Las Vegas teachers’ group sues to stop tax money from funding A’s stadium plan
By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A political group backed by teachers is suing to keep taxpayer money from being spent on a baseball…
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A bill that would allow armed teachers in Nebraska schools prompts emotional testimony
By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press Nebraska’s Education Committee is considering a bill that would allow teachers and other staff in schools…
Continue ReadingFormer top prosecutor for Baltimore convicted of mortgage fraud
GREENBELT, Md. (AP) — A former top prosecutor for the city of Baltimore has been convicted on one count of mortgage fraud for lying on a loan…
Continue ReadingBank plans to auction posh property owned by West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice to repay loans
By JOHN RABY Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A Virginia bank that is seeking to recover more longstanding unpaid business loans to the…
Continue ReadingA Mississippi poultry plant is being sued by a woman whose 16-year-old son died working there
By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The mother of a 16-year-old who died in a workplace accident at a…
Continue ReadingA man extradited from Scotland continues to claim he’s not the person charged in 2 Utah rape cases
By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press A man accused of faking his own death and fleeing the U.S. to avoid prosecution in two rape cases in Utah continues…
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IRS expects to collect hundreds of billions more in overdue and unpaid taxes thanks to new funding
By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The IRS is poised to take in hundreds of billions of dollars more in overdue and unpaid taxes…
Continue ReadingBluesky, a social network championed by Jack Dorsey, opens for anyone to sign up
By DAVID HAMILTON AP Technology Writer The Twitter-like social network championed by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey has emerged from its cocoon and…
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Federal Medicare, Medicaid officials approve Oregon State Hospital’s plan for assuring secure patient transport
SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) — The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has approved the Oregon State Hospital Plan of Correction. The plan…
Continue ReadingPentagon believes it has identified problem behind Osprey crash that killed 8 Air Force crew members
By TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon believes it has identified the mechanical failure in an Osprey aircraft that led to a…
Continue ReadingUN envoy warns more attacks on Iraq threaten its hard-won stability
By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Iraq’s government is focused on avoiding a domestic or regional spillover of the…
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Kotek: Final state data confirms state exceeded goals set for last year’s homeless state of emergency
SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) — Final data validated Tuesday by Oregon Housing and Community Services confirmed that the state exceeded all three goals set by…
Continue ReadingESPN, Fox, Warner Bros. Discovery are planning a sports streaming platform in the fall
By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer ESPN, Fox and Warner Bros. Discovery announced plans on Tuesday to launch a sports streaming platform in the fall that…
Continue Reading16-year-old suspect in Juneteenth shooting that hurt 6 sent to adult court
MILWAUKEE (AP) — A judge has waived to adult court a 16-year-old boy charged in a shooting after a Juneteenth celebration last year that left six…
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Wyden, colleagues introduce bill to investigate, measure AI’s environmental impacts
WASHINGTON (KTVZ) — Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Senate colleagues introduced legislation Tuesday that would direct the National Institute of…
Continue ReadingActor Gina Carano sues Lucasfilm and Disney over her firing from ‘The Mandalorian’
By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Actor Gina Carano on Tuesday sued Lucasfilm and its parent The Walt Disney Co. over her…
Continue ReadingOpinion piece about Detroit suburb is ‘racist and Islamophobic,’ Democrats say
By JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — An op-ed piece that dubbed a Detroit suburb “America’s jihad capital” is being…
Continue ReadingShip mate says he saw vehicle smoking hours before it caught fire, killing 2 New Jersey firefighters
By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press UNION, N.J. (AP) — New testimony in the case of a fatal cargo ship fire in New Jersey sheds some light on whether…
Continue ReadingSenate Democrats push to require that Biden consult Congress on weapons sales to Israel
By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats are pushing to prevent the Biden administration from bypassing Congress when…
Continue ReadingRecord rainfall, triple-digit winds, hundreds of mudslides. Here’s California’s storm by the numbers
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Nearly 500 mudslides. Half of downtown Los Angeles’ yearly rainfall in just three days. A wind gust of 102 mph. Those are…
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