By ISABELLA VOLMERT Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The bipartisan Indiana Election Commission has voted unanimously to remove one of two Republican U.S. Senate candidates from the primary ballot. The state Supreme Court also rejected John Rust’s legal challenge to the law barring his candidacy. The rulings leave U.S. Rep. Jim Banks as the only
Continue Readingmacamilarincon (CNN) –– Ante la emergencia y las evacuaciones por los múltiples incendios forestales que arden en Texas, el gobernador Greg Abbott declaró este martes el desastre en 60 condados. “Emití una declaración de desastre para garantizar que los recursos fundamentales de respuesta a incendios se desplieguen rápidamente en áreas del noroeste de Texas afectadas por
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By Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — Photographed against a city skyline in a bright, high-rise office, Monica Lewinsky stands in an ankle-length black dress, cinched at her waist with a leather belt, and cheetah-print pumps. She looks the picture of female empowerment. Of course, anyone familiar with the US political landscape of the mid-1990s knows
Continue ReadingJUPITER, Fla. (AP) — Brandon Crawford and St. Louis have finalized a $2 million, one-year contract, giving the Cardinals an experienced backup for young shortstop Masyn Winn. The 37-year-old Crawford spent his first 13 seasons with San Francisco. He won four Gold Gloves and two World Series championships with the Giants. Winn, who turns 22
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press MANASSAS, Va. (AP) — Federal prosecutors have taken over the case against a northern Virginia man arrested last year on suspicion he was about to embark on a mass shooting at a megachurch. Local prosecutors in Prince William County on Tuesday dropped charges against 35-year-old Rui Jiang of Falls Church,
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By Jeanne Sahadi, CNN New York (CNN) — Many more new 401(k) “millionaires” were created last year, but the overall number remains low, according to data released Tuesday. Thanks to strong performances in stocks and bonds in 2023, coupled with steady savings rates and employer-provided matching contributions, 401(k) investors ended 2023 very much in the
Continue ReadingPHOENIX (AP) — A suspect in the killing of a woman at a New York City hotel has been indicted by a grand jury in Arizona’s most populous country in the subsequent stabbing attacks of two women in the Phoenix area. The Maricopa County Attorney’s office announced 26-year-old Raad Almansoori was indicted on attempted first-degree
Continue ReadingBy HALLIE GOLDEN Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — A conservative-backed effort to repeal Washington state’s landmark carbon pricing program and tax on the sale of stocks and bonds is putting the budget into limbo. Billions of dollars are at stake with days remaining in this year’s Legislative session. Lawmakers are scrambling before the session ends
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Charges have been filed on a Columbia woman who was accused of shooting at a car Monday night on Brown Station Road in Columbia. Carra Maleghia Brooks, 27, was charged with first-degree domestic assault, armed criminal action, first-degree assault and unlawful use of a weapon. Jail records indicate that she has a court
Continue Reading By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Ariana Grande is sharing some of her thoughts about the sensational headlines that emerged over the past year related to her private life. “There is an insatiable frustration, [an] inexplicable hellish feeling with watching people misunderstand the people you love,” Grande said on the Zach Sang Show in an
Continue ReadingBy SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A blacklisted Missouri lawmaker has been blocked from running for governor as a Democrat. The Missouri Democratic Party on Tuesday refused to let state Rep. Sarah Unsicker file for office on that ticket. Fellow Democrats denounced Unsicker after social media posts last year showed her
Continue ReadingBy SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A blacklisted Missouri lawmaker has been blocked from running for governor as a Democrat. The Missouri Democratic Party on Tuesday refused to let state Rep. Sarah Unsicker file for office on that ticket. Fellow Democrats denounced Unsicker after social media posts last year showed her
Continue ReadingBy Web Staff Click here for updates on this story MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — One of the guns used by Shannon Gooden in a deadly Burnsville standoff earlier this month was a straw purchase made through a local firearms shop and range in January. WCCO Senior Investigative Reporter Jennifer Mayerle has confirmed that the firearm, an
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — When NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft intentionally slammed into the asteroid Dimorphos in September 2022, the impact may have caused “global deformation” of the space rock, according to new research. The goal of the DART mission was to carry out a full-scale test of asteroid deflection technology on
Continue Reading By Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN (CNN) — Toyota is recalling 381,000 Tacoma pickups because bolts in the rear axle could loosen and fall off, which could eventually allow part of the rear axle to detach. It’s unclear exactly how many trucks have been affected, but in at least some of these trucks, metal from welding spattered
Continue ReadingBy MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — State officials say a mower sparked a wildfire that has burned about 110 square miles of prairieland in central Nebraska. That’s about the size of the state’s largest city of Omaha. The fire was first reported Monday morning less than 10 miles northeast of North
Continue ReadingSASKATOON, Saskatchewan (AP) — A pathologist told Saskatchewan coroner’s inquest that a man who killed 11 people and injured 17 others died from a cocaine overdose after he was taken into police custody. Myles Sanderson had been on the run for several days when police caught up to him on Sept. 7, 2022. He went
Continue ReadingBy JENNIFER PELTZ and CEDAR ATTANASIO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — More than 20 years after Run-D.M.C. star Jam Master Jay was brazenly gunned down in his recording studio, two men close to him were convicted Tuesday of murder, marking a moment authorities had long awaited in one of the hip-hop world’s most elusive
Continue ReadingDETROIT (AP) — The United Auto Workers says a majority of workers at a Mercedes plant near Tuscaloosa, Alabama, have signed cards in support of joining the union. The UAW says the plant in Vance, Alabama, is the second one to reach more than 50% of workers signing up. Earlier in February, the union announced
Continue ReadingBy STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A Massachusetts man who spent nearly three decades in prison on a murder conviction that was thrown out by the courts is suing the state for $1 million, the maximum allowed by state law. James Lucien was serving a life sentence in connection with the 1994 fatal
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