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Month: August 2023

2 women accused of stealing $27,000 of items from Stop & Shop stores with counterfeit coupons

By BRANDON TRUITT Click here for updates on this story     TAUNTON, Massachusetts (WBZ) — There is extreme couponing and then there’s this. An alleged counterfeit coupon ring raking in nearly $27,000 in goods has resulted in charges for two women from Taunton. The Plymouth County District Attorney’s office said 41-year-old Jacqueline White and 40-year-old Crystal

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Kosovo’s president lashes out at Macron for saying France may review visa-free travel for Kosovars

By SYLEJMAN KLLOKOQI and LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Kosovo’s president has lashed out at France’s Emmanuel Macron for saying this week that Paris may review visa-free EU travel rules in 2024 for Kosovo and Serbia over their stalled talks on normalizing ties. President Vjosa Osmani said on Wednesday any suspension of

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Kremlin says ‘deliberate wrongdoing’ is a possible cause of the plane crash that killed Wagner chief

MOSCOW (AP) — “Deliberate wrongdoing” is among the possible causes of the plane crash that killed Russian mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin last week, the Kremlin’s spokesperson said Wednesday. Speaking to reporters during his daily conference call, presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov said that “different versions” of what happened exist and “are being considered” by Russian

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Nebraska volleyball stadium event could draw 90,000-plus and set women’s world attendance record

By ERIC OLSON AP Sports Writer LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — An attendance record of global proportions could be set Wednesday night when the University of Nebraska hosts a celebration of volleyball at Memorial Stadium in Lincoln. The event will feature an exhibition between Nebraska-Kearney and Wayne State and a regular-season match between Omaha and the

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Critical fire weather in arrives Northern California’s interior; PG&E cuts power to 8,400 customers

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ and JOHN ANTCZAK Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Gusty winds and low humidity brought high risk of wildfires to the interior of Northern California on Wednesday and a utility proactively cut electricity to approximately 8,400 customers to prevent potential ignitions in the blustery conditions. Red flag warnings for critical fire

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Court says Netanyahu’s son must pay damages to woman he implied had affair with his father’s rival

By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s son must compensate a woman who sued him after he implied she was having an affair with his father’s chief political opponent, a court ruled Wednesday. The court ordered Netanyahu’s eldest son, Yair Netanyahu, to pay over $34,000 in compensation and $6,000

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Militares anunciaran la toma del poder en Gabón y el arresto del presidente Ali Bongo; se reportan celebraciones en la capital Libreville

Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Oficiales militares de Gabón aparecieron en la televisión nacional este miércoles para declarar que estaban tomando el poder, lo que provocó celebraciones e informes de disparos en las calles de la capital. El anuncio se produjo pocos minutos después de que el presidente Ali Bongo Ondimba, también conocido como Ali

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Haitian judge interviews Colombian suspects for the first time since the president was assassinated

By EVENS SANON Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A judge in Haiti is for the first time interrogating some of the 18 Colombian suspects arrested more than two years ago in the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse. The first two suspects were transported on Monday and Tuesday from Haiti’s main penitentiary in downtown Port-au-Prince

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Judge’s illness delays sentencing for ex-Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio in Jan. 6 case

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The sentencing for former Proud Boys national leader Enrique Tarrio, who was convicted of orchestrating the far-right extremist group’s attack on the U.S. Capitol after Donald Trump lost the 2020 election, has been delayed until next week because the judge hearing the case became sick. Prosecutors are

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