By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas is banning transgender athletes from girls’ and women’s sports from kindergarten through college, the first of several possible new laws restricting the rights of transgender people pushed through by Republican legislators over the wishes of the Democratic governor. The Legislature on Wednesday overrode Gov.
Continue ReadingSofía Benavides (CNN) — Exfuncionarios de primer nivel de seguridad nacional testificaron ante un jurado investigador federal que advirtieron repetidamente al expresidente Donald Trump y a sus aliados que el gobierno no tenía la autoridad para apoderarse de las máquinas de votación tras las elecciones de 2020, según pudo saber CNN. Chad Wolf, el exsecretario
Continue ReadingBy Mike Holden Click here for updates on this story HUDSON, Ohio (WEWS) — A Northeast Ohio family is celebrating what they are calling a “true miracle.” Their baby boy was born with severe hearing loss, virtually deaf. Little Corbin Grey is now one of the youngest patients in Cleveland Clinic Children’s history to undergo
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia man accused in a November shots-fired incident pleaded guilty to two charges on Friday. Montrez Ricketts, 44, pleaded guilty to second-degree assault and unlawful use of a weapon. He was sentenced to four years in the Missouri Department of Corrections. He was initially charged with three counts of first-degree assault,
Continue ReadingBy AJ Smith Click here for updates on this story STRONGVILLE, Ohio (WEWS) — The Strongsville youth lacrosse team arrived to practice Tuesday afternoon to find their practice field had been all torn up, according to coaches for the program. News 5 spoke with coaches and players and they expressed their frustration. “We’ve got little
Continue ReadingBy Mike Holden Click here for updates on this story HUDSON, Ohio (WEWS) — A Northeast Ohio family is celebrating what they are calling a “true miracle.” Their baby boy was born with severe hearing loss, virtually deaf. Little Corbin Grey is now one of the youngest patients in Cleveland Clinic Children’s history to undergo
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By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Two Native Hawaiian men sentenced to prison for a hate crime in the brutal beating of a white man have agreed to pay more than $25,000 in restitution. A judge sentenced Kaulana Alo-Kaonohi to six and a half years in prison and Levi Aki Jr. to
Continue Reading By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas is banning transgender athletes from girls’ and women’s sports, from kindergarten through college. The Republican-controlled Kansas Legislature on Wednesday overrode Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s third veto in three years of a bill that applies a ban to school teams and the club sports sponsored
Continue ReadingBy Tierney Sneed The case that Manhattan prosecutors have brought against former President Donald Trump for allegedly falsifying business records to disguise hush money payments related to the 2016 campaign presents novel legal questions that make the prosecution risky — but not impossible — legal experts say. How Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has laid
Continue Reading TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas bans transgender athletes from teams for girls, women after GOP lawmakers override Democratic governor’s veto.
Continue ReadingBy Marshall Cohen, CNN Dominion Voting Systems can force Fox Corporation executives Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch to testify on the witness stand at this month’s scheduled defamation trial, a Delaware judge said Wednesday. Delaware Superior Court Judge Eric Davis said at a hearing that if Dominion subpoenas the Murdochs to testify in-person, he would not
Continue Reading By JILL COLVIN and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A spokesman for Mike Pence said Wednesday that the former vice president will not appeal a judge’s order compelling him to testify in the Justice Department’s investigation into efforts by Donald Trump and his allies to overturn the results of the 2020 election. The
Continue Reading By MICHAEL BLOOD, LISA MASCARO and ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press SIMI VALLEY, Calif. (AP) — Risking China’s ire, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy welcomed Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen to a high-level meeting on U.S. soil as a “great friend of America” on Wednesday in a fraught show of U.S. support. More than a dozen Democratic and
Continue ReadingBy BRIAN MAASS Click here for updates on this story DENVER (KCNC) — The man who shot and killed a 12-year-old boy in February for allegedly stealing the man’s car told Denver police in advance he was armed, was tracking his car, planned to intercept it, and said he would pull a gun on the
Continue Reading By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — In 2022 Los Angeles police shot and killed 14 people — 60% of everyone struck by officers’ bullets. That’s according to the Los Angeles Police Department’s annual Use of Force report that was released Wednesday. LAPD officers opened fire 31 times last year, striking 23 people
Continue ReadingBy ALLEN HENRY Click here for updates on this story MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A Minneapolis teacher and coach says a theft from his car almost put his team’s future in jeopardy. Despite the current weather, springtime means tennis for North Community High coach Dane McClain. But McClain says his spring break started this weekend with
Continue Reading By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A federal control board that oversees Puerto Rico’s finances says it will focus on growing the island’s economy as the U.S. territory emerges from a drawn-out bankruptcy process. The board’s new executive director, Robert Mujica, unveiled a new fiscal plan on Wednesday that will
Continue ReadingBy NATALIE DUDDRIDGE Click here for updates on this story NEW YORK (WCBS) — The NYPD’s top brass is honoring the officers who were attacked with a machete near Times Square on New Year’s Eve by a suspect who may have been radicalized. It was the first day on the job for one of the
Continue ReadingBy Sara Murray, Katelyn Polantz and Devan Cole, CNN Mike Pence will not appeal a federal court ruling ordering him to testify in a special counsel probe into efforts by Donald Trump and his allies to subvert the 2020 election, a spokesman for the former vice president said Wednesday, teeing up a historic moment in
Continue ReadingBy KYW Staff Click here for updates on this story PHILADELPHIA (KYW) — Police say a 5-year-old boy shot himself in the leg with a firearm found laying around the house. It happened just after 11:30 a.m. Wednesday on the 3100 block of North Patton Street in North Philadelphia. Police said the boy is in
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