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Year: 2022

Suspect in the Idaho college student killings returned home for the holidays weeks after the crime. Here’s what we know about him

By Paul P. Murphy, Christina Maxouris and Alaa Elassar, CNN The man arrested in connection with the November killings of four University of Idaho students who were found stabbed to death attended a nearby university in Washington state and traveled across the country in December to spend the holidays with his parents. Bryan Christopher Kohberger,

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Local tribes react to new Feather Alert system made to help find missing Indigenous people

Indigenous people face disproportionate numbers of missing and murdered people with high numbers of unsolved cases. In response, California is launching the Feather Alert in 2023, a new system created to help the state find Indigenous who have gone missing “under unexplainable or suspicious circumstances.” “This is an epidemic. That is, I think it’s unaware

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Even Mississippi lawmaker feels strain of Jackson water woes

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — In Mississippi’s capital city, where intermittent periods without running water have become a fact of life for residents, a new disruption to the long-troubled water system persists just days before lawmakers are set to arrive for the state’s 2023 legislative session. Amid frigid weather

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Google to pay Indiana $20 million to resolve privacy suit

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — State Attorney General Todd Rokita announces that Google will pay Indiana $20 million to resolve the state’s lawsuit against the technology giant over allegedly deceptive location tracking practices. Rokitas says he filed a separate lawsuit against Google when negotiations between the company and a coalition of state attorneys general stalled. Those states

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Google to pay Indiana $20 million to resolve privacy suit

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — State Attorney General Todd Rokita announces that Google will pay Indiana $20 million to resolve the state’s lawsuit against the technology giant over allegedly deceptive location tracking practices. Rokitas says he filed a separate lawsuit against Google when negotiations between the company and a coalition of state attorneys general stalled. Those states

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