Tag: staged
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911 call about hiker chased by bear leads to body; officials say it was staged, caller wanted for murder
A man who called police claiming he fell off a cliff while running from a bear — leading officials to discover a dead body — is now wanted for murder, Tennessee officials say. The man called dispatch on Oct. 18 posing as a distressed hiker, claiming to be a man named Brandon Andrade, the Monroe…
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1960s civil rights protesters who staged historic sit-in finally have arrest records cleared
Simon Bouie told his mother and grandmother he wasn’t going to get in trouble back in 1960. Then the Black Benedict College student sat at a whites-only lunch counter in South Carolina and got himself arrested. Finally on Friday, that arrest and the records of six of his friends were erased as a judge signed an order…