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A Tennessee surgeon was fatally shot by a patient in an exam room Tuesday afternoon in what police described as a "targeted" attack. Dr. Benjamin Mauck, who specialized in elbow, hand and wrist surgery, was murdered at Campbell Clinic Orthopedics in Collierville, local police chief Dale Lane said at a news conference Tuesday. Dr. Benjamin Mauck.Campbell Clinic via WMCOfficers responded to reports of a shooting at the clinic around 2 p.m. local time and within five minutes found the suspect and took him into custody "without incident," Lane said. The suspect was identified Wednesday as Larry Pickens, 29, of Memphis.…

It took a while, but people are about to catch up on experiences lost during the pandemic.While a minority of deep-pocketed travelers still face, and pay, four-figure airfares to Paris and Tokyo, prices are finally falling in the leisure economy, federal data for the past few months shows.That's good news for consumers, as well as economists and policymakers looking for reasons for optimism that the economy can regain footing without slipping into recession.Figures from the Consumer Price Index released Wednesday morning showed airfares were down 19% in June from a year ago and car rental rates were down 12%, for…

A Minnesota man was arrested Monday in connection with the death of his wife, more than two weeks after the woman's body was found on the side of the road, authorities said.Angela Marie McClelland, 49, was apparently fatally struck by a vehicle, the Crow Wing County Sheriff's Office said.Her body was found shortly after 5 a.m. June 25 after someone saw what they thought was a body near a highway intersection in Fort Ripley Township, the sheriff's office said.Tony James McClelland is arrested in Brainerd, Minnesota, on Monday.Crow Wing County Sheriff's Office via FacebookOn Monday, her husband, 47-year-old Tony James…

The Justice Department asked a federal appeals court Tuesday to block a judge's decision allowing former President Donald Trump to enter a plea related to a pair of lawsuits brought by former FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page.In a filing with the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, government attorneys argued that the US district judge “substantiated evidence” to suggest that Strzok was wrongfully fired under pressure from Trump.Strzok's lawyers have pushed for Trump's statement as part of a 2019 lawsuit against the FBI and the Justice Department to determine whether Trump met with and pressured…