TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A jury in Kansas could not reach a verdict in the case of a woman accused of killing her ex-husband and his girlfriend. After deliberations spread over six days, a Shawnee County jury told a judge on Thursday that it was unable to determine if Dana Chandler shot and killed 47-year-old
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By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A retired New York Police Department officer was sentenced on Thursday to a record-setting 10 years in prison for attacking the U.S. Capitol and using a metal flagpole to assault one of the police officers trying to hold off a mob of Donald Trump supporters. Thomas Webster’s
Continue Reading By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Starbucks has named a longtime PepsiCo executive as its new CEO. The coffee giant said Thursday that Laxman Narasimhan will join Starbucks on Oct. 1 after relocating from London to Seattle, where Starbucks is based. He will work closely with Starbucks’ interim CEO, Howard Schultz, through April 1, when
Continue Reading By JOEY CAPPELLETTI and SARA BURNETT Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — An abortion-rights group has asked the Michigan Supreme Court to approve a November ballot question on whether the right to abortion should be enshrined in the state constitution. Reproductive Freedom for All filed its request with the high court on Thursday after the
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By The Associated Press Illinois opens Big Ten play at Indiana on Friday night following its convincing Week Zero win over Wyoming. This will be the Hoosiers’ opener. Indiana has won the last three in the series. The teams haven’t met since 2013. The Hoosiers enter the season on an eight-game losing streak. Indiana coach
Continue Reading By TERESA M. WALKER AP Pro Football Writer NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee outside linebacker Harold Landry III has torn an ACL at practice leaving the Titans without their reigning sack leader. Landry is coming of the best year of his career with 12 sacks. That earned him a five-year extension. The Titans tied for
Continue Reading By JULIE WATSON Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Biden administration is phasing out a program that aimed to give at-risk Afghans a quicker legal pathway to the U.S. through humanitarian relief but was criticized for its bureaucratic barriers. Instead, starting Oct. 1, the U.S. government says it will focus on beefing up efforts
Continue Reading By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A federal judge Thursday appeared to give a boost to former President Donald Trump’s hopes for appointing an outside legal expert to review government records seized by the FBI, questioning the Justice Department’s arguments that Trump couldn’t make the request
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By Manu Raju and Alex Rogers, CNN CINCINNATI — Ohio voters will begin casting their ballots in six weeks — and J.D. Vance has been difficult to find. The rookie GOP candidate goes days without any public events, and his campaign gives little information about his whereabouts. He has been slow to build a fundraising
Continue ReadingAlejandra Ramos (CNN Español) — El ex infante de Marina de Estados Unidos, acusado del homicidio de su novia en 2016 y que fue arrestado en El Salvador el lunes luego de que fuera encontrado dando clases de inglés en una escuela, llegó deportado a California este miércoles. La información fue brindada este jueves a
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By Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN Business Starbucks has tapped Laxman Narasimhan as its next CEO. Narasimhan will become incoming CEO at Starbucks on October 1. He will officially begin his role in April and will then join the company’s board of directors, as well. The Reckitt Benckiser Group, where Narasimhan most recently served as CEO, announced
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By Marianne Garvey, CNN “Saturday Night Live” veteran castmember Rob Schneider says the long-running sketch show was “over” after Kate McKinnon’s 2016 performance of “Hallelujah.” In a conversation on Glenn Beck’s podcast, Schneider said that McKinnon’s post-presidential election cold open at the piano, during which she sang Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” dressed as Hilary Clinton, was
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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A jury in Kansas could not reach a verdict in the case of a woman accused of killing her ex-husband and his girlfriend. After deliberations spread over six days, a Shawnee County jury told a judge on Thursday that it was unable to determine if Dana Chandler shot and killed 47-year-old
Continue Reading By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — For at least the third time in a dozen years, portable toilets are parked outside the ornate Mississippi Capitol because Jackson’s water system is in crisis. The big “Gotta Go” trailer is just one example of the city’s desperation. Many homes, businesses and government offices
Continue ReadingBy Rebekah Riess and Alaa Elassar, CNN A Kansas teacher who argued she had a religious belief that prevented her from calling transgender or nonbinary students by their preferred names and pronouns reached a $95,000 settlement with school district officials, according to a release from the teacher’s attorneys. Pamela Ricard, who teaches math at Fort
Continue ReadingÁngela Reyes Haczek (CNN Español) — El exsenador argentino Esteban Bullrich, quien padece una enfermedad degenerativa conocida como ELA, permanece internado en la Unidad de Cuidados Intensivos de un hospital de la provincia de Buenos Aires, según un nuevo parte médico de este jueves. Bullrich se encuentra “estable, bajo sedación, con ventilación mecánica y en
Continue ReadingBy Adam Bartow Click here for updates on this story PORTLAND, Maine (WMTW) — The Ocean Avenue elementary school in Portland has launched a fundraiser to help restock the library shelves. The school says it loses more than $2,000 in library books every year, mostly because they are never returned. The school currently lists about
Continue ReadingBy Katie Sivco Click here for updates on this story POLK COUNTY, Florida (WESH) — Over the weekend, a man in Polk County allegedly shot and killed another man while celebrating his own birthday. Following the Aug. 27 early morning shooting, Thomas Jackson, 35, of Loughman, was arrested. According to the Polk County Sheriff’s Office,
Continue Reading By Holmes Lybrand Former New York Police Department officer Thomas Webster, who unsuccessfully tried to convince a Washington, DC, jury that he was merely acting in self-defense against a police officer who he assaulted on January 6, 2021, was sentenced to 10 years in prison Thursday. This is the longest sentence of any January 6
Continue ReadingAlejandra Ramos (CNN) — El hijo mayor de Anne Heche presentó una petición para asumir el control del patrimonio de la difunta actriz. Homer Laffoon, de 20 años, pidió que se le otorgara el control del patrimonio de su madre. Heche, quien murió el mes pasado después de un accidente automovilístico a los 53 años, no
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