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Justice Department probing N.J. town over mosque denial as another town settles
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The U.S. Department of Justice has opened an investigation on a New Jersey city's rejection of a planned mosque, a spokesman confirmed on Tuesday. The U.S. Attorney's office in New Jersey, in conjunction with members of the department's civil rights headquarters in Washington, D.C., is examining whether officials in Bayonne, New Jersey, properly denied plans to build a mosque, according to Matthew Reilly, a spokesman for the New Jersey office. The Bayonne Muslims, the group seeking to construct the mosque, filed a federal lawsuit against the city last week.
Police: Punch, drunk driving mom cause crash killing girl, 6
MUNCIE, Ind. (AP) — A man punched his girlfriend as she was driving a van carrying him and her four children along an Indiana highway, causing a single-vehicle crash that killed her 6-year-old daughter, police said.
Husband of Mary Kay Letourneau, His Former Sixth Grade Teacher, Files for Separation
The couple created a national scandal when their illicit relationship began when he was 12, and she was 34.
Series of bombings kill nearly 40 people across Baghdad
BAGHDAD (AP) — A massive bombing by the Islamic State group outside a popular ice cream parlor in central Baghdad and a rush- hour car bomb in another downtown area killed at least 31 people Tuesday, Iraqi officials said.
Woman Killed by Tiger in England Zoo Identified, Mom Says She Loved Her Job
The zoo has called her death a "freak accident."
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