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Month: January 2024

Police: Suspicious deaths of 2 Cecil County juvenile siblings under investigation

By Josh Starkey Click here for updates on this story     PERRYVILLE, Maryland (WBAL) — Maryland State Police are investigating the suspicious deaths of two juveniles in Cecil County. Autopsy results revealed no abnormalities, according to police. Investigators are now awaiting toxicology results. Investigators searched the home and found drug paraphernalia and “other items of evidentiary

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Franz Welser-Möst is back with Cleveland Orchestra after cancer surgery and slipped disk

By RONALD BLUM Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Franz Welser-Möst is back on the Cleveland Orchestra’s podium, concentrating again on music instead of his health. On track to surpass George Szell as Cleveland’s longest-tenured music director, the 63-year-old Austrian returned to his orchestra at Cleveland’s Severance Music Center last week and leads it in

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Couple gives $100M to Atlanta’s Spelman College, in largest single gift to a Black college

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A billionaire couple is giving $100 million to Atlanta’s Spelman College, which the women’s school says is the largest-ever single donation to a historically Black college or university. Thursday’s donation is by Ronda Stryker and her husband. She’s the billionaire granddaughter of the founder of medical device

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Grandmother accused of shooting infant enters not guilty by reason of insanity plea

By Web Staff Click here for updates on this story     LIBERTY TOWNSHIP, Ohio (WLWT) — A Liberty Township grandmother accused of shooting her 6-month-old granddaughter has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. David Albrecht, the attorney for Mia Harris, entered the plea on her behalf Tuesday. Harris is accused of shooting her 6-month-old granddaughter

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Wisconsin Republican leader derides GOP impeachment attempt targeting state’s top elections official

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin’s Republican Assembly majority leader says a GOP attempt to impeach Wisconsin’s nonpartisan top elections official is nothing more than “a big show for the cameras” and will be ignored. Several Republican lawmakers, including the state Senate president, have called for Wisconsin Elections Commission Administrator Meagan

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Midwife fined $300,000 for falsifying the vaccine records of hundreds of school-aged children

By Amy Simonson and Maria Sole Campinoti, CNN (CNN) — A Nassau County midwife was issued a $300,000 fine for creating false immunization records for approximately 1,500 school-aged children throughout New York state. The vaccine scheme began at the start of the 2019-2020 school year, three months after the June 2019 elimination of non-medical exemptions for

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NJ governor renews vows to close detention center where 50 men say they were sexually abused as boys

By MIKE CATALINI Associated Press TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey’s governor recommitted to closing down the state’s largest youth detention center, and the state attorney general vowed an investigation after 50 men sued alleging they were sexually abused there. Attorney General Matt Platkin said hours after the lawsuit was filed Wednesday that the allegations

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