A tourist from Milwaukee was walking on Gateway Boulevard Tuesday morning when two men assaulted him, robbed him and took off on bicycles, police said.
The men approached the tourist at 11:36 a.m. and demanded money, according to police. They tried to take his wallet from his pocket, and when he resisted, they cut him with a knife on his cheek, arm and hand, police said. Read Article
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A woman surrendered to police more than six weeks after they say she lost control of her vehicle and crashed into a poolside cabana in Fort Lauderdale, killing a pregnant woman from Massachusetts. The South Florida SunSentinel reported 34-year-old Rosa Maria Rivera-Kim bonded out of the Broward County Jail early Thursday. […]
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Las Vegas police are looking for two suspects accused of robbing a man who later died from his injuries. Police say on the night of October 19, 2011, 83-year-old George Moreland was found lying in a parking lot at 3262 Las Vegas Boulevard North, near Pecos Road. Moreland had just withdrawn money from an ATM […]
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Former Head of Transportation Security Administration says that TSA needs to focus on high-risk threats Kip Hawley, the former head of the Transportation Security Administration, says airport security is broken and should be fixed. Hawley, who headed the agency from 2005 to 2009, contends that TSA became too rigid after its creation a decade ago […]
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WebMD reported that there about 40,000 cases of salmonella each year in the United States The sushi-salmonella outbreak just keeps getting worse. MSNBC reported that now, at least 200 people have become sick from eating salmonella-tainted “tuna-scrape,” packaged as “Nakaochi Scrape AA.” Read Article
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Former state prison facilities in southern Michigan are becoming a hot tourist attraction where visitors can sit in cells and read prison rule books still attached to the cell bars. The Jackson Historic Prison Tour is booming, with nearly 50 tours booked this year, the Detroit Free Press reported Monday. A highlight is a visit […]
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An Irish tourist driving on the wrong side of state Highway 1 is believed to have caused a head-on collision on the San Mateo County coast on Saturday night, according to the California Highway Patrol. nvestigators believe that the 34-year-old man from Dublin, Ireland had pulled over to take pictures on Highway 1 just south […]
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A night of partying in San Francisco turned awry early Saturday for a Canadian tourist, who was stranded in Vallejo, police said. Officers were dispatched at about 4 a.m. to the 7-Eleven store at 1208 Tennessee St. on a call of a “suspicious person refusing to leave” the area. Upon arrival, officers met with a […]
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An Orange County deputy who was arrested on charges of armed burglary after allegedly breaking into a car parked at Disney has bonded out of jail. Deputy Kirk Smurawa bonded out of jail Wednesday night after his arrest on charges of armed burglary and petit theft of $100 or more. Smurawa was caught on a […]
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A man visiting from Baltimore fell trying to cross the street in lower Manhattan and was fatally hit by a cab early Sunday, police and a witness said. Dan Fellegara, 33, was struck after he tumbled to the pavement while crossing against a red light on Sixth Ave. at Watts St. with two friends about […]
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