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San Diego school police are offering $1,000 for information leading to the arrest of the person who glued more than 200 doors shut at a local high school. The person went around to doors across Patrick Henry High School in the early morning hours of May 26 and applied a sticky substance, causing $70,000 worth of damage, the San Diego Unified School District Police Department said, according to KNSD-TV. Student Christopher Guzman told KABC-TV that as he arrived at school later that morning, he “looked around. There’s all these teachers on the floor. They had these little — I don’t…

The Boston Police Department is looking for two boys accused of robbing a children’s lemonade stand at gunpoint. The suspects on Wednesday afternoon made multiple passes by the lemonade stand run by two siblings before asking the kids if they took Apple Pay. After that, they nabbed a box full of cash, with one displaying a gun in his waistband as they fled, Boston police said. The mother of the two children, Jennifer Byrne, told WBTS-TV “my daughter called me, I’m at work. She was in hysterics, crying, saying, ’Somebody put a gun to us and took all of our…

Spencer Pratt conceded the Los Angeles mayoral race Friday in a fiery social media video, vowing to continue targeting the city’s political establishment and claiming to possess a recording of one of the two remaining candidates that he says would force her to resign. Mr. Pratt, a Republican and former star of “The Hills,” finished third in the June 2 primary behind incumbent Democratic Mayor Karen Bass and city Councilwoman Nithya Raman, who will face each other in the November general election. His strong election-night showing — which initially suggested he would advance to the runoff — was reversed over…

Republican senators apparently have no Plan B if the Supreme Court sides against President Trump’s order to end birthright citizenship this month. “Seen, Heard & Whispered” uncovered that GOP senators are waiting to see how the justices rule. But they have not had any conversations about how to tackle a loss if the Trump administration suffers a setback when the Supreme Court is expected to issue its decision. “There’s nothing — legislation — going on,” said Sen. Rick Scott, chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. “There’s no conversation up here, there is none.” The Florida Republican said he is…

Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia broke with fellow Democrats Thursday, saying he has a “hard time understanding” claims that the guilty verdict in Karmelo Anthony’s murder trial was racially motivated — remarks that put him at odds with Rep. Jasmine Crockett of Texas, who has publicly blamed racism for the outcome. “I have a hard time understanding why they would say that,” Mr. Kaine told Fox News Digital when asked about claims from some Democrats that the verdict was unfair or racially charged. When pressed further, he repeated: “I know what they’re saying, but I have a hard time understanding.”…

DETROIT — Former Associated Press reporter Marlene Louise Johnson, whose lawsuit against the wire service for race and gender discrimination led to affirmative action plans to spur hiring of female, Black and Hispanic journalists, has died at 89. Johnson died May 9 in a Los Angeles-area care facility after being released from a hospital. She had been suffering from dementia, according to her daughter, Morenike Joela Evans. Born in Rochester, New York, Johnson earned an associate’s degree from the University of Buffalo and a bachelor’s degree at Wayne State University in Detroit. At the age of 75, she graduated from…

Washington’s top municipal finance watchdogs are feuding about perennial agency overspending as the D.C. Council eyes more spending hikes in its annual budget. D.C. Auditor Kathy Patterson recently asked the Democrat-led Council to hold a September hearing on her April report that Chief Financial Officer Glen Lee routinely hid excess spending with illegal withdrawals from the city’s reserve fund during the past six years —  a claim his office strenuously denied in a response appended to the audit. Her independent office concluded that Mr. Lee made 301 withdrawals from contingency funds to circumvent a city law that bars agencies from…

ATMORE, Ala. — Alabama is waging a last-minute legal fight to execute a man with nitrogen gas Thursday night, asking the U.S. Supreme Court to set aside a judge’s finding that the method violates the Constitution’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment. Jeffery Lee, 49, is scheduled to be executed at 6 p.m. However a federal judge ruled Tuesday that nitrogen executions are unconstitutional and blocked the state from using the method to put Lee to death. The state filed an appeal Thursday asking the Supreme Court to set aside the ruling and allow the execution. “If that ruling stands,…

A fiery North Dakota derailment that happened two years ago demonstrated yet again why the National Transportation Safety Board has been urging the rail industry for decades to replace flawed tank cars that tend to rupture in a crash. The NTSB said in its final report Thursday that the workhorse DOT-111 tank cars are long overdue for replacement because of the way the devastating impact of a derailment is magnified anytime hazardous chemicals leak, especially if they catch fire as they did in this derailment just outside the town of Bordulac, North Dakota. The worst rail disasters in recent memory…

WASHINGTON — The opening of a Canadian-U.S. bridge across the Detroit River, which President Donald Trump had previously threatened to block, was delayed on Thursday due to unresolved issues. In a statement released before a scheduled Friday ribbon-cutting ceremony at the bridge, the Windsor-Detroit Bridge Authority said that “Canada and the United States have agreed to delay the opening of the bridge, taking the necessary time to resolve any outstanding issues.” It didn’t elaborate on what those issues are or how long the delay would last. The 1.5-mile-long Gordie Howe International Bridge spans the Detroit River and connects the Motor…