BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama woman who claimed she was abducted after stopping her car to check on a wandering toddler pleaded guilty on Thursday to charges of giving false information to law enforcement. News outlets reported that Carlee Russell pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges of false reporting to law enforcement and falsely reporting
Continue ReadingBy SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin’s top Republican lawmaker says the effort by supporters of former President Donald Trump to recall him from office has failed. Assembly Speaker Robin Vos has challenged the validity of thousands of the signatures submitted. Earlier this week, Vos derided those attempting to recall him as
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CNN By Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — The New York attorney general’s office has filed judgments in Westchester County, the first indication that the state is preparing to try to seize Donald Trump’s golf course and private estate north of Manhattan, known as Seven Springs. State lawyers entered the judgments with the clerk’s office in Westchester
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A Massachusetts bill that bars someone from sharing explicit images or videos without consent was approved unanimously by the Massachusetts Senate. The bill, which was approved Thursday and now goes to conference committee to hash out differences with the House, means only South Carolina has not banned
Continue ReadingBy SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union leaders have agreed in principle to open membership negotiations with Bosnia-Herzegovina, even though the Western Balkan country must still do a lot of work before talks can begin. The 27 leaders gave the political green light at a summit in Brussels after the European Commission
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TONIGHT: Mostly clear, lows in the upper 30s. TOMORROW: Increasing clouds and breezy with highs in the upper 60s. Chance of a few showers by late afternoon with less than a tenth of an inch of rain expected. EXTENDED: Temperatures aren’t as cool tonight as we drop into the upper 30s to around 40 as
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Columbia police have identified a 34-year-old man killed Wednesday afternoon in a shooting in a residential area of north Columbia.
Continue ReadingSTOCKTON, Mo. (AP) — A kayaker from Michigan died and two other people are missing after an outing on a Missouri lake. The Missouri Highway Patrol on Thursday identified the victim as 18-year-old Melodie Roberts of South Lyon, Michigan. Authorities have not released the names or other information about the two kayakers who are missing,
Continue ReadingBy Jan Carabeo Click here for updates on this story LEVITTOWN, Pennsylvania (KYW) — It’s Rosie the Riveter Day, a day to honor the contributions of American women during World War II. This year, one woman in the Delaware Valley has a bigger reason than ever to mark the occasion. Mae Krier, who lives in
Continue ReadingBy SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — An independent investigation has found no evidence of bullying by the president of a historically Black Missouri university leading up to the suicide of another top administrator. Lincoln University curators called Antoinette Bonnie Candia-Bailey’s January death tragic in an open letter Thursday. They say there’s no
Continue ReadingBy SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — An independent investigation has found no evidence of bullying by the president of a historically Black Missouri university leading up to the suicide of another top administrator. Lincoln University curators called Antoinette Bonnie Candia-Bailey’s January death tragic in an open letter Thursday. They say there’s no
Continue ReadingAnalysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN Add $1.2 trillion in government spending bills to the short list of things where it’s fine to barely miss – horseshoes, hand grenades and taxpayer dollars. The multi-act, epic saga of funding the government for the fiscal year that is nearly halfway over is finally at its end, but
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia man has been charged in one of the shooting scenes that took place in Columbia on Wednesday. Anthony Warren Jr., 20, was charged on Thursday with shooting at or from a motor vehicle and armed criminal action. He is not in custody. A warrant was ordered for his arrest on
Continue ReadingBy JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Fugitive Catalan separatist Carles Puigdemont says that he will return to Spain for the first time since leading a failed 2017 breakaway bid if he has a viable chance to be restored as regional president following upcoming elections. Puigdemont is still a wanted man in Spain
Continue ReadingBy Joe Holden, Casey Kuhn Click here for updates on this story SPRINGFIELD, Pennsylvania (KYW) — Court records obtained by CBS News Philadelphia show Kathleen Hammond, former treasurer of the Springfield Youth Club in Delaware County, has been charged by county detectives in connection with more than $130,000 in theft from the organization dating back
Continue ReadingBy TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Michigan attorneys have pressed a federal appellate panel in Cincinnati to move their lawsuit seeking to shut down a portion of an aging petroleum pipeline beneath the Straits of Mackinac from federal to state court. The attorneys argued Thursday before the three-judge panel that the state’s
Continue ReadingBy MARYCLAIRE DALE Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A judge says a federal lawsuit against the NFL’s disability plan can proceed to trial. The potential class action on behalf of retired players accuses the league of routinely denying valid injury claims so that it won’t have to make disability payments. The judge said the plan’s
Continue ReadingBy Stephanie Moore Click here for updates on this story CLEMSON, South Carolina (WYFF) — Clemson University has filed a lawsuit against the Atlantic Coast Conference. The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in Pickens County, says that the ACC has publicly claimed that the conference owns media rights through 2036 and member schools must pay $140 million
Continue ReadingGRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — Court records show a man accused of stabbing his ex-girlfriend and kidnapping and killing her 2-year-old daughter has agreed to plead guilty to a federal charge of kidnapping resulting in death. The plea agreement entered into Thursday by Rashad Trice shows he faces a minimum term of life in prison
Continue ReadingBy KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has signed off on legislation designed to protect songwriters, performers and other music industry professionals against the potential dangers of artificial intelligence. The move makes Tennessee the first state in the U.S. to enact such measures. Supporters say the goal is to
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