QUES: Police warned residents on Friday not to travel alone and to avoid convenience stores and service stations stores at night .

Police advised residents Friday not to travel alone to convenience stores and to be watchful .

The sentences above mean the same or not?
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QUES: " This is , I think , a very seminal moment in our agency 's history , " Mr O 'Keefe said .

" I think we are at a seminal moment in the history of this agency , " he said .

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QUES: Kenneth " Supreme " McGriff was sentenced to 37 months in prison for illegally possessing a handgun as a convicted felon at a firing range in Maryland .

Kenneth " Supreme " McGriff was sentenced to 37 months by U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz for illegally possessing a handgun as a convicted felon at a Maryland firing range .

The sentences above mean the same or not?
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yes