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Kentucky AG has received ballistics in Breonna Taylor caseVideo
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Kentucky’s attorney general has received a long-awaited FBI ballistics report in the fatal police shooting of Breonna Taylor. Attorney General Daniel Cameron tweeted Sunday that there is additional analysis needed now that the report is in his hands, and there would be no announcement on the investigation...
3 tropical disturbances being watched in Atlantic, with 2 heading west
Forecasters are watching a new tropical disturbance in the Atlantic with a high chance of developing into a cyclone as two tropical waves are heading west with a third expected off the West African coast this week. But the chances of the two current waves developing into cyclones remain low....
Arkansas sheriff quits after racist rant goes viral
DEWITT, Ark. — The sheriff of an Arkansas Delta county resigned Friday under pressure after a recording of a man identified as him delivering a racist rant went viral. Arkansas County Sheriff Todd Wright resigned at the request of the county’s Quorum Court after the Pine Bluff Commercial reported a...
Postal chief DeJoy has long leveraged connections, dollars
WASHINGTON — During its search for a new postmaster general, the U.S. Postal Service Board of Governors was presented with 53 candidates screened by an outside company. Not on the list: Louis DeJoy, who ultimately got the job. Instead, in what Democrats call a breach of protocol and blatant cronyism,...
Protester killed in Portland as mayor, Trump trade blameVideo
PORTLAND, Ore. — A man who was fatally shot after supporters of President Donald Trump clashed with left-wing protesters on the streets of Portland, Oregon, was a supporter of the right-wing group Patriot Prayer, its founder said Sunday. Joey Gibson, head of the group based in Washington state, told The...
‘A time to pick up:’ Hurricane-hurt Louisiana begins cleanup
CAMERON PARISH, La. — Residents in southwestern Louisiana embarked Saturday on the epic task of clearing away felled trees, ripped-off roofs and downed power lines after Hurricane Laura tore through parts of the state. The U.S. toll from the Category 4 hurricane rose to 16 deaths, with more than half...
‘7 bullets, 7 days’: Protesters march for Jacob Blake in Kenosha
KENOSHA, Wis. — Roughly a thousand people gathered Saturday in Kenosha for a march and rally against police violence, about a week after an officer shot Jacob Blake in the back and left the 29-year-old Black man paralyzed. Marchers chanted “No justice, no peace!” and “Seven bullets, seven days” —...
Weeks without power or water ahead as Laura cleanup begins
LAKE CHARLES, La. — The destructive storm surge has receded, and the clean up has begun from Hurricane Laura, but officials along this shattered stretch of Louisiana coast are warning returning residents they will face weeks without power or water amid the hot, stifling days of late summer. The U.S....
2 soldiers killed in Black Hawk training crash in California
SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. — Two soldiers were killed and three were injured when their Black Hawk helicopter crashed during a training exercise off Southern California’s coast, the Defense Department said Saturday. Staff Sgt. Vincent P. Marketta, 33, of Brick, New Jersey, and Sgt. Tyler M. Shelton, 22, of San Bernardino,...
Shiite Muslims mark holy day of mourning in virus’ shadow
Shiite Muslims are observing the solemn holy day of Ashoura that they typically mark with large, mournful gatherings, in the shadow of the coronavirus pandemic. Ashoura commemorates the seventh-century killing of Imam Hussein, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, in the Battle of Karbala in present-day Iraq with the army...
Nurses on NY’s front lines call for minimum staffing ratios
ALBANY, N.Y. — Nurses on the front lines of New York’s covid-19 pandemic are calling for the state to enact minimum staffing standards ahead of another wave of infections. Health care industry leaders, though, warn that passing such a law would saddle facilities with billions of dollars in extra costs...
Nevada man 1st in U.S. to be infected with covid-19 twice, according to study
A Nevada man has become the first person in the United States to be diagnosed with coronavirus for a second time amid similar reports of reinfection out of Hong Kong. The 25-year-old from Reno initially tested positive for the virus in April. He later recovered, but was again diagnosed in...
