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INTERNATIONAL FALLS, Minn. - Two people being sought by authorities in connection with the brutal beating of a woman found outside a Wright County park have been taken into custody. The woman died from her injuries Saturday night, according to the Wright County Sheriff. ... Wright County deputies are on site to investigate. Deputies were called to Crow Springs Park just south of Buffalo last week and found 19-year-old Cheyenne Lee Clough laying outside the park suffering from life-threatening injuries. Investigators say she was beaten and left for dead. Clough was transported to North Memorial Hospital in critical condition on...

Here’s something that people on the ground in Chicago are all freaked out about (but of course the media won’t report on it accurately and the police seem to be pretending that it’s not happening): is there a serial killer shooting at cars on the highway into Chicago similar to DC’s Beltway Sniper from years ago? Whenever these shootings are reported on, the media seems to go out of its way to just claim this is random gang violence. But…if that was true then wouldn’t this have always been happening through the years? I find it hard to believe the...

...One of the things Candace Pickens was going through in recent months, relatives said, was a volatile and abusive relationship — one she managed to keep hidden from some of the people who knew her best in and around Asheville, N.C., where she lived. Her boyfriend, Nathaniel Elijah Dixon, had a violent history that included attempted robbery and allegations of domestic violence against another woman with whom he had a child, according to the Citizen-Times. In addition to Dixon’s extensive criminal history, police think he has possible ties to a Los Angeles street gang. When Pickens recently discovered that she...