By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon is on the verge of signing onto a $26 billion settlement with the three largest distributors of opioids and drugmaker Johnson & Johnson after being one of the latest holdout states to join. The state’s attorney general announced the breakthrough Monday. The state had argued
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon is on the verge of signing onto a $26 billion settlement with the three largest distributors of opioids and drugmaker Johnson & Johnson after being one of the latest holdout states to join. The state’s attorney general announced the breakthrough Monday. The state had argued
Continue ReadingBy PHILIP MARCELO and JILL LAWLESS Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — The nation’s second-largest city has called off its New Year’s Eve celebration, and its smallest state re-imposed an indoor mask mandate. The moves in Los Angeles and Rhode Island happened Monday as the omicron variant leaped ahead of other variants to become the dominant
Continue ReadingBy Holmes Lybrand A Washington state man was sentenced to 46 months in jail for assaulting a police officer with a dangerous weapon in a tunnel at the US Capitol on January 6. During the Capitol riot, Devlyn Thompson helped move police shields up a line of rioters in the tunnel, attempted to throw a
Continue ReadingCOLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Aaliyah Patty had 20 points, 18 rebounds and five blocks, Destiny Pitts added 14 points and No. 23 Texas A&M beat UTSA 77-51. Patty scored 14 of her points in the first quarter as Texas A&M built a 14-point lead. The Aggies extended it to 44-22 at the break. Patty
Continue ReadingBy GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Newly unsealed federal court orders show that a veteran King County sheriff’s detective made several false statements in a search warrant application — resulting in a man’s false arrest on drug charges. Detective Kathleen Decker was looking for a murder weapon when she obtained a search warrant
Continue ReadingBy GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Newly unsealed federal court orders show that a veteran King County sheriff’s detective made several false statements in a search warrant application — resulting in a man’s false arrest on drug charges. Detective Kathleen Decker was looking for a murder weapon when she obtained a search warrant
Continue ReadingBy GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Newly unsealed federal court orders show that a veteran King County sheriff’s detective made several false statements in a search warrant application — resulting in a man’s false arrest on drug charges. Detective Kathleen Decker was looking for a murder weapon when she obtained a search warrant
Continue ReadingBy Kate Bennett, CNN President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden have added to their pet family, the first lady’s spokesperson told CNN. A new puppy, a pure-bred German Shepherd, was spotted Monday playing on the South Lawn of the White House. Michael LaRosa, Jill Biden’s press secretary, confirmed the news of a new
Continue ReadingBy DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California prosecutors say retail giant Walmart illegally dumps more 1 million batteries, aerosol cans of insect killer and other products, toxic cleaning supplies, electronic waste, latex paints and other hazardous waste into California landfills each year. The company called the lawsuit unjustified. The state attorney general,
Continue ReadingBy DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California prosecutors say retail giant Walmart illegally dumps more 1 million batteries, aerosol cans of insect killer and other products, toxic cleaning supplies, electronic waste, latex paints and other hazardous waste into California landfills each year. The company called the lawsuit unjustified. The state attorney general,
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Redmond police investigators turned to the public Monday for any information that could help them find a driver who struck and fatally injured a Redmond man on Highland Avenue in early July, as well as information on the vehicle involved.
Continue ReadingPHOENIX (AP) — The National Institutes of Health is investigating a University of Washington primate research facility in Arizona after a Phoenix newspaper reported finding widespread disease. The Arizona Republic reported Monday the institute’s Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare confirmed the probe started after the newspaper published a story in October that at least 47
Continue ReadingBy TOM CANAVAN AP Sports Writer EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — New York Giants quarterback Daniel Jones is not going to play again this season. Coach Joe Judge said Monday that Jones is being shut down because of a sprained neck that sidelined him the past three weeks. The team’s medical staff reviewed Jones’ medical
Continue ReadingThe Associated Press Stocks on Wall Street added to their recent string of losses Monday, joining a worldwide slump by financial markets amid worries about how badly the omicron variant, inflation and other forces will hit the economy. The S&P 500 fell its third straight drop. The decline followed similar drops across Europe and Asia.
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Monday: Ball, Occidental fall; Verso, Bluerock Residential rise.
Continue ReadingBy FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican drug cartels are turning to bigger, more productive labs to churn out increasing quantities of synthetic drugs like meth and fentanyl. That is according to seizure figures issued Monday by Mexico’s Defense Department. Defense Secretary Luis Cresencio Sandoval acknowledged there has been a huge shift
Continue ReadingBy Megan Marples, CNN You’re racing around town, trying to purchase a present for everyone on your list. The past week has been filled with evenings of chauffeuring your family to holiday parties and visits with Santa, leaving everyone exhausted. The most wonderful time of the year can also be the most stressful. One in
Continue ReadingBy LAURAN NEERGAARD and CARLA K. JOHNSON AP Medical Writers The new omicron variant took only a few weeks to live up to dire predictions about how hugely contagious it is. But scientists don’t yet know if it causes more severe disease even as the world faces exploding cases just before Christmas. Vaccines in the
Continue ReadingBy JIM MUSTIAN and JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Just a couple of weeks ago, New York City seemed like a relative bright spot in the U.S. coronavirus struggle. Now it’s a hot spot, confronting a dizzying spike in cases, a scramble for testing, a quandary over a major event and an
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