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Homeless woman was living inside Michigan rooftop store sign with computer and coffee maker
Contractors curious about an extension cord on the roof of a Michigan grocery store made a startling discovery: A 34-year-old woman was living inside the business sign, with enough space for a computer, printer and coffee maker, police said. “She was homeless,” Officer Brennon Warren of the Midland Police Department said Thursday. The woman, whose name was not released, told police she had a job elsewhere but had been living inside the Family Fare sign for roughly a year, Warren said.
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Hawaii tourist dies on Maui beach, and wife alleges state failed to warn her about snorkeling danger
Patti Johnson believes her husband Ryan Johnson's snorkeling death off the coast of Maui could have been prevented if he had known about Rapid Onset Pulmonary Edema.
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Wichita mom drove 116 mph, wrecked on purpose with 5-year-old in car. She’ll go to prison
She was traveling 92 mph at the point of impact and had used methamphetamine beforehand, a probable cause affidavit released by the court says.
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Gov. Gavin Newsom proposes painful cuts to close California's growing budget deficit
California's budget deficit is at least $45 billion, a shortfall so large it prompted Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday to propose painful spending cuts impacting immigrants, kindergarteners and low-income parents seeking child care in a state often lauded for having the world's fifth-largest economy. Officially, Newsom said the state's deficit is $27.6 billion. Including reductions in public education spending, which Newsom has not included, the deficit would be even billions of dollars more, accor
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‘I will return to the US in an urn’: She moved to Portugal with her husband, and this American says she’s never coming back
They’d always planned to retire somewhere outside the US, but when the pandemic hit, Cynthia Wilson her husband Craig Bjork brought their plans forward.
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Justice Clarence Thomas decries Washington as ‘hideous’ and pushes back on ‘nastiness’ of critics
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas repeatedly pushed back on his critics during remarks Friday at a judicial conference in Alabama, lamenting what he described as the “nastiness” and “lies” directed at him and calling Washington a “hideous place.”
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Pennsylvania to ban cell phone use while driving and require police to collect traffic stop data
Pennsylvania will join the majority of states that ban motorists from handling a cell phone for almost any purpose while driving, as backers of the legislation hope to reduce distracted driving accidents and deaths after nearly two decades of pressing the measure. Gov. Josh Shapiro's office said Thursday that the Democrat will sign the bill, 18 years after he first introduced a similar bill when he served in the state House of Representatives. The bill also includes a provision long-sought by
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