By Marshall Cohen and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN A federal judge on Friday upheld the Justice Department’s decision to use a felony obstruction law against US Capitol rioters, a major victory for prosecutors who have used the statute to charge hundreds of Donald Trump supporters who were involved in the January 6 insurrection. Several other defendants
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By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN A jury in Texas has awarded the largest-ever personal injury compensation in the country to a family who lost two people killed by a drunk driver. The sum is symbolic, lawyers for the family say, but the eye-popping size of the judgment is meant to send a message about the consequences
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Denver finally got its first snowfall of the season, shattering an 87-year-old record for the latest first snow. It wasn’t much: The official measurement on Friday at Denver International Airport was just three-tenths of an inch. Jim Kalina is a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Boulder and says the Denver metro region is
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According to the labor department, unemployment claims are the lowest since September 1969.
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Ángela Reyes (CNN) — Un jurado de Texas concedió la mayor indemnización por daños personales hasta ahora en el país a una familia que perdió a dos de sus integrantes por culpa de un conductor ebrio. La suma es simbólica, dicen los abogados de la familia, pero el tamaño llamativo de la sentencia pretende enviar
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By Hannah Rabinowitz, Gloria Borger, Tierney Sneed and Holmes Lybrand, CNN In the weeks leading up to January 6, one of Donald Trump’s campaign lawyers wrote memos outlining how she believed then-Vice President Mike Pence could reject electoral college votes and overturn the 2020 election, including one theory that he could ignore a federal law.
Continue Reading By REBECCA CARDENAS Click here for updates on this story CLARKSVILLE, Tennessee (WSMV) — An 11-year-old boy sprang into action and rescued all four of his siblings from their burning home on Sunday. Taken four days after their house caught fire, a Thursday afternoon snapshot of Kimberly Sims’ family is now the only picture of
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By Carma Hassan and Theresa Waldrop, CNN A former supervisor testified Friday in Kim Potter’s manslaughter trial that the then-officer had the right to use deadly force to prevent Daunte Wright from driving away and harming him in the process. Mychal Johnson, a former Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, police sergeant, testified that he arrived at the
Continue Reading DESERT HOT SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) — A California man has been arrested on suspicion of rear-ending a school bus and then plowing his Cadillac into a group of children walking home, killing a 9-year-old girl and injuring three other youngsters. Officials say Robert Hanson of Desert Hot Springs was arrested on suspicion of vehicular manslaughter
Continue Reading By AYAH GALAL Click here for updates on this story WATERBURY, Connecticut (WFSB) — Horses are helping out with patrols in Waterbury. The Waterbury Police Department has the only mounted police unit in the State of Connecticut. Downtown Waterbury is one of the many areas people could run into Sherlock and Robert. The two horses
Continue Reading By JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — Arizona State University police have arrested a 38-year-old homeless man they say is responsible for damaging Islamic literature and a copy of the Quran at the campus library. Police are investigating a motive for damage at the Hayden Library’s interfaith room on Wednesday. Before the
Continue Reading By Winnie Dortch Click here for updates on this story KENOSHA, Wisconsin (WDJT) — A death investigation is underway near 26th Street and 23rd Avenue in Kenosha Friday, Dec. 10. “We heard a boom, boom, boom,” Donna Bianchi-Schultz said. The woman’s home is just feet away from the shooting scene. “I heard like several repetitive
Continue Reading By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection is subpoenaing six more people who the panel says were involved in the organization and planning of rallies that aimed to overturn Donald Trump’s defeat in the 2020 presidential election. The committee chairman, Rep. Bennie Thompson, says
Continue Reading By Carma Hassan and Theresa Waldrop, CNN A former supervisor testified Friday in Kim Potter’s manslaughter trial that the then-officer had the right to use deadly force to prevent Daunte Wright from driving away and harming him in the process. Mychal Johnson, a former Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, police sergeant, testified that he arrived at the
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By Artemis Moshtaghian, Laura Ly and Kelly Murray, CNN New York Governor Kathy Hochul has announced a new temporary indoor mask mandate, but at least one county leader says he won’t be enforcing it. On Friday, Hochul announced the rule, in place from Monday, December 13, until at least January 15, 2022. It requires New
Continue Reading By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LIVERPOOL, England (AP) — Britain’s top diplomat is warning that “free democratic nations” must wean themselves off Russian gas and Russian money to preserve their independence. Foreign Secretary Liz Truss is hosting U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and other Group of Seven counterparts for weekend talks in the northwest
Continue Reading PLACERVILLE, Calif. (AP) — A father and son charged with starting a massive California wildfire earlier this year pleaded not guilty in court Friday. The 32-year-old son, Travis Shane Smith, also pleaded not guilty to a charge of illegal conversion or manufacture of a machine gun. He and 66-year-old David Scott Smith both pleaded not
Continue Reading ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A Canadian citizen who traveled to Syria to join the Islamic State group nearly a decade ago has pleaded guilty to serving as one of the group’s more prominent English-language propagandists. Mohammed Khalifa pleaded guilty Friday to conspiring to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization, resulting in death.
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The South Callaway R-II Board of Education has hired elementary school principal Corey Pontius to replace outgoing Superintendent Kevin Hillman.
Continue Reading By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. special envoy for Sudan says the country’s military leaders who seized power Oct. 25 must rebuild trust with the opposition, especially the young generation who feel betrayed by the coup that has led to the greatest crisis in the country’s political transition. Volker
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