Texas bar seeks to punish AG Ken Paxton for election lawsuit
By JAKE BLEIBERG Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — The Texas bar association is seeking to punish state Attorney General Ken Paxton for his failed…
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Florida passes condominium safety bill in wake of Surfside
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A bill has been sent to Florida’s governor that would require statewide recertification of condominiums over three…
Continue ReadingDelgado becomes 1st New York Lt. governor with Latino roots
By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Democrat Antonio Delgado has been sworn in as New York’s lieutenant governor, becoming the…
Continue ReadingMan arrested for threatening to blow up Tyler Perry Studios
By Jamarlo Phillips Click here for updates on this story ATLANTA (WGCL) — A man has been arrested for reportedly…
Continue ReadingTop-seeded TCU gets past Baylor for 8th straight victory
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Kurtis Byrne capped a two-run eighth inning with an RBI single and top-seeded TCU rallied past No. 8 seed Baylor 4-2 in the…
Continue ReadingTexas elementary school shooting: What do we know so far?
By The Associated Press UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Many questions remain to be answered about the elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas. But here…
Continue ReadingWatson on field with Browns as legal storm swirls around QB
By TOM WITHERS AP Sports Writer BEREA, Ohio (AP) — Deshaun Watson was impossible to miss in his orange jersey, pants and helmet. As he showed off…
Continue Reading65 Minneapolis City employees speak out on ‘toxic and racist’ culture in city coordinator’s office
By Marielle Mohs Click here for updates on this story MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Sixty-five City of Minneapolis employees…
Continue ReadingGov. Inslee tests positive for COVID, officials urge masking
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Washington Gov. Jay Inslee has tested positive for COVID-19, his office said Wednesday, the same day state health officials…
Continue ReadingBiden says he will travel to Texas to visit families of school shooting victims ‘in the coming days’
By Maegan Vazquez and Nikki Carvajal, CNN President Joe Biden said on Wednesday that he will travel to Uvalde, Texas, in the near future to meet the…
Continue ReadingJudge tosses challenge to New York law that opens gun industry up to civil lawsuits
By Tierney Sneed, CNN A federal judge Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit from gun industry groups challenging a New York law that permits civil lawsuits…
Continue ReadingOhio’s high court rejects latest GOP-drawn Statehouse maps
By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Ohio Supreme Court has rejected another round of Republican-drawn Statehouse maps…
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High Desert Chamber Music receives two grants
BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — High Desert Chamber Music has been awarded a grant from the Oregon Arts Commission in the amount of $2,178 toward general…
Continue ReadingSettlement awards $3M to family of man who died in custody
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — The family of a Black man who yelled that he couldn’t breathe before he died in a North Carolina jail in 2019 has…
Continue Reading‘I’ve got to dig deep’: Texas shooting tests Newtown parents
By MICHAEL MELIA Associated Press NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — As the mother of a girl killed at Sandy Hook, Michele Gay was devastated by the massacre at…
Continue ReadingHow major US stock indexes fared Wednesday
The Associated Press Stocks rose broadly on Wall Street Wednesday after minutes from the Federal Reserve’s most recent meeting indicate the central…
Continue Reading3 detained after reported weapon sighting at German school
BERLIN (AP) — German police deployed in force and three youths were detained after an employee at a school reported having seen a youth carrying a…
Continue ReadingSupreme Court may soon loosen gun laws as nation reels from massacres
By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter While the Supreme Court has been working behind closed doors on its first major Second Amendment…
Continue ReadingSupreme Court may soon loosen gun laws as nation reels from massacres
CNN, NBA TNT By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter While the Supreme Court has been working behind closed doors on its first major Second…
Continue ReadingNordstrom, Caleres rise; Mr. Cooper, Raymond James fall
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Wednesday: Nordstrom, Caleres rise; Mr. Cooper, Raymond James…
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