
Joe Kottke
Assignment Editor at NBC News
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6 days ago |
nbcnews.com | Joe Kottke
A 6-year-old child was found dead in his Florida home Friday, and his mother, who has been criminally charged in the death, believed she was being told to "exorcise demons out of the child's body," the St. Lucie County sheriff said. The body of the child, Ra'myl Pierre, was found in his bed in the family's Fort Pierce home shortly after 10 a.m., after school resource deputies requested a welfare check, Sheriff Richard R. Del Toro Jr. said.
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1 week ago |
nbcnews.com | Mirna Alsharif |Joe Kottke
May 30, 2025, 3:22 PM EDTThe Massachusetts Institute of Technology banned the 2025 class president from Friday's graduation commencement ceremony after she delivered a pro-Palestinian speech during an event Thursday. The university made the announcement on Friday without naming the student, saying that she delivered a speech at Thursday's OneMIT commencement ceremony that was not the one provided in advance.
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2 weeks ago |
nbcnews.com | Dennis Romero |Todd Miyazawa |Joe Kottke |Andrew Blankstein
May 20, 2025, 12:37 AM EDTA hearing that could lead to freedom for the Menendez brothers, convicted in their parents' 1989 murder, was pushed back from June 13 to August, California corrections officials said Monday. A spokesperson for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said the brothers’ hearings on parole suitability will be heard instead on Aug. 21 and 22.
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3 weeks ago |
nbcnews.com | Minyvonne Burke |Joe Kottke
May 14, 2025, 10:33 AM EDT / Updated May 14, 2025, 10:34 AM EDTAn Ohio man is accused of burning 100 library books on African American, Jewish, and LGBTQ history, sparking a public outcry. The Beachwood Police Department said the man checked out the books in April, days after he went to the Beachwood library branch on Shaker Boulevard and got a library card, NBC affiliate WKYC of Cleveland reported.
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3 weeks ago |
nbcnews.com | Minyvonne Burke |Joe Kottke
May 13, 2025, 11:39 AM EDTA traffic stop in Dalton, Georgia, which police admitted was a mistake, led to a 19-year-old Mexico-born college student's arrest and possible deportation. The Dalton Police Department said it was dropping the traffic-related charges against Ximena Arias-Cristobal, that led to her initial arrest last week. But she remains at an ICE detention facility in southwest Georgia.
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