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Calif. city's lawmakers ready bankruptcy plan

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 10:36
STOCKTON, Calif. (AP) -- A California city that has the second-highest foreclosure rate in the nation is preparing for a possible bankruptcy filing if officials are unable to broker a deal with the city's creditors....
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Silhouetted Venus reminder of solar system's size

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 10:36
HONOLULU (AP) -- Filtering the sun's light to a miniscule fraction of its true power allowed sky-gazers over the world to watch a silhouetted Venus travel across Earth's closest star, an extremely rare spectacle that served as a reminder of how tiny our planet really is....
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Guard rescued at SC prison; officers control unit

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 10:36
BISHOPVILLE, S.C. (AP) -- A guard held hostage at a South Carolina high security prison was rescued early Wednesday after a standoff of more than 6 hours, a corrections department spokesman said....
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Volokh Conspiracy: "Police Searching for Bank Robber Stop All Cars at Intersection, Handcuff Drivers, Search Cars"

FourthAmendment.com - News - Thu, 2024-11-28 10:36

Volokh Conspiracy: Police Searching for Bank Robber Stop All Cars at Intersection, Handcuff Drivers, Search Cars by Eugene Volokh:

So reports ABC News:

Police in Aurora, Colo., searching for suspected bank robbers stopped every car at an intersection, handcuffed all the adults and searched the cars, one of which they believed was carrying the suspect.

Police said they had received what they called a “reliable” tip that the culprit in an armed robbery at a Wells Fargo bank committed earlier was stopped at the red light.

“We didn’t have a description, didn’t know race or gender or anything, so a split-second decision was made to stop all the cars at that intersection, and search for the armed robber,” Aurora police Officer Frank Fania told ABC News….

“Split-second decision”--code word for “we should get at least qualified immunity because of the hard decisions we have to make in the field protecting the public from bad people.” Good point. What about the 15 people handcuffed for up to 90 minutes who did nothing wrong? They had no description, just a place, so everybody in the place gets handcuffed. Good that they caught the right guy, but a heavy handed nonetheless.

Tourist town seeks independence in Nevada

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 10:36
LAUGHLIN, Nev. (AP) -- Something strange is happening in this remote tourist haven. In notoriously anti-government Nevada, residents in Laughlin are clamoring for more bureaucracy....
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Tourist town seeks independence in Nevada

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 10:36
LAUGHLIN, Nev. (AP) -- Something strange is happening in this remote tourist haven. In notoriously anti-government Nevada, residents in Laughlin are clamoring for more bureaucracy....
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Push to quash tobacco tax could echo beyond Calif

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 10:36
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Big Tobacco's success in branding a proposed California cigarette tax as a government boondoggle sent a message that could echo in other states as votes trended toward the opposition....
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Calif. voters split on tax targeted by Big Tobacco

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 10:36
LOS ANGELES, Calif. (AP) -- A high-profile California cigarette tax initiative backed by cycling legend Lance Armstrong that once seemed like a sure thing teetered on the brink of defeat Wednesday, a testament to the efficacy of a $50 million campaign backed by Big Tobacco....
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Army veterans use filmmaking as therapy for PTSD

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 10:36
FORT CARSON, Colo. (AP) -- With a growing demand for ways to treat the psychological damage of war, one Army pilot project is offering therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder by encouraging soldiers to take control of their own stories in a filmmaking class titled I Was There Media Workshop....
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Army veterans use filmmaking as therapy for PTSD

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 10:36
FORT CARSON, Colo. (AP) -- With a growing demand for ways to treat the psychological damage of war, one Army pilot project is offering therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder by encouraging soldiers to take control of their own stories in a filmmaking class titled I Was There Media Workshop....
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Army veterans use filmmaking as therapy for PTSD

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 10:36
FORT CARSON, Colo. (AP) -- With a growing demand for ways to treat the psychological damage of war, one Army pilot project is offering therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder by encouraging soldiers to take control of their own stories in a filmmaking class titled I Was There Media Workshop....
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Alaska bore tide draws surfers, viewers

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 10:36
GIRDWOOD, Alaska (AP) -- Mother Nature put on a show near Anchorage, and it had nothing to do with Venus and the sun....
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Tourist town seeks independence in Nevada

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 10:36
LAUGHLIN, Nev. (AP) -- Something strange is happening in this remote tourist haven. In notoriously anti-government Nevada, residents in Laughlin are clamoring for more bureaucracy....
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Walker to mend political divide with brats, beer

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 10:36
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Gov. Scott Walker, fresh from becoming the nation's first governor ever to survive a recall election, wants to go about mending Wisconsin's political divide in an egalitarian way: over brats and beers....
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Posh hotels are buzzing with tiny new guests: bees

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 10:36
NEW YORK (AP) -- An iconic hotel in the heart of midtown Manhattan is buzzing with thousands of tiny new visitors. But watch out: They'll sting if you get too close....
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Posh hotels are buzzing with tiny new guests: bees

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 10:36
NEW YORK (AP) -- An iconic hotel in the heart of midtown Manhattan is buzzing with thousands of tiny new visitors. But watch out: They'll sting if you get too close....
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Alaska bore tide draws surfers, viewers

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 10:36
GIRDWOOD, Alaska (AP) -- Mother Nature put on a show near Anchorage, and it had nothing to do with Venus and the sun....
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California voters split on $1 per pack tobacco tax

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 10:36
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A California ballot initiative to raise the tax on cigarettes that pitted big-spending tobacco companies against cycling legend Lance Armstrong and the New York City Mayor was too close to call Tuesday night....
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Post offices, Ellis Island join endangered list

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 10:36
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Hundreds of historic U.S. post offices nationwide face uncertain futures as the U.S. Postal Service downsizes, so preservationists on Wednesday added these American institutions to the list of the country's most endangered historic places....
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