
Joe Kottke
Assignment Editor at NBC News
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2 weeks ago |
nbcnews.com | Joe Kottke
Rapper Macklemore's Seattle home was burglarized over the weekend by masked men who attacked the nanny with bear spray, police said. Seattle police were dispatched to the home at 12:48 a.m. Saturday after a call from a woman who identified herself as a nanny and said two men had broken in. She told police she was able to get out of the home but that three children were still inside.
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4 weeks 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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4 weeks 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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1 month 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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1 month 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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