By MAYSOON KHAN Associated Press/Report for America ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York City’s Madison Square Garden and other sports venues would be barred from refusing entry to perceived enemies of their owners under a bill introduced to the state Legislature Monday. The proposed legislation comes after an attorney who has owned New York Knicks
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By Daeshen Smith Click here for updates on this story PENSACOLA, Florida (WALA) — For the past couple of days, 18 handlers and their dogs have been getting critical training to help them find missing and endangered people. It’s all part of Spike’s Tracking School which is part of Spike’s K9 Fund. “We provide sponsorships
Continue ReadingBy BRENDAN FARRINGTON Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida man is scheduled to be executed for killing a woman after escaping from prison in 1990. Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a death warrant Monday for 59-year-old Donald David Dillbeck. He is schedule to die Feb. 23 by lethal injection for the 1990 murder
Continue ReadingCULPEPER, Va. (AP) — The remains of a Confederate general unearthed from beneath a monument at the center of a Virginia intersection have been reinterred at a cemetery in his hometown. Last month, Richmond, which served as the Confederacy’s capital for most of the Civil War, removed the statue of Confederate Gen. A.P. Hill and
Continue ReadingBy Tami Luhby, CNN More than $60 billion may have been paid out in fraudulent unemployment insurance benefits during the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a report released Monday by the US Government Accountability Office. The watchdog agency, however, warned that the estimate has limitations and should be interpreted with caution. The actual amount of pandemic
Continue ReadingHONOLULU (AP) — Luke Shepardson was declared the winner in one of the world’s most prestigious and storied surfing contests held in Hawaii over the weekend for the first time in seven years. Shepardson was declared the winner Sunday of The Eddie Aikau Big Wave Invitational, while John John Florence — the winner of the
Continue ReadingBy FABIANO MAISONNAVE Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazilian police plan to indict a Colombian fish trader as mastermind behind the killings of Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira and British journalist Dom Phillips, on June 5, 2022. According to the investigation, Ruben Dario da Silva Villar provided the ammunition used to kill the pair, made
Continue ReadingBy CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press/Report for America PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon is launching a new abortion hotline offering free legal advice to callers, moving to further defend abortion access after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last summer and eliminated federal protections for the procedure. The state’s Department of Justice announced the
Continue ReadingBy JOHN FLESHER AP Environmental Writer TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says it will study whether to toughen regulation of large livestock farms that pollute waterways. The agency hasn’t revised its rules dealing with the nation’s largest hog, poultry and cattle operations since 2008. Farm manure and fertilizer runoff fouls
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Mientras que en el oeste de Estados Unidos se han acumulado las nevadas de las últimas semanas, en el noreste y Nueva Inglaterra ha ocurrido todo lo contrario. Estamos a más de la mitad del invierno meteorológico, que va de diciembre a febrero, y ciudades como Nueva York, Filadelfia, Baltimore y
Continue ReadingCHICAGO (AP) — A man was sentenced to four years in prison Monday for obstructing justice in the April 2019 killing of a pregnant Chicago teenager whose baby was cut from her womb with a butcher knife. Court records say 44-year-old Piotr Bobak received credit for time served and will leave prison in nearly four
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Wolves on an Alaskan island caused a deer population to plummet and switched to primarily eating sea otters in just a few years, a finding scientists at Oregon State University and the Alaska Department of Fish and Game believe is the first case of sea otters becoming the primary food source for a land-based predator.
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SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) — Gov. Tina Kotek ordered all flags at Oregon public institutions to be flown at half-staff Monday to honor the victims and survivors of the “senseless acts of violence perpetrated on January 21, 2023, in Monterey Park, California.” She said the flags will be lowered until sunset on Thursday, Jan. 26. Reflecting
Continue ReadingRocío Muñoz-Ledo (CNN Español) — El fiscal general de México, Alejandro Gertz Manero, se encuentra recuperándose en su casa tras una intervención quirúrgica en columna, que tuvo lugar en un hospital de Estados Unidos, informó este lunes el presidente Andrés Manuel López Obrador. “No, no es cáncer, según mi información, afortunadamente”, dijo López Obrador en
Continue ReadingBy Ramishah Maruf, CNN Citing “rising crime and vagrancy,” Chase Bank has shuttered 24-hour access to some of its New York ATMs. Select ATM vestibules are closing at 5 pm or 6 pm, aligning more closely with normal branch hours, the bank tweeted in response to a complaint last week. A JPMorgan Chase spokesperson said
Continue ReadingBy DAVID BILLER and ALMUDENA CALATRAVA Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Market analysts are reacting with deep skepticism to a proposal floated by the leaders of Brazil and Argentina to launch a common currency. Economists say neither country is positioned to instill confidence in the idea. Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
Continue ReadingBy DAVID BILLER and ALMUDENA CALATRAVA Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Market analysts are reacting with deep skepticism to a proposal floated by the leaders of Brazil and Argentina to launch a common currency. Economists say neither country is positioned to instill confidence in the idea. Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
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More than 40% of patients treated at the St. Charles Cancer Center in Bend travel from Redmond, Madras, Prineville and other rural communities for their care. If they need radiation as part of their treatment, this can mean traveling more than 50 miles for services multiple days in a row for weeks at a time.
Continue ReadingBy Tierney Sneed Upcoming state-level pushes to further restrict abortion access will be on the radar of the US Justice Department, top DOJ officials said Monday as they touted the work the Biden administration has sought to do to shore up abortion access in the wake of the Supreme Court‘s Roe v. Wade reversal last
Continue ReadingBy CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press/Report for America PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon is launching a new abortion hotline offering free legal advice to callers, moving to further defend abortion access after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last summer and eliminated federal protections for the procedure. The state’s Department of Justice announced the
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