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  • USAssociated Press

    For years she thought her son had died of an overdose. The police video changed all that

    It was in the den that Karen Goodwin most strongly felt her son’s presence: On the coffee table were his ashes, inside a clock with its hands forever frozen at 12:35 a.m., the moment that a doctor had pronounced him dead. As Goodwin swept and dusted the room, she’d often find herself speaking to her son, a soothing one-way conversation that helped her keep his spirit alive. Austin Hunter Turner died in 2017, on a night that Goodwin has rewound and replayed again and again, trying to make sense

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  • USCharlotte Observer

    NC sheriff asks for public’s help to find why 23-year-old was found dead near Lake Norman

    Duke Energy workers found the remains near a creek off N.C. 150 in Terrell, authorities said.

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  • USUSA TODAY

    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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  • PoliticsAssociated Press

    Republican-passed bill removes role of Democratic governor if Senate vacancy occurs in Kentucky

    Kentucky lawmakers gave final approval Thursday to a bill stripping the state's Democratic governor of any role in picking someone to occupy a U.S. Senate seat if a vacancy occurred in the home state of 82-year-old Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell. The legislation calls for a special election to fill any Senate vacancy from the Bluegrass State. “So it would be a direct voice of the people determining how the vacancy is filled,” Republican Senate President Robert Stivers said while pres

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  • BusinessMoneywise

    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.

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  • USNY Post

    Range Rover-driving ‘squatter’ who took over $1M NYC home demands ransom payment to leave— and claims he’s the real victim

    Brian Rodriguez wants money from the real owner for "repairs" to what he had planned to be his side-hustle.

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  • USAssociated Press

    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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