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Justices take up high-profile case over young immigrantsVideo
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is taking up the Trump administration’s plan to end legal protections that shield 660,000 immigrants from deportation, a case with strong political overtones amid the 2020 presidential election campaign. All eyes will be on Chief Justice John Roberts when the court hears arguments Tuesday. Roberts...
Despite fires, California wine is doing just fine – for now
HEALDSBURG, Calif. — If you’re worried that wildfires might have created shortages of Northern California’s 2019 cabernet sauvignon, or even just imparted it with an undesirable smoky flavor, you can relax. The wine is just fine. For now. Despite a late October blaze that raged through one of the world’s...
Funeral held for last victim of Mexico border killings
COLONIA LEBARON, Mexico — Family and friends said goodbye Saturday to the last victim of a cartel ambush that killed nine American women and children from a Mormon community in northern Mexico where cartels have disrupted an otherwise peaceful, rural existence. In the attack Monday, Christina Langford Johnson jumped out...
2 suspects in custody in Atlanta college student’s death
ATLANTA — A day after a missing Clark Atlanta University student was found dead in a Georgia park, police have arrested the victim’s roommate and the roommate’s boyfriend. Atlanta police on Saturday arrested 21-year-old Jordyn Jones and Jones’ boyfriend, 21-year-old Barron Brantley, each on charges of malice murder in the...
Pot or not? Busts highlight growing confusion over hemp
NEW YORK — The CBD craze is leaving the war on drugs a bit dazed and confused. The extract that’s been showing up in everything from candy to coffee is legally derived from hemp plants, which look and smell an awful lot like that other cannabis — marijuana. They’re so...
All eyes on Texas governor as calls grow to halt execution
AUSTIN, Texas — In his five years as Texas’ governor, Republican Greg Abbott has overseen the execution of nearly 50 prisoners while only once sparing a condemned man’s life, after a victims’ family asked him to do so. But Abbott — who has proudly referred to the death penalty as...
Complaint: ‘Jane Doe’ beaten, burned, discarded in Wisconsin
MILWAUKEE — A woman known for two decades simply as “Jane Doe” after her battered remains were found on the edge of a Wisconsin cornfield was a cognitively impaired 23-year-old who sought help from a nurse now accused of “barbaric brutality” and charged in her death, investigators who worked the...
10 hospitalized from Oklahoma facility after flu shot mix-up
BARTLESVILLE, Okla. — Ten people at an Oklahoma care facility for people with intellectual disabilities were hospitalized after they were apparently accidentally injected with what’s believed to be insulin rather than flu shots, authorities said. Emergency responders were called Wednesday afternoon to the Jacquelyn House in Bartlesville, about 40 miles...
Remembering heroes: Reenactors recreate slave uprising
LaPLACE, La. — To the beat of drums and the clip clop of horses’ hooves, the crowd of African Americans dressed in period costume marched down a street Friday in southeastern Louisiana, recreating the start of what became the largest slave uprising in U.S. history. Across the street, Claudine Ory,...
Police: Dad, daughter kidnapped woman, dumped her in desert
LOS ANGELES — A father and a daughter kidnapped a woman from a Las Vegas suburb and brought her to his house in Southern California, holding her captive for a week, raping her and then leaving her for dead in the desert, authorities said Friday. Stanley Alfred Lawton, 54, and...
Wisconsin governor returns ‘holiday tree’ name to evergreen
MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers has gone back to calling the evergreen on display at the state Capitol a holiday tree, reversing his predecessor who declared it a Christmas tree. The state Department of Administration places a huge evergreen in the Capitol rotunda every year ahead of Christmas....
O.J. Simpson sues Las Vegas casino, contends he was defamed
LAS VEGAS — O.J. Simpson is suing a Las Vegas hotel-casino that banned him in November 2017, alleging that unnamed employees defamed him by telling a celebrity news site he had been drunk, disruptive and unruly. Simpson, on parole in Nevada for a 2008 conviction for armed robbery and assault...
