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This week on Crooked Media’s “Pod Save America,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said many of President Donald Trump’s supporters were not educated enough on racism to understand the policies they support are racist.

Fugitive Surrenders in NY State Manhunt By CAROLYN THOMPSON ASSOCIATED PRESS CARROLL, N.Y. (AP) - A fugitive suspected of fatally shooting a New York state trooper and wounding two others while on the run for more than five months surrendered to police who had cornered him in a cornfield just over the Pennsylvania state line on Friday night. Ralph "Bucky" Phillips walked out with his hands up, ending the state's largest manhunt for the 44-year-old career thief who broke out of a Buffalo-area jail in April, New York State Police Investigator Gary Colon said. The arrest capped a frantic day...

Breaking News >> Authorities capture Ralph 'Buck' Phillips, who was being sought in connection with the death of a New York state trooper and the wounding of two others, sources tell CNN.

2 On Your Side has confirmed that the FBI is adding fugitive Ralph Bucky Phillips to its infamous Top 10 Most Wanted list. Meanwhile, the reward for information in connection to the case has been increased to $350,000. The FBI is offering $100,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of Phillips. The New York State Police Benevolent Association announced at a press conference in Albany Thursday afternoon they have raised money for a reward for information leading the arrest and conviction of Phillips is now $300,000. Another $50,000 will be available for information leading to the arrest and...

FREDONIA - They stood shoulder to shoulder - in the gray uniforms and camouflage fatigues of the State Police - as the American flag was lowered to half staff. One sang "Amazing Grace." With those simple acts, the mourning for Trooper Joseph A. Longobardo began. Shortly after a Sunday evening news conference in which he announced Longobardo's death, State Police Superintendent Wayne E. Bennett asked reporters to cover a brief ceremony conducted outside the Fredonia substation of the State Police. "I think without any words being spoken, that sends a very powerful message to the public about what has gone...

FREDONIA, N.Y., Sept. 3 — Three days after he was ambushed during a hunt for a notorious fugitive, a New York State trooper died on Sunday from a bullet wound despite efforts to save his life by amputating his leg. The trooper, Joseph Longobardo, 32, of Middle Grove in upstate New York, became the first fatality connected to the search for Ralph Phillips in the five months that he has been on the run. Mr. Phillips — who is widely known by his nickname, Bucky — also is accused of shooting two other troopers, including one who remained in a...

A nursing supervisor at a western New York hospital has confirmed to the Associated Press that two state troopers have been shot in Chautauqua County. AP reports that Sheryl Polito, nursing supervisor at Brooks Memorial Hospital near Fredonia, said one of the troopers had been brought to Brooks before being flown to Erie County Medical Center and that another trooper was taken to Hamot Medical Center in Pennsylvania. AP also reports that a nursing supervisor at Erie County Medical Center, who declined to give her name, confirmed a state trooper was in critical condition. She said she did not expect...

FoxNews reporting that a USCG member was among the KIA in Al Basra Oil Terminal attack.

Game Time: 8:05 pm EDT TV: FOX Pitching Matchup: C. Schilling vs. M. Mussina Aaron Boone ended the Boston Red Sox's season last year with a walk-off home run for the New York Yankees in the bottom of the 11th inning of Game 7 of the American League championship series. An intriguing and eventful offseason and 19 more heated and sometimes bloody meetings have brought the Red Sox and Yankees together yet again, with another World Series trip on the line. The highly anticipated rematch for the American League title begins Tuesday, with every indication that baseball's most bitter rivalry...

This is the kind of September we are supposed to have with the Yankees and the Red Sox. This is the way it is supposed to be, a series like this at the Stadium this weekend, then another one next weekend at Fenway Park. It wasn't supposed to be as easy as the Red Sox made it look in April. It wasn't supposed to be the kind of knockout punch the Yankees threw at Boston at the end of June, that three-game series when Derek Jeter, in addition to everything else, seemed to have taught himself how to fly. It...

MEMORIAL SERVICE TO HONOR COAST GUARDSMAN KILLED IN IRAQ SEATTLE – A memorial service for the first Coast Guardsman killed while serving in Iraq will be held Friday at 5 p.m. in the Neah Bay, Wash., High School gymnasium. Coast Guard Petty Officer 3rd Class Nathan Bruckenthal served at Station Neah Bay from spring 2001 to summer 2003. He was killed in the Persian Gulf during a suicide bombing attack on an Iraqi oil terminal. He is the son of Ric Bruckenthal of Northport, N.Y., and Laurie Bullock of Ashburn, Va. The Bruckenthal Memorial Fund is being established for the...

<p>GRADY LITTLE'S future is not the only big decision looming for the owners of the Boston Red Sox. What will they do about Fenway Park? After the soul-crushing loss to the New York Yankees, the game of baseball -- and the second-guessing of Little -- take priority in Red Sox Nation. But the business of baseball can never be far behind. Long after fans learn whether Little will be judged for a season of decisions or one decision to leave Pedro Martinez on the mound in Game 7 of the American League Championship Series, the owners will be grappling with a decision about Fenway's future.</p>

New Dino Resembles T. Rex, B. Bunny AFP The Buck-Toothed Beauty Sep. 18 — The world's greatest team of fossil hunters are scratching their heads over their latest find — a unique dinosaur whose distant cousins were mighty carnivores, yet which has two bucky front teeth, rather like a rabbit's. The creature has many of the features of the oviraptor, a small two-legged dinosaur that, as a theropod, was distantly related to the Tyrannosaurus rex. Instead of having the carnivore's typically long, sharp teeth, oviraptors had a rounded, parrot-like beak which they used to steal eggs from nests. But the...