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Newtown massacre search warrants released

NEWTOWN, Conn.—Search warrant affidavits related to the Newtown school shootings were unsealed by judge in Danbury on Thursday, a little more than 100 days after Adam Lanza killed 26 people—including 20 children—at Sandy Hook Elementary School here before turning a gun on himself. The documents—dozens of pages of affidavits, warrants and items seized from the [...]


Syrian officials: 12 killed in university attack

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Mortar shells slammed into a cafeteria at Damascus University Thursday, killing at least 12 people and wounding 20, according to state media and an official. It was the deadliest in a string of such attacks on President Bashar Assad's seat of power, state media and an official said.


NYPD officer says he taunted boy, 13, during stop

NEW YORK (AP) — A police officer testified Wednesday that he taunted a potential suspect — who turned out to be an innocent 13-year-old — after he detained the boy under the New York Police Department's disputed program of stopping, questioning and frisking people on city streets.

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