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  • USAssociated Press

    Sister of Mississippi man who died after police pulled him from car rejects lawsuit settlement

    A woman who sued Mississippi's capital city over the death of her brother has decided to reject a settlement after officials publicly disclosed how much the city would pay his survivors, her attorney said Wednesday. George Robinson, 62, died in January 2019, days after three Jackson police officers pulled him from a car while searching for a murder suspect. The Jackson City Council on Tuesday approved the payment of $17,786 to settle the lawsuit that relatives of Robinson filed in state court

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  • USUSA TODAY

    Michigan student dies 'suddenly' on school trip to robotics competition in Texas

    Lake Orion High's robotics team was attending the FIRSTS robotics world championships in Houston. The student "suddenly passed away" the school said.

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  • USUSA TODAY

    'Extraordinary': George Washington's 250-year-old cherries found buried at Mount Vernon

    Archaeologists say that enslaved laborers picked the cherries, wiped them off to avoid condensation and placed them into the jar. They've been there ever since.

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  • USUSA TODAY

    Huge alligator parks itself on MacDill Air Force Base runway, fights officials: Watch

    Video shows wildlife officers attempt to wrangle the huge alligator on the runway at MacDill Air Force Base as it thrashed and flopped around.

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  • USAssociated Press

    Former Wisconsin college chancellor fired over porn career is fighting to keep his faculty post

    The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse's top official has taken the first steps toward removing a faculty member who was earlier fired from his job as chancellor over his fledgling porn career. The former chancellor, Joe Gow, said Wednesday that interim Chancellor Betsy Morgan filed three charges against him March 29, accusing him of unethical conduct, failing to cooperate with an investigation, and using UW-La Crosse computers to produce pornographic materials. Gow declined to share a letter f

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  • USWFLA

    ‘There’s a lot of people on the waiting list’: DeSantis signs bill to give $200M boost to My Safe Florida Home program

    "The program is over subscribed," Gov. DeSantis told reporters in Pinellas County. "There is a lot of demand."

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  • USMilwaukee Journal Sentinel

    We asked what Milwaukee stores you miss the most. There was one clear favorite.

    The Journal Sentinel asked readers to share their most missed stores in the city.

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