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PARIS (AP) — French war planes have destroyed an Islamic State depot in Iraq. Officials say two French jets flying from the United Arab Emirates fired four laser-guided bombs to destroy a weapons and fuel depot outside the northern city of Mosul. It's in part of the territory the militants have overrun in Iraq and neighboring Syria.
NEW YORK (AP) — The National Organization for Women is repeating its calls for NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell to resign. Goodell said today that he has made mistakes in his handling of player domestic abuse cases. He also said the NFL will enact new personal conduct policies. But NOW President Terry O'Neill says the NFL should conduct an independent investigation into all of the incidents of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault and stalking during Gouddell's watch.
NEW YORK (AP) — An expert forensic pathologist says he believes the death of a New York City man was caused by a police chokehold. Pathologist Michael Baden, hired by Eric Garner's family, says hemorrhaging around Eric Garner's neck was indicative of neck compression. Cellphone video shows Garner repeatedly saying he could not breathe while being taken down by several officers. He was being arrested for selling untaxed, loose cigarettes.
PROVO, Utah (AP) — A Utah doctor convicted of murdering his wife in a case that became a true-crime cable TV obsession has been sentenced to 17 years to life in prison. Prosecutors say Martin MacNeill drugged his wife and let her die in a bathtub so he could begin a new life with his mistress. Before MacNeill was sentenced today in Provo, his daughter called him a remorseless monster.
CINCINNATI (AP) — Icy Slush Puppie drinks led to his multi-million-dollar global business. Will Radcliff has died in Cincinnati at age 74, following a recent fall. His family says Radcliff was a natural salesman who once peddled vacuum clears door to door and earned a six-figure income from selling peanuts. The idea for Slush Puppies came to him after he spotted a slush machine at a 1970 Chicago trade show.
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