SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Tropical Storm Gordon has weakened to a depression as it swirls through open waters in the Atlantic. The storm was located about 955 miles (1,540 kilometers) east of the northeast Caribbean on Monday. It had top winds of 35 mph (55 kph) and was moving west at 6 mph
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Suspicious packages were sent to election officials in at least six states on Monday, but there were no reports that any of the packages contained hazardous material. Powder-containing packages were sent to secretaries of state and state election offices in Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Tennessee, Wyoming and Oklahoma, officials in those states confirmed. The
Continue ReadingAssociated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin judge says stricter cash bail measures that voters approved last year will stand despite procedural flaws. The decision Monday from Dane County Circuit Judge Rhonda Lanford came in a lawsuit filed by criminal justice advocates over two constitutional amendments, State elections officials and the Legislature say the
Continue ReadingOCEAN CITY, Md. (AP) — Officials are warning people to stay out of the ocean at several beaches in Maryland, Delaware and Virginia after they say medical waste, including hypodermic needles, washed ashore. Assateague Island National Seashore closed all ocean-facing beaches in Maryland and Virginia to swimming and wading. The Maryland Department of Natural Resources
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Evo Morales, Bolivia’s former president, has called on supporters to protest against current President Luis Arce. Morales made the call on Monday after Arce accused him on national TV of trying to overthrow the government. Arce’s speech on Sunday night accused Morales of sabotaging his administration and undermining
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Ryan Wesley Routh, the suspect in the apparent assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump, received his initial criminal charges on Monday and will be held in jail while he awaits trial.
Continue ReadingAssociated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A judge has ruled that Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s name will stay on the presidential ballot in the swing state of Wisconsin. Kennedy suspended his campaign in August and endorsed Republican candidate Donald Trump. He’s now trying to get his name off the ballot in battleground states. Kennedy sued
Continue ReadingEUGENE, Ore. (AP) — A tribe in Oregon whose culture is tied to the ocean is suing the U.S. government over an offshore wind energy auction. The lawsuit was filed in federal court on Friday. The Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians say the environmental analysis underpinning the sale was too narrow.
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A New York woman is challenging the longstanding rules of Miss America and Miss World that disqualify mothers from their beauty pageants. Danielle Hazel said Monday that she’s always dreamed of entering the competitions but was devastated to learn that she’s no longer eligible because she had a son
Continue ReadingAssociated Press/Report For America Award-winning, world renowned artist Fred Nall Hollis has died. Hollis was 76 years old and a local arts center in his home state of Alabama says he died on Saturday. The visual artist had work shown in famous venues including the Menton Museum of Art in France and the Basilica of
Continue ReadingAP Technology Writer Elon Musk has deleted a post on his social media platform X in which he said “no one is even trying to assassinate” President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris in the wake of an apparent assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump while he was playing golf. Musk, who has
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Ramps along Highway 63 in and around Columbia will close this week for a resurfacing project, according to a Monday press release from the Missouri Department of Transportation. Closures began Monday at Prathersville Road and Oakland Gravel Road, the release says. Closures for the rest of the week will occur 7:30 a.m.-8
Continue ReadingAssociated Press/Report for America AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The former schools police chief in Uvalde, Texas, made his first court appearance on criminal charges that accuse him of failing to take sufficient action during the Robb Elementary School shooting in 2022. Pete Arredondo has pleaded not guilty to multiple counts of child endangerment and abandonment.
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s state school superintendent says he wants the state to spend more money to guarantee security officers and wearable panic alert buttons after a school shooting killed four at Apalachee High School outside Atlanta. Republican Richard Woods says he also wants to expand a mental health program for students and
Continue ReadingBy Amy Simonson, CNN (CNN) — An 11-year-old middle school student in Port Orange, Florida, has been charged with a felony after threatening to commit a mass shooting at a middle school, authorities said Monday. “We just arrested a Creekside Middle School student who made threats to commit a school shooting at Creekside or Silver Sands
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Marine Corps in a ceremony at the commandant’s headquarters has presented their highest noncombat medal to the parents of Cpl. Spencer Collart, who died last year after his V-22 Osprey crashed in Australia. Collart survived the crash but then went back into the burning aircraft to try to save
Continue ReadingAssociated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Republican lawmakers in Oregon are asking Democratic Gov. Tina Kotek to ensure the integrity of the state’s voter rolls. Their letter to the governor came after state transportation officials acknowledged that some 300 noncitizens had been registered as voters since 2021. The mistake occurred in part because Oregon has
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LAKE OZARK, Mo. (KMIZ) An Arizona man was charged with two felonies in a Miller County crash that killed a woman early Sunday. Khalil Manygoats, 26, of Phoenix, Arizona, was charged with driving while intoxicated – causing the death of another and drug possession. He is being held at the Miller County Jail on a
Continue ReadingAssociated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Firefighters have battled flames spreading through a national park in Brazil in the latest wildfire in the country which is experiencing an historic drought. More than 90 firefighters on Monday were trying to extinguish blazes that have already burned through 700 hectares or 1,700 acres of the conservation
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MARIES COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) A Locust Grove, Arkansas man was killed in a crash in Maries County on Sunday evening. The Missouri State Highway Patrol reported the crash happened on Highway 28 east of Highway C at 6:47 p.m. According to the online crash report, Michael Edington, 41, of Rolla crossed the center line and
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