Newark mayor: NYPD Muslim files 'deeply offensive' (AP)

2012-02-23 12:15:02

AP - The mayor and police director of New Jersey's largest city said Wednesday the New York Police Department misled their city and never told them it was conducting a widespread spying operation on Newark's Muslim neighborhoods. Had they known, they said, they never would have allowed it.

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Teenage girl dies after inhaling helium at party (AP)

2012-02-23 12:15:02
AP - Last weekend, 14-year-old Ashley Long told her parents she was going to a slumber party. But instead of spending the night watching videos and eating popcorn two blocks away, she piled into a car with a bunch of her friends and rode to a condo in Medford, Ore., where police say the big sister of one of her friends was throwing a party with booze and marijuana....

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Mexico's electoral agency fines boxer over logo (AP)

2012-02-23 12:15:02
AP - Mexico's election commission says its members have unanimously voted to fine a Mexican boxer for wearing a political party's emblem during a match broadcast last year....

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Report: Crime at US public schools on the decline (AP)

2012-02-23 12:15:02
AP - Violent crime at the nation's schools is declining, and students and schools are reporting less bullying and gang activity....

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DC police official in celeb escort flap to sue (AP)

2012-02-23 12:15:02
AP - A former District of Columbia police commander whose division provided a police escort to actor Charlie Sheen last April has given notice that he intends to file a whistleblower lawsuit against the city, saying he was demoted because he testified to the D.C. Council that such escorts for celebrities were commonplace....

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