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Maine man sentenced to 15 years for mosque attack plot

BANGOR, Maine (AP) — A 19-year-old from Maine who the FBI says built homemade explosives and plotted to attack a mosque in the name of the Islamic State group was sentenced Monday to 15 years in prison.Xavier Pelkey, of Waterville, entered an agreement with prosecutors in April in which he ...

ACLU sues South Dakota over its vanity plate restrictions

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The American Civil Liberties Union of South Dakota announced Monday that it is suing South Dakota over a state law that restricts content on vanity plates.The ACLU said in a press release that it filed the lawsuit on behalf of Lyndon Hart, whose application for a plate that ...

Suspect killed and officer shot in arm during Chicago shootout, police say

CHICAGO (AP) — A suspect was killed and a Chicago police officer was wounded in a shootout Monday on the city's South Side, the police superintendent said.As four members of a police tactical team tried to conduct an “investigatory” stop, the suspect began to flee while firing shots at ...