Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Prosecutors are urging a judge to reject a Michigan school shooter’s request to withdraw his guilty plea in the deaths of four students in 2021. Ethan Crumbley is serving a life sentence for the Oxford High School shooting. But his new appellate lawyers want to start over, arguing that he
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WASHINGTON (KTVZ) — Senator Ron Wyden, D-Ore., on Tuesday applauded the Senate Energy and Natural Resources (ENR) Committee for advancing his bipartisan National Prescribed Fire Act to support prescribed burns during the colder and wetter months as an essential, science-based strategy proven to save lives and property. “Today’s vote takes us much closer toward my goal of
Continue ReadingAndrea Gomez (CNN) — Cuatro personas murieron, más de 140.000 resultaron afectadas y cerca de 2.300 poblaciones quedaron incomunicadas tras el paso de la tormenta tropical Sara por Honduras, informó el Gobierno este martes en un comunicado. Las autoridades añadieron que hasta el momento hay cuatro heridos, una persona desaparecida y más de 7.600 rescatados.
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Images that depict the faces of girls with nude bodies have led to the departure of leaders from a private school in Pennsylvania, prompted a student protest and triggered a criminal investigation. A detective said Tuesday that a juvenile suspect was “removed from” Lancaster Country Day School and his cellphone was seized by
Continue ReadingBy Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Paul Mescal’s biggest fan has certainly proven herself worthy of the title. This became evident when the “Gladiator II” star played a cheeky trivia game against a woman identified only as Larissa, who runs the popular @paulmescalpics fan account on Instagram. Larissa is cited in the clip – posted
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ATLANTA (AP) — After almost a year of testimony, prosecutors in Atlanta rested their case against the two remaining defendants in a gang and racketeering trial that had included rapper Young Thug before he pleaded guilty. The sweeping gang and racketeering indictment led to the longest trial in Georgia’s history. Both Deamonte Kendrick,
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Mehmet Oz, a celebrity heart surgeon turned talk show host and lifestyle guru, is President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to run the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the massive federal health care bureaucracy that covers more than a third of Americans. Here’s a look at a television doctor who became a politician and
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REDMOND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Central Electric Cooperative is accepting applications for its 2025 Washington, D.C. Youth Tour program. Central Electric will select two high school juniors to visit the nation’s capital for one week in June. Participants will join hundreds of student leaders from electric cooperatives nationwide to learn about cooperatives’ contributions to rural America,
Continue ReadingBy Daniel Wine, CNN Editor’s Note: CNN’s 5 Things newsletter is your one-stop shop for the latest headlines and fascinating stories to start and end your busy day. Sign up here. 👋 Welcome to 5 Things PM! One person has died and more than a dozen have been hospitalized because of an E. coli outbreak linked
Continue ReadingCNN By Daniel Wine, CNN Editor’s Note: CNN’s 5 Things newsletter is your one-stop shop for the latest headlines and fascinating stories to start and end your busy day. Sign up here. 👋 Welcome to 5 Things PM! One person has died and more than a dozen have been hospitalized because of an E. coli outbreak
Continue ReadingSACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom says he won’t make a clemency decision on the murder convictions of Erik and Lyle Menendez until newly elected Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman reviews the case. Prosecutors submitted a recommendation in October for the brothers’ resentencing on the murder conviction in the 1989 killings
Continue ReadingMcRAE-HELENA, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia man has pleaded guilty to murder charges in the killings of a couple found shot after being lured to a rural county with a false offer to sell them a classic car. Ronnie “Jay” Towns was sentenced to life in prison without parole Monday after entering his plea before
Continue ReadingBy Kristen Holmes, Kaitlan Collins and John Towfighi, CNN (CNN) — President-elect Donald Trump has named his transition co-chair Linda McMahon as his pick to serve as the next secretary of the Department of Education. The decision, which Trump announced Tuesday night confirming CNN’s earlier reporting, took shape after it became clear that McMahon would
Continue ReadingAP Aerospace Writer SpaceX on Tuesday launched another Starship rocket, but passed up catching the booster with giant mechanical arms. Unlike last month’s success, the booster was directed to a splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico. The catch was called off just four minutes into the test flight from Texas for unspecified reasons, and the
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Mike Johnson signaled support Tuesday for a Republican effort to ban Democrat Sarah McBride — the first transgender person to be elected to Congress — from using women’s restrooms in the Capitol once she’s sworn into office next year. “We’re not going to have men in women’s bathrooms,”
Continue ReadingAssociated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Two more former West Virginia correctional officers have pleaded guilty to a federal civil rights violation in the death of a man who died less than a day after being booked into a jail. Quantez Burks was booked into the Southern Regional Jail on a wanton endangerment charge in
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(Update: Adding video) BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Mid Oregon Credit Union is inviting the community to participate in its popular annual Holiday Dough fundraiser, supporting local charities that provide food and other needed items to individuals and families experiencing financial challenges during the holiday season. Holiday Dough kicks off this week and continues through Friday,
Continue ReadingAssociated Press TORONTO (AP) — Canada’s point person for U.S-Canada relations says she shares U.S. concerns about Mexico serving as as back door for China into the North American market as a review of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement looms. Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland says members of the outgoing Biden administration and supporters and advisers of
Continue ReadingMINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A new court document details what federal prosecutors in Minnesota say was a frantic effort by two defendants to get a juror to vote for an acquittal in a pandemic fraud case. Mukhtar Shariff was convicted in the case earlier this year. On Monday, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Minnesota filed a
Continue ReadingEUGENE, Ore. (AP) — The top-ranked Oregon Ducks have clinched a spot in the Big Ten championship game. The Big Ten announced Tuesday that after extensive evaluation, there were “no conditions whereby the Ducks do not finish No. 1 or No. 2” in the conference. The league championship is set for Dec. 7 at Lucas
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