By Tori Mason Click here for updates on this story COLORADO (KCNC) — Parents of students at Black Forest Hills Elementary School met with district leaders Monday to discuss the school’s response to an attempted kidnapping. Families were also shown surveillance video of the incident for the first time. “We hope that children embellish a
Continue ReadingBy COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Another six Republican states are piling on to challenge the Biden administration’s newly expanded campus sexual assault rules, saying they overstep the president’s authority and undermine the Title IX anti-discrimination law. A federal lawsuit led by Tennessee and West Virginia on Tuesday asks a judge to
Continue ReadingSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Dozens of Google workers who were fired after internal protests surrounding a lucrative contract that the internet company has with the Israeli government have filed a complaint with labor regulators in an attempt to get their jobs back. The complaint filed late Monday with the National Labor Relations Board alleges about
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Borrasso Click here for updates on this story WHITE OAK, Pennsylvania (KDKA) — Two young children fell out of a window at an apartment building in White Oak, Allegheny County. Officials told KDKA-TV on Monday that two children, ages 6 and 3, fell out of a third-floor window at the Lincoln School Apartments
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CNN By Hira Humayun and Tara John, CNN (CNN) — A transitional council responsible for choosing Haiti’s next leadership has named one of its members as council president and proposed a new interim prime minister amid efforts to control the gang violence in the Caribbean nation. The council, which is responsible for paving the way
Continue ReadingBy BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Former Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes has been cleared of ethics charges stemming from allegations that the one-time Democratic rising star abused her access to voter registration data to benefit herself and fellow Democrats. Franklin County Circuit Judge Phillip Shepherd ruled Monday that Grimes
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By Matthew Rodriguez Click here for updates on this story LOS ANGELES (KCAL) — Customs officers seized nearly $80,000 worth of items hidden in several cargo shipments from China. In total, authorities seized 96 baby walkers, 216 autism balance chairs, 492 baby changing tables, 196 baby/kid step stools and 1,296 alphabet mystery box toys that
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By Ophelie Jacobson Click here for updates on this story DEFIANCE, Iowa (KCCI) — A western Iowa family is counting their blessings after everyone made it out alive from Friday’s storm — even their dogs. The Schabens have been breeding Hungarian Vizslas for decades. They had five of their dogs in a shed in their
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By Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN (CNN) — Researchers are pointing to a dangerous element of the booming e-commerce home delivery business in America: vans. About half a million light vans are sold in the United States every year, with many of those going to companies like Amazon and FedEx. Used to deliver packages to people’s front
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By Alicia Wallace, Katherine Dillinger, Kevin Liptak, Jeff Zeleny and Kayla Tausche, CNN (CNN) — The Biden administration moved Tuesday to reclassify marijuana as a lower-risk substance, a person familiar with the plans told CNN, a historic move that acknowledges the medical benefits of the long-criminalized drug and carries broad implications for cannabis-related research and
Continue ReadingBy BEN FINLEY Associated Press The most recent criminal case involving artificial intelligence emerged from a high school in Baltimore County, Maryland. That’s where police say a principal was framed as racist by a fake recording of his voice. The bogus audio contained racist remarks and caused the administrator to go on leave. Experts say
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The company that provides transportation for the Jefferson City School District plans to lay off more than 100 workers this summer as the district goes with a different contractor.
Continue ReadingBy JANIE HAR Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A Silicon Valley-backed campaign to build a new city in California for up to 400,000 people says it submitted enough signatures to qualify the initiative for the November election. If Solano County elections officials agree, voters in the San Francisco Bay Area county will decide whether
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — A group of eight U.S. newspapers is suing ChatGPT-maker OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging that the technology companies have been “purloining millions” of copyrighted news articles without permission or payment to train their artificial intelligence chatbots. The New York Daily News, Chicago Tribune, Denver Post and other papers filed the lawsuit Tuesday
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By Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — Fox News on Tuesday removed a six-part Hunter Biden miniseries from its streaming platform, after his attorneys threatened to sue the right-wing network over the incendiary and at-times sexually explicit program about his legal troubles. The removal is a swift response from the conservative media juggernaut, whose spokespeople were defending the
Continue ReadingBetiana Fernández Martino (CNN) — Lejos quedaron las sesiones extraordinarias que había convocado el Gobierno entre enero y febrero para tratar la “Ley de Bases y Puntos de Partida para la Libertad de los argentinos” que el oficialismo había presentado en los primeros días de gestión. Lejos también quedaron aquellos 664 artículos originales. Este martes,
Continue ReadingBRUSSELS (AP) — The head of the International Organization for Migration is warning that the number of Syrian refugees leaving Lebanon is likely to keep rising as donors cut back on aid. Pressure is building as the Mediterranean island of Cyprus is seeing an increase in the number of migrants arriving. The IOM director general
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By Amy Maetzold Click here for updates on this story LOS ANGELES (KCAL) — Los Angeles County firefighters rescued a driver after their vehicle plunged 400 feet down a cliff in the Angeles National Forest Tuesday morning. SkyCAL flew over the scene and could see firefighters working to get the person out the vehicle and
Continue ReadingBy RUSS BYNUM Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Georgia’s highest court has thrown out an indictment that charged a former police chief and a top aide with misconduct. The Georgia Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the 2021 indictment charging former Glynn County Police Chief John Powell and his former chief of staff, Brian Scott,
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTINE FERNANDO Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Former President Donald Trump says in a new interview it should be left to the states whether to prosecute women for abortions or whether to monitor women’s pregnancies. He declined to comment on access to the abortion pill mifepristone, which has been embroiled in an intense legal
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