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Shooting Near Manchester, NH School Under Investigation
Students at Central High School in Manchester, New Hampshire, were forced to shelter in place on Wednesday afternoon after a shooting incident in a nearby neighborhood. Manchester police said they responded to the scene of a shooting incident in the area of Amherst Street near Central High School around 1:15 p.m. They said the immediate area of the school was…
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Soccer Star, 20, Found Dead in Manchester Park Was Shot in the Back: NH AG
New Hampshire officials are investigating a 20-year-old soccer star’s death as a homicide, one day after his body was found at a park in Manchester. The Attorney General’s Office had first deemed the man’s death suspicious after he was found dead Sunday morning at Derryfield Park, in the area of Al Lemire Park off of Bridge Street. On Monday,...
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Philly School Works to Return Native American Remains Used in Teaching
The School District of Philadelphia is working to repatriate Native American skeletal remains found in a high school classroom closet this summer
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Suspicious Device Causes Scare in Manchester, NH
Streets around a high school in Manchester, New Hampshire, were temporarily closed as police investigated a suspicious device.
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Hoax Bomb ‘With Wires Sticking' Out Near School Brings Out NH Bomb Squad
A hoax bomb prompted the evacuation of a high school in Manchester, New Hampshire, Monday, as a bomb squad investigated, police said. Central High School administrators reported a suspicious device that was “taped up with wires sticking out,” according to a statement from Manchester police. Officers shut down streets near the school after the device, found on the Beech Street…
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Teen to Be Tried as An Adult in Shooting Outside RI School
A teenager charged with shooting and killing a 15-year-old high school student in Rhode Island will be tried as an adult. The Providence Journal reports 17-year-old Joel Loarca was arraigned Tuesday in District Court. He faces a charge of murder and firearms violations in the Sept. 5, 2018 shooting of William Parsons outside the Providence Career and Technical Academy. It...
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NH Murder Suspect Arrested After 4-Day Manhunt
A New Hampshire man has been arrested on murder charges days after he allegedly shot another man to death. The New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office confirmed Wednesday that 26-year-old Paul Dimick has been charged with second-degree murder in the death of 32-year-old Justin Lee Friday.
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Reward for Help Locating Manchester, NH Murder Suspect Increases
The reward for anyone who can help locate Paul Dimick, a man wanted on second degree murder in Manchester, New Hampshire, has gone up to $5,000. Manchester police announced Tuesday that it would offer $2,500 to anyone who could help. Then Manchester resident Joe Kelly Levasseur contacted police and offered to match the reward, bringing the total to $5,000.
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Teenage Boy Fatally Shot Outside Rhode Island High School Identified
The teenage boy who was killed Wednesday after being shot outside of a high school in Providence, Rhode Island has been identified. William Parsons, 15, succumbed to his injuries and was described as an “innocent bystander,” according to the Providence Journal. Parsons was shot at approximately 2 p.m. after a fight broke out near the Providence Career and Technical Academy,...
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Student Shot Outside Providence High School Dies From Injuries
A student shot outside of a high school in Providence, Rhode Island, has died from his injuries. According to WJAR-TV police responded to a call of shots fired at about 2 p.m. in the area of Fricker and Westminister streets — the Providence Career and Technical Academy and Central High School.
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New Smithsonian Exhibit Depicts Oprah Winfrey's Rise in Media
One of the most recognizable openings in television history blares on a video screen: “I’m Oprah Winfrey, and welcome to The Oprah Winfrey Show!” The crowd goes wild. At the center of it all, a dancing young Oprah. This moment, televised more than 30 years ago, is now part of a yearlong exhibition that opened Friday at the Smithsonian National...
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New Smithsonian Exhibit Depicts Oprah Winfrey's Rise in Media
One of the most recognizable openings in television history blares on a video screen: “I’m Oprah Winfrey, and welcome to The Oprah Winfrey Show!” The crowd goes wild. At the center of it all, a dancing young Oprah. This moment, televised more than 30 years ago, is now part of a yearlong exhibition that opened Friday at the Smithsonian National...
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Police: Gun in CMU Campus Shooting Belonged to Suspect's Dad
A 19-year-old student charged with fatally shooting his parents at a Central Michigan University dormitory had been acting so strangely the day before the killings that campus police talked to his mother and then took him to a hospital for suspected drug abuse, authorities said Saturday. University police Chief Bill Yeagley told reporters that James Eric Davis Jr.’s parents had...
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Dozens Without Heat After Manchester, NH Water Main Break
Crews are expected to be on scene all night Sunday into Monday as they are working to repair the pipes and to restore power and heat to some homes in the area.
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Manchester Water Main Break Leaves Homes Without Heat, Hot Water
A massive water main break in Manchester, New Hampshire is under control, but over a dozen people are without heat and hot water Sunday night.
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6 Decades After ‘Little Rock Nine,' School Segregation Lingers
Among the most lasting and indelible images of the civil rights movement were the nine black teenagers who had to be escorted by federal troops past an angry white mob and through the doors of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, on Sept. 25, 1957. It had been three years since the Supreme Court had declared “separate but equal”...
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Police Investigating Shooting That Resulted in Brief School Lockdown
A New Hampshire school was placed on lockdown as police investigating a nearby shooting at a rooming house on Thursday morning.
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Fort Hood Soldier's Fiancée Is Planning Funeral Instead of Wedding
The fiancée of the only soldier from Texas killed in last week’s tragic flooding accident at Fort Hood says the couple planned to get married next month.