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An amateur soccer player who hoped to play the sport professionally was charged Tuesday with the stabbing death of a teen model who posed for Playboy and Cosmopolitan magazine, the Press Association reported. Ricardo Morrison, 21, did not speak during a hearing Tuesday at the Bolton Magistrates’ Court, where he …

SARASOTA, Fla. – Spitting is now OK in Sarasota. City commissioners voted Monday to abolish a law dating back to 1908 that banned spitting. They argued the law was unenforceable. Lawyers said it was used to target those in lower income neighborhoods. But for the past century it was illegal. …

HOUMA, La. – A 33-year-old work-release inmate was killed in Houma over the weekend after falling from a garbage truck, authorities said. James Ellis Griffin, of Houma, was picking up trash about 5:40 a.m. Saturday on a truck owned by Solid Waste Disposal Inc. when he slipped as he was …