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CHARLOTTE, N.C (TNS) — A dramatic police chase ended in the ocean late Saturday night after a woman, with two dogs in the backseat, drove her car straight into the waves just south of the Venice pier. About 11:21 p.m., California Highway Patrol officers attempted to pull over a silver BMW X3 for sp…

CHARLOTTE, N.C (TNS) — Colusa County, Calif., is known for sprawling rice farms and almond orchards, wetlands full of migrating ducks and geese, staunch conservative politics, and the 19th-century family cattle ranch where former Gov. Jerry Brown retired five years ago. But the windswept county in …

CHARLOTTE, N.C (TNS) — Miami Beach officials’ decision to impose a midnight curfew this weekend as spring break crowds swelled was “reasonable,” a judge ruled Saturday afternoon after a four-hour emergency hearing, denying an attempt by three South Beach nightclubs to have the curfew overturned. Mi…

CHARLOTTE, N.C (TNS) — Federal authorities have linked a person in Serbia to more than 100 swatting calls, many of which targeted senior Biden administration officials, including Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and Cybersecurity, Infrastructure and Security Agency Director Jen Easter…

CHARLOTTE, N.C (TNS) — Cheers and Irish tunes rang out across downtown Saturday as thousands of residents and tourists enjoyed the festive St. Patrick’s Day weekend in their traditional Chicago way: watching the Chicago River turn from a murky gray to bright green before frolicking to the city’s pa…

CHARLOTTE, N.C (TNS) — In the desert around Scottsdale, Arizona, on Monday, police officers hunted for a member of an international heist ring suspected of swiping jewels and luxury goods from homes across Los Angeles. Using helicopters and drones, they eventually found him hiding under a tree. The…

CHARLOTTE, N.C (TNS) — An active-duty member of the U.S. Navy is accused of shooting three strangers last month after a night out in Pioneer Square, killing one man and injuring two other people, according to King County prosecutors. Seattle police detectives arrested Victor Marshall, 23, on Monday…

CHARLOTTE, N.C (TNS) — The man in the black skull cap and what looked like a gas mask banged on the window of her silver Nissan on a street in Trenton, New Jersey, about 8:40 a.m. Saturday. When he pulled out a gun, said 67-year-old Sonya Hanson, whose 9-year-old grandson was in the car, “I was sha…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — President Joe Biden on Friday condemned what he termed an ugly resurgence of Islamophobia since the Oct. 7 start of the Israel-Gaza war but a leading Muslim advocacy group dismissed his comment and urged a change in U.S. policy instead. Biden issued his statement on the Inter…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Peter Navarro, who served as trade adviser under former President Donald Trump, asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday to let him remain free while he appeals his conviction for defying a subpoena in a congressional investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capi…