By Brett Rains, Adam Roberts Click here for updates on this story Franklin County (KHBS) — A probable cause hearing was held for a Franklin County detention center employee Friday after she was arrested and accused of sexually assaulting an inmate. Gabriella Morena, age 20, of Hartman, was booked into a nearby facility pending
Continue ReadingBy Marshall Cohen and Oliver Darcy, CNN Dominion Voting Systems’ historic defamation case against Fox News will proceed to a high-stakes jury trial in mid-April, a Delaware judge ruled Friday, in a major decision that dismantled several of the right-wing network’s key defenses. The judge’s decision is a painful setback for Fox News and sets
Continue ReadingBy KCCI Staff Click here for updates on this story IOWA (KCCI) — Researchers at Iowa State University say a fossilized skull found recently in southwest Iowa offers evidence that prehistoric sabertooth cats may have roamed the area. ISU associate professor of archaeology Matthew Hill and Dave Easterla, emeritus professor of biology at Northwest Missouri
Continue ReadingBy Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN Andrew Tate, the controversial former kickboxer turned social media influencer, and his brother Tristan will be moved out of jail and placed under house arrest in Romania, amid an ongoing criminal probe into allegations of organized crime, human trafficking and rape. The move was ordered by a Romanian court on Friday,
Continue ReadingAlejandra Ramos (CNN) — Los líderes de más de 30 organizaciones de noticias de todo el mundo firmaron una carta el jueves al embajador ruso en Estados Unidos, Anatoly Antonov, exigiendo la liberación del reportero encarcelado del Wall Street Journal, Evan Gershkovich. “Gershkovich es un periodista, no un espía, y debe ser liberado de inmediato
Continue ReadingBy Andrea Flores Click here for updates on this story CALIFORNIA (KCRA) — Helen Fabela Chavez, wife of civil rights activist Cesar Chavez, was not a fan of the spotlight, but played a critical role in establishing farm workers’ rights in California. It’s her husband who was known to lead marches, but Cesar and Helen’s
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By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The arrest of a Wall Street Journal reporter on espionage charges in Russia has news organizations based outside the country weighing for the second time in a year whether the risks of reporting there during wartime are too great. The Journal and other news outlets
Continue ReadingBy Jessica Perez Click here for updates on this story OMAHA, Nebraska (KETV) — There’s a new effort to restore the historic Bryant Resource Center building and turn it into a community hub in north Omaha. Omaha Skills Connection and the Bryant Resource Center are leading the efforts. The building stood empty for the last
Continue ReadingBy Steve Contorno and Kit Maher, CNN Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill Monday morning that allows people to carry a concealed weapon in public without a government-issued permit, a top priority for the Republican governor. The legislation also ends an existing state requirement to undergo training before carrying a concealed weapon outside the
Continue ReadingBy Josh Campbell, CNN Warning: This story contains graphic descriptions of child violence that may be disturbing. Two Washington state fugitives wanted on murder and multiple child abuse charges have been arrested in Mexico, the US Marshals Service announced Friday, noting it was the first case involving a couple being placed on the agency’s Top
Continue Reading By JAMES W. MANGAN Associated Press ALICE, Texas (AP) — In 1977, Associated Press reporter James W. Mangan had an exclusive interview with a South Texas election judge who detailed certifying false votes for Lyndon B. Johnson nearly three decades earlier. The story made headlines across the country. Johnson had won by an 87-vote margin
Continue Reading By MICHAEL GOLDBERG, LISA BAUMANN and HARM VENHUIZEN Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The National Weather Service issued a tornado emergency for Arkansas’s capital of Little Rock and surrounding areas on Friday, warning that 350,000 people are in danger from a “confirmed large and destructive tornado.” Forecasters say “a large and destructive” tornado touched
Continue Reading By COLLEEN LONG and MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press ROLLING FORK, Miss. (AP) — President Joe Biden saw for himself the flattened homes, broken furniture and upended lives left behind by last week’s deadly tornado in Mississippi and pledged Friday that the federal government is not leaving until the area is back on its feet. In
Continue Reading EATONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A developer has dropped plans to purchase a 100-acre property from the local school system in a historically Black town in Florida following public outcry that the deal threatened the cultural heritage of the community made famous by Harlem Renaissance writer Zora Neale Hurston. Derek Bruce said Friday in a letter
Continue Reading By JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — In 1977, Associated Press reporter James W. Mangan had an exclusive interview with a South Texas election judge who detailed certifying false votes for Lyndon B. Johnson nearly three decades earlier. Johnson had won by an 87-vote margin in the 1948 Democratic primary runoff. Mangan’s story made
Continue ReadingBy Web staff Click here for updates on this story BALDWIN, Pennsylvania (KDKA) — A registered sex offender in Allegheny County is facing indecent exposure and open lewdness charges after complaints from people at a water park in Virginia led police to a GoPro camera. According to the criminal complaint, Baldwin police reached out to
Continue ReadingBy KMBC Staff Click here for updates on this story KANSAS CITY, Missouri (KMBC) — The Kansas City, Missouri, Police Department is investigating an early morning shooting in the northeast neighborhood of the city. Neighbors called 911 around 6:30 a.m. to report hearing gunshots. They found a man in the street next to an open
Continue Reading By STEPHEN McGRATH AND VADIM GHIRDA Associated Press BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Andrew Tate, the divisive internet personality who has spent months in a Romanian jail on suspicion of organized crime and human trafficking, has won an appeal to replace his detention with house arrest, an official said Friday. The Bucharest Court of Appeal ruled
Continue Reading By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Pressure is mounting on an obscure U.N. body based in Jamaica to hit pause on plans to potentially open the world’s deep seas to mining as companies push for permission to extract metals from seabeds in international waters. The International Seabed Authority on Friday
Continue Reading By LAURA BARGFELD Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — A Florida teenager has documented how it feels to be young and transgender for a film set to debut at a festival as transgender people around the world celebrate visibility and lawmakers across the country look to restrict their rights and care. Carys Mullins, 19,
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