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Baltimore police lieutenant cleared in Freddie Gray death By David K. Li July 18, 2016 | 10:42am Baltimore police lieutenant cleared in Freddie Gray death A Baltimore judge on Monday cleared the highest-ranking cop tied to Freddie Gray’s death. Lt. Brian Rice was found not guilty of involuntary manslaughter and reckless endangerment in a bench trial before Baltimore Circuit Court Judge Barry Williams. Prosecutors had blamed Rice for Gray’s death because he did not put a seat belt on the prisoner when Gray was loaded into the back of a police van. Gray, 25, died from spinal cord injuries he...

Fox News chief White House correspondent Ed Henry will not be appearing on the channel for the time being, following a report in In Touch Weekly that he cheated on his wife with a Las Vegas hostess. “We recently became aware of Ed’s personal issues and he’s taking some time off to work things out,” a Fox News spokesperson told POLITICO in a statement. Henry joined Fox News in 2011 as chief White House correspondent. He was previously the White House correspondent for CNN.

Former Calvin Klein model Antonio Sabato Jr. told Outnumbered today he supports Donald Trump 100% because he can trust him… And you can’t trust Ted Cruz. Antonio Sabato, Jr: I think Cruz wouldn’t be in the fight if it wasn’t for Trump at this point. If Trump wasn’t in the race at all I don’t think you’d see Cruz. I think maybe a Rubio at this point. I think Trump will win New York and he will win California. Then we’ll see in June what happens after that. It’s tough for Trump. His party doesn’t want him. The Democrats don’t...

Aconservative super PAC is trying to swing Utah voters against Donald Trump in tonight's caucus by slut-shaming his wife Melania Trump. The ad, circulated on social media, shows the former model in a nude 2000 GQ photo shoot with the words: 'Meet Melania Trump, your next First Lady. Or you could vote for Ted Cruz on Tuesday.' Cruz, who has a precarious 50.1per cent polling average, needs to win a majority backing in order to take all 40 of Utah's delegates. Republican strategist Liz Mair, who founded the super PAC Make America Awesome, said that the ads have been targeting...

A small-town Alabama high school cheerleading coach was arrested on Tuesday on charges that she had a sexual relationship with a male student. The teacher is Katherine Nelson, reports The Birmingham News. Nelson, 29, is an English teacher at Brookwood High School in Brookwood, Ala. (pop: 1,828), just east of Tuscaloosa. She also coaches cheerleading and golf, and directs musical theater. The charge against the married teacher is engaging in a sex act with a student under the age of 19 (while also a school employee). Investigators say the sex occurred back during the 2012-2013 school year. The age of...

The man who bought the rifles used in the San Bernardino attack pleaded not guilty Wednesday to conspiring with one of the killers and providing material support to terrorists. Enrique Marquez Jr., 24, appeared in federal court in Riverside with his hands and feet shackled. He answered "not guilty" when asked to enter his plea to the five-count indictment. A jury trial was scheduled for Feb. 23. Marquez could be sent to prison for as long as 50 years if he's convicted. His lawyer, Young J. Kim, declined to comment after the arraignment. ...

The temperature in the Fairbanks, Alaska suburb of North Pole earlier today was apparently in the low-40s Fahrenheit. It was then that Alexandra Sifferlin at Time.com reported the Alaska town's temperature as if it came from the North Pole. The only current evidence of Sifferlin's original grievous error at Time.com is a deliberately vague correction at the bottom of her post telling readers that "This article originally misidentified a temperature reading as belonging to the North Pole." Fortunately, ever-alert blogger Patterico excerpted the post as originally written (the link to North Pole, Alaska's conditions at Weather.com is in the original):

Miss Puerto Rico beauty queen, Destiny Velez, was suspended from the Miss America pageant yesterday after blasting Michael Moore and Muslims with a series of anti-Islamic tweets.

<p>Fox News contributor Stacey Dash committed a big cable news no-no Monday afternoon, saying that President Barack Obama didn't "give a shit" during his Sunday speech on terrorism.</p> <p>"It's ridiculous," she said on Fox's Outnumbered. "His speech was an epic fail. It was like when you have to go to dinner with your parents, but you have a party to go to afterwards, that's what it felt like."</p>

St. Augustine High teacher charged with unlawful sexual activity with a minor. - A St. Johns County teacher who was arrested late Wednesday afternoon after being accused of having sex with a student is married and is expecting her first child, according to her old classmates and friends. The St. Johns County Sheriffs Office said Virginia Houston Hinckley, who lives in Jacksonville, turned herself in Wednesday at the Nassau County Sheriffs Office, after learning a warrant for her arrest was issued. The 26-year old St. Augustine High School teacher is charged with having unlawful sexual activity with a minor which...

