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Deputies in Florida say they have identified the man who allegedly committed a murder in 1987.The Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office announced on Wednesday night that deputies arrested Michael Lapniewski, Jr., 55, for allegedly killing Opal Weil, who was 82-years-old when she was killed.Officials say that Weil was found dead on February 9, 1987, when her sister-in-law went to check on her after not answering the telephone, and say that the woman had “obvious and visible signs of trauma.”The suspect fled the scene before deputies arrived to the St. Petersburg, Florida, residence, officials say.TEXAS MAN SENTENCED FOR CHILD SEX CRIMES HE…

WASHINGTON — A man “randomly” brandishing a firearm shot three people, killing one, in a Wednesday morning rampage in the nation’s capital that started on a city bus and ended in a Metro tunnel after passengers attacked and disarmed him.Authorities were still piecing together the chaotic series of events that left two people with gunshot wounds to the leg and Metro employee Robert Cunningham shot dead. The shooter is in police custody and has not been publicly identified.Metropolitan Police Department Executive Assistant Chief Ashan Benedict praised the “heroic actions of our citizens, our community, to disarm this shooter.”But he added,…

The kidnapping suspect who led authorities on a weeklong manhunt in southwest Oregon murdered two men before turning a gun on himself Tuesday evening, according to law enforcement officials. Benjamin Foster, a 36-year-old man accused of torturing and imprisoning a woman, died of a gunshot wound to the head after a standoff with police in Grants Pass, Oregon. As police searched for Foster, they discovered the bodies of Richard Lee Barron Jr. and Donald Owen Griffith, who had died from blunt force trauma some time between Monday afternoon and Tuesday evening. Foster is the primary suspect in their murders.  The manhunt for…

Rick Nash couldn’t help but keep an eye on Jimmy Vesey during the Rangers’ training camp ahead of the 2016-17 season. Here was a 23-year-old kid who was coming off one of the most publicly drawn out free-agency sweepstakes in recent memory. Vesey had declined to sign with the Predators, who drafted him No. 66 overall in 2012 and offered him a top-six spot heading into the 2016 playoffs after he completed his senior season at Harvard. He then opted to test the free-agent market after two months of negotiating with the Sabres, the team that had acquired his rights.…

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Former Carolina Panthers head coach Matt Rhule has taken legal action over a compensation dispute, a report from The Associated Press revealed.The arbitration suit with the NFL is seeking around $5 million in “offset severance compensation,” a source told the AP. CBS Sports was first to report the suit.Rhule was relieved of his duties in October, one day after the Panthers were defeated by the 49ers to drop to 1-4.  The current Nebraska football head coach has reportedly retained the services of high-profile litigator John Singer of Singer Deutsch LLP to handle the lawsuit.A spokesperson for the Panthers did not…

A group of Latino Democratic lawmakers in Connecticut is asking the state to follow in the footsteps of another by removing the term “Latinx” from all government documents, claiming the term is offensive, according to reports.In the Spanish language, Latino refers to the Latin male, while Latina refers to the Latin female. The term “Latinx” is like non-binary, meaning it is used to describe a person who does not identify as either male or female. Connecticut State Rep. Geraldo Reyes Jr. sponsored a bill along with four other Hispanic Democrats, saying Latinx is a “woke” term that offends a substantial…

A middle school teacher in eastern Texas was placed on administrative leave after he took to social media to criticize his district for allegedly not taking a student’s threat seriously. Patrick Durbin, a 6th grade social studies teacher and coach at Waskom Middle School, said that a student threatened to shoot him on Jan. 18. He immediately reported it to his principal and a counselor, but then saw the student who allegedly threatened him in a field house later that afternoon.  “It wasn’t even reported to the police department that this kid threatened to kill a teacher in front of other students,…

State lawmakers allied with the teachers union vowed Wednesday to fight Gov. Kathy Hochul’s plan to open more charter schools in New York City. Hochul’s $227 billion budget plan would keep a statewide cap of 460 charters in place but eliminate a regional cap for New York City to make dozens of more slots available for new charter schools in the Big Apple. There is currently a cap of 275 charters for New York City and that limit has been reached. But powerful state senators, with whom Hochul will have to negotiate the budget-tied plan, issued a joint statement saying they…

Washington CNN  —  The conspiracy theories about the October attack on Paul Pelosi never made sense. And now the public can see that a whole bunch of these false claims have been definitively disproven by audio and video evidence. Prominent right-wing figures – including former President Donald Trump and some Republican members of Congress – spread a variety of inaccurate assertions and baseless innuendo in the wake of the brutal hammer assault on the husband of Democratic then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi by an intruder who broke into their California home looking for her. Local and federal law enforcement were always…