AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine lawmakers have launched into an emotional debate over expanding abortion access, delivering impassioned appeals. The proposal being debated Thursday would allow abortions any time before birth if deemed necessary by a medical provider. Current state law bans abortions after a fetus becomes viable outside the womb, at roughly 24 weeks.
Continue Reading By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Abortion pills will remain legal in Wyoming for now, after a judge ruled Thursday that the state’s first-in-the-nation law to ban them won’t take effect July 1 as planned while a lawsuit proceeds. Attorneys for Wyoming failed to show that allowing the ban to take effect
Continue Reading By MARK PRATT Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A renowned Titanic expert, a world record-holding adventurer, two members of one of Pakistan’s wealthiest families and the CEO of the company leading an expedition to the world’s most famous shipwreck were killed aboard the Titan submersible when it imploded in the Atlantic Ocean sometime this week.
Continue Reading By MARIA VERZA Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — A Mexican military official confirmed Thursday that eight soldiers have been detained and taken to a military prison for their possible involvement in events surrounding the 2014 disappearance of 43 students from a rural teacher’s college in southern Mexico. The eight are awaiting the possible filing
Continue Reading By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday imposed $5,000 fines on two lawyers and a law firm in an unprecedented instance in which ChatGPT was blamed for their submission of fictitious legal research in an aviation injury claim. Judge P. Kevin Castel said they acted in bad faith.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Columbia Police Department and Stronger Together Aspiring and Achieving Relevant Relationships are set to hold separate community meetings to discuss crime trends and community violence in Columbia next week. The Columbia Police Department’s meetings were initially set for May 10 and 11, but were rescheduled for Monday and Thursday, June 29.
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By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The U.S. government may have to pay tens of millions of dollars — or more — to landowners along the Missouri River after a court ruled it worsened flooding there since 2007 that killed crops and wrecked homes and businesses. The U.S. Court of Appeals
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The intersection of West Worley Street and West Boulevard will operate as a four-way stop Monday through Wednesday, according to a press release from the City of Columbia. Traffic lights will not operate and stop signs will be posted at all four street corners. Subcontractors will be moving a traffic signal cabinet
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The ban was written to go into effect after a decision overturning the precedent.
Continue Reading KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri woman imprisoned for more than four decades for a murder she says she didn’t commit will get a court hearing that could lead to her release. The Kansas City Star reported Thursday that the Missouri attorney general’s office has agreed to an evidentiary hearing for 63-year-old Sandra Hemme.
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TONIGHT: Skies will clear at first this evening, but some partly cloudy skies will return by sunrise Friday when temperatures will have fallen into the mid-60s. TOMORROW: Friday will bring another very similar day sensibly, with temperatures again near 90, this time more likely crossing into the low 90s for most of us. Cumulus clouds
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By Rachel Ramirez, CNN (CNN) — The scene is unsettling: hundreds of sea lions and dolphins are sprawled across the beaches in Southern California, either dead or sick and exhibiting abnormal behavior. Officials have received more than 1,000 calls in recent weeks from beachgoers, tourists and residents reporting sick, dying and dead sea mammals washed
Continue Reading By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — As an international search determined the implosion of a vessel setting out for the underwater wreckage of the Titanic, a man who was one of the submersible company’s first customers characterized a dive he made to the site two years ago as a suicide mission. “You have
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The City of Columbia Municipal Court announced in a Thursday press release that its hours will change, beginning Monday. Hours of operation will be 7:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday. Those hours include lunch. The court will be closed to the public on Fridays, the press release states. The court will still
Continue Reading ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Tampa Bay shortstop Wander Franco has been benched and will not play in Thursday and Friday’s games at least by Rays manager Kevin Cash for the way he has handled frustrating situations this year. Cash said there’s been probably multiple times that the way he has handled his frustrations have
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A woman has been charged after she was accused of stealing $46,800.20 from a bank account in last year. Concepcion Rolden-Guevara, 56, is charged with stealing more than $25,000. Her address is listed as Columbia on Casenet, but the probable cause statement lists her address as Napa, California. She is not in
Continue Reading By BEATRICE DUPUY and COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A brief but fierce storm pummeled concertgoers at the iconic Red Rocks Amphitheatre near Denver with golf ball-sized hail, injuring dozens and forcing the cancellation of the show’s headliner, former One Direction member Louis Tomlinson. Authorities say as many as 90 people were treated
Continue Reading By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A Congressional report published Thursday offered a blistering critique of popular Chinese retailers Temu and Shein, with lawmakers accusing the latter of failing to maintain “even the façade of a meaningful compliance program” to deter forced labor from its supply chains. In the report, the
Continue Reading By ZANE IRWIN Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — A lawyer for Senegal’s embattled opposition leader Ousmane Sonko has filed a lawsuit in a French court. Sonko’s attorney also called Thursday for the International Criminal Court to open an investigation into the deadly violence that has taken place in recent weeks. Sonko finished third in
Continue Reading By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Concerns about India’s human rights record will be in the air, and millet and mushrooms will be on the plates at Thursday’s White House state dinner for Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The plant-based menu was designed with Modi’s vegetarian tastes in mind. President Joe Biden and first
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