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  • What to do with your first million - Las Vegas Review

    What to do with your first million - Las Vegas Review
    After the Mega Millions drawing on Friday night, one lucky person is $540 million richer — or $380 million if they choose the cash option. The Mega Millions jackpot is the seventh largest in history.Of course, joining the ranks of Mega Millions lottery winners isn’t the only way you can land your first million. Whether you make a smart investment, come upon an inheritance or land a role in a big-screen film, you might someday find yourself with a padded bank account. If that happens, you need to..
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  • Suspect's friends, family shocked by Tennessee shooting

    Suspect's friends, family shocked by Tennessee shooting
    By STEVE MEGARGEE and ADRIAN SAINZ, Associated Press BRISTOL, Tenn. (AP) — Friends and family of a black Army veteran accused of shooting at passing cars and police on a Tennessee highway are struggling to accept that he became violent in response to police killings of African-Americans. One woman died and three others were wounded, including an officer, as police traded gunfire early Thursday with the suspect, identified as Lakeem Keon Scott, 37. "I will never believe that, never," said..
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  • Black Lives Matter protesters return to the streets, condemn Dallas violence

    Black Lives Matter protesters return to the streets, condemn Dallas violence
    Tensions ran high between police and protesters, resulting in a few arrests and scattered scuffles. The Friday protests came a day after a sniper killed five police officers during a demonstration in Dallas. "Black activists have raised the call for an end to violence, not an escalation of it. Yesterday's attack was the result of the actions of a lone gunman. To assign the actions of one person to an entire movement is dangerous and irresponsible. We continue our efforts to bring about a better ..
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  • UPDATE: Protesters vowing to continue late demonstrations

    UPDATE: Protesters vowing to continue late demonstrations
    Updated: 3:40 a.m.: Protesters and police have left the Downtown Connector entrance at Williams Street. WSB TV's Darryn Moore reports the entrance ramp to I-75/85 at Williams Street is open to traffic.Updated: 11:15 p.m.: Jamie Lake,30, owner of American Sushi Recording Studio in Little Five Points was among the protesters still out late Friday night. He said he’s marching for his 9 year old daughter.“She asked me not to get shot so I wore this bullet proof vest.” Lake says he hopes keeping prot..
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  • Police group: Minn. governor 'exploited what was already a horrible and tragic situation'

    Police group: Minn. governor 'exploited what was already a horrible and tragic situation'
    Philando Castile, 32, was fatally shot by a police officer at a traffic stop outside St. Paul. His girlfriend, Diamond "Lavish" Reynolds, and her 4-year-old daughter were in the car with him. Reynolds live streamed the aftermath on Facebook. Here's what you need to know. (Monica Akhtar,Jenny Starrs/The Washington Post) ST. PAUL, Minn. — The morning after Minnesota’s governor said Philando Castile ended up dead during a traffic stop in part because he was black — and after five police offic..
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  • Senate Passes A GMO Labeling Bill That The Food Industry Likes

    Senate Passes A GMO Labeling Bill That The Food Industry Likes
    The Senate on Thursday approved a measure that would require food companies to disclose GMOs — but without necessarily using a GMO label on packaging. Companies would have several disclosure options, including using a QR code on packaging that customers could then scan with a smartphone to learn more. (Above) A sign at a July 1 rally in Montpelier, Vt., protests the Senate bill. Wilson Ring/AP ..
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  • Police officer slain in Dallas ambush was married to detective

    Police officer slain in Dallas ambush was married to detective
    Senior Cpl. Lorne Ahrens, 48, is survived by his wife, a detective in the same department, and their two children. (Handout). BY Tobias Salinger. NEW YORK DAILY NEWS. Friday, July 8, 2016, 7:58 PM. A Dallas police officer killed in the ambush at a ...
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  • Dallas sniper attack: 5 officers killed, suspect identified

    Dallas sniper attack: 5 officers killed, suspect identified
    Investigators identified the dead attacker as Micah Xavier Johnson, 25, of Mesquite, Texas, a military veteran who'd served in Afghanistan. Police searched his home Friday and found bomb-making materials, ballistic vests, rifles, ammunition and a personal journal of combat tactics. They are analyzing information in the journal, police said in a statement.Investigators determined Johnson was "the lone shooter in this incident," Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings said, confirming what federal officials ha..
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  • Dallas Policeman Michael Krol, Killed in Sniper Attack, 'Was a Big Guy with a Big Heart'

    Dallas Policeman Michael Krol, Killed in Sniper Attack, 'Was a Big Guy with a Big Heart'
    Officer Michael Krol Courtesy Wayne County Sheriff’s Office By Chris Harris @chrisharrisment 07/08/2016 AT 05:10 PM EDT According to Michael Krol's brother-in-law, the 40-year-old officer – one of the five Dallas police officers fatally wounded by a sniper Thursday evening – was a kindhearted, quiet man who moved more than 1,000 miles to fulfill a lifelong goal of being a street cop. Krol was working the Black Lives Matter protest in Dallas when a sniper opened fire. Twelve officers and ..
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  • Man accused of homeless attacks in San Diego had violent history

    Man accused of homeless attacks in San Diego had violent history
    SAN DIEGO - A man accused of a spate of attacks on homeless people who were asleep and in some cases set on fire was sentenced to prison six years ago for a strikingly similar crime.CBS News 8 in San Diego reports that Anthony Alexander Padgett, 36, was convicted of mayhem and sentenced to four years in prison for a 2010 attack on a 49-year-old homeless friend, who was also set ablaze, in Chula Vista.Padgett was arrested Thursday about a block from a trolley station in Chula Vista, the San Die..
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