DANVILLE, Va. (AP) — A man who set a Virginia council member on fire last year in an alleged jealous rage was sentenced to 40 years in prison on Thursday.
Shotsie Buck-Hayes pleaded guilty in April to one count each of attempted first-degree murder and aggravated malicious wounding in the ...
By DAVID FISCHER and DAVE COLLINS Associated Press
MIAMI (AP) — A 74-year-old man convicted of fatally stabbing his wife became the oldest person executed in Florida's modern history on Thursday, and the state is scheduled to execute another 74-year-old inmate next month.
Dusty Ray ...
By JIM MUSTIAN Associated Press
The federal Drug Enforcement Administration on Thursday asked the U.S. Justice Department's internal watchdog to investigate a whistleblower's claims that DEA agents permitted hundreds of thousands of fentanyl pills to hit the streets of New Mexico.
The ...
By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — Harvey Weinstein won't face a fourth trial on a New York rape charge. Prosecutors dropped the #MeToo-era case on Thursday after his accuser said she could not bear to testify again.
The movie mogul still stands convicted of another ...
By ED WHITE Associated Press
DETROIT (AP) — NFL player Terrion Arnold of the Detroit Lions was charged Thursday in Florida with leading a plot to detain and pistol-whip three people whom he believed had stolen luxury goods and $100,000 in cash from him.
It turned out that the three, ...
By AMANDA EGGERT/Montana Free Press
The Big Hole River, a blue-ribbon fishery that's become a focal point in a years-long debate over nuisance algae growth, is poised to receive an impairment designation.
At an open-house meeting in Divide on Tuesday, the Montana Department of Environmental ...
By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court cleared the way Thursday for the Trump administration to potentially revive an immigration policy once used to turn back migrants seeking asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border.
The justices, in a 6-3 decision, ...
By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press
The Florida Everglades immigration detention center known as "Alligator Alcatraz" has served its purpose, Gov. Ron DeSantis said Thursday, closing the makeshift facility heralded by the Trump administration and denounced as inhumane by civil rights ...
By JIM MUSTIAN and JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Even as it battled the deadliest drug epidemic in American history, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration permitted hundreds of thousands of fentanyl pills to hit the streets of New Mexico between 2023 and 2025, ...
By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court struck down a Hawaii law requiring people to get permission to carry guns into stores and hotels on Thursday, in its latest opinion backing Second Amendment rights.
The high court's 6-3 decision means people can ...
By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve's preferred inflation gauge rose to a new three-year high in May as gas prices peaked, a sign rising costs could pose political problems for President Donald Trump and his political party as midterm ...
By VALERIE GONZALEZ and REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Democratic U.S. senator warns the Trump administration is getting ready to round up 500 immigrant children in a hasty effort to remove them from the country, bypassing legal protections. It would be their second ...
By DAVID FISCHER Associated Press
A giraffe named Gracie is missing in Texas, and the search for her has become a tall order.
Gracie, who is about 3 years old, has been missing for nearly two weeks after escaping her enclosure at Cedar Hollow Ranch in the Texas Hill Country, said Vic ...
By ANDREW TOBIAS/Signal Ohio
Gov. Mike DeWine has vetoed a new Republican-passed bill that would have required Ohioans to show a photo ID to vote by mail.
DeWine announced late Wednesday that he had vetoed House Bill 472, which expanded the strict photo ID requirement Ohio has had for ...
By JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen is backing progressive Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan's Democratic Senate primary, breaking with party leadership and intensifying a battle over the party's direction in one of the most important Senate ...
By LINDSAY WHITEHURST and DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court sided with the maker of Roundup weedkiller Thursday in a ruling expected to block thousands of lawsuits alleging it failed to warn people the product could cause cancer.
The case came before the ...
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is retreating from a plan to use warehouses to hold up to 10,000 people on a single site, jettisoning a key piece of former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's $38-billion plan to rapidly expand detention capacity this year.
The federal ...
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The internal Democratic Party battle that has emerged in this year's primaries between progressive and moderate candidates will play out Tuesday in an unlikely place, reliably red Utah.
A redraw of U.S. House districts has created a solidly left-leaning seat in the Salt ...
MACUNGIE, Pa. (AP) — President Donald Trump visited a Mack Trucks facility in battleground Pennsylvania on Tuesday, attempting to shift attention to the U.S. economy in his first major public event outside the nation's capital since he signed an interim agreement to end the Iran war.
The ...
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A coalition of 17 states and a trade association representing U.S. wholesalers and distributors have sued California to block the enforcement of a stringent recycling law that aims to reduce plastic packaging waste.
The lawsuit, filed Monday in federal court, argues that ...