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AP PHOTOS: A look back at the life of Rodney King

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2024-11-27 13:00
Rodney King, the black motorist whose 1991 videotaped beating by Los Angeles police officers was the touchstone for one of the most destructive race riots in the nation's history, was found at the bottom of his swimming pool early Sunday and later pronounced dead. He was 47....
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AP PHOTOS: A look back at the life of Rodney King

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2024-11-27 13:00
Rodney King, the black motorist whose 1991 videotaped beating by Los Angeles police officers was the touchstone for one of the most destructive race riots in the nation's history, was found at the bottom of his swimming pool early Sunday and later pronounced dead. He was 47....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

AP PHOTOS: A look back at the life of Rodney King

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2024-11-27 13:00
Rodney King, the black motorist whose 1991 videotaped beating by Los Angeles police officers was the touchstone for one of the most destructive race riots in the nation's history, was found at the bottom of his swimming pool early Sunday and later pronounced dead. He was 47....
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Search ends for Japanese climbers on Mt. McKinley

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2024-11-27 13:00
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- The National Park Service says it has permanently suspended efforts to recover the bodies of four Japanese climbers killed in an avalanche on Alaska's Mount McKinley....
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Rodney King, key figure in LA riots, dies at 47

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2024-11-27 13:00
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Rodney King, the black motorist whose 1991 videotaped beating by Los Angeles police officers was the touchstone for one of the most destructive race riots in the nation's history, was found at the bottom of his swimming pool early Sunday and later pronounced dead. He was 47....
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Major players from the 1992 Los Angeles riots

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2024-11-27 13:00
Rodney King, whose videotaped beating by four Los Angeles police officers set off 1992's Los Angeles race riots and became a touchstone in U.S. race relations, was found dead at his home on Sunday. The riots killed 55 people, injured more than 2,000 and caused $1 billion in damage. Below, a look at the players in King's beating, trial and the riots that followed, and where they are now....
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Major players from the 1992 Los Angeles riots

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2024-11-27 13:00
Rodney King, whose videotaped beating by four Los Angeles police officers set off 1992's Los Angeles race riots and became a touchstone in U.S. race relations, was found dead at his home on Sunday. The riots killed 55 people, injured more than 2,000 and caused $1 billion in damage. Below, a look at the players in King's beating, trial and the riots that followed, and where they are now....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Major players from the 1992 Los Angeles riots

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2024-11-27 13:00
Rodney King, whose videotaped beating by four Los Angeles police officers set off 1992's Los Angeles race riots and became a touchstone in U.S. race relations, was found dead at his home on Sunday. The riots killed 55 people, injured more than 2,000 and caused $1 billion in damage. Below, a look at the players in King's beating, trial and the riots that followed, and where they are now....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Major players from the 1992 Los Angeles riots

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2024-11-27 13:00
Rodney King, whose videotaped beating by four Los Angeles police officers set off 1992's Los Angeles race riots and became a touchstone in U.S. race relations, was found dead at his home on Sunday. The riots killed 55 people, injured more than 2,000 and caused $1 billion in damage. Below, a look at the players in King's beating, trial and the riots that followed, and where they are now....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Major players from the 1992 Los Angeles riots

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2024-11-27 13:00
Rodney King, whose videotaped beating by four Los Angeles police officers set off 1992's Los Angeles race riots and became a touchstone in U.S. race relations, was found dead at his home on Sunday. The riots killed 55 people, injured more than 2,000 and caused $1 billion in damage. Below, a look at the players in King's beating, trial and the riots that followed, and where they are now....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Major players from the 1992 Los Angeles riots

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2024-11-27 13:00
Rodney King, whose videotaped beating by four Los Angeles police officers set off 1992's Los Angeles race riots and became a touchstone in U.S. race relations, was found dead at his home on Sunday. The riots killed 55 people, injured more than 2,000 and caused $1 billion in damage. Below, a look at the players in King's beating, trial and the riots that followed, and where they are now....
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Cheryl Cole tops singles chart

BBC - News - Wed, 2024-11-27 13:00
Cheryl Cole's single Call My Name goes straight to number and becomes the fastest selling single of 2012 to date.
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Easing of pot laws poses challenge for parents

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2024-11-27 13:00
DENVER (AP) -- Michael Jolton was a young father with a 5-year-old son when Colorado legalized medical marijuana in 2000. Now he's got three boys, the oldest near adulthood, and finds himself repeatedly explaining green-leafed marijuana ads and "free joint" promotions endemic in his suburban hometown....
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IOC probes black market Olympic ticket scandal

AP - World News - Wed, 2024-11-27 13:00
LONDON (AP) -- International Olympic officials have opened a high level investigation into allegations that authorized representatives in more than 50 countries - including a national Olympic committee - were involved in selling London Olympics tickets on the black market for profit....

Saudi king in Mecca for crown prince's burial

AP - World News - Wed, 2024-11-27 13:00
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) -- The aged king of Saudi Arabia led a burial ceremony Sunday for his brother, Crown Prince Nayef Abdul-Aziz, in the holy city of Mecca before his internment following evening prayers. He was the second heir to the throne to die outside the country in less than a year....

Rielle Hunter: Memoir by John Edwards' mistress details affair, aftermath

When John Edwards faced the prospect of an indictment that could put him behind bars, he calmly told his mistress he would probably wind up in a low-security prison in Virginia more like a country club than a jail. She quickly told him she and their daughter would move there ...

Village wind farm protest march

BBC - News - Wed, 2024-11-27 13:00
Up to 300 people turn out for a protest march against wind farms at Llanddona on Anglesey, claiming there are plans for "industrial scale" turbines.
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In pictures: Rodney King

BBC - News - Wed, 2024-11-27 13:00
How Rodney King's case sparked the 1992 LA riots
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Injury rules Youngs out of tour

BBC - News - Wed, 2024-11-27 13:00
Scrum-half Ben Youngs will miss the remainder of England's tour of South Africa because of a shoulder injury.
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