Supporters of silenced Montana lawmaker Zooey Zephyr won’t face trespassing charges
By AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Montana prosecutors are declining to pursue misdemeanor trespassing charges against seven…
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Mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin is presumed dead in a plane crash outside Moscow
By DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin, who led a brief armed rebellion against the Russian…
Continue ReadingPhiladelphia police commissioner intends to fire officer involved in fatal shooting during a traffic stop
By Ray Sanchez, Jessica Xing and Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN (CNN) — Philadelphia’s police commissioner on Wednesday said she intends to fire…
Continue ReadingWorkers in Disney World district criticize DeSantis appointees’ decision to eliminate free passes
By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press Employees of Walt Disney World’s governing district are criticizing new board members appointed by Gov. Ron…
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Oregon receives $1.9 million from USDA for variety of specialty crop projects
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Marketing Service on Wednesday awarded over $1.9 million in Fiscal Year 2023 Specialty Crop…
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‘Blow Up Day’: Oregon’s infamous, devastating Tillamook Burn occurred 90 years ago, raced across 268,000 acres in a day
On Aug. 24, 1933, the skies west of Portland were darkened by an enormous smoke column more than 40,000 feet high as a fire that had started in the…
Continue ReadingExtreme heat kills nearly 2 dozen cattle, forces evacuations from a nursing home and shuts down an ice cream parlor
By Mary Gilbert and Holly Yan, CNN (CNN) — Nearly two dozen cattle died in Nebraska, more than 100 Missouri nursing home residents were…
Continue ReadingNFL cornerback Caleb Farley leans on faith after dad’s death in explosion at North Carolina home
MOORESVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Tennessee Titans cornerback Caleb Farley says he took the first flight home after learning of an explosion that destroyed…
Continue ReadingIran rounds up activists and relatives of killed protesters ahead of Mahsa Amini anniversary
By Mostafa Salem, CNN (CNN) — Iran is moving to head off a possible repeat of unrest ahead of the first anniversary of the death of Mahsa…
Continue ReadingCyprus dismantles human smuggling ring bringing Syrian migrants from Syria, Lebanon and Turkey
By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS Associated Press NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus says it has dismantled a criminal human smuggling ring responsible for…
Continue ReadingSt. Louis proposal would ban ‘military-grade’ weapons, prohibit guns for ‘insurrectionists’
By JIM SALTER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — As the St. Louis mayor pushes legislation that would prohibit “military-grade weapons” on city…
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Suspect in hourslong Pittsburgh standoff after deputies tried to evict him is dead, police say
By Danny Freeman, Holly Yan and Steve Almasy, CNN (CNN) — The occupant of a home who opened fire when deputies tried to serve an eviction…
Continue ReadingAs Ralph Yarl begins his senior year of high school, the man who shot him faces a court hearing
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Four months after he was shot in the head after ringing the doorbell at the wrong house to pick up his brothers, Ralph Yarl…
Continue ReadingSigns return to Tennessee statehouse grounds after judge blocks new House GOP rule
By JONATHAN MATTISE and KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Signs have returned to the Tennessee Capitol complex after a…
Continue ReadingA magnitude 6.2 earthquake strikes deep underground in northern Argentina; no damage reported
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — A magnitude 6.2 earthquake has struck deep underground in northern Argentina. There have been no immediate reports…
Continue ReadingTexas elementary school students escape injuries after a boy fires a gun on a school bus
SEGUIN, Texas (AP) — Authorities say no one was injured after a Texas elementary school student fired a gun while on a crowded school bus. Police…
Continue Reading3-year-old girl is shot through wall by murder suspect firing at officers, police say
RIDGE, N.Y. (AP) — Police say a 3-year-old girl was wounded when a bullet fired at police officers by a murder suspect pierced the wall of her New…
Continue ReadingParts of tropical rainforests could get too hot for photosynthesis, study suggests
By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Some leaves in tropical forests from South America to South East Asia are getting so hot they may no longer be…
Continue ReadingWisconsin Republicans ask newly elected liberal justice to not hear redistricting case
By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republicans who control the Wisconsin Legislature have asked that the newest Democratic-backed…
Continue ReadingSouth Carolina’s new all-male highest court reverses course on abortion, upholding strict 6-week ban
By JAMES POLLARD COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina’s new all-male Supreme Court reversed course on abortion on Wednesday, upholding a ban on…
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