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• Wife's body found after police kill estranged husband
• Epstein accuser sues, prison guards 'asleep' when he died
• Georgia's Abrams announces new voter protection program

Wife's body found after police kill estranged husband Posted: 14 Aug 2019 12:29 PM PDT Police announced Wednesday that a woman's body has been found in Arkansas after police fatally shot her estranged rifle-toting husband the day before near a popular shopping area in Kansas City, Kansas. The body of 49-year-old Sylvia Ussery-Pearson was found Tuesday night in northwest Arkansas' Benton County, police said during a news conference in Overland Park, Kansas, where she was from. The discovery was made hours after 51-year-old Charles Pearson, a 21-year veteran Army Ranger who had completed two combat tours in Iraq, walked into a Country Inn & Suites and told the general manager that he killed his wife. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Epstein accuser sues, prison guards 'asleep' when he died Posted: 14 Aug 2019 09:30 AM PDT An alleged victim of pedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein sued for damages Wednesday as reports claimed his guards were asleep before the disgraced tycoon died from an apparent suicide in prison. Two employees of the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York failed to check on Epstein for three hours and then falsified prison logs to cover up their error, the New York Times reported. The staff members were meant to be inspecting Epstein's cell every 30 minutes but dozed off, several unnamed law enforcement and prison officials familiar with the matter told the newspaper. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Georgia's Abrams announces new voter protection program Posted: 13 Aug 2019 06:32 PM PDT Democrat Stacey Abrams, who vaulted onto the national political stage championing voting rights during an unsuccessful 2018 run for Georgia governor, announced on Tuesday that she's launching a new multistate voter protection initiative and not running for president in 2020. Abrams revealed plans for the initiative, called Fair Fight 2020, during a speech before a labor union convention in Las Vegas that was livestreamed on Facebook. The multimillion-dollar project will staff and fund voter protection teams in battleground states across the country ahead of next year's elections. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

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