Tim Tebow can't get a break in the media. The former college football star is now being ridiculed over the break up with his Miss Universe girlfriend, Olivia Culpo, over his abstinence until marriage stance. It hit such a fever pitch over the weekend, that Fox & Friends Monday ran a roundup of the media mockery. CLICK ABOVE LINK FOR THE VIDEO... New York Daily News: "Tim Tebow still can't find the end zone" CBS in Tampa: "Apparently an NFL job isn't the only thing Tim Tebow can't hold onto." Media Research Center Vice President of Research Brent Baker explains...

The Patriots on Friday released a string of e-mails between the team and the NFL that prove the League chose not to correct an incorrect report from ESPN that suggested 11 of 12 footballs were two PSI below regulation during the AFC Championship Game. The e-mails, included via link on an amended page of the Patriots web site wellsreportcontext.com, were exchanged between Patriots legal counsel Robyn Glaser and NFL executive Jeff Pash. An e-mail from Patriots Vice President of Media Relations Stacey James is also included on the page added to the web site Friday morning. Click here to read...

OK I didn't see any interesting Donald Trump articles today, but there's a good one on his daugher: "Fore! Ivanka Trump's sundress gets caught in a breeze as she shows off her impressive swing at New York golf course opening" (had to shorten the title, to fit) Actually she's got an adorable family: 7 photos down Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3098533/Ivanka-Trump-s-sundress-caught-breeze-shows-impressive-swing-New-York-golf-course-opening.html#ixzz3bL9GZYWL Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook

A Month of Islam in Britain: April 2015 • "The boys want to be like them [jihadists] and the girls want to be with them. That's what they used to say about the Beatles... [Muslim teenagers] see their own lives as poor by comparison, and don't realize they are being used." — Nazir Afzal, Britain's leading Muslim prosecutor. •"The extreme views of a 'racist, homophobe and anti-Semite' who supports killing non-Muslims and 'stoning adulterers' are being made available to prison imams and prisoners...with the blessing of [prison] authorities." — Newsweek magazine. •"Mohammed was selling me for £250 to paedophiles from...

Comic-book movies have had a woman problem for, oh, forever. But this past week has been a particularly notable low for Marvel, which seems incapable of understanding that its superhero movies are laughably sexist. Let’s take a look back at the week of the studio’s tone-deafness: Marvel released the sequel “Avengers: Age of Ultron” last Friday to criticism over its portrayal of Scarlett Johansson’s Black Widow. She was seen by many as overly domesticated and feminized — and grossly underrepresented in the movie’s action figures, a fact noted by “Avengers” star Mark Ruffalo on Twitter. "@Marvel we need more #BlackWidow...

Ayyan Ali, a top supermodel in Pakistan, has been charged with money laundering after she was caught with more than half a million dollars in her possession at Islamabad airport. On March 14, the 21-year-old model was charged with intent to illegally transport more than the legal $10,000 cash limit out of the country. She was caught in the VIP departure lounge of Benazir Bhutto International Airport with approximately $500,000 in her carry on bag. She has been housed in Adiala prison ever since. According to The Daily Mail, a customs official became suspicious after the model said she was...

BOUNTIFUL — A judge ruled Monday that a former Davis High School teacher will face separate trials on charges of sexually abusing three students. Brianne Altice, 35, faces a total of 14 felony charges — including rape, forcible sodomy, forcible sexual abuse, unlawful sexual activity with a minor and dealing in materials harmful to a minor — stemming from alleged sexual relationships with three former Davis High students who were 16 or 17 years old at the time. Second District Judge Thomas Kay ruled Monday that it was "appropriate and necessary" to split the 10 original charges into three trials,...

Cleveland TV anchor Kristi Capel has been temporarily taken off the air in the wake of using a racial slur during a live broadcast on Monday. Cleveland.com reported that Capel did not appear on the Fox 8 morning show on Wednesday, and would not appear on Thursday or Friday of this week either. She will return to the broadcast on Monday, March 2. While praising Lady Gaga's performance of a "Sound of Music" medley at the 2015 Oscars on Sunday, Capel said during the Monday broadcast, "It's hard to really hear her voice with all the jigaboo music... She has...

Crimea’s prosecutor Natalia Poklonskaya, whose anime-style images became an internet sensation, has caused a great stir among her fans as she appeared at the State Council meeting with a new haircut and her hair dyed dark. As usual, Poklonskaya attracted the audience’s attention not only with her looks – the head of the Republic of Crimea, Sergey Aksenov, said: “A special thanks to the Crimean prosecutor Natalia Poklonskaya who took up the things that are beyond the scope of most men.” 34-year-old Poklonskaya was appointed Crimea’s chief prosecutor in May. She became world famous after a video from her press...

<p>ANGLETON, Texas (AP) — A jury on Wednesday acquitted a southeast Texas man of murder in the fatal shooting of a drunken driver who had just caused an accident that killed the man's two sons.</p> <p>Prosecutors alleged that Barajas killed 20-year-old Jose Banda in a fit of rage after Banda plowed into Barajas and his sons while they were pushing a truck on a road near their home because it had run out of gas. Twelve-year-old David Jr. and 11-year-old Caleb were killed.</p>