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A young Bradenton mother says she was in fear when she looked at her Ring App and saw armed men at her door. Kada Staples says the men had their weapons pointed at her door and when she said hello, they ordered her to come out and said “we know he’s in there”. The armed men were U.S. Marshals. Staples believes they were looking for a murder suspect, but they had the wrong apartment. At the time she opened her door and still didn’t understand what was going on. Florida elementary school principal arrested after driving BMW at neighbor, flipping...

Yeadon, Pa 10 Pounds of high grade marijuana was shipped to the house of a Church Pastor by mistake. Police says it had a street value of about $18000.00.

BELMONT, Maine — Mack Page was sound asleep in his bed at 11 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 3, when he was startled awake by the frantic barking of his black Labrador. “What have I got now?” the 63-year-old commander of the Maine Militia remembers wondering. “A raccoon? A coyote?” But it was none of those things. Instead, Page’s dark residence on a quiet Belmont road suddenly was lit up by men outside his windows carrying flashlights. He lives alone, he’s not in the best of health and he was scared. “They called, ‘State police! Come out with your hands up!’”...

PEARL, Miss. -- A Pearl family said Thursday that they're suing local law enforcement for holding them at gunpoint in their own home. Officers said it was an honest mistake. "As I walked out the front door, I was making a phone call and I saw the unmarked Navigator truck pull up into my yard and fly open the doors," Brett Gerhart said. "All they did was say, 'Get down.'" The 21-year-old described what he said happened Monday night. He claims it was a case of mistaken identity by police. "I ran inside to tell my family, 'They got guns....

Before every election, the Post-Gazette routinely sends letters to the candidates seeking material for the Voters Guide. Back in March, as part of that process for the primary, the newspaper sent a letter to Rick Santorum at his home address, at least the one that he claims. Back from Penn Hills came the letter with a sticker from the U.S. Postal Service checked as "Not Deliverable As Addressed -- Unable To Forward." That is all you need to know about the nasty dispute between the Republican Sen. Santorum and his Democratic opponent, Bob Casey Jr., in the November election. The...