Tag: deaths
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Biden apologizes for forced Native American boarding school policy that caused abuse and deaths of children
PHOENIX — President Joe Biden delivered an apology Friday for a United States policy that forcibly separated generations of indigenous children from their families for more than 150 years and sent them to federally backed boarding schools for forced assimilation. “I formally apologize as president of the United States of America for what we did,”…
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Woman sentenced to life in deaths of 2 young kids found hanging in home’s basement
READING, Pa. — A Pennsylvania woman has been sentenced to two life terms without parole on murder convictions in the deaths of her two young children, who were found hanging in the basement of their home five years ago. Lisa Snyder, 41, was convicted last month of two counts of first-degree murder in the September…
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Drug overdose deaths fall for 6 months straight as officials wonder what’s working
After years of rising, the tide may finally be turning on deadly drug overdoses in America. Drug overdose deaths fell 12.7% in the 12 months ending in May, according to preliminary data released Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “This is the largest recorded reduction in overdose deaths,” White House officials said…
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Migrant deaths spike outside El Paso
SUNLAND PARK, N.M. — In each of the last two summers, Laura Mae Williams, who recovers bodies for the New Mexico Medical Investigator’s Office, has had to visit the U.S.-Mexico borderlands multiple times a week. “It’s not uncommon for me to come down for one body that’s been found, and then Border Patrol finds another…
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Texas policy, heat fuel rise in migrant deaths
IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. Operation Lone Star and extreme heat have transformed a small patch of desert in the suburbs of El Paso into one of the most dangerous stretches of the southern border–with the number of migrant deaths in the area 10 times…
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Monster storm slams into Florida; deaths confirmed
Share Hurricane Milton weakens slightly; Tampa Bay area under flash flood emergency Hurricane Milton’s maximum sustained winds dropped to 110 mph as it continued to move inland, the National Hurricane Center said in a 10 p.m. advisory. That wind speed would make the hurricane on the high end of a Category 2 storm on the…
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Former Houston officer found guilty of murder in deaths of couple during drug raid
HOUSTON — A former Houston police officer was convicted Wednesday of murder in the deaths of a couple during a 2019 drug raid that revealed systemic corruption problems within the police department’s narcotics unit. A jury found Gerald Goines guilty of two counts of murder in the January 2019 deaths of Dennis Tuttle, 59, and his 58-year-old wife Rhogena…
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Pregnancy deaths rose by 56% in Texas after 2021 abortion ban, analysis finds
The number of women in Texas who died while pregnant, during labor or soon after childbirth skyrocketed following the state’s 2021 ban on abortion care — far outpacing a slower rise in maternal mortality across the nation, a new investigation of federal public health data finds. From 2019 to 2022, the rate of maternal mortality…