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CHARLOTTE, N.C (TNS) — A gunman and a security guard were shot dead and seven others were injured — including an Army-trained Doral police officer who wrapped a tourniquet around his injured upper thigh — in a shootout involving police at a Doral nightclub early Saturday. According to Miami-Dade po…

CHARLOTTE, N.C (TNS) — Xcel shut off power to 55,000 Colorado customers across six counties Saturday for a controlled outage planned to last more than 24 hours, citing the dangerous wind conditions and wildfire risks this weekend. Some of the energy company’s customers in Boulder, Gilpin, Larimer, …

CHARLOTTE, N.C (TNS) — More than 80 New York City buildings were inspected in the hours following the magnitude-4.8 earthquake that rippled through the five boroughs — followed by about 30 aftershocks through Saturday morning — as the city’s 311 system was inundated with reports of shaking homes an…

CHARLOTTE, N.C (TNS) — An earthquake rattled homes and buildings in the East Bay around 11:14 a.m. Saturday. The quake was measured at 3.4 magnitude, according the U.S. Geological Survey. Its epicenter was at John Garber Park, near the Claremont Canyon Regional Preserve in South Berkeley. The earth…

Claremont Colleges student demonstrators from Pomona Divest Apartheid greet police officers with middle fingers, taunts, and jeers during Friday’s protest at Pomona College. Nineteen of the protesters were arrested after occupying President Gabrielle Starr’s office.  CHARLOTTE, N.C (TNS) — What beg…

A homeless camp along Cumpston street next to the North Hollywood Metro Red Line. CHARLOTTE, N.C (TNS) — The Los Angeles City Council agreed Friday to pay up to $2.2 million for an outside audit of homelessness programs that was ordered by a federal judge. But the commitment fell short of the $2.8 …

CHARLOTTE, N.C (TNS) — A convicted Beverly Hills con artist with a long history of swindles pleaded guilty to another one Friday, admitting that he duped investors out of more than $18 million by concocting a sham cannabis empire while completing a sentence in a previous criminal case. Mark Roy And…

CHARLOTTE, N.C (TNS) — The Rev. Dr. Cecil L. “Chip” Murray, who made the First African Methodist Episcopal Church the most prestigious Black pulpit in Los Angeles, attracting presidents, governors and mayors to hear his dynamic sermons, has died. Murray died of natural causes Friday evening at his …

CHARLOTTE, N.C (TNS) — The nurses and other medical staffers who work in the city jails are routinely threatened, pushed, groped and otherwise accosted hundreds of times a year, based on statistics and documents obtained by The New York Daily News. In all, staffers with Correctional Health Services…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The U.S. Transportation Department on Friday said it reached an agreement with Baltimore County to revise an $8.26 million grant agreement to enable Tradepoint Atlantic (TPA) to accommodate more cargo. Repurposing the funds will allow a boost in cargo to Sparrows Point at the…