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Rolls of razor wire line the top of the security fencing at the Raymond Detention Center in Raymond, Miss., on Aug. 1, 2022. Four prisoners are on the loose after escaping over the weekend from the Mississippi jail already under federal scrutiny for alleged mismanagement. In an escape that began around 8 p.m. Saturday, the four detainees broke free from the Raymond Detention Center, a facility near the state capital of Jackson, through breaches in a cell and in the roof, Hinds County Sheriff Tyree Jones said at a Monday, April 24, 2023 news conference. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

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4 prisoners on the run after escaping from Mississippi jail
Mon,04/24/23-12:10PM , 107 Reads
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Four prisoners are on the loose after escaping over the weekend from a Mississippi jail already under federal scrutiny for alleged mismanagement.
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This image provided by the Minnesota Department of Corrections shows Kim Potter, the Minnesota police officer who mistook her gun for a Taser and killed Daunte Wright in 2021. Potter was released from prison early Monday, April 24, 2023. The Minnesota Department of Corrections said Potter was set free around 4 a.m. “out of an abundance of caution.” The department confirmed Friday she would be released Monday but declined to say what time out of security concerns. (Minnesota Department of Corrections via AP)

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Minnesota officer who fatally shot Daunte Wright freed
Mon,04/24/23-7:27AM , 56 Reads
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Today in History: May 6, the Hindenburg crashes
Mon,04/24/23-6:01AM , 40 Reads
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Today is Saturday, May 6, the 126th day of 2023. There are 239 days left in the year.

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Migrants start walking north from Tapachula, Chiapas state, Mexico, Sunday, April 23, 2023. Migrants stuck in southern Mexico and angry about 40 of their own who died in a fire at a detention facility last month, began walking toward Mexico City. (AP Photo/Edgar Hernandez Clemente)

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3,000 migrants begin walk north from southern Mexico
By EDGAR H. CLEMENTE - Associated Press
Sun,04/23/23-11:58AM , 70 Reads
TAPACHULA, Mexico (AP) — Around 3,000 migrants set out Sunday on what they call a mass protest procession through southern Mexico to demand the end of detention centers like the one that caught fire last month, killing 40 migrants.
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