DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Des Moines will cancel a city contract with a private security company more than two months after reports revealed troubling remarks by the company’s CEO, who referred to local racial justice protests as “terrorism.” The Des Moines Register reports the city’s contract with The Conley Group will end at midnight
Continue Reading CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — A University of Northern Iowa biology professor who required masks be worn in his classroom and threatened lower grades for students who refused has been relegated to online teaching and stripped of his eligibility for merit pay. UNI professor Steve O’Kane Jr. had pushed a resolution among his colleagues saying
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By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia judge has ruled that Ahmaud Arbery’s mental health records can’t be used as trial evidence by the men who chased and killed him. The decision Friday by Superior Court Judge Timothy Walmsley further limits defense attorneys’ efforts to portray Arbery as an aggressive young
Continue ReadingBy Caitlin Lilly Click here for updates on this story LAS VEGAS (KVVU) — An officer with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department died this week due to complications from COVID-19. According to the department, Officer Edward Contreras passed away on Tuesday at the age of 50 due to complications from COVID-19. According to the
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN Smile, Mercury! The smallest planet in our solar system was getting photographed Friday by a European-Japanese space probe making its closest trip past the sphere on its seven-year mission. The BepiColombo mission made its first flyby of Mercury around 7:34 p.m. ET on Friday, passing within 124 miles (200 kilometers) of
Continue ReadingBy Kim Passoth Click here for updates on this story LAS VEGAS (KVVU) — It was a first date at a Las Vegas Raiders game one fan will never forget. While she on her way to Allegiant Stadium, just a few blocks away, she stopped to save a man’s life. On Aug. 14, Liz Groesbeck,
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By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN A New York man charged in the assault of DC Metropolitan Police Officer Michael Fanone will remain in jail while he awaits trail, a federal judge ruled on Friday after an emotional court hearing. Prosecutors previously said Thomas Sibick was spotted on police body-camera footage ripping away Fanone’s badge and radio
Continue ReadingSol Amaya (CNN) — La forma más extrema de violencia fÃsica contra la mujer tiene un nombre propio: feminicidio o femicidio. Esto es lo que necesitas saber sobre el término, cómo se comparan las diferentes partes del mundo y qué se puede hacer para reducir los feminicidios. ¿Qué es el feminicidio? El feminicidio, también conocido
Continue Reading HOUSTON (AP) — Authorities say a former student of a Houston charter school shot and wounded a school employee on campus before quickly surrendering to police. The shooting happened at about 11:45 a.m. Friday at YES Prep Southwest Secondary, a charter school that serves students in sixth through 12th grades. Houston Police Chief Troy Finner
Continue Reading By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Drugmaker Merck says its experimental COVID-19 pill reduced hospitalizations and deaths by half in people recently infected with the coronavirus. That is potentially a leap forward in the global fight against the pandemic. The company said Friday it will soon ask health officials in the U.S.
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By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Drugmaker Merck says its experimental COVID-19 pill reduced hospitalizations and deaths by half in people recently infected with the coronavirus. That is potentially a leap forward in the global fight against the pandemic. The company said Friday it will soon ask health officials in the U.S.
Continue Reading By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer U.S stocks are on the rebound Friday, led by companies that would benefit the most from a healthier economy, as Wall Street claws back some of its sharp losses from earlier in the week. The S&P 500 was 1.1% higher in afternoon trading. Merck helped pace the market and
Continue Reading By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer U.S stocks are on the rebound Friday, led by companies that would benefit the most from a healthier economy, as Wall Street claws back some of its sharp losses from earlier in the week. The S&P 500 was 1.1% higher in afternoon trading. Merck helped pace the market and
Continue Reading By KAREN MATTHEWS and JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — An environmental lawyer who waged a years-long campaign against Chevron over pollution in Ecuador has been sentenced to six months in jail for violating a federal judge’s orders. U.S. District Judge Loretta A. Preska said Friday that Steven Donziger’s commitment to his Ecuadorian
Continue Reading By KAREN MATTHEWS and JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — An environmental lawyer who waged a years-long campaign against Chevron over pollution in Ecuador has been sentenced to six months in jail for violating a federal judge’s orders. U.S. District Judge Loretta A. Preska said Friday that Steven Donziger’s commitment to his Ecuadorian
Continue Reading By AMY FORLITI and CARLA K. JOHNSON Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A decline in COVID-19 cases across the United States over the past several weeks has given overwhelmed hospitals some relief. But administrators are bracing for yet another possible surge as cold weather drives people indoors. Health experts say the fourth wave of the
Continue Reading By CHRISTINA LARSON AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Letters from the last queen of France to her rumored lover contain redacted phrases that scientists have been able to read by studying the composition of different inks. The letters between Marie Antoinette and Swedish count Axel von Fersen were exchanged between June 1791 and August
Continue ReadingBy Laura Ly, Sonia Moghe and Ray Sanchez, CNN Finnish-Canadian designer Peter Nygard, accused of racketeering and sex trafficking charges, consented Friday to be extradited to the United States to defend himself. Nygard, 80, appearing via videoconference at an extradition hearing in Winnipeg, verbally confirmed his consent, which his attorney, Brian Greenspan, told the court
Continue Reading By SOPHIKO MEGRELIDZE Associated Press TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — The prime minister of Georgia says former President Mikheil Saakashvili has been arrested after he had returned to the country. The announcement Friday by Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili came hours after Saakashvili posted on Facebook that he was back in Georgia ahead of of national municipal
Continue Reading ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York health officials have revoked the medical license of a doctor with the cult-like group NXIVM who branded 17 women with the initials of the group’s leader, Keith Raniere. A health department hearing committee sustained multiple of counts of professional misconduct against Danielle Roberts, who belonged to a secret women’s
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