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By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Former Ohio Treasurer and three-time U.S. Senate candidate Josh Mandel has been threatened with jail time for violating the terms of his divorce agreement. An Ashland County Common Pleas Court magistrate found both Mandel and his ex-wife, Ilana Mandel, in contempt of court last week
Continue ReadingBy KATHLEEN FOODY Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — For five days, the shouts of student protesters and supporters rang out from Northwestern University’s Deering Meadow as they joined demonstrations against the Israel-Hamas war unfolding on college campuses nationwide. But the meadow on the suburban Chicago campus fell silent hours after student organizers and the school
Continue ReadingBy STEFANIE DAZIO, ETHAN SWOPE, JAKE OFFENHARTZ and JOSEPH B. FREDERICK Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Dueling groups of protesters clashed overnight at the University of California, Los Angeles, shoving, kicking and beating each other with sticks after pro-Israel demonstrators tried to pull down barricades surrounding a pro-Palestinian encampment. Hours earlier, police burst into
Continue ReadingBy TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer The beginning of the Change Healthcare cyberattack happened when hackers entered a server that lacked multifactor authentication. That’s according to UnitedHealth CEO Andrew Witty. He told U.S. senators in a hearing on Wednesday that his company was still trying to understand why the server did not have the additional
Continue ReadingBy Clare Duffy, CNN New York (CNN) — Dozens of former Google workers filed a complaint with the US National Labor Relations Board on Tuesday after they were fired or placed on administrative leave last month for protesting the company’s cloud-computing contract with Israel’s government. The complaint accuses Google of retaliating against the workers for
Continue ReadingBy STEFANIE DAZIO, ETHAN SWOPE, JAKE OFFENHARTZ and JOSEPH B. FREDERICK Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Dueling groups of protesters clashed overnight at the University of California, Los Angeles, shoving, kicking and beating each other with sticks after pro-Israel demonstrators tried to pull down barricades surrounding a pro-Palestinian encampment. Hours earlier, police burst into
Continue ReadingBy Kelsey Gibbs Click here for updates on this story NASHVILLE, Tennessee (WTVF) — In the past year, the Metro Nashville Police Department has made significant strides in addressing violent crimes with over 3,000 arrests recorded. However, a troubling trend has emerged, as 16% of these individuals have been rearrested while out on bond, sparking
Continue ReadingBy JIM MUSTIAN Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Authorities have expanded an investigation of clergy sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic Church in New Orleans to include senior church officials suspected of shielding predatory priests for decades and failing to report their crimes to law enforcement. Louisiana State Police carried out a sweeping search
Continue ReadingBy JON GAMBRELL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — After weeks of nonstop coverage of destruction and death in the Gaza Strip, media across the wider Middle East have latched onto the demonstrations roiling American university campuses over the Israel-Hamas war. For some, the protests and what they described as a heavy-handed police crackdown on them
Continue ReadingBy Hannah McDonald Click here for updates on this story ASHLAND CITY, Tennessee (WTVF) — A pizza delivery driver out for only the second time was shot at when he pulled into the wrong driveway. Caiden Wheeler, an 18-year-old high school student, was delivering a pizza to a house on N Poole Street around 8:00
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press Campus police spokesperson Marc Lovicott said four officers were injured Wednesday as police tried to remove protesters’ tents from a central square at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Lovicott said a state trooper was hit in the head with a skateboard and three sheriff’s deputies suffered injuries “directly related to
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press Campus police spokesperson Marc Lovicott said four officers were injured Wednesday as police tried to remove protesters’ tents from a central square at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Lovicott said a state trooper was hit in the head with a skateboard and three sheriff’s deputies suffered injuries “directly related to
Continue ReadingBy JONEL ALECCIA AP Health Writer Millions of Americans who have used new obesity drugs like Wegovy to lose weight and improve health are wondering what happens if they stop taking them. Experts say the medications were designed and tested to be taken indefinitely to treat the disease of obesity. Some people are experimenting with
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By Fred Pleitgen, CNN Tehran (CNN) — “You have to ask the Israelis,” Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Brigadier General Ali Belali says with a smirk when asked how many ballistic missiles the Islamic Republic fired towards Israel in its April 14 strike. But he’s more than happy to show the missiles and drones Iran used
Continue ReadingBy STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minnesota man who once fought for the Islamic State group in Syria but now expresses remorse and has been cooperating with authorities will have to wait to learn how much prison time he faces. A sentencing hearing set for Wednesday was canceled just hours before it
Continue ReadingBy Marianne Garvey, CNN (CNN) — It was the return of Beavis and Butt-Head at the Los Angeles premiere of “The Fall Guy” on Tuesday. Ryan Gosling and Mikey Day appeared on the red carpet together in the same outfits and hairdos they wore in their viral “Saturday Night Live” sketch. Gosling did pose for
Continue ReadingLAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) — Walt Disney World will host dozens of portraits of service members and veterans from the nation’s Painter-in-Chief. The George W. Bush Institute will loan the 60 color portraits by the former U.S. president to the Florida theme park resort. The paintings of service members and veterans will be displayed
Continue ReadingBy FRANCIS KOKUTSE Associated Press ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — The U.S. military plans to return to Chad within a month for talks about revising an agreement that allows it to keep troops based there. The commander of U.S. Africa Command made the comments to reporters in Ghana on Wednesday. The U.S. said last month it
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press Columbia University’s president released a statement Wednesday morning to members of the college community outlining why she called in police the night before. Minouche Shafik said protesters taking over an administration building on campus early Tuesday was a “drastic escalation” of the encampment at the college, which “pushed the University to
Continue ReadingBy Web staff Click here for updates on this story COMPTON, California (KCAL) — Broken gates, shattered headstones and desecrated grave sites are just the most recent troubles at Compton’s storied cemetery, Woodlawn Celestial Gardens. “It’s a huge historical landmark,” Compton City Councilman Jonathan Bowers said. “A lot of American history laid to rest here,
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