By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A newly released investigation report says a police officer in Hartford, Connecticut, quit the force earlier this year while facing allegations that he reported a traffic stop that never happened to get an arrest warrant. The report also says Michael Fallon inflated his overall enforcement stats
Continue ReadingBy MARK STEVENSON Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — The kind of mass threats and extortion of lime growers in the western Mexico that sparked a civilian vigilante uprising ten years ago have returned, and growers say they can’t get their crops to market. One lime grower who asked to remain anonymous for security reasons
Continue ReadingRocío Muñoz-Ledo (CNN) — Los Ángeles Lakers rendirán tributo al fallecido Kobe Bryant con un homenaje y la inauguración de una estatua el 8 de febrero de 2024. Vanessa Bryant, esposa del deportista, reveló la noticia en un mensaje de video este jueves. La fecha es significativa porque el cinco veces campeón llevó los números
Continue ReadingBy Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Buckle up – it’s a big week for pop music, with artists such as Selena Gomez, Miley Cyrus and Ariana Grande among others all set to release new music starting Thursday night. Gomez first began teasing her new music last week when she tweeted, “Y’all have been asking for
Continue ReadingBy Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN (CNN) — The warnings were there. Speculation about Yevgeny Prigozhin’s eventual fate began soon after his march on Russia two months ago. The Wagner chief may have initially survived the aftermath of his failed insurrection, but many had expressed doubts over his future. Two months after the aborted mutiny, the mercenary
Continue ReadingBy EMMA BURROWS LONDON (AP) — News that Russia’s Wagner mercenary chief was believed dead in a plane crash has dominated world reports, along with speculation that it might be linked to his June mutiny. But on Russian state media, there has been a very different picture. State TV channels have largely stuck to describing
Continue ReadingBy BERT WILKINSON Associated Press GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — Guyana president Irfaan Ali on Thursday lashed out at the descendants of European slave traders, saying those who profited from the cruel, trans-Atlantic slave trade should offer to pay reparations to today’s generations. The leader of the South American country also proposed that those involved in
Continue ReadingBy EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A former death row inmate in Mississippi will be resentenced a second time because of a determination that he has intellectual disabilities. The new sentence will make him eligible for the possibility of parole. The state Supreme Court ruled unanimously Thursday for 69-year-old Howard M.
Continue ReadingBy Zenebou Sylla, CNN (CNN) — Two school districts in eastern Kentucky have canceled in-person classes this week after a rise in illnesses including Covid-19, respiratory viruses and strep among its students and staff, according to local officials. The Lee County School District, which enrolls just under 900 students, reported an 82% decrease in attendance
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — CNN pidió a sus colaboradores políticos que opinaran sobre el primer debate presidencial republicano de la temporada 2024. Las opiniones expresadas en estos comentarios son exclusivamente suyas. SE Cupp: Nikki Haley prometió un cambio generacional y lo cumplió SE Cupp El 14 de febrero, la exgobernadora de Carolina del Sur Nikki
Continue ReadingBy HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press Dennis Rader, the BTK serial killer whose self-given nickname stands for “Bind, Torture, Kill,” played a cat and mouse game with investigators and reporters for decades before he was caught. But Rader gradually faded from view after his 2005 arrest, as he served one life term for each of the
Continue ReadingBy MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Democrats in Pennsylvania are talking up abortion rights as they try to protect their state Supreme Court majority in the presidential battleground. Pennsylvania Democratic Party chair Sharif Street says Republicans made it an issue when they chose to strip away a woman’s right to choose. The
Continue ReadingBy Oliver Darcy, CNN (CNN) — The first Republican primary debate of the 2024 campaign season hosted by Fox News averaged 12.8 million viewers, according to viewership data, a larger than expected audience given the notable absence of frontrunner and disgraced former President Donald Trump. The numbers were far short of the historic 24 million
Continue ReadingBUNNELL, Fla. (AP) — Florida school district officials have apologized for an elementary school assembly in which Black students were singled out for a presentation on low test scores. Officials at Flagler County’s school district in northeastern Florida said at a news conference Thursday that the assembly at Bunnell Elementary School was a “horrible, horrific
Continue ReadingBy JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER and GENE JOHNSON Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Maui County sued Hawaiian Electric Company on Thursday over the fires that devastated Lahaina, saying the utility negligently failed to shut off power despite exceptionally high winds and dry conditions. Witness accounts and video indicated that sparks from power lines ignited fires as
Continue ReadingBy JILL COLVIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Vice President Mike Pence says viewers should expect to see the same, more combative candidate at the next GOP debate as he urged his former running-mate-turned-rival Donald Trump to join his competitors on stage next time around. Pence says a day after Wednesday’s debate that “elections
Continue ReadingBy JOHN RABY Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Prosecutors have asked a federal court to set plea hearings for two corrections officers on a charge stemming from an assault on a jail inmate who later died. Motions filed Wednesday seek the hearings for Southern Regional Jail officers Andrew Fleshman and Steven Wimmer. The officers
Continue ReadingBy Amanda Musa, CNN (CNN) — In a typical year, at least 1.7 million adults in the US develop sepsis, and at least 350,000 die in the hospital or are moved into hospice care, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. On top of that, about a third people who die in
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Despite some improvement in the High Desert’s smoky skies, the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality and Lane Regional Air Protection Agency issued an updated air quality advisory Thursday morning for Deschutes, Jackson, Josephine, eastern Lane, eastern Douglas, Klamath, and northern Lake counties that’s in effect through 4 p.m. Sunday.
Continue ReadingBy ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. is joining NATO allies in hosting training for Ukrainian pilots on U.S.-made F-16 fighter jets, beginning at an Arizona Air National Guard base in October. The Pentagon spokesman, Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder, announced the move Thursday. The training will be part of a U.S. and
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