CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Police in West Virginia say a woman was arrested after her handcuffed daughter sought help from a neighbor. Officers in Charleston located the girl on the neighbor’s porch. The woman was charged with child abuse and unlawful restraint. A criminal complaint says the woman said she handcuffed her child on Sunday
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MEXICO, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia man pleaded guilty on Monday to second-degree murder in the 2020 killing of a Mexico, Missouri man. Timothy Scott Midgyett, 29, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder, unlawful use of a weapon, armed criminal action and first-degree burglary in the death of Chance Davis. He was sentenced to 25 years in
Continue ReadingAssociated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — For the first time, Kentucky’s Supreme Court will have a woman at its helm, after justices on Monday selected Debra Hembree Lambert to serve as the next chief justice. Lambert, who is currently the deputy chief justice, will serve a four-year term at the top of the judicial system
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — A mentally ill man who killed 10 people at a Colorado supermarket in 2021 was sentenced Monday to life in prison for murder after a jury rejected his attempt to avoid prison time by pleading not guilty by reason of insanity. Victims’ relatives recounted in pained testimony the lives
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The New York City police department is lax in punishing officers who illegally stop and frisk people on the street, undermining efforts to curb wrongful use of tactic than a judge declared unconstitutional more than a decade ago. That’s the finding of a court-ordered study made public Monday. James
Continue ReadingAssociated Press CHICAGO (AP) — More than 200 men and women allege they were sexually abused as children while in custody at youth detention centers in Illinois. Three new lawsuits have been filed in Illinois. They’re the latest complaints filed by attorneys who say the problem of sexual abuse of children by staff is systemic
Continue ReadingAssociated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The boyfriend of a Navajo woman whose killing highlighted calls to end an epidemic of missing and slain Indigenous women in North America has been sentenced to life imprisonment. A federal judge on Monday announced the sentence for Tre C. James in the shooting death of Jamie Yazzie after her
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Thousands of families from southern Lebanon packed cars and minivans with suitcases, mattresses, blankets and carpets and jammed the highway heading north toward Beirut on Monday to flee the deadliest Israeli bombardment since 2006. Some 100,000 people living near the border had already been displaced since October, when the Lebanese
Continue ReadingAP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Former Southern California football star Reggie Bush says he is suing his school, the NCAA and the Pac-12 in a bid to recoup money made on his name, image and likeness during his career with the Trojans two decades ago. In a brief news release from Bush’s attorneys
Continue ReadingBy Andi Babineau and Zoe Sottile, CNN Boulder, Colorado (CNN) — Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, who killed 10 people during a March 22, 2021, massacre at a King Soopers grocery store in Boulder, Colorado, was sentenced Monday to life without parole, hours after a jury rejected his insanity claim and found him guilty of first-degree murder. The sentence
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Federal law enforcement officials in Connecticut have announced criminal indictments against seven people in a case they’re calling one of the largest counterfeit pill busts ever in New England. Authorities revealed the indictments Monday, saying they seized several hundred thousand pills containing methamphetamine, a powerful opioid and other illicit drugs. Officials allege Kelldon
Continue ReadingAP Airlines Writer Boeing is making what it calls a “best and final offer” to striking union machinists. The proposed contract put out on Monday includes bigger raises and larger bonuses than the offer that union members overwhelmingly rejected this month. About 33,000 Boeing workers began their strike over pay and pensions more than a
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Donald Trump has confirmed he’ll be the sole featured speaker at this year’s Al Smith charity dinner in New York. The former president said in a Truth Social post on Monday that he would speak at the dinner next month, 2 1/2 weeks before the election. Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign said Saturday
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NICE, France (AP) — Tensions have been rising in the French Pacific territory New Caledonia after four months of deadly unrest. On Tuesday, loyalists to Paris will mark the anniversary of the French takeover. The pro-independence Indigenous Kanak people and white settler communities have been at odds over the territory’s future. The Kanaks
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Boyd Interactive has purchased Resorts Digital, the online gambling arm of Atlantic City’s Resorts casino for an undisclosed amount. The transaction was finalized on Sept. 1 and confirmed by the parties on Monday. Resorts Digital has outperformed the physical Resorts casino for years; it has taken in five
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s state-run media says a senior army general has been tapped as the new spy chief. The powerful Inter-Service Intelligence, though officially reports to the prime minister, takes its directive from the military which has ruled Pakistan for over three decades. Lt. Gen. Asim Malik was appointed days ahead of
Continue ReadingWHITESBURG, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky judge who was gunned down in his courthouse chambers was remembered for his public service as mourners looked for answers to unravel a mystery still shaking their tiny Appalachian town — why their popular sheriff is behind bars and charged with murder. The preliminary investigation indicates Letcher County Sheriff
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland’s Democratic Senate candidate improperly claimed property tax credits for two homes, something her campaign says she was unaware of and plans to repay. Angela Alsobrooks, who is the county executive of Prince George’s County, claimed homestead and senior property tax credits for a home in Washington, D.C., and
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Two men have pleaded guilty to providing fentanyl-laced heroin that killed a prominent New York City transgender activist Cecilia Gentili earlier this year. Prosecutors say Michael Kuilan pleaded guilty a charge of distributing and possessing with intent to distribute heroin and fentanyl in Brooklyn federal court Monday. Antonio Venti entered a
Continue ReadingSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California is suing ExxonMobil for allegedly deceiving the public for half a century by promising that recycling would address the global plastics pollution crisis. His office filed a lawsuit Monday. It’s separate from a complaint filed by nonprofit environmental organizations. ExxonMobil is one of the world’s largest producers of plastics. The
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