Associated Press/ Report for America PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona Supreme Court Justice Robert Brutinel has announced he will retire this fall. The announcement Tuesday gives Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs a rare opportunity to fill a seat on the Republican-dominated court. Brutinel’s retirement is effective Oct. 31, capping off more than four decades as a lawyer
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Over 2,000 participants from over 80 countries descended on New York this week for the Clinton Global Initiative. The nonprofit founded by former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton unveiled 175 new philanthropic commitments in an effort to prove there are solutions to even the
Continue ReadingLegal Affairs Writer PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A U.S. appeals court has ruled that a man who spent 26 years in solitary confinement in Pennsylvania can sue prison officials for alleged cruel and unusual punishment. The panel says that prison officials may have also violated the Americans with Disability Act because they knew Roy Lee Williams
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A jury for a Columbia man accused in a double homicide in November 2022 heard the first set of opening arguments on Tuesday. Cadilac Derrick, 37, was charged with two counts of first-degree murder, two counts of armed criminal action, second-degree domestic assault and endangering the welfare of a child after a Dec.
Continue ReadingMINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A woman in Minnesota has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for her alleged role in the killing of a Minneapolis real estate agent. Prosecutors say a judge sentenced Elsa Segura on Tuesday for kidnapping to commit great bodily harm or terrorize. Segura pleaded guilty as part of an agreement with
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — John Sterling returned to the New York Yankees’ radio broadcast booth, five months after announcing his retirement. Sterling had retired in April, a few weeks into his 36th season. He was back working with partner Suzyn Waldman on the WFAN broadcast for the start of the team’s final regular-season homestand. Sterling,
Continue ReadingHUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A Texas man with a history of mental illness has been executed for killing his infant son in 2008.
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Former AP correspondent in Chile, Eva Vergara, who covered stories including the first protests against the dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet and revealed key information about abuses by members of the Catholic Church, died on Tuesday. She was 68. Her son said Vergara, who was recently diagnosed with lung cancer, died at home.
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — A federal jury has determined toy maker MGA Entertainment must pay $71.5 million in damages for infringing on the name and likeliness of teen pop group OMG Girlz with one of its popular lines of dolls. This week’s verdict hands a win to OMG Girlz — as well as Xscape singer
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Continue ReadingAssociated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Around 2,000 hotel workers went on strike Tuesday at the world’s largest Hilton hotel and the biggest hotel in Hawaii. The workers at the Hilton Hawaiian Village are now among the more than 4,000 hotel workers striking at Hilton, Hyatt, and Marriott hotels in Honolulu, San Diego and San Francisco.
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Associated Press BONNE TERRE, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri man convicted of breaking into a woman’s home and repeatedly stabbing her was executed Tuesday over the objections of the victim’s family and the prosecutor, who wanted the death sentence commuted to life in prison. Marcellus Williams, 55, was convicted in the 1998 killing of Lisha
Continue ReadingBONNE TERRE, Mo. (AP) — Missouri executes a man for the 1998 killing of a woman despite her family’s calls to spare his life.
Continue ReadingBy Pete Muntean, CNN (CNN) — The Federal Aviation Administration has opened an investigation into the jolt on a United Airlines flight that injured two passengers when the pilots responded to an onboard midair collision system warning. United Airlines says as flight 2428 from Newark, New Jersey, was descending into San Francisco International Airport last Thursday,
Continue ReadingAssociated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Iran’s new president is signaling to world leaders that he wants to open what he’s calling a “constructive” chapter in his country’s international relations. But he’s making clear that everyone else, including the United States, needs to do their part. Masoud Pezeshkian addressed the U.N. General Assembly’s annual gathering
Continue ReadingAssociated Press FLOWOOD, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves said Tuesday that legislators should ignore “myths” from opponents who want to block efforts by him and some other Republican leaders to phase out the state’s income tax. “Getting rid of our state income tax, in my opinion, is the next step in continuing to
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones ‘ Infowars media platform and its assets will be sold off piece by piece in auctions this fall to help pay the more than $1 billion he owes relatives of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, under an order expected to be approved by a federal judge.
Continue ReadingAssociated Press HOUSTON (AP) — A jury is deliberating the fate of a former Houston police officer accused of being responsible for the 2019 deaths of a couple during a raid. The ensuing investigation revealed systemic corruption problems within the police department’s narcotics unit. Jurors deliberated about three hours Tuesday in the case of Gerald
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — An Arkansas inmate who was beaten by a police officer in the back of a patrol car has sued the former officer and his police chief. Attorneys for Billy Lee Coram filed the lawsuit on Tuesday against former Jonesboro police officer Joseph Harris, Chief Rick Elliott and the
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — There was a time when the city of Birmingham, Alabama, earned the nickname “Bombingham,” renowned for senseless violence and its strength in confronting the racial hatred that fueled it. But days after Birmingham endured its third mass shooting of 2024, officials and residents are voicing a new strain of
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