Colorado town pays $50K to woman ticketed for playing Frisbee toplessVideo
Women have the same rights as men to bare their chests in Loveland, Colorado. At least until city council reviews their indecent exposure law. Efrosini “Effie” Krokos, 20, has been paid $50,000 and had all charges dropped after she was cited for playing Frisbee topless in her front yard on...
2 Disney employees, ex-assistant principal among 17 in child porn sting
ORLANDO, Fla. — A Central Florida child porn investigation led to the arrest of 17 men, the Polk County Sheriff’s Office announced. Among the 17, accused of possessing and sharing child porn, were two Disney workers and one was a former middle school assistant principal, officials said. None of the...
Mercury putting on rare show Monday, parading across the sunVideo
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Mercury is putting on a rare celestial show next week, parading across the sun in view of most of the world. The solar system’s smallest, innermost planet will resemble a tiny black dot Monday as it passes directly between Earth and the sun. Unlike its 2016...
Airbnb says it will pay for funerals in Halloween shootingVideo
ORINDA, Calif. — Airbnb says it will pay funeral expenses for the five victims killed in a Halloween shooting at one of its rentals in the San Francisco Bay Area. The San Francisco Chronicle reports the company said Thursday it will also cover counseling bills for their families. The decision...
Trump to pursue higher sales age for e-cigarettes
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Friday his administration will pursue raising the age to purchase electronic cigarettes from 18 to 21 in its upcoming plans to combat youth vaping. Trump told reporters his administration will release its final plans for restricting e-cigarettes next week but provided few other details....
Facing lawsuit, DeVos erases student loans for 1,500
The U.S. Education Department is forgiving student loans for more than 1,500 borrowers who attended a pair of for-profit colleges that shut down last year. Secretary Betsy DeVos announced Friday that students who attended the Art Institute of Colorado and the Illinois Institute of Art from Jan. 20, 2018, through...
Spruce planted in New York in 1959 becomes Rockefeller Center Christmas treeVideo
Carol Schultz of Florida, N.Y., planted a 4 foot Norway spruce in her yard in spring 1959. She wasn’t sure it would survive. Sixty years later, she watched as the tree was cut down in her yard, lifted by a crane and hauled to New York City, where it will...
Reagan statue being dedicated in Berlin to mark Wall fallVideo
BERLIN — The U.S. Embassy in Berlin was unveiling a statue of Ronald Reagan on Friday, on a site overlooking the location of the former president’s iconic speech imploring the Soviet Union to remove the Berlin Wall. The larger-than-life statue is being installed atop the embassy’s terrace, at eye-level with...
Navy employee gets 40 years in prison for child pornography
GREENBELT, Md. — A man who was employed by the U.S. Navy when he coerced children into sending him sexually explicit videos and photos has been sentenced in Maryland to 40 years in federal prison. U.S. District Court Judge Paul Grimm also on Thursday sentenced 36-year-old Spencer Steckman to lifetime...
Reports: Iran downs ‘unknown’ drone over Persian Gulf port
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s air defense force has shot down an “unknown” drone in the country’s southwest, the official IRNA news agency reported on Friday. The agency said that Iranian air defense forces hit the drone in the early morning at the port city of Mahshahr, which is in the...
Judge suggests reducing rape sentence for $150,000 to victim
BATON ROUGE, La. — A Louisiana judge who sentenced a rapist to 12 years in prison said he’d reduce the time if the rapist pays the victim $150,000. The offer offended the woman, who said outside court Thursday that she doesn’t want any amount of money from her attacker. She...
Chemical mixture at Buffalo Wild Wings kills 1 employee
BURLINGTON, Mass. — Massachusetts authorities say a Buffalo Wild Wings employee has died and eight others have been hospitalized following a chemical mixture at the restaurant. WHDH-TV reports officials responded Thursday night to reports of a chemical reaction in the kitchen area of the Burlington restaurant where they found a...
Judge fines Trump $2 million for misusing charity foundationVideo
NEW YORK — A judge Thursday ordered President Donald Trump to pay $2 million to an array of charities as a fine for misusing his own charitable foundation to further his political and business interests. New York state Judge Saliann Scarpulla imposed the penalty after the president admitted to a...
