By John King, CNN Leesburg, Virginia (CNN) — Nanette Mees is a registered Republican and a textbook example of Virginia’s shift from red to blue. Her last Republican vote for president was in 2004, which is also the last time a GOP presidential nominee – George W. Bush back then – carried suburban Loudoun County
Continue ReadingBy BECKY BOHRER Associated Press The insurer for the city of Fairbanks, Alaska, has agreed to pay a total of nearly $5 million to three of the four Indigenous men who argued they were illegally imprisoned for almost two decades on a murder conviction. The convictions of the so-called Fairbanks Four in a teenager’s 1997
Continue ReadingBy STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A scuba dive boat captain was convicted Monday of criminal negligence in the deaths of 34 people killed in a fire aboard the vessel in 2019, the deadliest maritime disaster in recent U.S. history. Jerry Boylan, 69, was found guilty of one count of misconduct or
Continue ReadingBy STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A scuba dive boat captain was convicted Monday of criminal negligence in the deaths of 34 people killed in a fire aboard the vessel in 2019, the deadliest maritime disaster in recent U.S. history. Jerry Boylan, 69, was found guilty of one count of misconduct or
Continue ReadingSAN DIEGO (AP) — The San Diego Padres on Monday declined their two-year, $32 million option on right-hander Michael Wacha, who then declined his one-year, $6.5 million option and became a free agent. The 32-year-old Wacha went 14-4 with a 3.22 ERA over 24 starts in his 11th big league season but also missed time
Continue ReadingBy EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. special envoy for the Horn of Africa is warning that the conflict between Sudan’s army and rival paramilitary force now in its seventh month is getting closer to South Sudan and the disputed Abyei region. Hanna Serwaa Tetteh pointed to the paramilitary Rapid
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — Jury finds captain guilty of so-called seaman’s manslaughter in 2019 diving boat fire that killed 34 off California.
Continue ReadingBy JOSH DUBOW AP Pro Football Writer SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — Chase Young summed up his reaction to being traded from struggling Washington to a perennial contender in San Francisco quite simply. “I wasn’t mad,” Young said. And with good reason. After spending his first three-plus seasons in the NFL with a franchise that
Continue ReadingTALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A jury has convicted a Florida dentist of murder in the death of his former brother-in-law, a professor killed in 2014 after a bitter custody battle with the dentist’s sister. The verdict Monday signaled jurors sided with the prosecutors’ contentions that Charles Adelson paid to have Florida State University professor Dan
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Jury selection began Monday in the trial of a 37-year-old man accused of gunning down his octogenarian grandparents inside a gated community in Palm Desert. Frank Scott Castro III is charged with two counts of murder, along with a special circumstance allegation of perpetrating multiple killings and sentence-enhancing allegations of discharging a firearm causing great
Continue ReadingBy TRISHA AHMED Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The American Civil Liberties Union of South Dakota is suing the state of South Dakota over a law that restricts content on vanity plates. The ACLU said Monday that it filed the lawsuit on behalf of a man whose application for a personalized license plate was initially
Continue ReadingOAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Miguel Andujar was claimed off waivers by the Oakland Athletics on Monday from the Pittsburgh Pirates. The 28-year-old outfielder and infielder hit .250 with four homers and 18 RBIs in 90 plate appearances in his second season with the Pirates, who claimed him off waivers from the New York Yankees in
Continue ReadingCNN By Ivana Kottasová, Abeer Salman, Hassan Eslayeh, Celine Alkhaldi, Nada Bashir and Kareem Khadder, CNN. Video by William Bonnett. Jerusalem and Gaza (CNN) — Palestinian workers who were expelled back to Gaza from Israel last week have accused Israeli authorities of “torture,” alleging they were stripped naked, held in cages, viciously beaten and, according to one worker’s account, subjected
Continue ReadingBy KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Nashville mayor’s office has called on the city’s legal team to investigate the possible unauthorized release of the writings of the shooter who indiscriminately opened fire at the private Nashville school in March. Mayor Freddie O’Connell issued the statement on Monday shortly after conservative radio
Continue ReadingSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Golden State Warriors will host the 2025 All-Star Game at Chase Center, a showcase years in the making as the organization hoped to host major events in its sparkling new arena. NBA Commissioner Adam Silver made the announcement Monday at the 4-year-old venue in San Francisco, where the Warriors moved
Continue ReadingBy Holmes Lybrand and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — Prosecutors from special counsel Jack Smith’s office urged the judge overseeing the federal election interference case against Donald Trump to reject the former president’s attempts to dismiss the charges against him on constitutional grounds, saying his arguments rely on “distortions and misrepresentations.” While Trump has repeatedly
Continue ReadingBy MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — It’s Sunday night, backstage ahead of the second Los Angeles show of Lauryn Hill and the Fugees’ anniversary tour. It will be a few hours yet before Hill opens the concert with a solo set of “The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill,” 25 years after its
Continue ReadingSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Outfielder Michael Conforto and right-hander Ross Stripling declined to exercise opt outs and remained with the San Francisco Giants, who exercised their option Monday on right-hander Alex Cobb. Conforto, 30, retained an $18 million salary for next season as part of a $36 million, two-year contact. He hit .239 with 15
Continue ReadingBy Haley Britzky, CNN Washington (CNN) — American troops were attacked an additional eight times since Friday morning by one-way attack drones and rocket barrages in Iraq and Syria as US forces face ramped up attacks by Iranian-backed groups. The new incidents – one on Friday afternoon, another on Saturday, five more on Sunday and one
Continue ReadingBANGOR, Maine (AP) — A 19-year-old from Maine accused of producing homemade explosive devices and making plans to attack a mosque has been sentenced to 15 years in prison. Xavier Pelkey of Waterville was sentenced Monday. He entered an agreement with prosecutors in April in which he pleaded guilty to providing material support to terrorists
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