Activists see disparate police tactics amid Kenosha protests
KENOSHA, Wis. — Police officers in Kenosha were on alert after days of protests over the shooting of Jacob Blake by one of their colleagues, and they’d recently gotten a tip about “suspicious vehicles” from out of state. So, after watching a group of people fill cans at a gas...
Census, like Post Office, politicized in election year
ORLANDO, Fla. — The postal service isn’t the only staid federal agency to be drawn into a political battle in 2020. Unlike the department charged with delivering mail, however, the U.S. Census Bureau has been here before. It has found itself targeted by politicians repeatedly since it conducted its first...
Trump to head to Louisiana as Hurricane Laura cleanup starts
LAKE CHARLES, La. — The angry storm surge has receded and the clean up has begun from Hurricane Laura, but officials along this shattered stretch of Louisiana coast are warning returning residents they will face weeks without power or water amid the hot, stifling days of late summer. The U.S....
Health experts decry Trump’s shunning of virus rules
WASHINGTON — Public health experts expressed concern Friday about President Donald Trump’s largely mask-free, socially un-distanced Republican convention event on the White House lawn, saying some of his 1,500 guests may have inadvertently brought and spread the coronavirus to others. “There almost certainly were individuals there who were infected with...
Kenosha police union gives its version of Jacob Blake shooting
MADISON, Wis. — The Kenosha police union on Friday offered the most detailed accounting to date on officers’ perspective of the moments leading up to police shooting Jacob Blake seven times in the back, saying he had a knife and fought with officers, putting one of them in a headlock...
Teen accused of killing 2 in Kenosha thrust into debate over protests
ANTIOCH, Ill. — A white 17-year-old who says he went to protests in Wisconsin to protect businesses and people has become a flashpoint in a debate over anti-racism demonstrations that have gripped many American cities and the vigilantism that has sometimes met them. On Tuesday, Kyle Rittenhouse grabbed an AR-15...
Kansas girl’s killer 5th federal inmate executed this year
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. — A Kansas girl’s killer Friday became the fifth federal inmate put to death this year, an execution that went forward only after a higher court tossed a ruling that would have required the government to get a prescription for the drug used to kill him. Questions...
College towns growing alarmed over covid-19 outbreaks among students
RALEIGH, N.C. — As more and more schools and businesses around the country get the OK to reopen, college towns are moving in the opposite direction because of too much partying and too many COVID-19 infections among students. With more than 300 students at the University of Missouri testing positive...
Sheriff: Deputy suspended after handcuffing elderly woman
BONITA SPRINGS, Fla. — A Florida deputy has been suspended after placing an elderly woman who ran a stop sign in handcuffs, officials said this week. Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno announced during a news conference Wednesday that the deputy had been placed on paid administrative leave pending the outcome...
Patrol: Tesla Autopilot driver was watching movie, crashed
ZEBULON, N.C. — A Tesla driver, whose car was on Autopilot mode, was watching a movie on his phone when he crashed into a sheriff’s deputy’s car, the North Carolina State Highway Patrol said. A state trooper and a Nash County deputy on Wednesday were on the side of U.S....
Woman let newborn die in a toilet because a baby ‘would change her life’: police in N.J.
A Bergen County, N.J., woman charged in the death of her newborn told police she left her baby boy in the toilet to die because she didn’t want the child, according to court documents. “She left the baby there because she realized it would change her life,” a police detective...
Japan PM Shinzo Abe says he’s resigning for health reasonsVideo
TOKYO — Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, Shinzo Abe, said Friday he is stepping down because a chronic health problem has resurfaced. He told reporters that it was “gut wrenching” to leave many of his goals unfinished. Abe has had ulcerative colitis since he was a teenager and has said the...
Weather slows California wildfires; thousands allowed homeVideo
SAN FRANCISCO — California wildfires were slowly being corralled Friday as cooler, humid weather and reinforcements aided firefighters and tens of thousands of people were allowed back home after days of death and destruction. In the past two days, evacuation orders were lifted for at least 50,000 people in the...
