Journalist Glenn Greenwald says Former NSA Systems Analyst Edward Snowden has documents that blueprint what the National Security Agency does and how it works. He says these documents prove that everything Snowden leaked is true.
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EL DORADO, Kan. (AP) An Augusta police officer has been charged with two counts of aggravated indecent liberties with a 14-year-old middle-school girl. The Wichita Eagle reports that Augusta officer Jerry Dale Ballinger made his first court appearance this past week. Assistant Butler County attorney Cheryl Pierce says Ballinger was released from custody after posting a $50,000 bond. Ballinger doesn’t have a listed phone number. Authorities allege that the girl was assaulted the first time in April and the second time in June or July in unincorporated Butler County. Pierce says the preliminary hearing is scheduled for Aug. 19.
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Crime Stoppers is offering up to $1,000 in reward money for information leading to the arrest of a driver who fled from a collision that killed a horseback rider and injured a 6-year-old boy. Police say a 2003 to 2005 silver or gray Mercury Grand Marquis likely struck the horse carrying Lloyd Ferguson, 49, and the child on July 5. The Wichita Eagle reports that Ferguson died, and the child has been hospitalized. The horse was euthanized. Investigators are using parts of the car knocked off by the collision to identify the vehicle. Two witnesses who tried…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Residents of an apartment complex that was the scene of a 32-hour standoff are assessing the damage to their homes. A 24-year-old man barricaded himself into the complex after firing shots Wednesday in a Kmart during a robbery. The man was found dead in an apartment around 10:30 p.m. Thursday. Police are not saying how he died. Law enforcement escorted some residents into their apartments Friday to retrieve belongings. But The Wichita Eagle reports that people whose apartments were closer to the standoff were told they’d have to wait. Police told Alyssa Cooper that tear gas and…
LEAVENWORTH, Kan. (AP) Leavenworth police are investigating the death of a 31-year-old man. The Kansas City Star reports that the victim was identified as Dick Mathis. Witnesses said Mathis was inside a moving vehicle when he was shot. Around 3 a.m. Saturday, two people took him to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Royal author Angela Levin says Kate has helped Britain’s Prince William heal from tragedies in his life and that both will aim to give their expected baby a sense of normalcy, despite royal pressures.
Cory Monteith, star of the hit TV series “Glee”, was found dead in a hotel room, police in Vancouver, Canada said Saturday night. He was 31.
George Zimmerman has been found not guilty in the killing of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin.
The Texas Senate passed sweeping new abortion restrictions late Friday, sending them to Republican Gov. Rick Perry to sign into law after weeks of rallies that made the state the focus of the national abortion debate.
A new 977-count indictment filed Friday provides a numbing look at what prosecutors say was 10 years of captivity for the three women in suspect Ariel Castro’s home in Cleveland.