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Court rules Minneapolis mayor failed to hire more police

FILE – The family of Daunte Wright gathers on the one-year anniversary of George Floyd’s death, May 25, 2021, in Minneapolis. A candlelight vigil to honor Floyd’s memory at the intersection where he died was among the remembrances scheduled for Wednesday’s second anniversary of the Black man’s killing at the hands of Minneapolis police officers. […]

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Mayor

Mayor of Washington, DC, faces formidable primary challenge

WASHINGTON — Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser faced a formidable fight for a third term, challenged in Tuesday’s Democratic primary by two council members in a race dominated by crime and public safety issues. During Bowser’s tumultuous second term, she clashed with former President Donald Trump and walked a public tightrope between her own police […]

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Alabama

Inside the manhunt for an escaped murder suspect and jailer | Elections Ap | #elections | #alabama

WASHINGTON (AP) — It was about three hours after sheriff’s officials in Alabama realized a capital murder suspect and a senior jail official who had taken him for a mental health evaluation had disappeared when Sheriff Rick Singleton called in the U.S. marshals. At first, law enforcement officials believed the suspect, Casey White, might have […]

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