TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Three people have been indicted in a multi-state conspiracy involving the forced labor of Mexican agricultural immigrants. A federal grand jury in Tampa formally charged Bladimir Moreno, Christina Gamez and Guadalupe Mendes Mendoza under a six-count indictment last week. According to the indictment, Moreno, Gamez and Mendes Mendoza ran a labor
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TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Three people have been indicted in a multi-state conspiracy involving the forced labor of Mexican agricultural immigrants. A federal grand jury in Tampa formally charged Bladimir Moreno, Christina Gamez and Guadalupe Mendes Mendoza under a six-count indictment last week. According to the indictment, Moreno, Gamez and Mendes Mendoza ran a labor
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By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer COSTA MESA, Calif. (AP) — Justin Herbert has mostly picked up from where he left off last season when he was the AP Offensive Rookie of the Year. But there are some areas of concern as the Los Angeles Chargers prepare to face the Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday.
Continue Reading By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California will be the first state to bar mega-retailers from firing warehouse workers for missing quotas that interfere with bathroom and rest breaks. The legislation signed Wednesday by Gov. Gavin Newsom grew from Amazon’s drive to speed goods to consumers. The measure also prohibits disciplining workers
Continue Reading By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California will be the first state to bar mega-retailers from firing warehouse workers for missing quotas that interfere with bathroom and rest breaks. The legislation signed Wednesday by Gov. Gavin Newsom grew from Amazon’s drive to speed goods to consumers. The measure also prohibits disciplining workers
Continue Reading By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy certainly wasn’t the only world leader at this week’s U.N. General Assembly meeting to paint a dire picture of international relations. But the former actor and comedian may have painted the most colorful one. In a speech Wednesday, he said leaders were
Continue Reading SAN DIEGO (AP) — Federal authorities have accused an alleged top Mexican drug cartel lieutenant of helping smuggle tons of methamphetamine, fentanyl and other drugs across the border into the United States. A 2018 federal indictment from San Diego was unsealed Wednesday that charges Sergio Valenzuela Valenzuela with conspiracy. He’s a fugitive. The U.S. Treasury
Continue Reading By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer Tim Sweeney, CEO of Fortnite maker Epic, said Wednesday it’s been told by Apple that the game will be “blacklisted from the Apple ecosystem” until the companies’ legal case is resolved and all appeals are exhausted, which could take as long as five years. Sweeney posted on Twitter that
Continue Reading By MATTHEW PERRONE, LAURAN NEERGAARD and MIKE STOBBE Associated Press The U.S. has moved a step closer to offering booster doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine to seniors and others at high risk from the virus. The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday signed off on such shots as a way to shore up protection in
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The U.S. has moved a step closer to offering booster doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine to seniors and others at high risk from the virus.
Continue Reading FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — The U.S. government has released projections that indicate an even more troubling outlook for a river that serves 40 million people in the American West. The grim outlook Wednesday from the Bureau of Reclamation comes after it recently declared the first-ever shortage on the Colorado River. That means Arizona, Nevada and
Continue Reading FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — The U.S. government has released projections that indicate an even more troubling outlook for a river that serves 40 million people in the American West. The grim outlook Wednesday from the Bureau of Reclamation comes after it recently declared the first-ever shortage on the Colorado River. That means Arizona, Nevada and
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By Jason Hanna and Stella Chan, CNN San Jose State University will pay a total of about $1.6 million to some of the female students and student-athletes who alleged they were sexually assaulted or harassed by a campus athletic trainer over more than a decade, the US Department of Justice said Tuesday. The payments are
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The Columbia City Council addressed the change in seasons Monday, searching for a solution to disposing leaves under the city’s new trash program.
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The Moberly School District responded Wednesday to the Missouri attorney general’s assertion that the district is breaking a new law that allows parents to record some private meetings with educators.
Continue Reading BROOKINGS, S.D. (AP) — A South Dakota woman accused in the July 2019 starvation death of a 3-year-old girl has been sentenced to 75 years in prison. Twenty-seven-year-old Renae Fayant and 29-year-old Robert Price, Jr., both of Brookings, are accused in the death of Fayant’s niece. The two adults were the child’s caregivers for two
Continue Reading By JONATHAN J. COOPER and BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — A Republican official in Arizona resigned Tuesday from the board overseeing Maricopa County after a recording emerged of him criticizing his GOP colleagues in a meeting with activists demanding an audit of the 2020 election. During the meeting recorded surreptitiously last March, Supervisor
Continue ReadingCNN Editorial Research Here is a look at the life of Trent Lott, former Republican senator from Mississippi. Personal Birth date: October 9, 1941 Birth place: Grenada, Mississippi Birth name: Chester Trent Lott Father: Chester Paul Lott, shipyard worker Mother: Iona (Watson) Lott, schoolteacher Marriage: Patricia (Thompson) Lott (1964-present) Children: Chester and Tyler Education: University
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By Rebekah Riess and Christina Maxouris, CNN Nearly 44 years after hunters discovered human remains near a Mississippi highway, authorities have identified the victim as Clara Birdlong — who they believe was killed by Samuel Little, America’s most prolific serial killer. The announcement was made Tuesday by the Jackson County Sheriff’s Department. Little died last
Continue ReadingCNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the life of Theresa May, former prime minister of the United Kingdom. Personal Birth date: October 1, 1956 Birth place: Eastbourne, England Birth name: Theresa Mary Brasier Father: Hubert Brasier, Anglican vicar Mother: Zaidee (Barnes) Brasier Marriage: Philip May (1980-present) Education: St. Hugh’s College, University of Oxford, Geography,
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