By ARLEIGH RODGERS and RICK CALLAHAN Associated Press/Report for America INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Court documents released by an Indiana judge say an unspent bullet found between the bodies of two teenage girls slain in 2017 “had been cycled through” a pistol owned by the suspect in their deaths. Documents related to 50-year-old Richard Matthew Allen’s
Continue ReadingBy Web staff Click here for updates on this story EASTHAM, Massachusetts (WBZ) — Animal welfare workers were racing to save five pilot whales stranded on a beach in Eastham on Tuesday. A sixth whale, a calf, has died. Rescuers from the International Fund for Animal Welfare have covered the whales in blankets and are
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By JANIE HAR Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Police in San Francisco could get the ability to deploy potentially lethal, remote-controlled robots in emergency situations if supervisors of the politically Democratic city grant permission Tuesday in a highly watched board vote. Police oversight groups are urging the 11-member San Francisco Board of Supervisors to
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By JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press Writer FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A former Venezuelan treasurer and nurse to the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is contesting criminal charges in the U.S. Claudia Diaz is charged with money laundering, accused of taking at least $4.2 million in bribes and gifts in exchange for green lighting lucrative
Continue Reading Quarterbacks Caleb Williams of Southern California, C.J. Stroud of Ohio State and Hendon Hooker of Tennessee have been named finalists for the Maxwell Award as the player of the year in college football. The Maxwell finalists were announced Tuesday along with finalists for most of the other awards that will be presented Dec. 8 on
Continue Reading By CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press BAY CITY, Michigan (AP) — President Joe Biden hit the road Tuesday to push his economic agenda, aiming to maintain momentum after his party’s better-than-expected showing in the midterm elections. Biden visited Bay City, Michigan, on Tuesday to highlight a $300 million expansion of a semiconductor manufacturing plant. The facility,
Continue Reading By BEN FINLEY Associated Press NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — A Walmart employee who survived last week’s mass shooting at a store in Virginia has filed a $50 million lawsuit against the company for allegedly continuing to employ the shooter — a store supervisor — “who had known propensities for violence, threats and strange behavior.” The
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Indio city officials say that the park will honor John Nobles and the community he founded, Nobles Ranch. John Nobles, a Black sharecropper who arrived in the Coachella Valley in the 1920s, was known to sell or give sections of his land to fellow Black settlers. Nobles Ranch, which now sits as an empty lot
Continue ReadingSofía Benavides (CNN Español) — El narcotraficante mexicanoestadounidense Édgar Valdez Villarreal, alias “La Barbie”, “no está actualmente bajo custodia federal” de Estados Unidos, confirmó a CNN Benjamin O’Cone, portavoz de la Oficina Federal de Prisiones de ese país (BoP, for sus siglas en inglés), este martes. CNN verificó este martes que Valdez Villarreal no figura
Continue Reading By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Bidding to address a mental health crisis on New York City streets and subways, Mayor Eric Adams announced Tuesday that authorities would more aggressively intervene to get people into treatment, describing “a moral obligation” to act, even if it means involuntarily hospitalizing some. “These New
Continue Reading By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — New electric vehicle models from multiple automakers are starting to chip away at Tesla’s dominance of the U.S. EV market, according to national vehicle registration data. But numbers collected by S&P Global Mobility show that Tesla still controlled about 65% of the growing electric vehicle market
Continue ReadingBy Melissa Alonso, CNN Austin Harrouff, the 25-year-old accused of stabbing a Florida couple to death and biting the face of the male victim in 2016, will be sent to a mental hospital instead of prison, according to court documents. Harrouff was found not guilty by reason of insanity in the killings of John Stevens,
Continue Reading By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minnesota Supreme Court hears oral arguments Wednesday on an attempt by environmental groups to cancel a key permit for the long-stalled PolyMet copper-nickel mine. They say regulators should have included “end-of-pipe” limits on discharges of mercury and sulfates in PolyMet’s water quality permit. And they say
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A group of over 500 survivors and descendants of what was known as the destruction of Section 14 is seeking reparations from the City of Palm Springs. The group is looking to receive direct payments from the city for what their reparations claim states is millions of dollars of racially motivated harm caused by the
Continue ReadingSofía Benavides (CNN Español) — Supuestos sicarios asesinaron en la noche de este lunes al periodista Wilder Alfredo Córdoba en la zona rural de la localidad de La Unión, departamento de Nariño, en el sur de Colombia, según informaron a CNN fuentes de la gobernación. “Desde la gobernación de Nariño lamentamos y condenamos los hechos
Continue Reading DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Qatar is to supply liquefied natural gas to Germany under a 15-year deal as the European economic powerhouse scrambles to replace Russian gas supplies that were cut during the ongoing war in Ukraine. Officials on Tuesday gave no dollar value for the deal, which would begin in 2026. Under the agreement,
Continue Reading MOSCOW (AP) — Russia and the United States have repeatedly been on the verge of agreement on a prisoner exchange, a senior Russian diplomat said Tuesday, adding that a deal is still possible before the year’s end. The Biden administration has been trying for months to negotiate the release of WNBA star Brittney Griner and
Continue Reading BEND, Ore. (AP) — A judge has sentenced a white man to 10 years in prison for the fatal shooting of Barry Washington Jr. outside a nightclub last year in Bend, Oregon. Ian Cranston, 28, was sentenced Monday to 10 years in state prison and three years of parole on five counts, including manslaughter, assault
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Las amistades no se limitan a las personas con las que te sientas en el autobús escolar o con las que juegas en el equipo de béisbol de tu infancia, sino que son un componente esencial de la experiencia humana, según los expertos. Pero hacer y mantener amistades profundas y significativas
Continue Reading By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — New electric vehicle models from multiple automakers are starting to chip away at Tesla’s dominance of the U.S. EV market, according to national vehicle registration data. But numbers collected by S&P Global Mobility show that Tesla still controlled about 65% of the growing electric vehicle market
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