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Con Ed looking into cause of NYC power outage on Manhattan's West Side

Jul 15, 2019

A power outage on the West Side of Manhattan in New York City on Saturday evening lasted a little more than five hours — trapping people in subways and elevators, thwarting theatre-goers on Broadway, dimming the lights in Times Square and leaving drivers without traffic signals from 72nd Street to the West 40s, and from Fifth Avenue to the Hudson River.

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Special prosecutor named for Indiana shooting of black man

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Jul 4, 2019

A judge appointed a special prosecutor Wednesday to investigate a white police officer's fatal shooting of a black man in the Indiana city where Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg is mayor.

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Grammy-winning jazz drummer killed in Bronx during love triangle dispute

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Jun 4, 2019

A man killed during a scuffle Sunday with a romantic rival in the stairwell of a Bronx building was Lawrence Leathers, a Grammy-winning jazz drummer who has played in venues all over the world, cops and a relative said Monday.

Climate Matters

Marine life is disappearing, imperiling San Diego's future

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Jun 4, 2019

Just as scientists are starting to understand the life forms and landscape of the ocean, they are also coming to grips with the threat of mass extinctions, speakers said at a marine biodiversity forum last week. The forum, at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, featured French scientific leaders and their American counterparts from the San Diego area. They addressed the marine issues raised in an international report on global biodiversity released earlier this month, arguing that conservation is just as important as stabilizing the climate. According to the report, 30 percent of reef-forming corals are threatened, 33 percent of fisheries are over-fished, 33 percent of marine mammals are threatened, and 55 percent of the ocean is subject to industrial fishing. That has profound implications for coastal communities such as San Diego, which depend on the ocean for food, tourism, recreation and biotechnology.

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Authorities raid 247 Colorado homes growing black market pot

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May 25, 2019

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 pounds (2,040 kilograms) of harvested marijuana, state and federal prosecutors said at a news conference. Officers raided 247 homes and eight businesses and arrested 42 people in Denver and seven nearby counties.

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Tensions flare in Texas Capitol over new Sandra Bland video

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May 25, 2019

Texas authorities on Friday denied withholding a cellphone video of Sandra Bland's confrontational traffic stop, responding to a Democratic legislator's heated questions about why the 39-second clip never publicly surfaced until now. Bland, a 28-year-old black woman from outside Chicago, had used her phone in 2015 to briefly film a white state trooper as he drew a stun gun and yelled "I will light you up!" while ordering her out of the car. She was dead three days later, hanging in her jail cell outside Houston. Her death was ruled a suicide.

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Jury finds man guilty of murder in Tennessee church shooting

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May 25, 2019

A jury on Friday found a man guilty of first-degree murder in a shooting at a Nashville church two years ago that left a woman dead and seven wounded. Jurors deliberated less than five hours before delivering the verdict against Emanuel Kidega Samson. He was found guilty on all 43 counts in the indictment. Samson, 27, is black; the victims are white.

Los Angeles News

Before his death in South L.A., Nipsey Hussle was trying to buy back his 'hood

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Apr 3, 2019

Nipsey Hussle, the 33-year-old rapper who was shot to death outside of his clothing store on Sunday afternoon, fought for the black and Latino people of his neighborhood of Hyde Park. Long before Hussle was nominated for a Grammy, he was a champion of South L.A. and had been planning to buy back the 'hood — and in recent months, he was succeeding.

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Teen rejected 41-yr-old. So after church, he tried to run her over, stabbed her

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Apr 2, 2019

A teenager is in the hospital and the 41-year-old man who attacked her with a car before stabbing her is behind bars at a North Carolina jail, the Archdale Police Department reported on Facebook. The 19-year-old was stabbed multiple times because she refused to date Tyvonne Quantaine Upshur, WXII reported.