Minnesota officials are adding an extra layer of verification to payments from high-risk Medicaid programs, a move one former law enforcement official says won’t make “any” difference as federal authorities allege taxpayers in the state have lost more than $9 …

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Authorities in Pennsylvania revealed Monday that officers located a missing elderly person in a wooded area amid bitter cold temperatures, thanks to the use of a drone equipped with thermal imaging. The West Chester Police Department (WCPD) said an officer, …

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Nearly a dozen firefighters and paramedics were fired, and four are facing criminal charges, after a 19-year-old rookie Florida firefighter was allegedly whipped and waterboarded in a violent hazing incident. The teen firefighter told authorities he was hazed Nov. 26 …

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A body was found Tuesday evening as authorities in Bexar County, Texas, grapple with a series of disappearances involving teen girls who all went missing within a week. The body was found during the search for 19-year-old Camila Olmos, though …

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Authorities announced Tuesday that a priest caught a man breaking into the “poor box” of a Philadelphia church just days before Christmas. The suspect, who was captured on surveillance video, allegedly broke into Our Mother of Consolation Church on the …

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More than a month after a woman was found fatally shot inside an Arizona home, investigators say newly uncovered evidence has taken the case far beyond state lines and directly to a California farming tycoon. A homicide investigation that began …

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Following the Dec. 13 mass shooting at Brown University, school officials Tuesday announced new safety measures, including installing security cameras inside the Barus and Holley engineering and physics building where 11 students were shot, including two fatally. In a letter …

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The U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts issued an administrative stay on Tuesday blocking the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) decision to terminate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for South Sudan.  The termination was scheduled to take effect on …

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