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R. Allen Stanford arrives in custody at the federal courthouse for a hearing in Houston, Aug. 24, 2010. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)

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A jury says a Louisiana regulator is not liable for retirees' $400 million in Stanford Ponzi losses

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Tue,08/13/24-11:48AM, 130 Reads
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A jury decided that Louisiana’s Office of Financial Institutions was not at fault for $400 million in losses that retirees suffered because of Texas fraudster R. Allen Stanford’s massive Ponzi scheme.
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This image from Marion, Kan., Police Department body camera video provided by the McDonald Tinker law firm shows former Marion Police Chief Gideon Cody during his department's raid of the Marion County Record newspaper on Aug. 11, 2023, in Marion, Kan. (McDonald Tinker via AP)

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An ex-Kansas police chief who led a raid on a newspaper is charged with obstruction of justice

By JOHN HANNA JOHN HANNA - Associated Press
Tue,08/13/24-10:12AM, 126 Reads
TOPEKA, Kan.
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A boat pushes barges on the water in the upper Mobile–Tensaw Delta on Wednesday, June 5, 2024, near McIntosh, Ala. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)

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Takeaways from AP's story on Alabama's ecologically important Mobile-Tensaw Delta and its watershed

By TAMMY WEBBER TAMMY WEBBER - Associated Press
Tue,08/13/24-10:14AM, 200 Reads
Alabama’s Mobile-Tensaw Delta is a more-than 400-square-mile (1,036-square-kilometer) expanse of cypress swamps, oxbow lakes, marshland, hardwood stands and rivers unusually rich in plant and animal diversity.
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This still image from bodycam video released by the Blendon Township Police on Friday, Sept. 1, 2023, shows an officer pointing his gun at Ta'Kiya Young moments before shooting her through the windshield outside a grocery store in Blendon Township, Ohio, a suburb of Columbus, on Aug. 24. The video was pixelated by the source. (Blendon Township Police via AP, File)

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Officer faces murder charge in shooting of pregnant Black woman who was accused of shoplifting

By PATRICK AFTOORA ORSAGOS AND JOHN SEEWER PATRICK AFTOORA ORSAGOS AND JOHN SEEWER - Associated Press
Tue,08/13/24-9:17AM, 147 Reads
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio police officer was indicted Tuesday on murder and other charges in the shooting of Ta’Kiya Young, a 21-year-old pregnant Black mother who was killed after being accused of shoplifting last August.
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