Don Babwin

Associated Press
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Tesla vehicles line a parking area at the company's Fremont, Calif., factory on Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2025.
Tesla Under Investigation After Delays in Reporting Self-Driving Crashes
August 22, 2025
A sign stands at Prospect Ranch outside of Prospect Valley Dairy east of Keenesburg, Colo., Aug. 21, 2025.
6 People Found Dead at a Colorado Dairy; Authorities Suspect an Accident Involving Gas Exposure
August 22, 2025
The Geneva Steel mill under construction in 1942 in Vineyard, Utah. The mill was among Utah’s biggest polluters before it closed in 2001.
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In the lawsuit, 17 workers say McDonald’s has failed to protect them from what they say is a “citywide and nationwide” pattern of violence in Chicago.
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In this Tuesday, April 10, 2018 photo, Marshfield High School Principal Robert Keuther displays vaping devices that were confiscated from students in such places as restrooms or hallways at the school in Marshfield, Mass. Illinois health officials are reporting what could be United States' first death tied to vaping. In a Friday, Aug. 23, 2019, news release, the Illinois Department of Public Health says a person who recently vaped died after being hospitalized with 'severe respiratory illness.' The agency didn't give any other information about the patient, including a name or where the person lived.
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IL Vaping Death May Have Been First
The adult patient was hospitalized after falling ill following vaping.
August 26, 2019
Law enforcement officers gather outside the Henry Pratt Co. manufacturing plant Friday, Feb. 15, 2019, in Aurora, Ill. Police say a gunman killed several people and injured police officers before he was fatally shot.
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Shooter Was Fired Over Glasses
Newly released details say he told a co-worker that if he was fired he was going to kill every other employee.
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Law enforcement officers gather outside the Henry Pratt Co. manufacturing plant Friday, Feb. 15, 2019, in Aurora, Ill. Police say a gunman killed several people and injured police officers before he was fatally shot.
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Employee Being Fired Kills 5
He likely knew he was about to lose the job he had held for 15 years.
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In this Oct. 20, 2017 photo, Holocaust survivor Fritzie Fritzshall poses for a portrait in front of her 3D hologram at the Illinois Holocaust Museum in Skokie, Ill. Fritzshall is one of 13 Holocaust survivors who tell their stories through holographic images that invite the audience to ask questions, creating what feels like a live conversation. The exhibit in Skokie marks the first time that the voice-recognition technology powering conversations with audiences has been married to 3-D holographic technology to tell survivors' stories.
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Holograms Preserve Survivor Stories
The holographic theater is the result of a three-year, $5 million project.
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Federal officials gather at their vehicles as they continue to execute a search warrant at the Caterpillar, Inc. facility in Morton, Ill., one of three Caterpillar facilities they are searching in the Tri-County area Thursday, March 2, 2017.
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Three CAT Facilities Raided
The agencies involved include the IRS's criminal investigation unit, the U.S. Department of Commerce Office of Export Enforcement and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.'s office of inspector general.
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In this Thursday, July 7, 2016 file photo, Dallas police respond after shots were fired during a protest over recent fatal shootings by police in Louisiana and Minnesota, in Dallas. Police in Dallas were the first in the nation to use a robot to deliver and detonate a bomb to kill a suspect, but other law enforcement agencies are willing and able to follow suit, including some that even have trained for the day when they’d have to do so. The killing of Micah Johnson using a robot-delivered bomb ended a night of terror in which he shot 14 officers, killing five of them, and also wounded two civilians.
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Experts on Using of Robot to Kill Suspect
With law enforcement's rapidly expanding access to robots that can roll into and fly over hostage situations, gunfights, chases and standoffs, experts say it's just a matter of time before they'll be used again to kill.
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