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ALBANY, N.Y. — The U.S. Marshals are seeking the public’s help in locating accused rapist Michael Hawkins, who allegedly sexually assaulted a wheelchair bound victim in her Schenectady, New York, apartment while her loved ones slept only feet away.

The Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police’s robbery unit is investigating an armed robbery that occurred at approximately 10 p.m., Wednesday near 44th Street and Barnard Street. The three victims were packing a moving van when two armed suspects approached them and demanded money, said Sonny Cohrs, Savannah-Chatham police spokesman.

Frederic Green, 39, has turned his life around after serving time in prison in the 1990s for peddling drugs on Savannah’s streets. Now Green is trying to help others in danger of being locked up or killed escape the criminal lifestyle.

Plans presented at Tuesday’s Metropolitan Planning Commission meeting for a 70-u

BERLIN — The fallout from a massive leak of records on offshore accounts dragged a growing number of leaders and celebrities into the spotlight Wednesday, with a Bollywood actor, a race car driver and Ukraine’s president among those denying they evaded taxes.

WASHINGTON — The U.S. lambastes and strong-arms countries that help drug lords and millionaire investors hide their money from tax collectors. Critics say it should look closer to home.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Country giant Merle Haggard, who rose from poverty and prison to international fame through his songs about outlaws, underdogs and an abiding sense of national pride in such hits as “Okie From Muskogee” and “Sing Me Back Home,” died Wednesday at 79, on his birthday.

First Syrians leave for U.S. under surge resettlement program

AMMAN, Jordan — The first Syrian family to be resettled in the U.S. under a speeded-up “surge operation” for refugees left Jordan on Wednesday for Kansas City, Missouri, to start a new life.

NEW YORK — Republican Donald Trump declared it’s “great to be home” at a massive rally in the New York City suburbs Wednesday, shrugging off a defeat in Wisconsin a day earlier and instead, predicting victory in his delegate-rich home state.