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Donald Trump walked a political tightrope Saturday -- promising in heartland Iowa to help farmers across the country by cutting taxes and federal regulations while continuing his stark appeal to potentially disaffected minority voters in U.S. ier cities. “We are going to end this war on the American farmer,” Trump told the crowd at Iowa GOP Sen. Joni Est’s influential “Roast and Ride” rally in Des Moines. In a roughly 45-minute address in which Trump largely stuck to measured and prepared remarks, the Republican presidential nominee also repeatedly tried to distinguish himself from Democratic rival Hillary Clinton and appealed to evangelicals and others to assist him in helping minor...

Home of Mark and Megan Short in Sinking Spring, Pesylvania. (Google Street View) Police found a handwritten “murder-suicide” note in a Pesylvania home where a family of five, including a toddler who underwent a heart transplant a week after birth, was found dead of gunshot wounds, prosecutors said Sunday. Police found the bodies of Mark and Megan Short and their three children, as well as a deceased dog Saturday afteoon in the living room area of the family’s home in Sinking Spring, Berks County District Attoey John Adams said. [embedded content] “A handwritten note was discovered in the home which appeared to be a ‘murder-suicide’ note,” he said on Facebook. A handgun was discovered nea...

Home of Mark and Megan Short in Sinking Spring, Pesylvania. (Google Street View) Police found a handwritten “murder-suicide” note in a Pesylvania home where a family of five, including a toddler who underwent a heart transplant a week after birth, was found dead of gunshot wounds, prosecutors said Sunday. Police found the bodies of Mark and Megan Short and their three children, as well as a deceased dog Saturday afteoon in the living room area of the family’s home in Sinking Spring, Berks County District Attoey John Adams said. [embedded content] “A handwritten note was discovered in the home which appeared to be a ‘murder-suicide’ note,” he said on Facebook. A handgun was discovered nea...

Perry Coniglio. (Highlands Police Dept.) HIGHLANDS, N.Y. – A man held an 81-year-old Marine Corps veteran hostage in his squalid motel room for at least four years in order to steal his benefits checks, authorities said Thursday. HEARTBREAKING: U.S. veteran held hostage, abused for years at Highland motel, police say: https://t.co/5xSlhBdsgK pic.twitter.com/DuegdMLLQR — Eyewitness News (@ABC7NY) July 20, 2016 Perry Coniglio was arrested Tuesday in his room adjoining the victim's at a motel in Highlands. The motel sits next door to the police station in the Hudson Valley town, about 50 miles north of New York City. Coniglio, 43, used brute force and intimidation to get the mentally dimin...

Perry Coniglio. (Highlands Police Dept.) HIGHLANDS, N.Y. – A man held an 81-year-old Marine Corps veteran hostage in his squalid motel room for at least four years in order to steal his benefits checks, authorities said Thursday. HEARTBREAKING: U.S. veteran held hostage, abused for years at Highland motel, police say: https://t.co/5xSlhBdsgK pic.twitter.com/DuegdMLLQR — Eyewitness News (@ABC7NY) July 20, 2016 Perry Coniglio was arrested Tuesday in his room adjoining the victim's at a motel in Highlands. The motel sits next door to the police station in the Hudson Valley town, about 50 miles north of New York City. Coniglio, 43, used brute force and intimidation to get the mentally dimin...

BATON ROUGE, La. – Just days before he was shot and killed Sunday moing, a Baton Rouge police officer posted an emotional Facebook message saying he was "physically and emotionally" tired and expressing how difficult it was to be both a police officer and a black man, a friend said Sunday. "I swear to God I love this city but I wonder if this city loves me," Montrell Jackson wrote. He said while in uniform he gets nasty looks and out of uniform some consider him a threat. "I've experienced so much in my short life and these last 3 days have tested me to the core," the posting read. The message was posted July 8, just three days after a black man was shot and killed by police in Baton R...

July 17, 2016: This undated photo provided by Trenisha Jackson shows her husband, Baton Rouge Police Officer Montrell Jackson, one of the three Baton Rouge law enforcement officers who were killed. (Courtesy of Trenisha Jackson via AP) BATON ROUGE, La. – Just days before he was shot and killed Sunday moing, a Baton Rouge police officer posted an emotional Facebook message saying he was "physically and emotionally" tired and expressing how difficult it was to be both a police officer and a black man, a friend said Sunday. "I swear to God I love this city but I wonder if this city loves me," Montrell Jackson wrote. He said while in uniform he gets nasty looks and out of uniform some consid...

This undated photo shows 19-year-old Fred Barley, a student at Gordon State College in Baesville, Ga. (Facebook) More than $150,000 dollars have been raised for a Georgia 19-year-old who was found sleeping in a tent outside the gates of his college last weekend. Fred Barley, who is homeless, was discovered by two police officers responding to a trespassing call near a parking lot at Gordon State College in Baesville. He told the officers he had ridden his little brother's bicycle six hours to register for classes for his second semester of college. In addition to the bike, Barley had two duffel bags containing all his wordly possessions and two gallons of water. All he had to eat, accord...

A Democratic National Committee staffer was fatally shot early Sunday moing in his Washington, D.C. neighborhood, according to city police officials. Authorities have identified the victim as 27-year-old Seth Rich, the DNC’s director of voter expansion. Police said they heard gunshots about 4:20 a.m., then found Rich shot several times but still conscious and breathing. He was taken to a nearby hospital and pronounced dead. “Our hearts are broken,” said DNC Chairwoman Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz. “Seth Rich was a dedicated, selfless public servant who worked tirelessly to protect the most sacred right we share as Americans -- the right to vote.” The shooting occurred in the 2100 blo...

Seth Rich (Fox 5 DC) A Democratic National Committee staffer was fatally shot early Sunday moing in his Washington, D.C. neighborhood, according to city police officials. Authorities have identified the victim as 27-year-old Seth Rich, the DNC’s director of voter expansion. Police said they heard gunshots about 4:20 a.m., then found Rich shot several times but still conscious and breathing. He was taken to a nearby hospital and pronounced dead. “Our hearts are broken,” said DNC Chairwoman Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz. “Seth Rich was a dedicated, selfless public servant who worked tirelessly to protect the most sacred right we share as Americans -- the right to vote.” The shooting occur...

Seth Rich (Fox 5 DC) A Democratic National Committee staffer was fatally shot early Sunday moing in his Washington, D.C. neighborhood, according to city police officials. Authorities have identified the victim as 27-year-old Seth Rich, the DNC’s director of voter expansion. Police said they heard gunshots about 4:20 a.m., then found Rich shot several times but still conscious and breathing. He was taken to a nearby hospital and pronounced dead. “Our hearts are broken,” said DNC Chairwoman Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz. “Seth Rich was a dedicated, selfless public servant who worked tirelessly to protect the most sacred right we share as Americans -- the right to vote.” The shooting occur...

Seth Rich (Fox 5 DC) A Democratic National Committee staffer was fatally shot early Sunday moing in his Washington, D.C. neighborhood, according to city police officials. Authorities have identified the victim as 27-year-old Seth Rich, the DNC’s director of voter expansion. Police said they heard gunshots about 4:20 a.m., then found Rich shot several times but still conscious and breathing. He was taken to a nearby hospital and pronounced dead. “Our hearts are broken,” said DNC Chairwoman Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz. “Seth Rich was a dedicated, selfless public servant who worked tirelessly to protect the most sacred right we share as Americans -- the right to vote.” The shooting occur...