ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced a new $40 million round of grants to extend high-speed internet to extremely remote farms, homes and businesses in New Mexico, including counties where the population density is less than one person per square mile (2.5 square kilometers). Joe Biden and top administration officials are
Continue ReadingBy Brian Todd and Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN The first-grade teacher shot by a 6-year-old student in her Newport News, Virginia, classroom earlier this year filed a lawsuit against school administrators and the school board Monday alleging they were aware of the student’s “history of random violence” and did not act proactively amid concerns over a
Continue Reading By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A group of CSX conductors will soon become the first train crew employees at one of the major freight railroads to have paid sick time. CSX said Monday that it had reached an agreement to give about 2,400 members of a union that represents some
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Jefferson City man was charged Friday in relation to the 2020 shooting death of Marqukis Hayes at a McDonald’s on Clark Lane in Columbia. Correy Greene, 33, is charged with second-degree murder, unlawful transfer of a weapon, unlawful possession of a gun and armed-criminal action. He is not in custody. No
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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas legislators have given final approval to a bill that would make it easier to pursue criminal charges or file lawsuits over childhood sexual abuse years after the abuse occurred. The House approved the measure Monday, and it goes to Gov. Laura Kelly because the Senate approved it last week. No
Continue Reading ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced a new $40 million round of grants to extend high-speed internet to extremely remote farms, homes and businesses in New Mexico, including counties where the population density is less than one person per square mile (2.5 square kilometers). Joe Biden and top administration officials are
Continue ReadingSofía Benavides (CNN) — Leonardo DiCaprio, ganador de un premio Oscar, fue el primer testigo estrella en subir al estrado este lunes en el juicio contra el rapero Pras Michel, exmiembro de Fugees. Se espera que en el proceso testifiquen múltiples celebridades. A Michel lo acusan de participar en un complot mundial de financiamiento de
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By JILL COLVIN, MICHAEL R. SISAK, TERRY SPENCER and WILL WEISSERT Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump returned to New York on Monday to face his historic booking and arraignment on hush money charges related to allegations of sexual encounters. The nation’s largest city bolstered security and warned potential protesters it
Continue Reading DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A court in Dubai has rejected the appeal of a British financier fighting extradition to Denmark, where he is accused of orchestrating a $1.7 billion tax fraud. Hedge fund trader Sanjay Shah is accused of masterminding a scheme that ran from 2012 to 2015 in which foreign businesses pretended
Continue Reading By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Disney CEO Bob Iger has said any retaliatory actions by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Republican-controlled Florida Legislature against the company that threaten jobs or expansion at its Florida resort is not only “anti-business … but anti-Florida.” Iger spoke Monday in a response to a
Continue Reading SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Police say that a man who was involved in a car accident in Puerto Rico’s capital fled the scene in an ambulance that had arrived to help him. Authorities say police then pursued him but only found the abandoned ambulance and not the suspect. The accident occurred Monday in
Continue Reading By JOHN ANTCZAK Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — California water officials say this year’s epic snowpack in the Sierra Nevada could top records. They also expect significant flooding when it melts. Just months after the state was dangerously deep in drought, its reservoirs are filling, with the snowpack yet to melt. The water content
Continue Reading By TRAVIS LOLLER, JONATHAN MATTISE and KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — As students across Nashville walked out of class on Monday to protest gun violence at the Tennessee Capitol following a school shooting last week, police said the person who killed six people, including three 9-year-old children, had been planning the massacre
Continue ReadingBy FOX 12 Staff Click here for updates on this story PORTLAND, Oregon (KPTV) — Three people died, and several others needed opiate-reversing medication due to drug overdoses in downtown Portland on Friday, according to the Portland Police Bureau. PPB said it responded to 11 calls between about 10:30 a.m. and 11 p.m. Friday of
Continue ReadingBy By FOX 12 Staff Click here for updates on this story SALEM Oregon (KPTV) — Masks will no longer be required in Oregon and Washington healthcare settings starting Monday. Masks have been mandatory in healthcare settings since August of 2021, but the requirement will be lifted on April 3. The mask mandate will be
Continue Reading WASHINGTON (AP) — First lady Jill Biden said Monday that she wants the defeated Iowa women’s basketball team to be invited to the White House in addition to the national title winner Louisiana State University. She watched LSU’s 102-85 victory over Iowa from the stands on Sunday night. Biden, speaking at the Colorado state capital
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer McLogan Click here for updates on this story NEW YORK (WCBS) — There was a tragedy on the grounds of John F. Kennedy International Airport after two construction workers fell into a 30-foot trench outside a generator plant. The emergency rescue began just after 11:15 a.m. as the workers were relocating utility lines
Continue Reading By TRISHA AHMED Associated Press/Report for America Teachers in North Dakota can still refer to transgender students by the personal pronouns they use, after lawmakers on Monday failed to override the governor’s veto of a controversial bill to place restrictions on educators. House lawmakers fell short of the two-thirds majority needed to block the veto,
Continue Reading By ASHRAF KHALIL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Movie star Leonardo DiCaprio testified in federal court Monday morning as part of a trial involving international money laundering, bribery and a prominent rap artist. Prakazrel “Pras” Michel — a founding member of the iconic 1990s hip-hop group, The Fugees — is accused of funneling money from
Continue ReadingRocío Muñoz-Ledo (CNN Español) — El juez federal Brian Cogan, que está a cargo del juicio en Nueva York contra el exsecretario de Seguridad Pública de México Genaro García Luna por narcotráfico y otros cargos, admitió este lunes un pedido de la defensa para aplazar la lectura de su sentencia hasta el 27 de septiembre.
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