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  • Two suspects arrested for theft of Kristi Noem’s purse, Secret Service says

    Noem’s purse was nabbed on Easter Sunday and reportedly contained about $3,000 in cash, her keys and identification

    Two suspects have been arrested in connection with the theft last week of the US homeland security secretary Kristi Noem’s purse as she ate at a Washington DC restaurant, officials said Sunday.

    Noem’s purse was nabbed on Easter Sunday and reportedly contained about $3,000 in cash and her keys, driver’s license, passport and homeland security badge. The homeland security department said Noem had cash in her purse to pay for gifts, dinner and other activities for her family on Easter.

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  • Two US marines investigated over alleged rape at military base in Okinawa

    Allegations come days after Japanese authorities increased efforts to deter crimes by US servicemen on island

    Two US marines based on the Japanese island of Okinawa are being investigated for alleged rape, days after local authorities stepped up efforts to deter sexual and other crimes by US service personnel.

    A marine in his 20s is suspected of raping a Japanese woman in a bathroom at a US military base last month, while a second man, also a marine in his 20s, allegedly raped a woman at a base in January, according to media reports.

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  • Texas man executed for fatally stabbing and strangling young mother in 2004

    Moises Sandoval Mendoza receives lethal injection in Huntsville for death of 20-year-old Rachelle O’Neil Tolleson

    A Texas man convicted of fatally strangling and stabbing a young mother more than 20 years ago was executed on Wednesday evening.

    Moises Sandoval Mendoza received a lethal injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville and was pronounced dead at 6.40pm, authorities said. He was condemned for the March 2004 killing of 20-year-old Rachelle O’Neil Tolleson.

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  • Bill Clinton urges Americans to put aside ‘resentments’ 30 years after Oklahoma City bombing

    Former president spoke at commemoration for the 168 people who died in the 1995 attack by far-right extremist

    Bill Clinton called on Americans to put aside “whose resentments matter most” and issued a defense of government employees as he returned to Oklahoma City on Saturday for a remembrance service for the 30th anniversary of the deadliest homegrown terrorist attack in US history.

    “If our lives are going to be dominated by efforts to dominate people we disagree with, we’re going to put the 250-year-old march toward a more perfect union at risk,” he said. “None of us would ever get much done. Believe me, we’ve all got something to be mad about.”

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  • Casualties rushed to hospital after Florida university shooting

    Police respond to shooter alert at Florida State University in Tallahassee as fatalities reported but not confirmed

    A shooting on Thursday on the Florida State University campus sent an unknown number of people to a nearby hospital, a medical center spokesperson said, amid unconfirmed reports of several fatalities.

    Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare was receiving and treating people affected by the shooting, said Sarah Cannon, a hospital spokesperson. She said the hospital could not yet confirm the number of people in care, and said the details were still unfolding.

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  • Widow of man whose corpse was allegedly abused on New York subway tells of shock

    Woman identified as Teresa says she was estranged from Jorge Gonzalez, 37, and is worried for her ill mother-in-law

    The widow of a man who died on a New York subway train before his corpse was robbed by two different people and then allegedly sexually violated by one of the assailants says learning of her mostly estranged husband’s grim fate left her “shocked” as well as worried for her ill mother-in-law.

    In an interview published on Tuesday by the New York Daily News, the woman said the last thing she was expecting was to learn from investigators the horrifying details concerning the death of 37-year-old Jorge Gonzalez as authorities asked for help in finding suspects.

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  • Colorado funeral home owner pleads guilty to corpse abuse and theft

    Miles Harford, accused of leaving body in back of hearse and improperly keeping cremated remains, reaches plea deal

    The Colorado funeral home owner accused of leaving a woman’s corpse in the back of a hearse for over a year and improperly stashing the cremated remains of at least 30 people pleaded guilty in court on Monday to one count of corpse abuse and one count of theft.

    Miles Harford’s guilty plea in Denver follows years of other gruesome funeral home cases in Colorado, including one where the owners were accused of storing nearly 200 bodies in a decrepit building and giving families fake cremated remains.

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  • Pennsylvania governor’s residence set ablaze in ‘act of arson’, police say

    Fire left ‘significant amount of damage’ to portion of home while Josh Shapiro and his family slept in a different area

    Police say they evacuated Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro and his family from the official gubernatorial residence after someone set fire to the building.

    No one was injured.

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  • Police searching for man who allegedly sexually abused corpse on New York subway

    Video captured one person robbing corpse on idling train before another person robbed and sexually assaulted it

    A man sexually violated a corpse on a New York City subway train after stealing from the body, becoming the second of two people to rob that particular dead person, authorities said recently.

    One of the more grotesque US crime stories of late unfolded on a southbound R train near the Whitehall Street station in Manhattan at about 12.20am on Wednesday, when “an unidentified individual had sexual contact with an unconscious and unresponsive adult male” in plain view of surveillance cameras, according to a police statement.

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  • Weezer bassist’s wife shot by LA police and booked for attempted murder

    Jillian Lauren treated for non-life-threatening wound after incident where officers searched for hit-and-run suspects

    Weezer bassist Scott Shriner’s wife was shot by police on Monday as officers searched for hit-and-run suspects in her Los Angeles neighborhood.

    Jillian Lauren, 51, was treated for a non-life-threatening gunshot wound at a local hospital after the incident, but later booked for attempted murder, according to Los Angeles police.

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