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More than 50 bodies found improperly stored and decomposing at Chicago funeral home 0
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- August 7, 2026
More than 50 bodies were found improperly stored and decomposing at a Chicago funeral home on Thursday, prompting a hazardous materials response and efforts to identify the remains and notify relatives, authorities said. Illinois state officials, meanwhile, suspended the license of one of the funeral home’s directors — alleging bodies were being kept in an
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Toronto police arrest 2 in July shooting at US Consulate, cite gun-for-hire network 0
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- August 7, 2026
Toronto police have arrested a 19-year-old man and a 15-year-old in the second shooting at the U.S. Consulate in five months, saying the attack was carried out as part of a gun-for-hire network linked to other violent crimes in Canada’s largest city TORONTO — Toronto police announced the arrests Thursday of a 19-year-old man and
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Judge grants trial in lawsuit over Michigan officer’s fatal shooting of Black man 0
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- August 7, 2026
DETROIT — A jury will decide whether a Michigan police officer violated the civil rights of a Black man when he shot him in the back of the head, a judge said Thursday, clearing the path for a trial or settlement years after the fatal encounter was recorded on video. A second-degree murder charge against
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Body found in California home burned by wildfire believed started by chain saw 0
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- August 7, 2026
SAN ANDREAS, Calif. — A dead body was found inside a central California home burned by a wildfire that investigators believe was accidentally started by sparks from a chain saw, authorities said Thursday. Herbert Wayne Smith, 65, was arrested Wednesday in connection with the blaze that has destroyed seven structures and scorched more than 15
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Judge criticizes the Justice Department as he dismisses Jan. 6 seditious conspiracy case 0
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- August 5, 2026
WASHINGTON — A federal judge decried efforts to rewrite the history of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol as he reluctantly dismissed the seditious conspiracy case against members of the far-right Oath Keepers extremist group at the Trump administration’s request. The move Tuesday closes the book on the Jan. 6 cases that were
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Man charged with second-degree murder for man’s death in Baltimore harbor 0
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- August 4, 2026
BALTIMORE — A Maryland man was charged with second-degree murder after police say he fought with another man and then pushed him into Baltimore’s Inner Harbor. James Fitzsimmons, 36, of Parkville, is accused of killing James Britt, 37, of Baltimore, on Sunday afternoon. According to court documents, police have obtained surveillance video showing the men
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