Tenor Stephen Gould, who announced earlier this month that he had been diagnosed with incurable bile duct cancer, has died. He was 61.Gould's agent Stephanie Ammann confirmed the singer died Tuesday in Virginia. No other details were immediately available.The singer withdrew this summer from the Bayreuth Festival in Germany, where...
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Over a century ago, hundreds of Native Americans in Wounded Knee, South Dakota, were massacred by the U.S. Army.On Wednesday, legislation introduced by Republican Rep. Dusty Johnson, who sought to place federal protections on the massacre site, was passed by the U.S. House of Representatives.Forty acres around the Wounded Knee...
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An Arlington Police Department officer has been killed in Dallas on Thursday after becoming involved in a suspected hit-and-run crash, police and reports say. The officer, identified as 24-year veteran Darrin McMichael, was struck along Interstate 20 as he "was heading into work for the day," according to his department. "Officer Darrin...
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Passing North Carolina's budget will remain the last hurdle for the state to expand Medicaid to potentially cover 600,000 adults who don't qualify or make enough for health insurance now that an effort to link it to authorizing more casinos is off the table.Expansion appears back on a smoother glidepath...
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