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Cat wins shelter’s hero dog award for saving kid from canine
LOS ANGELES (AP) — For the first time, a Los Angeles shelter’s Hero Dog award has gone to a cat. In May 2014, Tara the cat fought off a dog that attacked her 6-year-old owner as he rode his bicycle in...
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Mega injections of wastewater triggers more quakes
WASHINGTON (AP) — The more oil and gas companies pump their saltwater waste into the ground, and the faster they do it, the more they have triggered earthquakes in the central United States, a massive...
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The NAACP speaks out about the Confederate flag
CHARLESTON, S.C. (WRIC) — NAACP National President Cornell Brooks says the Confederate flag has been used to represent racism and bigotry and believes even a little bit of that is a dangerous thing....
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The Roof family releases statement about Charleston church shooting
CHARLESTON, S.C. (WRIC) — After spending his first night in jail as an accused murderer, Dylann Roof appeared in court through a video link. Roof dressed in his black and white prison jumpsuit. Family...
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Third Street Bethel AME Church holds prayer vigil
RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) – Congregations continued to gather across denominational lines on June 19 in the wake of the attack on the historic Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina. Hundreds of...
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Bocce for Memory is Positively Richmond
RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Jeff Baldwin lost his beloved grandmother “Mimi” last summer but says she had started slipping away five years before. “As the disease progressed, she was able to do less and...
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Police look into possible sightings of escaped NY inmates
LINDLEY, N.Y. (AP) — New York State Police are investigating a possible sighting of the two convicted killers who escaped from an upstate New York prison two weeks ago. Two men fitting the description...
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Sweet Briar College faculty facing decision time
SWEET BRIAR, Va. (AP) – If Sweet Briar College lives on this fall, a contingent of faculty members is staying on to educate students who return to campus. Local media reports that June 30 is the end of...
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Heat wave continues, no real relief in sight
We’re well into a prolonged heat wave impacting our area and there is no real relief in sight. In fact, temperatures will only get warmer as we go through the next few days! This weekend the main...
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After Charleston shootings, gun curbs dormant in congress
WASHINGTON (AP) — This week’s slaughter of nine people in a South Carolina church left prospects that Congress will curb guns right where they’ve been for years – remote for now, according to...
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Utah school creates ‘texting lane’ for phone-focused walkers
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — One Utah university is giving students glued to their cellphones a place to call their own: a designated lane for texting while walking. The neon green lanes painted on the stairs...
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Virginia beats Florida 5-4, faces Vandy in CWS finals again
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) – Kenny Towns drove in three runs, including the winner in the seventh, and Josh Sborz pitched four innings of shutout relief as Virginia defeated Florida 5-4 on Saturday night to set...
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Nearly mile-long pizza in Italy sets world record
ROME — The wait was on the long side for the pizza — 18 hours — but this was an extraordinary pie: 1.59545 kilometers, or nearly a mile long. More than 60 of Italy’s best pizza-makers worked through...
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National guardsman surprises six children, wife on Father’s Day weekend
RENO, Nev. (AP) — A Nevada National Guardsman has marked the end of a one-year deployment in Afghanistan with a surprise Father’s Day weekend homecoming with his wife and six children at the Reno...
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Police: Man drives himself to police station, asks for DUI arrest
HOPKINSVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Authorities say a man drove under the influence of alcohol to a small-town Kentucky police station, where he requested that officers arrest him. The Kentucky New Era reports...
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FBI reviewing hate-filled manifesto linked to Charleston church shooter
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — The historic black church where nine people were killed will re-open for a Sunday service, and the FBI said it was reviewing a manifesto purportedly written by the suspected...
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Fredericksburg man shot to death, possibly while sleeping
FREDERICKSBURG, Va. (WRIC) — Fredericksburg police are investigating after a man was found shot to death inside his apartment this morning. According to a release from Fredericksburg police,...
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5K raises $30,000 for Midlothian teen hit by van during Caymen Island Spring...
MIDLOTHIAN, Va. (WRIC) — Back in April, A Midlothian teen’s Spring Break in the Caymen Islands turned upside down when a van hit him. Harrison Zierenberg sustained multiple skull fractures and...
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Lightning strike sparks fire at Wendy’s in Henrico
HENRICO, Va. (WRIC) — Henrico County Division of Fire’s Fire Marshal’s Office has determined that a fire at a Wendy’s restaurant late Saturday night on Brook Road was caused by a lightning strike. At...
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Police investigating pair of overnight shootings in Richmond
RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Police are searching for suspects in a pair of overnight shootings in Richmond. The first occurred at roughly 11 p.m. in the 100 block of St. John Street. Police say an adult...
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