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By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho’s public health officials say crisis standards of care are imminent for the state’s most populated region as hospitals continue to be overrun with unvaccinated coronavirus patients. Idaho Department of Health and Welfare Director Dave Jeppesen says southern Idaho including the Boise metro area could join

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Members of a New York City crime family threatened violence, pressured workers and pocketed phony “pension” payments in a two-decade plot to seize control of a city construction union and its lucrative employee health insurance program, prosecutors alleged in an indictment unsealed Tuesday. Ten members

MIAMI (AP) — A South Florida man claiming to be a film financier was sentenced to 13 years in prison for running a scheme to steal over $60 million from investors and producers seeking financing for movies and Broadway shows. Court records show 39-year-old Benjamin Forrest McConley was sentenced Tuesday in Miami federal court. Besides

By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles police bomb technicians made major miscalculations in June when they detonated illegal fireworks improperly and caused a massive explosion that rocked a city neighborhood and injured 27 people in June. Federal investigators on Tuesday released a report saying the technicians overloaded a containment chamber

MENOMONIE, Wis. (AP) — Authorities say four people found slain in an abandoned SUV in a western Wisconsin cornfield had been shot and were all from Minnesota. Dunn County sheriff’s officials said Tuesday autopsies showed the two men and two women died of gunshot wounds. Authorities don’t have a suspect or motive and believe the

By The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Fellow comedians and many others are paying tribute to standup comic and “Saturday Night Live” star Norm Macdonald, who died Tuesday at 61. Conan O’Brien said Macdonald had “the most unique comedic voice I have ever encountered” and he “will never laugh that hard again.” Jim Carrey

By MARCY GORDON AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats have begun the serious work of trying to implement President Joe Biden’s expansive spending plan. But getting there will require remarkable legislative nimbleness, since Biden has said the revenue to pay for it must come only from Americans who earn more than $400,000 a

By RANDALL CHASE Associated Press DOVER, Del. (AP) — One of the primary insurers of the Boy Scouts of America has reached a tentative settlement agreement with the Boy Scouts and attorneys representing tens of thousands of men who say they were molested as youngsters decades ago by scoutmasters and others. The Hartford announced Tuesday

By MARK GILLISPIE and KANTELE FRANKO Associated Press A man has pleaded guilty in the murders of his child’s mother and seven other members of her family in southern Ohio. Edward “Jake” Wagner pleaded guilty to 23 counts in Pike County court on Thursday, the fifth anniversary of when the shootings were discovered. The deal

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — The Buffalo Bills have joined the Las Vegas Raiders as only the NFL teams to require proof of vaccination against COVID-19 for all fans over 12. The rules will be the same for Buffalo Sabres games when the NHL season gets underway next month. Unvaccinated fans were allowed to attend the

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Facebook has indicated the campaign page of Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey was briefly taken down after it was mistakenly flagged as an imposter account. But the social media giant says the site was restored Tuesday after the error was detected and that the step was not

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A judge has rejected the latest version of a proposed charter amendment on the future of policing in Minneapolis. Judge Jamie Anderson ruled just days before early and absentee voting begins in the city where George Floyd died in police custody. If her ruling stands, it means