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Machete-Wielding Man Killed In Officer-Involved Cambridge Shooting: Police Machete-Wielding Man Killed In Officer-Involved Cambridge Shooting: Police
Machete-Wielding Man Killed In Officer-Involved Cambridge Shooting: Police A 25-year-old man who repeatedly cut himself with a machete was shot and killed by a Cambridge police officer on Wednesday afternoon, Jan. 4, authorities said.  The shirtless man, whose name was not released, appeared to be suffering emotional distress when he took the blade and slit his wrists, according to the police radio call released by Live Boston. He then started to stab himself with the machete after police arrived.  Units are in the area of Chestnut and Sidney Street following a response to a male who was reportedly armed with a machete in apparent distress. The male has been t…

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by Josh Lanier
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Alex Jones Ordered To Pay Sandy Hook Shooting Victim's Family A Total Of $49M Alex Jones Ordered To Pay Sandy Hook Shooting Victim's Family A Total Of $49M
Alex Jones Ordered To Pay Sandy Hook Shooting Victim's Family A Total Of $49M Far-right radio host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has been ordered by a Texas jury to pay nearly $50 million to the family of a young boy killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut. In a unanimous decision Friday, Aug. 5, the jury said Jones must pay $45.2 million in punitive damages in a lawsuit filed by the parents of 6-year-old victim Jesse Lewis. That’s in addition to the $4.1 million in compensatory damages the jury awarded the family the day prior. Jones had already been found liable in a default judgment for defamation and “intentional inflicti…

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by Michael Mashburn
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Petito Lawsuit Moves Forward After Judge Denies Motion To Dismiss Petito Lawsuit Moves Forward After Judge Denies Motion To Dismiss
Petito Lawsuit Moves Forward After Judge Denies Motion To Dismiss A civil lawsuit filed by the parents of Gabby Petito against the parents of Brian Laundrie for emotional distress will go forward after a judge denied a request for dismal. Sarasota County Circuit Judge Hunter W. Carroll issued the ruling Thursday, June 30. Calling the case made by the Laundrie's attorney, "objectively outrageous," the judge denied the motion to dismiss. Petito's mother and father, Joseph Petito and Nichole Schmidt filed the lawsuit in March claiming the Laundries knew Gabby, age 22, of Blue Point in Suffolk County, was dead and kept the information from the family an…

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by Kathy Reakes