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    July 16, 2019 - 6:18 am

    Atlanta FedEx driver transports shooting victims to hospital

    ATLANTA (AP) — A FedEx truck driver in Atlanta is being credited for transporting three shooting victims to a hospital. News outlets report four people were shot Monday. Before police arrived, three of the victims flagged down a FedEx driver who took them to Grady Memorial Hospital. The fourth...
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    June 29, 2019 - 2:46 pm

    Authorities: 3 arrested outside Walmart planned cocaine deal

    VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) — Authorities say a drug bust outside a Walmart in Virginia Beach this week that left multiple people injured resulted in the arrest of three men who planned to exchange 22 pounds (10 kilograms) of cocaine for $280,000. The Virginian-Pilot reports the men have been charged...
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    June 28, 2019 - 12:36 pm

    North Carolina sheriff says deputy shot man during drug bust

    WILMINGTON, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina authorities say a county sheriff's deputy shot and injured a man while investigating a suspected heroin deal at a Burger King. New Hanover County Sheriff Ed McMahon said the deputy, later identified as M. H. Bowie, shot the man Thursday at the Wilmington,...
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    June 20, 2019 - 5:11 pm

    Judge vacates federal death sentence in 1994 Texas case

    HOUSTON (AP) — A judge has vacated the federal death sentence for an Arkansas man convicted in the 1994 slaying of a 16-year-old Texas girl, concluding the inmate can't be put to death because he's intellectually disabled. Attorneys for Bruce Carneil Webster had challenged his death sentence based...
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    Police officers detain a supporter of Russian investigative journalist Ivan Golunov during a march in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, June 12, 2019. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
    June 12, 2019 - 8:31 am

    200 arrests at Moscow protest against falsified police cases

    MOSCOW (AP) — More than 200 people were reported arrested on Wednesday in a large unauthorized protest against falsified police cases, sparked by the recent arrest of a prominent reporter on drug-dealing charges that later were dropped. The confrontation was a harsh coda to the elation felt by...
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    Prominent Russian investigative journalist Ivan Golunov, cries as he leaves a Investigative Committee building in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, June 11, 2019. In a surprising turnaround, Russia's police chief on Tuesday dropped all charges against a prominent investigative reporter whose detention sparked public outrage and promised to go after the police officers who tried to frame the journalist as a drug-dealer. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)
    June 11, 2019 - 2:45 pm

    The Latest: Freed Russian journalist thanks supporters

    MOSCOW (AP) — The Latest on a Russian journalist arrested on drug charges (all times local): 9:40 p.m. A prominent Russian journalist absolved of drug-dealing charges under public pressure has thanked his supporters and promised to continue his investigations. The 36-year-old Ivan Golunov was...
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    In this photo taken on Saturday, June 8, 2019, Ivan Golunov, a prominent Russian investigative reporter, who worked for the independent website Meduza, leaves the cage in a court room in Moscow, Russia. Golunov left the courtroom after the ruling to place him under house arrest until Aug. 7. In the court hearing, he denied being involved with drugs and said he would be willing to help investigators. (Evgeny Feldman/meduza.io via AP)
    June 09, 2019 - 11:46 am

    Russian reporter's lawyer protests alleged police violence

    MOSCOW (AP) — A lawyer for a Russian journalist detained on charges of drug dealing has filed a complaint that accuses police of using violence against the prominent reporter, a human rights group said Sunday. Police refuted claims that Ivan Golunov was beaten after his Thursday arrest; his lawyers...
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    In this handout photo taken on Thursday, June 6, 2019 and released by Meduza, Ivan Golunov stands at a police station in Moscow, Russia. Police said on Friday that Ivan Golunov, who works for the independent website Meduza, was detained on Thursday with four grams of methylephedrine on him, and that drugs were also found at his home. The journalist now faces charges of dealing. (Dmitry Dzhulay, meduza.io via AP)
    June 07, 2019 - 12:32 pm

    Prominent investigative journalist detained in Russia

    MOSCOW (AP) — A prominent Russian investigative journalist has been charged with drug dealing after four grams of a synthetic drug called mephedrone were found in his backpack, Moscow police said Friday. Ivan Golunov, who works for the independent website Meduza, was stopped by police in central...
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    Dave Young, 17th Judicial District Attorney, center, makes a point while U.S. Attorney Jason Dunn, left, and George Brauchler, 18th Judicial District Attorney, listen during a news conference to announce the arrest of 42 people this week in one of the largest black market marijuana enforcement actions in the history of Colorado Friday, May 24, 2019, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
    May 24, 2019 - 8:56 pm

    Authorities raid 247 Colorado homes growing black market pot

    DENVER (AP) — Authorities said Friday they raided hundreds of black market marijuana operations in Colorado that flouted the state's cannabis law by growing tens of thousands of plants in Denver-area homes and selling the drugs out of state. Investigators seized more than 80,000 plants and 4,500...
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    May 20, 2019 - 11:15 am

    Dad who shot daughter through door arrested for drugs

    GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) — Authorities in South Carolina say a Greenville man who mistook his daughter for a potential intruder and killed her has been arrested on drug charges. Greenville County deputies said officers responding to the early Sunday shooting found heroin and cocaine in the Greenville...
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