Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Pianist's wife may have suffocated daughters in Texas home: police report and other top stories.

  • Pianist's wife may have suffocated daughters in Texas home: police report

    DALLAS The estranged wife of celebrated Ukrainian pianist Vadym Kholodenko is suspected of having smothered her children with pillows before attempting suicide inside their suburban Fort Worth home, according to a police report.Sofya Tsygankova,31, charged on Monday with two counts of capital murder in the deaths of daughters, Nika, 5, and Michela, 1, was transferred to the medical unit of a county jail on Tuesday. She had been in an area hospital for treatment of what were suspected to be sel..
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  • Section of DIA evacuated because of possible suspicious package

    Section of DIA evacuated because of possible suspicious package
    Members of the bomb squad search Denver International Airport. (Andy Cross, The Denver Post)No threat was found at Denver International Airport after an evacuation of a section of the main terminal because of potentially suspicious packages.Denver police cleared a part of the main terminal on the west side between doors 600 and 610 on level six and 500 to 510 on level five, according to an airport tweet. Level five is the bag claim and passenger pickup level, and level six is for passenger dr..
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  • US steps up security amid fears of Brussels copycat attacks

    US steps up security amid fears of Brussels copycat attacks
    WASHINGTON (AP) - The Obama administration stepped up security at major transit hubs across the country after Tuesday’s airport and subway bombings in Brussels, as top U.S. intelligence officials warned of the risk for copycat attacks at home. President Barack Obama vowed to help Belgium track down those responsible for the deadly explosions.Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson stressed there is no “specific, credible intelligence” pointing to a similar plot in America, but he said the Transp..
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  • Fired Texas trooper who arrested Sandra Bland pleads not guilty on perjury

    Fired Texas trooper who arrested Sandra Bland pleads not guilty on perjury
    March 22 at 6:37 PM TEXAS Sandra Bland trooper pleads not guilty A fired Texas trooper pleaded not guilty Tuesday to a charge of misdemeanor perjury stemming from his arrest last summer of Sandra Bland, a black woman who was later found dead in a county jail. Brian Encinia entered his plea during a brief appearance before a Waller County judge as protesters gathered outside the courthouse in Hempstead, about 50 miles northwest of Houston. Bland’s arrest, captured on a police dash-camera vide..
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  • Witness Testifies He Heard Former Deputy Tom Fallis Say He Shot His Wife

    Witness Testifies He Heard Former Deputy Tom Fallis Say He Shot His Wife
    (EVANS, Colo.) — In a frantic and disturbing 911 call placed just hours after Tom Fallis was seen dancing with his wife Ashley at a New Year’s Eve party in 2012, Fallis can be heard begging police to help him. “My wife just shot herself in the head, please help me! Please help me!” Fallis screams. Ashley’s death was initially ruled a suicide by five separate law enforcement agencies, but now four years later, Fallis, a former corrections deputy, is on trial for her murder, accused of shooting a..
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  • Child dies after SUV smashes into East Harris County daycare

    Child dies after SUV smashes into East Harris County daycare
    Child dies after SUV smashes into East Harris County daycare By Emma Hinchliffe and Dale Lezon Updated 4:08 pm, Tuesday, March 22, 2016 Photo: Thomas B. Shea, For The Chronicle An unidentified woman mourns after hearing the news that a 4-year-old was killed in the northeast Houston crash on Tuesday. An unidentified woman mourns after hearing the news that a 4-year-old was killed in the northe..
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  • Supreme Court deals blow to corporate push against class-action suits

    Supreme Court deals blow to corporate push against class-action suits
    The Supreme Court on Tuesday continued to disappoint big business’s efforts to curb class-action lawsuits and upheld a nearly $6 million award to workers at a Tyson Foods pork-processing plant in Iowa. In a 6-to-2 ruling, the court rejected Tyson’s contention that the more than 3,300 workers at the plant should not have been able to use statistical averages to prove that they were not paid what they were due. The court did not rule on a second argument offered by Tyson, that some workers who h..
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  • Sheriff tells Oregon standoff backers to stay out of arrest talks

    Sheriff tells Oregon standoff backers to stay out of arrest talks
    HELENA, Mont. (AP) — The last named defendant in the armed occupation of an Oregon wildlife refuge was still at large Tuesday, drawing calls for supporters to flock to his Montana hometown and a local sheriff to urge outsiders to stay out of it. Supporters of the 41-day standoff this winter over U.S. land restrictions used social media to rally behind Jake Ryan, urging the sheriff to resist federal efforts to apprehend him and for people to head to the small northwestern town of Plains to pray ..
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  • Appeal filed in Native American child custody case

    Appeal filed in Native American child custody case
    LOS ANGELES -- A California family appealed Tuesday to the state's highest court in their fight to keep a six-year-old foster child who was removed from their home after a lower court said her slight Native American heritage requires that she live with relatives in Utah.The family's lawyer, Lori Alvino McGill, filed the request for the California Supreme Court to hear the appeal. McGill also requested that custody of the child named Lexi be returned to Rusty and Summer Page until the appeal is ..
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  • DC federal judge's retirement renders misconduct complaint moot, appeals court says

    DC federal judge's retirement renders misconduct complaint moot, appeals court says
    Appeals Court Judge Merrick Garland speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House after being nominated by President Barack Obama to the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington on March 16. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) A misconduct complaint against chief U.S. District Judge Richard W. Roberts of the District has been dismissed as moot given his retirement last week, according to an order and memorandum released late Monday night by a federal appeals court. The ruling by acting chief judge Karen L. He..
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