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State police said they reviewed body worn camera video, witness interviews, and autopsy results.
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Imagine composing music that was praised by critics, and then being told only a man could have written it!That happened more than once to English-born composer Rebecca Clarke. Born in 1886, she began her musical life with the violin, eventually became the first female composition student of famed composer and teacher Sir Charles Villiers Stanford. Stanford convinced her to switch to the viola, on which she became a virtuoso. She soon had to make use of that skill when she criticized her father for his extramarital affairs… and he abruptly withdrew his financial support for her schooling.
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The first successful American woman composer of large-scale works, Amy Cheney could improvise counter-melodies at age two, taught herself to read music at three, and began playing her own works at her first public recitals at seven. From 16 to 18 she impressed Boston audiences with virtuosic performances of Chopin and Mendelssohn concertos.
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A child and a man are dead following an officer-involved shooting after police responded to a domestic violence call.
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Raising roosters is big business. Now a push to ease penalties for cockfighting is ruffling feathersCockfighting, the practice of fighting roosters, has been around for centuries. In the U.S. it’s a federal crime and illegal in all 50 states. But in Oklahoma, there’s an effort to lower the penalties for cockfighting that breeders say simply protects their right to raise roosters, while animal rights groups are calling foul.
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Police were called to the scene late Saturday night.
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