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*A Navy base in Mississippi erected a wall of shipping containers to protect itself from stray bullets. *Stray bullets have struck multiple homes on the base and are coming from a nearby apartment complex. *A spokesperson for the base said the barrier is meant as a "temporary solution." A Mississippi military base in the small city of Gulfport put up a wall of shipping containers after stray bullets from a nearby gunfight struck homes on the base. The base first placed more than 20 shipping containers around its perimeter last year after gunfire broke out in the apartment complex across...

An alleged member of the neon-cloaked “Green Goblin” gang accused of pummeling two 19-year-old women on a Times Square subway train was released without bail Tuesday — with her lawyer insisting she didn’t do anything wrong. Mariam Issouf, 26, was cut loose on supervised release after being arraigned on a second-degree robbery charge in the Oct. 2 caught-on-video assault — one day after she turned herself in to cops with her defense attorney at her side. “She did nothing wrong,” lawyer John Russo claimed as he walked out of court with Issouf — who covered her head with a leather...