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Taking aim at alcohol
Huntington Beach's top newsmaker of 2011 wasn't a person or an organization, but rather a controlled substance.
Throughout the year, the Independent's front page featured more drinks than a typical bachelor party. Statistics showed Huntington at the...Tags: Transportation Accidents, Politics, Entertainment, Natural Disasters, Business
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10 years ago: 'We'll go on again'
Editor's note: The Independent ran the following editorial, its first after the 9/11 attacks, on Sept. 20, 2001. * The images, the death, the destruction, the evil are almost too horrific to comprehend. Landmark skyscrapers that once graced the New...Tags: New York City, Unrest, Conflicts and War, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Oklahoma City
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City responds to lawsuit about former officer
Huntington Beach is fighting back against accusations that officials covered for a former officer accused of rape, assault and sodomy. In a recent response to a lawsuit filed against the city by the ex-wife of former Officer James Roberts, who is charged...Tags: Trials, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Justice System, Lawyers, Litigation
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D.A.: Cop abused his wife
A former Huntington Beach police officer is expected to begin a preliminary hearing Monday on charges of rape, forcible sodomy and 17 other felony counts. James Roberts III, 34, faces charges involving alleged acts against his wife, an alleged...Tags: Politics, Lawyers, Criminals, Injuries and Wounds, Punishment
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Panelists at IUSB discussion recall the rioting of 1967
South Bend TribuneSOUTH BEND -- Charlotte Pfeifer was a 20-year-old wife and mother when she watched part of the city burn. Pfeifer, a former member of the South Bend Common Council, on Thursday recalled her memories of civil rights unrest in South Bend in 1967, when...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Indiana University South Bend, Justice and Rights, Crime, Law and Justice, Civil Rights
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Women's prayer at Western Wall sparks protest
JERUSALEM -- Thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews flooded into the Old City’s Western Wall Plaza early Friday in a boisterous and sometimes violent protest against a group of female activists exercising a newly court-affirmed right to pray at the holy...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Feminism, Torah, Christianity, Police Arrests
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Probe set for LAPD response to party near USC
The first time the two Los Angeles Police Department officers walked to the backyard of an off-campus house party near USC, they had no problem with the crowd as they told the organizer to turn off the music and begin shutting down the party. The...
Tags: Los Angeles Police Department, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Minority Groups, Politics, Social Issues
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Black USC students accuse LAPD of bias after party clash
The Los Angeles Police Department opened an internal investigation into its response at an off-campus house party near USC amid complaints from some students that the department showed racial bias and used heavy-handed tactics. The incident occurred...
Tags: Politics, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Racism, Crimes, Police Arrests
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Thousands in Russia demand new elections, release of prisoners
This post has been corrected. See bottom for details. MOSCOW — In the biggest show of opposition to Russian President Vladimir Putin since last May, thousands of demonstrators gathered Monday near the Kremlin to demand an immediate release of...
Tags: Politics, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Russia, Demonstration, Activism
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France approves same-sex marriage
PARIS — The French Parliament on Tuesday approved a bill allowing same-sex couples to marry and adopt, voting after months of often angry debate and sometimes violent protests in the streets. Members of the Socialist government chanted "Equality,...
Tags: Politics, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Paris (France), Marriage, Christianity
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Massive manhunt for suspect in killing of six in Russia
This post has been corrected. See the note below for details.MOSCOW--Thousands of police and volunteers fanned out over the Russian city of Belgorod on Tuesday, hunting for a 32-year-old ex-convict who is suspected in the shooting deaths of six people, two of them teenage girls. The massive manhunt ranged through...Tags: Rentals, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Moscow (Russia), Russia, Punishment
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Descent into chaos
Chicago Tribune reporterA day after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated 45 years ago, a 4-year-old girl, abandoned and crying, stood in front of a burning building a few blocks from the West Side apartment where the civil rights leader had lived during his open-...Tags: Irving Park, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Entertainment, Criminals, Entertainment Events
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