Lawsuit: Vegas Strip resorts used vendor to fix hotel rates
By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A federal lawsuit in Nevada is seeking class-action damages for countless hotel patrons who booked…
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Cops hunt Oregon torture suspect jailed in Vegas kidnap case
By RIO YAMAT and ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Police in southern Oregon were searching Thursday for a man accused of torturing…
Continue ReadingTrump adviser Eastman faces California disciplinary charges
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Conservative attorney John Eastman, a lead architect of some of former President Donald Trump’s efforts to remain in power…
Continue ReadingVirginia Democrats defeat bills limiting abortion access
By SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A Democratic-led Virginia Senate panel has defeated several bills that would have restricted…
Continue ReadingCourt demands more info in South Carolina death penalty case
By JAMES POLLARD Associated Press/Report for America COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A circuit court must get more information from the South Carolina…
Continue ReadingU.S. sanctions Paraguay VP, former president for corruption
By DANIEL POLITI Associated Press LIMA, Peru (AP) — The United States is sanctioning Paraguay’s former President Horacio Cartes Jara and current…
Continue ReadingTexas death row inmates sue over solitary confinement
By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — A group of Texas death row inmates have filed a federal lawsuit against the state’s prison…
Continue ReadingJustice Kavanaugh: Supreme Court’s slow start a coincidence
By JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh says the public shouldn’t read anything into the…
Continue ReadingOklahoma AG appoints independent counsel in Glossip case
By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma’s new attorney general is appointing an independent counsel to conduct a…
Continue ReadingWhy Brazil’s Yanomami are being decimated by disease, mining
By ELÉONORE HUGHES and EDMAR BARROS Associated Press BOA VISTA, Brazil (AP) — Severe malnutrition and disease, particularly malaria, are…
Continue ReadingNebraska lawmaker again pushes no-permit conceal carry
By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska lawmaker is taking another shot at trying to pass a bill that would not only…
Continue ReadingState of emergency declared over Atlanta ‘Cop City’ protest
By R.J. RICO and JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Gov. Brian Kemp has declared a state of emergency, giving him the option of calling in…
Continue ReadingA’s running out of time to find home in Oakland, Las Vegas
By MARK ANDERSON AP Sports Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Oakland Athletics have spent years trying to get a new stadium while watching Bay Area…
Continue ReadingBaltimore police using less force amid ongoing reform effort
By LEA SKENE Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — According to testimony in federal court, since the Baltimore Police Department started overhauling…
Continue ReadingUS military kills senior Islamic State official in Somalia
By AAMER MADHANI and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. special operations forces have killed a senior Islamic State group…
Continue ReadingMan sentenced to death in Mali for UN peacekeeper killings
By BABA AHMED Associated Press BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — The U.N. mission in Mali says a court in the West Afican nation’s capital has sentenced a…
Continue ReadingFarm where 4 were killed had separate shooting last summer
By JANIE HAR and AO GAO Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The shooting that left four dead at a California mushroom farm on Monday was at least…
Continue ReadingOfficials: Deadly Chicago high-rise fire was accidental
CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago authorities say a deadly fire in a high-rise apartment building was caused by someone smoking in a bedroom. The Chicago Fire…
Continue Reading1st officer: Alex Murdaugh didn’t cry over dead wife and son
By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press The first officer to arrive after Alex Murdaugh called 911 and reported his wife and son were shot noted the the…
Continue ReadingS. Dakota Senate suspends lawmaker after vaccine exchange
By AMANCAI BIRABEN and STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — The South Dakota Senate has suspended a Republican state senator in a…
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