"Empire" actor Jussie Smollett has made his first court appearance on charges that he falsely reported being beaten by two men last month in downtown Chicago.
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Cop who stopped Elijah McClain fired over response to photos
One of the white officers who stopped Elijah McClain was fired over photos showing colleagues reenacting the chokehold used on the Black man before he died last year, authorities said Friday. After getting a text message with the images, he replied, "haha."
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California surgeon charged in $52M sober living fraud
A Beverly Hills, California, surgeon and his girlfriend have pleaded not guilty to taking part in a $52 million insurance fraud scheme that involved recruiting patients at Southern California sober living homes to undergo unnecessary surgeries and other procedures, prosecutors said Friday.
Nation
The mug shot, the staple of crime news stories, may be on the way out
San Francisco's police chief announced his department would no longer release the photos unless there was an immediate public safety reason.
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4 hospitalized after shooting at Alabama shopping mall
A shooting at an Alabama shopping mall left at least four people hospitalized Friday afternoon, police said.
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Alabama health officials can't verify 'COVID party' reports
The Alabama Department of Public Health said it could not verify reports of so-called COVID-19 parties where students deliberately tried to become infected, but also warned people not to try it.
