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A mayor who talked over her residents and stopped them from criticizing her at a city council meeting is now being sued by an individual rights advocacy group for allegedly violating the First Amendment. The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) announced a lawsuit against Eastpointe Mayor Monique Owens …

A 19-year-old Georgia man was arrested for the brutal killing of a family member and attacking another in Palm Coast, Florida, early Wednesday morning, police say.  Deputies with the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office responded to a 911 call at about 2:56 a.m. on Wednesday after the caller reported a man …

Jan Broberg survived being abducted twice by a man who posed as a family friend – now she wants people to look out for the telltale signs. The 60-year-old was the subject of the shocking documentary that became available to stream on Netflix titled “Abducted in Plain Sight.” Today, she …

Police in Mississippi arrested a 23-year-old old suspect thought to be associated with seven fires across Jackson, with two of them being at churches, in what one Democrat Congressional candidate called an attempt to suppress votes. Among the two churches set on fire, one of them was destroyed in the …

More than a hundred people have joined a lawsuit against the U.S. government one year after jet fuel leaked into the drinking water supply used by military families near Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, causing what many plaintiffs describe as severe, long-lasting medical issues. “I struggle with a lot of feelings that …

A Pennsylvania state representative who died last month was reelected during the midterm elections, reports say. Democrat Anthony “Tony” DeLuca died Oct. 9 “after a brief battle with lymphoma, a disease he twice previously beat. He was 85,” the Pennsylvania House Democratic Caucus wrote.  DeLuca was Pennsylvania’s longest-serving state rep, …

Mississippi police reported they discovered human remains in an abandoned home after witnesses spotted a dog carrying around a severed arm.  “That is a very graphic and brutal picture. The mutilation of a body, my reaction is one of disgust, is one of concern,” said Jackson Mayor Chokwe A. Lumumba …

An arson suspect accused of setting seven fires in Jackson, Mississippi, on Election Day – including one that burned a church to the ground – has been taken into custody.   The Hinds County Sheriff’s Office said 23-year-old Delvin McLaurin was arrested in Terry after they received a tip from …

The FBI announced on Tuesday that two illegal immigrants from Venezuela were arrested and charged for allegedly pushing, dragging and punching a Border Patrol agent while being apprehended in Texas.  Kevin Escalona Gonzalez, 35, and 27-year-old Yuleixy Mata Fuentes – two Venezuelan nationals and “undocumented non-citizens” – were arrested for …

A Kansas City, Missouri police officer is being lauded as a hero after saving a one-month-old baby girl who stopped breathing.  “That’s my hero. He saved my daughter,” the baby’s mom, Tajanea Allen, told Fox4KC. “I will do anything for that man, he saved my daughter and I thank him …