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Cory Booker tests 2020 waters with early dip into New Hampshire

Cory Booker tests 2020 waters with early dip into New Hampshire

The Democratic New Jersey senator is in the granite state, pressing flesh and preaching love in divided polit…

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'We live in a lobstocracy': Maine town is feeling the effects of climate change

'We live in a lobstocracy': Maine town is feeling the effects of climate change

When lobsters are life, environmental change affects livelihoods, and warming waters will ultimately bust the…

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Safiya Wazir: the former refugee vying for a New Hampshire state house seat

Safiya Wazir: the former refugee vying for a New Hampshire state house seat

Wazir and her family fled Afghanistan when she was six. Now 27, she has unseated a four-term incumbent in the…

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Yale students condemn Kavanaugh case as 'symptom of a larger problem'

Yale students condemn Kavanaugh case as 'symptom of a larger problem'

Students at university with long ties to American power say they were unsurprised by allegations in culture t…

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Second chances: how ex-convicts are lighting up the cannabis industry

Second chances: how ex-convicts are lighting up the cannabis industry

New Massachusetts law aims to help those previously jailed for non-violent marijuana offenses by training the…

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Merit Board explains why it reduced LMPD lieutenant's suspension

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By Josh Wood Verified
| The Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY) Verified
More than seven months after voting to significantly reduce the suspension of a supervising Louisville Metro Police officer who did not report his subordinate for using a banned "choking technique" on an unhoused man who stole a drink from a hotel gift shop in 2023, the Louisville Police Merit Board has explained its decision in a report.
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Mental health workers start new 'rally' strategy for LMPD crisis calls | Exclusive

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By Josh Wood Verified
| The Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY) Verified
As Louisville Metro Government reexamines how it responds to mental health emergency calls in the wake of two controversial police shootings of individuals in crisis in recent months, civilian mental health workers in the city are now undertaking a new strategy to "rally" near the locations of some emergency calls during police responses.
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Footage shows LMPD use-of-force incident for sheriff candidate | Exclusive

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By Josh Wood Verified
| The Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY) Verified
Body camera footage recently obtained by The Courier Journal shows Alexander Marson, the Republican nominee to be the next Jefferson County Sheriff, grabbing a handcuffed suspect by the neck moments after discovering a gun – an incident Louisville Metro Police Chief Paul Humphrey later said would have led to Marson’s termination had he not first resigned.
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