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Albuquerque Public Schools (ALBUQUERGUE, N.M.) -- A school bus attendant for Albuquerque, New Mexico, Public Schools has been arrested after she was seen in surveillance video repeatedly hitting an autistic student.Debbie Chavira, 64, is accused of striking the child dozens of times over the course of 10 days, according to an incident report.Police said Chavira struck the student in his face, torso and arms a total of 59 times between […]

(YEMASSEE, S.C.) -- More than half of the rhesus macaque monkeys that escaped from a South Carolina lab have been recovered.As of Tuesday evening, 32 of the 43 furry runaways, that broke loose Wednesday from the Alpha Genesis Primate Research Center in Yemasee, have now successfully been captured."Efforts to safely capture the remaining primates will continue throughout the evening and as long as necessary, " a spokesperson for the Yemassee […]

WHAS At least 11 people were reported injured in an explosion at a manufacturing facility in Louisville, Kentucky, police said.A "hazardous materials incident" was reported Tuesday afternoon at the address of a Givaudan Sense Colour facility, according to the Louisville Metro Emergency Services.Agents with Louisville' division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives are responding and assisting with the "critical incident," the agency said.A shelter-in-place order has been […]

(BOSTON, Mass.) -- Jack Teixeira, the Massachusetts Air National Guardsman who prosecutors said "perpetrated one of the most significant and consequential violations of the Espionage Act in American history," was sentenced to 15 years in prison.The prison sentence will be followed by three years of supervised release.Judge Indira Talwani issued the sentence on Tuesday in Boston federal court.Teixeira pleaded guilty in March to six counts of willfully retaining and transmitting […]