her to be at the anniversary commemoration. She says the struggle for civil rights is unending. Saturday …
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