NEWTON, N.H. (AP) — Authorities are trying to figure out what happened at the end of a 40-mile, hour-long car chase that started in Massachusetts and ended in New Hampshire, after a man crashed his car into a tree, officers fired their weapons and the suspect was found dead. “There was a confrontation there and […]
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Two cops ambushed, fatally shot in car; gunman kills himself
NEW YORK (AP) — The warning came just moments too late: A man who had shot his ex-girlfriend a few hours earlier had traveled to New York City and vowed online to shoot two “pigs” in retaliation for the police chokehold death of Eric Garner. Just minutes before a wanted poster for Ismaaiyl Brinsley arrived […]
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Students chant, march through downtown Lewiston
LEWISTON — The protests have come to Lewiston. Starting at about 5 p.m. Friday, a crowd of more than 100 people began a march through downtown Lewiston, starting at Bates College and ending on Birch Street. What followed was a series of minor traffic snarls and a lot of curiosity. Lewiston police officers in cruisers […]
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Chokehold death protest gets violent in California
NEW YORK (AP) — Mostly peaceful protests of a grand jury’s decision not to indict a white police officer in the chokehold death of an unarmed black man continued around the country, but authorities said a march in California turned violent when a splinter group smashed windows and threw objects at police. A Berkeley police […]
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NAACP, other groups plan Portland ‘March to End Violence’ at 2 p.m. Sunday
PORTLAND — Several hundred people protesting the recent deaths of two black men by white police officers stopped traffic in the city’s busy downtown on Friday and another similar protest is scheduled for 2 p.m. Sunday, said Rachel Talbot Ross, state director of the Maine NAACP. “The march is intended for those who want to […]
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Rich Lowry: Ferguson protestors spin misinformed version of what happened
The bitter irony of the Michael Brown case is that if he had actually put his hands up and said, “Don’t shoot,” he almost certainly would be alive today. His family would have been spared an unspeakable loss, and Ferguson, Missouri, wouldn’t have experienced multiple bouts of rioting, including the torching of at least a […]