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Associated Press/Report for America BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana’s GOP-dominated Legislature approved a constitutional amendment on Friday that would allow lawmakers to expand the number of crimes in which juveniles between 14 and 16 years old could be tried as adults. The measure would remove constitutional restrictions on juvenile crimes transferable to adult courts

AP Health Writer A California infant has died and at least 10 other people have been sickened in an outbreak of listeria food poisoning tied to ready-to-eat meat and poultry products that include chicken feet, duck neck, beef shank and pork hock, federal health officials reported Friday. Yu Shang Food, Inc., of Spartanburg, South Carolina,

Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey has announced that the state’s reliance on hotels and motels to shelter homeless people will be phased out in the next couple of years. Healey announced on Friday changes to the state’s emergency family shelter system. She said the changes would help more families find stable,

Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Myanmar’s desperate military junta is ramping up attacks on villages that have fallen to opposition groups. The U.N. independent human rights investigator for Myanmar says the junta carries out beheadings, gang rapes and torture with women, children and the elderly among the victims. Thomas Andrews said in a new

Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — A suburban Detroit police officer has been charged with manslaughter after his patrol car smashed into another vehicle, killing two men. The crash occurred in September in Warren, Michigan. Investigators say Warren Officer James Burke was driving southbound at a “high rate of speed” when his car struck a vehicle

Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Service workers at Charlotte Douglas International Airport are voting on whether to go on a 24-hour strike around Thanksgiving amid complaints about low wages and poor working conditions. The vote is being taken by employees of two airport contractors who provide cabin cleaning services, trash removal and other services.

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A judge says he’ll rule next week on Sean “Diddy” Combs’ third request to be released from jail on bail while he awaits his sex trafficking trial. Judge Arun Subramanian said at a hearing Friday that he’ll put his decision until after Combs’ lawyers and federal prosecutors file letters

NEW YORK (AP) — Alice Brock has died at age 83. Her Massachusetts-based eatery helped inspire Arlo Guthrie’s deadpan Thanksgiving standard, “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree.” Guthrie announced Brock’s death, just a week before Thanksgiving, on the Facebook page of his own “Rising Son Records” on Friday. In 1966, Alice Brock was running The Back Room restaurant

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The police chief of a small town in central Mexico took his own life as troops closed in to arrest him as part of a large-scale anticorruption raid that also detained the mayor of another town. The raids occurred Friday in several towns in the State of Mexico, west of Mexico

Associated Press An animal control officer shot and killed a pet dog in a Massachusetts town after mistaking it for a coyote in an incident that has the animal’s owner fuming, but that local police are describing as a sad mix-up. The shooting happened on Tuesday after police received a call of a report of

Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York has repealed a seldom-used law over a century old that made it a crime to cheat on your spouse. The misdemeanor once could have landed adulterers in jail for three months. Gov. Kathy Hochul signed a bill on Friday repealing the statute. The law dates back to

Associated Press/Report for America BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana’s GOP-dominated legislature passed tax cuts on personal and corporate income on Friday in exchange for a statewide sales tax increase. The result is a mixed bag of success for Gov. Jeff Landry, whose original tax revision plans faced resistance from lawmakers and lobbyists amid hard