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Chicago cop charged in killing of black teen posts bond

A white Chicago police officer, charged with murdering a black teenager, posted bond on Monday afternoon as protests continued over a patrol car’s dashboard camera video that showed the officer shooting the teen 16 times.

 
New clues in hunt for Queen Nefertiti’s tomb

Egyptologists are optimistic that a second chamber may soon be found behind King Tutankhamun’s tomb, based on results of scans from the Valley of the Kings that were announced Saturday.

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Trial begins for first of 6 Baltimore officers charged in Freddie Gray death

The first of six city police officers went on trial Monday in a closely watched case involving a 25-year-old black prisoner who died after being shackled and placed without a seat belt in a Baltimore City police van.

 
Will the 6 officers in Freddie Gray case get an impartial jury?

From the day news got out that Freddie Gray had died, the purported goal of everyone involved — from Gray’s family to city officials, to the news media, to the people of Baltimore — was to determine what happened to the 25-year-old man from the West Side.

 
Suspected Colorado shooter mentioned ‘baby parts’ to investigators

What moved a man to kill three people and wound nine others at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado has not been disclosed. But the suspect accused of carrying out the shooting spree, Robert Lewis Dear, made remarks about “baby parts” to investigators after his surrender, a law enforcement official told CNN.

 
10 dead in Texas, Kansas as wintry storm sweeps south-central US

Flooding and wintry precipitation have led to at least 10 deaths in Texas and Kansas as a storm system moves across the central Plains, authorities reported.

 
College simulation event stimulates charter school students

For two days last week, an unorthodox college campus opened its doors in northeast Las Vegas and welcomed an inaugural class of exclusively middle and high school students.

 
Suspected Colorado shooter had previous trouble with police

The 57-year-old man with a bushy white beard who is suspected of killing three people in a shooting rampage at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado has a history of brushes with the law, including a “peeping Tom” complaint in his home state of South Carolina.

 
Passengers sue Boeing over fiery September incident at McCarran

Sixty-five passengers on a British Airways Las Vegas-to-London flight evacuated after an aborted takeoff and fire in September have filed a lawsuit in Chicago against the manufacturers of the Boeing 777 jet and its engines.

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