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Civic organization plans to sue Con Ed over wastewater dumped into Hudson River

Civic organization plans to sue Con Ed over wastewater dumped into Hudson River

Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A civic organization plans to sue New York City’s largest utility company over the alleged illegal dumping of heated, toxic wastewater into a Hudson River estuary sanctuary. The City Club of New York, along with Tom Fox, a representative of the […]

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Whitey Bulger killing was ‘planned’ and took just 7 minutes, Justice Department says

Whitey Bulger killing was ‘planned’ and took just 7 minutes, Justice Department says

WIN-Initiative/Neleman/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The murder of James “Whitey” Bulger was planned “as soon as” the notorious mobster had arrived at the prison in West Virginia where he was found beaten to death, a Justice Department prosecutor said. The plot started with a phone call to the mother of Sean […]

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Deputy, trooper killed in helicopter crash in rural Tennessee

Deputy, trooper killed in helicopter crash in rural Tennessee

Douglas Sacha/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A Marion County deputy and a Tennessee Highway Patrol trooper were killed Tuesday when their helicopter hit a power line and crashed in a wooded area, authorities said. “A Bell 206 helicopter struck a power line and crashed in a wooded area on Aetna […]

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Man plummets to his death after falling from mountain ledge near waterfall

Man plummets to his death after falling from mountain ledge near waterfall

Gaj Rudolf / EyeEm/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A man is dead after slipping and falling off of a ledge on a mountain while he was hiking with two friends over the weekend. The incident occurred on Saturday at approximately 12:50 p.m. when a group of three people made the […]

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Scoreboard roundup — 8/23/22

Scoreboard roundup — 8/23/22

iStock (NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Tuesday’s sports events: MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL INTERLEAGUE San Francisco 3, Detroit 1 NY Yankees 4, NY Mets 2 Colorado 7, Texas 6 Arizona 7, Kansas City 3 Cleveland 3, San Diego 1 Miami 5, Oakland 3 Seattle 4 Washington 2 AMERICAN […]

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Uvalde school district to face $27 billion class action lawsuit

Uvalde school district to face $27 billion class action lawsuit

Jason Marz/Getty Images (UVALDE, Texas) — The Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District is facing a $27 billion class-action suit in connection with the May 24 shooting at Robb Elementary School that left 19 students and two teachers dead. Attorney Charles Bonner told ABC News that he and several other attorneys […]

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Olympian, swim groups look to turn the tide on the country’s racial gap in drowning

Olympian, swim groups look to turn the tide on the country’s racial gap in drowning

ABC News (NEW YORK) — For generations, Black Americans have grappled with a troubling reality when it comes to swimming. Black Americans drown at a rate 50 percent higher than their white counterparts, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It’s a grim statistic rooted in systemic […]

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Missing hiker found dead in Utah’s Zion National Park

Missing hiker found dead in Utah’s Zion National Park

Courtesy Pujan Agnihotri (SPRINGDALE, Utah) — A hiker who went missing after flash floods hit Utah’s Zion National Park last week has been found dead, park officials said Tuesday. Jetal Agnihotri, of Tucson, Arizona, was found in the Virgin River on Monday and was later pronounced dead by a medical […]

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15 months before Uvalde massacre, Police Chief Arredondo raised security issues with school board

15 months before Uvalde massacre, Police Chief Arredondo raised security issues with school board

Brandon Bell/Getty Images, FILE (UVALDE, Texas) — Law enforcement was criticized for its response to the mass shooting at Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Texas. Fifteen months before the school shooting that claimed the lives of 19 children and two teachers in Uvalde, Texas, the embattled school district police chief mentioned […]

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Fentanyl by mail arrest saved ‘millions’ of lives: Police

Fentanyl by mail arrest saved ‘millions’ of lives: Police

Icy Macload via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Authorities said the arrest of Joel Manuel De Jesus Amparo on drug charges may have saved countless lives across the country.  8,000 fentanyl pills were recovered from packages at post offices on Staten Island where the district attorney said the seizures could “potentially […]

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