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Shawn Oliver pleads not guilty to OUI charge after crash

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New Bedford City Councilor Shawn Oliver pleaded not guilty to a charge of operating under the influence of alcohol in New Bedford District Court Monday morning, in a case that has led to him suspending his campaign for lieutenant governor.

When Oliver was called forward, he pleaded not guilty to all charges: operating under the influence, negligent operation of a motor vehicle, speeding and a marked lanes violation.

At the prosecutor’s request, the court released Oliver on the condition that he not drive while his case is pending. He was released on personal recognizance, meaning without bail. His next court date is Nov. 16.

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Mississippi attorney general rules fatal police shooting of one-year-old as ‘justified’

Officers responding to an alleged shoplifting call fired into the vehicle of Vellesiya Wiley, killing her son, Kohen On Monday, the office of the Mississippi attorney general, Lynn Fitch, announced that the police shooting of Kohen Wiley, a one-year-old, as he sat in his mother’s lap “was justified”. The statement came four months after the baby was killed in Senatobia, Mississippi. On 14 June, officers in Senatobia, a small city near Memphis, were responding to a shoplifting call alleging Vellesiya Wiley, the baby’s mother, and Latoya Ferrell, a…

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