By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Attorneys for a former Houston police officer charged with murder in connection with a deadly drug raid three years ago are decrying publicity in the case. They’re also suggesting newly discovered evidence could undermine prosecutors’ claims that the couple who lived at the raided home were
Continue Reading TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — The Israeli army says it targeted a Hamas military site with airstrikes after militants fired a rocket into the country from Gaza, raising already heightened tensions. The military says the site targeted early Thursday in the central Gaza Strip was used by Hamas for rocket manufacturing. There are no immediate
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Salir a comer podría haber sido tan popular hace 5.000 años como lo es en la actualidad. Esto sugeriría el impresionante descubrimiento en Iraq de una antigua taberna que data de 2700 a. C. Los investigadores que trabajan en la antigua ciudad de Lagash descubrieron que la taberna, escondida a solo 48
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VILLANOVA, Pa. (AP) — Maddy Siegrist had 24 points, eight rebounds and three blocks, Lucy Olsen added 16 points, six assists and four steals and No. 19 Villanova pulled away in the second quarter to beat Marquette 73-54. Siegrist scored 10 points during an 18-0 second-quarter run that put Villanova ahead 31-15. Marquette missed 13
Continue Reading By MICHAEL MAROT AP Sports Writer WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) — Mason Gillis broke the Mackey Arena record by making nine 3-pointers and scored a career-high 29 points to help No. 1 Purdue rout Penn State 80-60. Gillis was 10 of 14 from the field and 9 of 12 from beyond the arc after never
Continue Reading By TIM BOOTH AP Sports Writer SEATTLE (AP) — The Seattle Mariners are convinced they’re an improved team from the one that last season ended the longest playoff drought in baseball. That comes despite an offseason that lacked any major splashes in free agency. The Mariners made several additions to the roster that should make
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By Andrew Kaczynski The transformation of George Santos began in 2019, the year he went from Anthony Devolder, just another New Yorker sharing political musings on social media, to a Republican congressional candidate with a compelling fictional resume. His improbable rise to the House of Representatives started as he joined a group of pro-Donald Trump
Continue Reading By MARK ANDERSON AP Sports Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — Vegas Golden Knights captain Mark Stone is out indefinitely after undergoing back surgery in Denver, the club announced Wednesday. The Knights termed the procedure Tuesday as successful and that Stone “is expected to make a full recovery.” This is the second time in less than
Continue Reading By STEVE MEGARGEE AP Sports Writer Southeastern Conference schools continue to rule over the recruiting trail, almost as thoroughly as they dominate on the field. Alabama put together the best 2023 class in the country, according to composite rankings of recruiting sites compiled by 247Sports. The SEC has eight of the top 17 classes, including
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) A Holts Summit man was sentenced to eight years in prison on Jan. 3 in relation to a 2021 robbery in Jefferson City. Tyler Steven Mitchell Williams pleaded guilty in federal court on April 12, 2022 for brandishing a gun. In addition to the eight-year sentence, he was ordered to have
Continue Reading By RIO YAMAT Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nathan Chasing Horse trained his wives to use firearms, instructing them to “shoot it out” with police officers if they ever tried to “break their family apart,” according to records obtained by The Associated Press. If that failed, the actor from “Dancing With Wolves” said they
Continue ReadingBy Rob Frehse, CNN A New Jersey man has been arrested and charged with one count of attempted use of fire to damage a building after allegedly throwing a Molotov cocktail at a New Jersey synagogue Sunday, according to court documents. Nicholas Malindretos, 26, of Clifton, will appear in federal court in Newark on Thursday
Continue Reading By JOHN RABY Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A health provider has filed a lawsuit seeking to overturn West Virginia’s near-total abortion ban. The lawsuit filed on behalf of the Women’s Health Center of West Virginia asks to block the four-month-old abortion ban while the case is heard in federal court. The Women’s Health
Continue Reading By JUAN A. LOZANO and MICHAEL GRACZYK Associated Press HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — Texas has executed an inmate convicted of fatally shooting a Dallas police officer nearly 16 years ago following a high-speed chase. Wesley Ruiz received a lethal injection Wednesday evening at the state penitentiary in Huntsville. His execution was carried out after the
Continue ReadingBy Ray Sanchez, CNN Mourners, from Vice President Kamala Harris to the activist the Rev. Al Sharpton, on Wednesday celebrated the life of Tyre Nichols, whose death at the hands of police in Memphis led to second-degree murder charges against five officers. “Mothers around the world, when their babies are born, pray to God when
Continue Reading By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Nevada judge has ruled a Colorado dentist unfit for trial following his arrest last month in what authorities characterized as a terror attack on a solar power facility serving Las Vegas Strip casinos. Mohammed Reza Mesmarian’s attorney said Wednesday that psychiatrists found his client was
Continue Reading By PAT GRAHAM AP Sports Writer BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — Deion “Coach Prime” Sanders has quickly built the framework for a speedy turnaround at Colorado. He proudly recited the numbers from his first recruiting class in charge of the Buffaloes. It includes two five-star recruits, a No. 21 overall class ranking and a top-five class
Continue Reading By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press Police say the man who was fatally shot by police after entering a Target store in Omaha, Nebraska, armed with an AR-15-style rifle had obtained the weapon just four days earlier at a sporting goods store. No one else was hurt. Court records show that the man, identified by police
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Review by Brian Lowry, CNN After the hoopla Netflix unleashed with “Tiger King,” its latest docuseries oddity might involve a different four-footed creature. Like that earlier sensation, “Gunther’s Millions” is really about the strange people featured, but its true insights expose how gullible media can be taken in by a too-good-to-be-true (or too-fun-to-fact-check) story —
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By JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press/Report for America DENVER (AP) — Every Colorado school district, like many across the country, began 2023 understaffed. That’s caused classes to be crammed together, school bus routes to shrink, Spanish language courses to get cut from curriculums, and field trips to be nixed. This has prompted lawmakers in Colorado and
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