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Waffle House shooter receives life in prison without parole

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Jurors refused to make parole possible after 51 years in prison for the man who shot and killed four people at a Nashville Waffle House in 2018. On Saturday, jurors deliberated...

Feb 05, 2022

Police: 2 killed, 2 hurt in shooting in Milwaukee suburb

BROWN DEER, Wis. (AP) - Two people were killed and two more were injured in a shooting at an apartment complex in the Milwaukee suburb of Brown Deer on Saturday morning, police said. Brown Deer Police...

Feb 05, 2022

Amir Locke, killed by Minneapolis cop, wanted music career

Before he was fatally shot by a Minneapolis police officer, Amir Locke had been making plans. The 22-year-old Black man had filed paperwork to start a music business, his mother said, and had already ...

Feb 05, 2022

Waffle House shooter found guilty on 4 counts of murder

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A man who shot and killed four people at a Nashville Waffle House in a 2018 early morning attack has been found guilty on four counts of 1st-degree murder. A jury returned the ...

Feb 04, 2022

Pence says Trump wrong in saying VP could overturn election

Former Vice President Mike Pence on Friday directly rebutted Donald Trump's false claims that Pence somehow could have overturned the results of the 2020 election, saying that the former president was...

Feb 04, 2022

Tennessee gov, GOP push more scrutiny of school libraries

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Less than a week after a local Tennessee school board attracted national attention for banning a Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel about the Holocaust, Gov. Bill Lee went pu...

Feb 04, 2022

GOP censures Cheney, Kinzinger, moves to pull out of debates

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Republican Party officials on Friday voted to punish GOP Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger for their work on the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection and advan...

Feb 04, 2022

COVID falling in 49 of 50 states as deaths near 900,000

With the brutal omicron wave rapidly loosening its grip, new cases of COVID-19 in the U.S. are falling in 49 of 50 states, even as the nation's death toll closes in on another bleak round number: 900,...

Feb 04, 2022

Police: Arrest in altercation that badly injured 49ers fan

LOS ANGELES (AP) - A suspect was arrested in an altercation that badly injured a San Francisco 49ers fan in a parking lot outside SoFi Stadium during last weekend's NFC championship game between the 4...

Feb 04, 2022

Minnesota AG to join investigation into Amir Locke shooting

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison will join the review of the fatal shooting of a Black man by Minneapolis police, authorities said Friday, shortly after police released body...

Feb 04, 2022