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LATEST NEWS FROM THE NETWORK
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Local Activism Highlights Missing and Murdered Indigenous People in what is now known as Shasta County
May 09, 2025
This week, local Tribal members led a prayer walk to demand justice for missing and murdered Native people, particularly those local to the North State.
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To serve and protect? Police chief fired after allegedly terrorizing woman
April 11, 2025
The protection order, requested by the 24-year-old woman and granted by a judge, came after the Mitchell police chief allegedly sent her many lewd photos on Snapchat, repeatedly drove by her home and let her know that he knew when she was home alone.
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New Exhibition Highlights Human Trafficking On Cape Cod
January 24, 2025
As part of Human Trafficking Awareness month, the art exhibit illustrates the problem with both sex trafficking and labor trafficking on Cape Cod.
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Center for Collaborative Investigative Journalism
‘It’s haunting me’
October 31, 2024
Sex workers say police persecution is crippling their way of life. About 1% of the Zimbabwean female population aged 15-49 years old are sex workers, and Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe’s premier tourist destination, attracts sex workers from around the country in search of affluent customers on holiday.
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Videos show frantic minutes in Yellowstone shootout with gunman
September 19, 2024
Three rangers shot at Samson Fussner near an employee dining area in Canyon Village, killing him before he could get inside.
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Yellowstone National Park shooting leaves one dead, ranger injured
July 04, 2024
Rangers and an unidentified person exchanged gunfire during a ‘significant’ incident at Canyon Village. The ranger was in stable condition late Thursday morning.
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Yellowstone Visitor Gets Jail Time for Trespassing on Park Thermal Feature
June 13, 2024
Washington man sentenced to week in jail and fined after walking off boardwalk toward world’s tallest active geyser.
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Former assistant librarian charged with embezzlement
June 04, 2024
Erin Baxter allegedly bought between $100K-$500K worth of goods, including camping equipment and electronics, with public money.
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Eyewitness describes Wyoming wolf’s final hours in the Green River Bar
April 12, 2024
Bar patron who first alerted authorities of Cody Robert’s possession of a live wolf tells WyoFile what happened on a now notorious night in February.
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Q&A: Is Meth Really a Rural Problem?
March 15, 2024
Published in collaboration with The Conversation, an interview with Anthropologist William Garriott on hillbilly stereotypes and the truth about urban and suburban methamphetamine use.
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Man charged with shooting 3 Palestinian students makes first in-person court appearance
March 08, 2024
The November shooting became international news amidst the Israel-Hamas war, which is still raging in Gaza. Many activists in Burlington (pop. 45,000) and Vermont called for the act to be prosecuted as a hate crime.
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‘Not a drill’: Vian High School scare reminds rural Oklahoma of gun violence
December 15, 2023
The Vian Police Department has implemented more regulations in local schools as students and parents in the small town of 1,300 people in eastern Oklahoma deal with the aftermath of a gun violence threat in their community.
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Hunters find body in Plainfield, 7th suspicious death in Vermont this month
October 28, 2023
Since Oct. 5, Vermont State Police have reported seven deaths considered to be suspicious. “As far as we can tell, they are all isolated incidents with no corresponding trend that we can identify at this point,” investigators said.
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Mass shooting turns spotlight on Maine’s sparse gun laws
October 26, 2023
Maine ranks in the middle of the pack among other states when it comes to gun safety laws, according to Everytown for Gun Safety, a gun control group. The laws in place appeared to have done little to stop the suspect in the mass shooting in Lewiston.
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A city, and a state, in shock
October 26, 2023
In the wake of shootings that left at least 18 dead in Maine’s second largest city, local residents and officials expressed shock that the nation’s epidemic of mass shootings had come to their community and grappled to make sense of the past day’s events.
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