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3 people are charged after police say pamphlets with hate symbols were placed at houses of worship in New York town

By Sonia Moghe, CNN Dozens of pamphlets with hate symbols were left at a church and a synagogue as well as other areas of Hornell, New York, over the weekend, and three people have been arrested and charged with first-degree aggravated harassment, police said. Aubrey Dragonetti, 31, Dylan Henry, 30, and Ryan Mulhollen, 27, each

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911 dispatcher charged with involuntary manslaughter after allegedly refusing to send an ambulance to help a woman

By Benjamin Schiller and Kiely Westhoff, CNN Two years after a 911 dispatcher in rural Pennsylvania refused to send emergency medical assistance to an ailing woman, he was charged with involuntary manslaughter, according to court records. Dispatcher Leon Price was also charged with recklessly endangering another person, official oppression, and obstruction of the administration of

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Boston’s new police commissioner is a former officer who was severely beaten by his colleagues in 1995 while undercover

By Yon Pomrenze, CNN In 1995, he was an undercover officer for the Boston Police when he was mistaken for a suspect and severely beaten by his own colleagues. Next month, Michael Cox will lead the force as the city’s new police commissioner. Making the announcement Wednesday, Mayor Michelle Wu spoke about Cox’s close links

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Boston’s first LGBTQ+ friendly senior housing project was vandalized with hate speech

By Alisha Ebrahimji, Benjamin Schiller and Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN New England’s first LGBTQ+ friendly housing development for seniors in Boston was vandalized with hate speech over the weekend, according to a Facebook post by the nonprofit LGBTQ Senior Housing Inc. Signs posted on the chain-link fence surrounding the development were vandalized with messages overnight Saturday

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A 3-year-old found in a hot car outside an educational center is nation’s 10th child heatstroke death this year

By Melissa Alonso and Raja Razek, CNN A 3-year-old died Monday after being left inside a vehicle by his father outside a Jewish education center in northern Miami-Dade County, Florida, the Miami Gardens Police Department said. The death is the 10th pediatric vehicular heatstroke death in the United States this year, according to NoHeatStroke.org, a

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