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North Korea fires four banned ballistic missiles 1,000 km into ocean off Japan

North Korea on Monday fired four banned ballistic missiles that flew about 1,000 kilometres, with three of them landing in Japan’s exclusive economic zone, South Korean and Japanese officials said, in an apparent reaction to huge military drills by Washington and Seoul that Pyongyang insists are an invasion rehearsal. It was not immediately clear the exact type of missile fired;

Argument ends in gunfire in South Bay

OTAY MESA WEST – An argument in Otay Mesa West that escalated into a shooting over night, left one man injured and two suspects at large, according to police. San Diego Police were called just after midnight to the 3500 block of Arey Drive, where they found a 28-year-old man shot once in each arm in an apparent gang-related shooting,

Mayor Hogsett to join Marion County prosecutor for partnership announcement with Nextdoor

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.– Marion County Prosecutor Terry Curry will be joined by Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett and Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department (IMPD) Chief Bryan Roach Monday afternoon for an announcement regarding a partnership with the Nextdoor app. Nextdoor is a social media network for neighborhoods and communities. It can be used to share crime information, prevention methods and information on things

Trump signs new travel ban, exempts Iraq

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump signed a new executive order Monday banning immigration from six Muslim-majority countries, notably dropping Iraq from January’s previous order. The new travel ban comes six weeks after Trump’s original executive order was rolled out to chaos and confusion at airports nationwide, and eventually blocked by a federal court. The ban covers Syria, Iran, Libya, Somalia,

Photos of naked female Marines shared on Facebook prompts investigation

SAN DIEGO – Hundreds of Marines may be involved in a nude photo scandal on a popular Facebook group and the Marine veteran who exposed the misconduct has received death threats, the Marine Corps Times reported Sunday. “If you have ever sent a naked picture to a Marine he is not the only person that saw that,” said one former

No survivors in mountainside crash of rescue helicopter in Japan — seven firefighters among the dead

TOKYO — Japanese authorities confirmed Monday that all nine people aboard a rescue helicopter that crashed in snow-covered mountains in central Japan have been pronounced dead. The Fire and Disaster Management Agency said in a statement that the nine men — seven firefighters, an engineer and the pilot — were aboard a rescue helicopter that crashed during a training flight

500 Festival training run to close downtown streets this weekend in Indianapolis

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. — People traveling into downtown Indianapolis this Saturday morning should be prepared for several streets to be closed in conjunction with an Indy Mini-Marathon training run. The 500 Festival 6-Miler training run will be held from 9 – 10 a.m. The run will start at Bankers Life Fieldhouse with lane closures and setup beginning at 6 a.m. Expect

Pennsylvania tightens medication rules; Aimed at fighting opioids

Harrisburg, PA – Today, Governor Tom Wolf announced several additional steps the commonwealth is taking to help combat the opioid addiction crisis. These steps will help tighten the rules under which medication such as buprenorphine can be prescribed under the Medicaid program. “Success in the fight against opioid crisis requires that we address the issue from all angles,” said Governor

Obama’s intel chief denies Trump wiretapping but White House pushes on for investigation

PALM BEACH, Fla. — The White House said Sunday that Congress should expand its investigation of Russian meddling in the 2016 election to include President Donald Trump’s unverified allegation that former President Barack Obama stepped over the legal line in the campaign. While Trump claimed, without evidence in a series of tweets Saturday, that his predecessor had tapped the telephones

Don’t sweat it: A YMCA banned news channels from TVs to avoid fistfights caused by politics

Members of the Greater Scranton YMCA spar in martial arts classes, but some at the Pennsylvania facility were on the verge of real fights — right up until the gym removed the cause of their pugnaciousness: cable news. The Y — located in one of the 2016 presidential election’s most hotly-contested battlegrounds —banished CNN, Fox News and MSNBC from its

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