ILWACO, Wash. (AP) — A fire at a port building along the coast in Washington state destroyed more than 1,000 crab pots just ahead of the state’s commercial Dungeness crab season, which opens Feb. 1. The blaze began around noon on Monday at the Port of Ilwaco, which is near the mouth of the Columbia
Continue ReadingBy STEVE PEOPLES and NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — New Hampshire was supposed to present a formidable challenge for former President Donald Trump but he won the state solidly. That shows he’s got a glide path to the Republican presidential nomination against former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley. But New Hampshire delivered warning
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Kevin Uballez was fired from the Bend police force Friday after an investigation into an arrest he made in 2021, when he was accused of slamming a man’s head into the ground. The man he arrested was accused of being drunk and in the middle of a NW Bend street around
Continue ReadingCNN, NBC, ELIZABETH, POOL, NTSB By Ramishah Maruf, Pete Muntean and Gregory Wallace, CNN New York (CNN) — Alaska Airlines CEO Ben Minicucci revealed the carrier found “some loose bolts on many” Boeing 737 Max 9s in an interview for “NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt” on Tuesday. It was the CEO’s first interview since a door
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — An Oregon jury awarded $85 million Tuesday to nine victims of wildfires that ravaged the state in 2020, the latest verdict in a series of legal proceedings that are expected to put the utility PacifiCorp on the hook for billions of dollars over its liability for the deadly blazes. “We are
Continue ReadingBy JACQUES BILLEAUD Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Federal prosecutors in Arizona will retry a co-founder of the lucrative classified site Backpage.com on dozens of prostitution facilitation and money laundering charges that allege he participated in a scheme to sell sex ads. A jury in mid-November convicted Michael Lacey of one count of international concealment
Continue ReadingBy Matt Egan, CNN (CNN) — House Education Committee Chairwoman Rep. Virginia Foxx blasted Harvard University on Tuesday evening for failing to turn over all the documents lawmakers demanded in their antisemitism investigation into the Ivy League school. Foxx, a Republican from North Carolina, described Harvard’s initial production of documents as “woefully inadequate” and warned
Continue ReadingBy Ramishah Maruf, CNN New York (CNN) — eBay is cutting 1,000 roles, about 9% of its full-time employees, the company’s CEO announced online Tuesday. The company also plans to scale back its contracts with its “alternate workforce” in the coming months. CEO Jamie Iannone cited the “challenging macroeconomic environment” as an external pressure but
Continue ReadingBy JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee’s elections office has confirmed that the state’s toughened voting rights restoration policy requires people convicted of a felony to get their gun rights restored before they can become eligible to cast a ballot again. The state’s elections coordinator revealed the decision to The Associated Press
Continue ReadingBy JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia Senate committee wants to give the appointed State Election Board the legal power to investigate Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger’s handling of elections. But Raffensperger’s office says it’s unconstitutional for board members to legally oversee him. The Senate Ethics Committee voted for the bill
Continue ReadingBy David Close, CNN (CNN) — A no-kill, non-profit cat adoption agency in Western New York says it has received over $150,000 of pledged donations since declaring support for Buffalo Bills placekicker Tyler Bass, calling him a “Cat Dad.” The Ten Lives Club posted to Facebook on Monday, “WE STAND WITH TYLER BASS. DON’T BULLY
Continue ReadingPORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — An Oregon jury awarded $85 million Tuesday to nine victims of wildfires that ravaged the state in 2020, the latest verdict in a series of legal proceedings that are expected to put the utility PacifiCorp on the hook for billions of dollars over its liability for the deadly blazes. “We are
Continue ReadingBy MAYA SWEEDLER and ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has won the New Hampshire Democratic primary as a write-in candidate. The Associated Press has declared Biden the winner based on an analysis of initial vote returns where write-in votes have been tabulated by candidate. The early returns confirm the findings
Continue Readingmacamilarincon (CNN) –– El expresidente Donald Trump ganará las primarias republicanas de Nueva Hampshire, según la proyección de CNN, al imponerse sobre su única rival en la contienda por la candidatura, la exgobernadora de Carolina del Sur Nikki Haley. Su victoria lo acerca a una revancha con el presidente Joe Biden este otoño. Resultados de
Continue ReadingBy WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has won New Hampshire’s largely symbolic Democratic primary, prevailing via an unusual write-in campaign after he refused to campaign or appear on the ballot in the state. Biden has championed a new Democratic primary calendar that begins in South Carolina on Feb. 3 and
Continue ReadingBy JOSH BOAK and LINLEY SANDERS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump had rock-solid support from the party faithful in his New Hampshire primary victory, and even most backers of rival Nikki Haley acknowledge the GOP belongs to him. Yet as Trump’s hold on securing the party’s nomination tightened, AP VoteCast found
Continue ReadingBy Eric Bradner and Gregory Krieg, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump won New Hampshire’s Republican presidential primary on Tuesday, defeating former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley and moving him closer to a rematch with President Joe Biden this fall. Trump’s victory, after a big win in the Iowa caucuses, marks the first time in the modern primary era that the
Continue ReadingBy JAMES POLLARD Associated Press/Report for America COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Recently released 911 audio reflects the confusion that followed the shooting death of a University of South Carolina student mistaken for an intruder while trying to enter the wrong home. Nicholas Donofrio died on August 26, 2023, and the shooter has not been charged.
Continue ReadingBy MAYA SWEEDLER and ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump is the winner of the New Hampshire Republican primary. The Associated Press has declared Trump the winner based on an analysis of initial vote returns as well as the results of AP VoteCast, a survey of Republican primary voters. Both
Continue ReadingBy KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea appears to have torn down a huge arch in its capital that symbolized reconciliation with South Korea, a week after leader Kim Jong Un dismissed decades of hopes for peaceful reunification with the war-divided peninsula’s south, according to satellite photos analyzed by The
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