Police: Teen Found Sleeping With Gun in Boston Schoolyard and other top stories.

• Police: Teen Found Sleeping With Gun in Boston Schoolyard

  

  Police have arrested an 18-year-old Massachusetts man after he was allegedly found sleeping with a loaded gun tucked under his arm in the playground area of a Boston elementary school. Rodney Cooper was arrested Tuesday morning and charged with unlawful possession of a firearm, possession of a firearm on school property and several other weapons offenses. Officers were dispatched to Oliver Wendell Holmes Elementary School just before 6 a.m. following reports of an unconscious man who appear..

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• Louisiana Flooding Victims Now Struggling With Where to Live

  

  Keisha Taylor, a 37-year-old mother of four, has spent three nights in two different shelters since her family fled the flooding at their Baton Rouge apartment complex. And she doesn't know how many more nights they will be sleeping on cots inside the downtown arena where hundreds sought shelter. Taylor probably could stay with relatives in White Castle, a town about 30 miles west of Louisiana's capital city, but three of her kids are enrolled in Baton Rouge schools that could reopen next we..

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• Man charged after CPD officer grazed in South Side shootout - WLS

  

  CHICAGO (WLS) -- A 24-year-old man is facing eight charges after a Chicago police officer suffered a graze wound to his face while chasing a suspect on the city's South Side.Charles Lawson is charged with four counts of attempted murder, one count each of aggravated battery, possession of a stolen vehicle, aggravated hijacking and aggravated fleeing and eluding after allegedly committing an armed carjacking which resulted in the chase and shootout in which the officer was wounded. Police ..

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• 'Compromise' sought after town orders U.S. flags removed from fire trucks

  

  Nina Schutzman, Poughkeepsie Journal , WTSP 5:14 PM. EST August 17, 2016 Arlington firefighters remove an American flag from a fire truck Tuesday after direction from the board (Photo: Nina Schutzman/Poughkeepsie Journal) The chairman of the Arlington Fire District board said he's reached out to Chief Tory Gallante to discuss the possibility of a compromise about the use of American flags on fire trucks.American flags were removed from three Arlington Fire District truc..

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• 4-year-old Arkansas girl found abused told police her name was 'idiot'

  

  A 4-year-old Arkansas girl who was taken into protective custody after being zip-tied to her bed as punishment by her mother and her mother’s boyfriend thought her name was “idiot,” police said. Jennifer Diane Denen, 30 and Clarence Eugene Reed, 47, were arrested last Friday on suspicion of domestic battery, permitting the abuse of a minor and endangering the welfare of a minor. Hot Springs police officers responded to Cooper-Anthony Mercy Child Advocacy Center after human services workers and ..

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