ATLANTA – The Atlanta Cyclorama, the colossal Civil War painting created about 130 years ago, is leaving the building it has occupied since 1921 to move across town. Cyclorama officials say Tuesday is the last day visitors can see the 15,000-square-foot oil painting in Atlanta’s Grant Park neighborhood. After the …
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LAKE WORTH, Fla. – Florida officials say a 49-year-old beat his parents with a crowbar, killing his 83-year-old mother. The attack occurred Tuesday as Thomas and Delena Schneiders were on their way to church. Palm Beach County Sheriff’s deputies report that 84-year-old Thomas Schneiders says he made it out alive …
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SHELBY TOWNSHIP, Mich. – Police in suburban Detroit are having a little fun while asking for help from the public in figuring out who swiped roughly 28,000 pounds of packaged nuts. The Shelby Township Police Department says a truck and trailer packed with 18 pallets of walnuts and other snack …
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A judge on Friday released three who have spent two weeks in juvenile detention for refusing to meet with their estranged father. Oakland County Judge Lisa Gorcyca said she’s sending the children to a summer camp, at the request of the father. She held a hearing Friday, three days after …
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MANSFIELD, Mass. – Parrotheads are apparently too busy wasting away in Margaritaville to wait in line for the bathroom. Mansfield police tell The Sun Chronicle (http://bit.ly/1HTQHnB ) that despite warnings against the practice, many fans at the Jimmy Buffett concert Saturday at the Xfinity Center brought homemade, portable toilets for …
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SALT LAKE CITY – Malachi Bradley was searching for wild mushrooms in eastern Utah when he realized he had wandered too far from the mountain lake where he was hiking with his father and siblings. The 10-year-old boy tried looking for a road to flag down a driver, but the …
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WASHINGTON – A man who in April flew a gyrocopter through some of America’s most restricted airspace before landing at the U.S. Capitol has raised about $10,000 to help with his case. Douglas Hughes appeared in federal court in Washington on Thursday as part of his ongoing case. Earlier this …
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RICHMOND, Va. – Former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell will not have to go to prison while the U.S. Supreme Court considers whether to consider his appeal of his public corruption convictions. The court on Monday overruled a lower court’s decision on McDonnell’s incarceration. McDonnell made a last-ditch plea to the …
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MINNEAPOLIS – Five family members, including three children, were found dead in their lakeside home in an upscale western Minneapolis suburb on Thursday in what police said appeared to be a murder-suicide. South Lake Minnetonka police went to check on the family at 12:21 p.m. after no one was seen …
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A man whom police identified as a victim in the violent street brawl in Cincinnati that left several people injured last month has been charged, investigators said. The unidentified 45-year-old White man is charged with disorderly conduct, a fourth-degree misdemeanor, for his alleged role in the July 26 melee in …
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