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He didn’t trust police but sought their help anyway. Two days later, he was dead
Jameek Lowery entered the dimly lit lobby of the city’s police headquarters in a panic. Barefoot and wearing only pajama pants and a sweatshirt in the pre-dawn hours of Jan. 5, 2019, Lowery pulled out his cellphone and began a social media broadcast of an anti-police rant. “Why y’all trying to kill me?” Lowery asked several Paterson police officers on his Facebook Live video feed.
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Giant green anaconda found dead in the Brazilian Amazon, possibly killed by gunshot
Despite multiple reports, the snake is not the same as the one discovered in the Ecuadorian Amazon while filming "Pole to Pole with Will Smith," professor Bryan Fry, leader of that expedition told USA TODAY.
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Mom of two says she can't afford olive oil or bread — even though she and her husband both work full-time
On the plus side, she's learned to bake her own bread.
4 min read - WorldAssociated Press
A Filipino villager is nailed to a cross for the 35th time on Good Friday to pray for world peace
A Filipino villager has been nailed to a wooden cross for the 35th time to reenact Jesus Christ’s suffering in a brutal Good Friday tradition he said he would devote to pray for peace in Ukraine, Gaza and the disputed South China Sea. On Friday, over a hundred people watched on as 10 devotees were nailed to wooden crosses, among them Ruben Enaje, a 63-year-old carpenter and sign painter. The real-life crucifixions have become an annual religious spectacle that draws tourists in three rural com
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Drunk driver speeding at 140 mph on Las Vegas Boulevard crashes into car, killing man: police
LAS VEGAS (KLAS) -- Police suspect a drunk driver was traveling at 140 mph on Las Vegas Boulevard, when he hit a car, splitting it in two and killing its driver, documents said.
2 min read - USWPIX New York City, NY
NYC woman suffers broken jaw when randomly punched while walking down street
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn (PIX11) – A Brooklyn woman suffered a broken jaw when a stranger randomly punched her while she was walking down the street Tuesday. The unprovoked, caught-on-video attack happened in broad daylight at Grand Avenue and Dean Street in Crown Heights. Dulce Pichardo, 57, was walking down the sidewalk when out of nowhere […]
1 min read - WorldReuters
Putin says Russia will not attack NATO, but F-16s will be shot down in Ukraine
MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia has no designs on any NATO country and will not attack Poland, the Baltic states or the Czech Republic but if the West supplies F-16 fighters to Ukraine then they will be shot down by Russian forces, President Vladimir Putin said late on Wednesday. Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 has triggered the deepest crisis in Russia's relations with the West since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.
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