As major ‘sanctuary cities’ resist Trump’s threats, Miami-Dade mayor says city will comply; Student promoting white nationalism on UW-Madison campus exposed as racially-motivated arsonist; Chicago’s minister of carpentry: He made 762 crosses for the city’s murder victims last year; ‘Shop for yarn elsewhere’: Tenn. shop owner to ‘vile’ women’s march supporters; Ex-Harrisburg mayor’s ‘almost pathological preoccupation’ with Wild West artifacts may land him in prison; Feminist author Roxane Gay pulls book from Simon & Schuster over Milo Yiannopoulos contract; Shia LaBeouf charged with assault after allegedly scratching man’s face at live-stream event; Zoo to Australians: Please help us catch deadly funnel-web spiders; ‘A lot of scared people’: Relentless snow collapses hundreds of Idaho roofs, devastates rural county;
 
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‘What not to do': Fla. fisherman who hauled in $500,000 worth of cocaine faces life in prison
The fisherman was 50 miles south of Panama City when he found 45 pounds of cocaine floating in the gulf.
As major ‘sanctuary cities’ resist Trump’s threats, Miami-Dade mayor says city will comply
Carlos Gimenez, mayor of Miami-Dade County, sent a memo Thursday ordering county jails to comply with federal immigration detention requests, abandoning the county's status as a “sanctuary” for undocumented immigrants.
 
Student promoting white nationalism on UW-Madison campus exposed as racially-motivated arsonist
Daniel Dropik, 33, was sentenced to five years in prison in 2006
 
Chicago’s minister of carpentry: He made 762 crosses for the city’s murder victims last year
Greg Zanis began making crosses two decades ago. Since then, he's crafted some 16,000. His message: “Somebody loves you. Somebody cares."
 
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‘Shop for yarn elsewhere’: Tenn. shop owner to ‘vile’ women’s march supporters
"I'm not against people standing up,” the owner said. “I'm against the way they're doing it."
 
Ex-Harrisburg mayor’s ‘almost pathological preoccupation’ with Wild West artifacts may land him in prison
Former Harrisburg, Pa., Mayor Stephen Reed was accused of using public money to buy stagecoach equipment, antique guns and thousands of other items for a museum that never came to be. He pleaded guilty to 20 counts of receiving stolen property this week.
 
Feminist author Roxane Gay pulls book from Simon & Schuster over Milo Yiannopoulos contract
She couldn't associate herself with a publisher that gave platform to the alt-right darling's “blunt, inelegant hate and provocation,” Gay told BuzzFeed News in a statement.
 
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Shia LaBeouf charged with assault after allegedly scratching man’s face at live-stream event
LaBeouf was charged with misdemeanor assault by the NYPD following an altercation with a man outside of his ongoing, 24-hour live stream event in the Bronx, according to police.
 
Zoo to Australians: Please help us catch deadly funnel-web spiders
The spiders' venom, in short supply, is used to create antidotes.
 
‘A lot of scared people’: Relentless snow collapses hundreds of Idaho roofs, devastates rural county
One woman has died. Others have been injured. The onion-processing industry has lost 25 percent of its capacity.
 
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