Day: March 6, 2024

Pat Collins, mother of GOP Maine Sen. Susan, dead at 96

12:58 am March 6, 2024

Patricia “Pat” Collins, a civic-minded matriarch who raised six children, including Republican Sen. Susan Collins, and led a life of public service, died Tuesday at age 96, the senator announced. Pat Collins was raised in Port Jervis, New York, after coming to the United States as a girl from Colombia, and she put down roots […]

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Man found guilty of killing a Chicago police officer and wounding another

12:56 am March 6, 2024

CHICAGO (AP) — A man was found guilty Tuesday of shooting and killing a Chicago police officer, wounding her partner and firing at a third officer in August 2021. Emonte Morgan, 23, of Chicago was found guilty in the slaying of Officer Ella French and wounding of Officer Carlos Yanez Jr. during a traffic stop […]

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New York cheesemaker pleads guilty in 2016 listeria outbreak case

12:05 am March 6, 2024

A former producer of raw milk cheese pleaded guilty on Tuesday to charges related to a deadly outbreak of listeria from 2016 to 2017, federal prosecutors said. Johannes Vulto and his New York-based company Vulto Creamery LLC each pleaded guilty to one misdemeanor count of causing the introduction of adulterated food into interstate commerce in […]

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