OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Two men charged with murder in the death of an Oakland police officer who was shot while answering a burglary report at a marijuana business appeared in court Thursday but didn’t enter pleas. Meanwhile, a fourth man was arrested in connection with last week’s burglary. Officer Tuan Le, 36, was shot
Continue ReadingOAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Two men charged with murder in the death of an Oakland police officer who was shot while answering a burglary report at a marijuana business appeared in court Thursday but didn’t enter pleas. Meanwhile, a fourth man was arrested in connection with last week’s burglary. Officer Tuan Le, 36, was shot
Continue ReadingBy HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has ordered authorities to increase production of mobile launch vehicles for missiles, saying the country faces a looming military showdown with its enemies. The official Korean Central News Agency said Friday that Kim visited a factory that produces mobile
Continue ReadingBy ERIC HE Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Golden State coach Steve Kerr didn’t confirm a report Thursday that suspended forward Draymond Green is expected to return to the team’s facility soon, while noting that giving Green space away from the team is important for both parties. ESPN reported that Green is “expected to
Continue ReadingBy KEN RITTER and RIO YAMAT Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Nevada judge was back to work a day after being attacked by a defendant in a felony battery case who was captured on courtroom video charging forward and “supermanning” over the judge’s bench after it became clear that he was being sentenced
Continue ReadingBy ADI MARSIELA Associated Press BANDUNG, Indonesia (AP) — Two trains have collided on Indonesia’s main island of Java, causing several carriages to buckle and overturn and killing at least three people. Officials say the accident happened near a train station in West Java’s Bandung city. They say an express train traveling from Surabaya, the
Continue ReadingBy Sara Smart, Amy Simonson and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — Hoax bomb threats were made against government buildings in several states on Thursday, authorities said, a day after similar threats led to the temporary evacuations of several states’ capitol buildings. Thursday’s threats – this time made against a wider range of government buildings, including
Continue ReadingCNN By Eric Levenson and Mark Morales, CNN (CNN) — After three years of distressingly high levels, homicides in the US declined significantly across the board in 2023 – even as the public’s concerns about crime remained at its highest in over two decades. In particular, the five biggest cities in the US – New
Continue ReadingSACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A city council member in Sacramento, California, resigned Thursday, just weeks after he pleaded not guilty to federal charges that he hired undocumented workers at his local grocery stores, underpaid them and cheated the government on COVID-19 relief funds. The December indictment by the U.S. Department of Justice accused Sean Loloee,
Continue ReadingSACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A city council member in Sacramento, California, resigned Thursday, just weeks after he pleaded not guilty to federal charges that he hired undocumented workers at his local grocery stores, underpaid them and cheated the government on COVID-19 relief funds. The December indictment by the U.S. Department of Justice accused Sean Loloee,
Continue ReadingBy SARA MELINI Associated Press GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Former Guatemalan President Otto Pérez Molina was released from prison after posting bond of more than $10.3 million quetzales ($1.3 million), according to his lawyer. The former president was convicted and sentenced to 16 years in prison in December 2022 for a bribery scheme known locally
Continue ReadingWINDOW ROCK, Ariz. (AP) — Authorities on the largest Native American reservation in the U.S. have charged two tribal members with illegally growing marijuana on the Navajo Nation, marking just the latest development in a years-long case that also has involved allegations of forced labor. Tribal prosecutors announced the charges Thursday, claiming that Navajo businessman
Continue ReadingBy NICHOLAS RICCARDI and HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press PERRY, Iowa (AP) — A 17-year-old opened fire at a small-town Iowa high school before classes resumed on the first day after the winter break, killing a sixth-grader and wounding five others Thursday as students barricaded in offices, ducked into classrooms and fled in panic. The suspect,
Continue ReadingBy Nicole Chavez, CNN (CNN) — Black drivers in California were stopped “more frequently than expected” by law enforcement, compared to their proportion of the state’s population, according to a report released this week by the California Racial and Identity Profiling Advisory Board. In 2022, 12.5% of traffic stops in California involved drivers that officers perceived to be Black, but Black people only represent about 5.4% of the
Continue ReadingBy HIRO KOMAE, AYAKA MCGILL and YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press SUZU, Japan (AP) — Rescue workers are braving the cold to save people still trapped under collapsed buildings in western Japan. More soldiers have been ordered to bolster the rescue operations Thursday, providing those in need with drinking water, hot meals and setting up bathing
Continue ReadingANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Supporters of an effort to repeal Alaska’s ranked choice voting system have been fined more than $94,000 after the commission that enforces state campaign finance rules found disclosure and other violations. The Anchorage Daily News reports that an attorney representing the opponents of ranked voting who were fined by the Alaska
Continue ReadingBy LARRY NEUMEISTER and MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A new batch of unsealed documents pertaining to Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of teenage girls was released Thursday, adding several hundred pages to a trove of information detailing how the financier leveraged connections to the rich, powerful and famous to recruit his
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — A 53-year-old Asian elephant has been euthanized at the Los Angeles Zoo after she was unable to stand up, the zoo announced Thursday. Shaunzi, one of two female elephants at the zoo, was discovered unable to stand Tuesday night after she went down in the yard of her exhibit space. “Animal
Continue ReadingDALLAS (AP) — The family of former U.S. Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson says the trailblazing Texas congresswoman died after getting an infection and accused a Dallas rehabilitation facility of neglect. Johnson, the first registered nurse elected to Congress, died on Dec. 31 at the age of 89. Les Weisbrod, her family’s attorney, said at a
Continue ReadingBy TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — An armed unmanned surface vessel launched from Houthi-controlled Yemen got within a “couple of miles” of U.S. Navy and commercial vessels in the Red Sea before detonating on Thursday, just hours after the White House and a host of partner nations issued a final warning to the
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