CNN, KING By Sara Smart and Aya Elamroussi, CNN (CNN) — For nearly 40 years, a set of human remains discovered near Seattle in 1985 were known to investigators only as Bones 17. And it was 17 years later that police confirmed the remains belonged to a victim of the so-called “Green River Killer” –
Continue ReadingBy TRISHA AHMED Associated Press/Report for America MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Attorneys for a woman who was denied emergency contraception in 2019 told the Minnesota Court of Appeals the pharmacist who refused to fill the prescription discriminated against her on the basis of her sex. But an attorney for the central Minnesota pharmacist said Thursday his
Continue ReadingBy EUGENE GARCIA and JOHN ANTCZAK Associated Press SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) — Motorists were stranded in their vehicles on flooded roadways in typically idyllic Santa Barbara on Thursday, while nearby Oxnard got a month’s worth of rain in a single hour in a storm that pummeled Southern California while Christmas travel got underway. The
Continue ReadingBy EUGENE GARCIA and JOHN ANTCZAK Associated Press SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) — Motorists were stranded in their vehicles on flooded roadways in typically idyllic Santa Barbara on Thursday, while nearby Oxnard got a month’s worth of rain in a single hour in a storm that pummeled Southern California while Christmas travel got underway. The
Continue ReadingBy Brad Lendon, CNN (CNN) — The US Air Force plans to bring the Pacific island airfield that launched the atomic bombings of Japan back into commission as it tries to broaden its basing options in the event of any hostilities with China, the service’s top officer in the Pacific says. Gen. Kenneth Wilsbach, commander
Continue ReadingBy Caroll Alvarado and Cheri Mossburg, CNN (CNN) — The Texas National Guard Thursday denied claims from an immigration activist that it ignored a migrant calling out for help as she struggled to cross the Rio Grande with a child in her arms. Video footage obtained by CNN shows a woman holding a crying baby
Continue ReadingBy BABA AHMED Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — A letter sent to embassy staff and seen by The Associated Press says that France will close its diplomatic mission in Niger following this summer’s coup d’etat in the West African nation and a souring of relations between the two countries. The news that the embassy
Continue ReadingBy PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The owner of Pornhub, one of the world’s largest adult content websites, has admitted to profiting from sex trafficking and agreed to make payments to women whose videos were posted without their consent, federal prosecutors in New York announced Thursday. Aylo Holdings, the website’s parent company,
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Honda Motor’s American arm is recalling more than 2.5 million vehicles in the U.S. due to a fuel pump defect that can increase risks of engine failure or stalling while driving. According to documents published by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the fuel pump impeller used for in 2017-2020 Acura
Continue ReadingCONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Prosecutors say a New Hampshire man pleaded guilty to threatening public radio journalists and vandalizing their homes. Tucker Cockerline has pleaded guilty Thursday in federal court in Boston to conspiracy to commit stalking through interstate travel and the use of a facility of interstate commerce. Investigators say the harassment and intimidation
Continue ReadingBy Cheri Mossburg and Cindy Von Quednow, CNN (CNN) — Chance Comanche, a former player with the NBA G League’s Stockton Kings, confessed to kidnapping and killing a Washington state woman with his ex-girlfriend in Las Vegas earlier this month, according to police. Comanche, 27, and Sakari Harnden, 19, were arrested last week and charged
Continue ReadingBy MARTHA BELLISLE and MADDY GRASSY Associated Press TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — A jury has cleared three Washington state police officers of all criminal charges in the 2020 death of Manuel Ellis, a Black man who was shocked, beaten and restrained face down on a Tacoma sidewalk as he pleaded for breath. Two of the
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A 26-year-old Joshua Tree man was arrested and charged with murder in connection with the fentanyl overdose of a 33-year-old last year. The investigation dates back to Nov. 2, 2022, when deputies responded to the death of Steven Lockhart of Yucca Valley. The death was determined to be an overdose, prompting the San Bernardino County
Continue ReadingCHICAGO (AP) — A federal jury has convicted former Chicago Alderman Ed Burke on 13 counts of corruption alleging he used his power to win private law business from developers. The jury of nine women and three men deliberated for 23 hours over four days before returning its verdict Thursday after weighing the testimony of
Continue ReadingBy KAREL JANICEK Associated Press PRAGUE (AP) — Prague’s police chief says a lone gunman opened fire in a university, killing at least 14 people and injuring 25 more. Police and the Czech Republic’s interior ministry say the gunman in the mass shooting Thursday is also dead. Authorities have not released the shooter’s name, but
Continue ReadingBy Nicole Chavez, CNN (CNN) — Police in western Massachusetts apologized Thursday after an officer was sent to a middle school to search for a copy of “Gender Queer: A Memoir” by Maia Kobabe, following a complaint. On December 8, a plainclothes officer was escorted into a classroom at W.E.B. Dubois Regional Middle School toward the end
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — “Fast and Furious” star Vin Diesel has been accused by his former assistant of sexual battery while working for him in 2010. Asta Jonasson filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles on Thursday alleging that Diesel forced himself onto her in a hotel suite in Atlanta. The lawsuit alleges she tried to
Continue ReadingBy THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press ANAMOSA, Iowa (AP) — Nikki Haley stopped short Thursday of answering one Iowa voter’s question the way he’d hoped. Asked by 44-year-old Jacob Schunk to label Donald Trump a “grave danger to our country,” Haley ticked through criticisms of the former president ranging from foreign policy to government spending. And
Continue ReadingBy Jake Tacchi, CNN (CNN) — Israel has struck at least three locations in Gaza to which it had ordered civilians to evacuate since the breakdown of a fragile truce between Israel and Hamas earlier this month, CNN analysis has found. On December 1, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) released a map of Gaza –
Continue ReadingBy BETH HARRIS AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — No. 2 UCLA cruised undefeated through its nonconference schedule, beating ranked UConn, Florida State and Ohio State on the road. Now, the Bruins are about to face their biggest test yet. They’ll take on No. 6 Southern California after Christmas in the teams’ Pac-12 opener
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