CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A former correctional officer in southern West Virginia pleaded guilty Wednesday to a federal civil rights violation in the death of a man who died less than a day after being booked into a jail. Mark Holdren entered a plea agreement in U.S. District Court in which ...
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin will kick off a fundraising campaign on Thursday for a monument to women's suffrage being planned in Ohio. "An Evening With Doris Kearns Goodwin" will take place in the Ohio Statehouse atrium. Megan Wood, CEO and ...
By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press \ NEW YORK (AP) — Sean 'Diddy' Combs has tried to reach out to prospective witnesses and influence public opinion from jail in a bid to affect potential jurors for his upcoming sex trafficking trial, prosecutors claimed in a court filing urging a judge ...
By MICHAEL GOLDBERG and RYAN J. FOLEY Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — On the last night of their lives, Jagdish Patel, his wife and their two young children tried to slip into the U.S. across a near-empty stretch of the Canadian border. Wind chills reached minus 36 Fahrenheit (minus ...
By BECKY BOHRER Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump promised repeatedly during his campaign to expand oil drilling in the U.S., which is good news for political leaders in Alaska, where oil is the economic lifeblood and many felt the Biden administration ...
By STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — When Massachusetts voters decided to ditch the state's standardized tests as a high school graduation requirement on Election Day, they joined a trend that has steadily chipped away at the use of high-stakes tests over the past two ...
By MATTHEW DALY and CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump announced Friday that North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, his choice to head the Interior Department, will also lead a newly created National Energy Council that will seek to establish U.S. ...
By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Rudy Giuliani has relinquished dozens of watches and a Mercedes once owned by movie star Lauren Bacall to two former Georgia election workers who won a $148 million defamation judgment, his lawyer said. Joseph Cammarata said in a letter ...
By AMANDA SEITZ, MATTHEW PERRONE and JONEL ALECCIA Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an anti-vaccine activist and environmentalist, for years gained a loyal and fierce following with his biting condemnations of how the nation's public health agencies do ...
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Election certification meetings on Friday in Nevada's two most populous counties were roiled by voting conspiracies while local officials in the state's rural counties quietly approved election results that favored President-elect Donald Trump. Friday was the deadline for ...
By JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — The first batch of artwork from the Boy Scouts of America's collection raised over $3.7 million at auction Friday to help pay the compensation owed to those who were sexually abused while in scouting. The 25 works that sold are among over ...
By MICHAEL HILL Associated Press GILBOA, N.Y. (AP) — New York City officials are concerned about low reservoir levels after months of little rain, saying they may postpone repairs on a temporarily out-of-service aqueduct to bring more water into the stressed system. Mayor Eric Adams ...
By TARA COPP, MICHELLE R. SMITH and JASON DEAREN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Pete Hegseth, the Army National Guard veteran and Fox News host nominated by Donald Trump to lead the Department of Defense, was flagged as a possible "Insider Threat" by a fellow service member due to a ...
By THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press President-elect Donald Trump is filling key posts in his second administration, and it's shaping up much differently than his first. He's prioritizing loyalists for top jobs. Trump was bruised and hampered by internal squabbles during his initial term ...
WEST MILFORD, N.J. (AP) — Firefighters were getting closer Friday to taming a wildfire burning across the New Jersey-New York border on Friday, increasing their encirclement of the hard-to-access blaze. The fire, named the Jennings Creek blaze, was 90% contained on the Passaic County, New ...
By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal appeals court in New Orleans on Friday temporarily limited the scope of a ruling that Louisiana's law requiring public schools to post the Ten Commandments in all classrooms next year is unconstitutional. U.S. District Judge ...
By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge in Texas has blocked a new rule from the Biden administration that would have expanded access to overtime pay to millions more salaried workers across the U.S. On Friday, U.S. District Judge Sean Jordan sided ...
HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (AP) — A judge on Friday rejected California's lawsuit against the city of Huntington Beach over a local measure allowing officials to require voter identification at the polls. Orange County Superior Court Judge Nico Dourbetas ruled that existing state law does not ...
By JACK DURA Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump has chosen North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum to head the Interior Department. Some things to know about the two-term Republican governor of a sparsely populated state: Burgum's background is in ...
By DYLAN LOVAN Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The president of a Kentucky plant that exploded earlier this week said the company is accountable for the accident and will pay damages to residents affected by the blast. "First and foremost, we are devastated by the accident that ...