Year: 2024

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Disgraced Los Angeles celebrity lawyer Tom Girardi has been found competent to stand trial on charges that he stole more than $15 million from his clients. A federal judge filed the brief order Tuesday. The 84-year-old Girardi is the estranged husband of Erika Jayne, star of “The Real Housewives of Beverly

By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press A congressman and a senator’s son have jumped into the race for the Utah U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Mitt Romney. Republican U.S. Rep. John Curtis announced his campaign to KSL-TV after initially saying he would not run for Senate. Brent Orrin Hatch also announced his candidacy Tuesday. Hatch

By ERIC TUCKER and ALAN SUDERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Newly unsealed Justice Department court records say two well-connected political consultants provided false information about lobbying work on behalf of a wealthy Persian Gulf country during the Trump administration. Charging documents filed Tuesday in federal court in Washington allege that Barry P. Bennett, an

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico marijuana regulators on Tuesday revoked the licenses of two growing operations in a rural county for numerous violations and have levied a $1 million fine against each business. One of the businesses — Native American Agricultural Development Co. — is connected to a

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York City has banned vendors from the Brooklyn Bridge. The change ends a bustling market that supplied cheap goods to tourists on the iconic crossing. Police officers were stationed in pairs Wednesday along the mile-long span. The ban is aimed at easing congestion on the

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A court has ruled Wisconsin election clerks can accept absentee ballots that contain minor errors such as missing portions of witness addresses. Dane County Circuit Court ruled Tuesday in favor of the League of Women Voters of Wisconsin in its lawsuit to clarify voting rights protections for voters whose absentee ballots

LUKEVILLE, Ariz. (AP) — A border crossing on the most direct route from Phoenix to the nearest beaches will reopen Thursday, authorities said, one month after it closed in response to a large migrant influx. U.S. Customs and Border Protection said it was also reopening a pedestrian border crossing in San Diego on Thursday and

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal prosecutors on Tuesday recommended a six-month term of imprisonment for a man at the center of a right-wing conspiracy theory about the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol — an attack that he has admitted to joining. Ray Epps, who is scheduled to be sentenced next Tuesday, pleaded guilty

By GABE STERN Associated Press/Report or America RENO, Nev. (AP) — The rapid turnover among election officials in Nevada continues, with the top election official in Nevada’s lone swing county abruptly announcing her resignation less than a month before early voting commences for the Feb. 6 presidential preference primary. Jamie Rodriguez said Tuesday she wanted

MONTREAL, Quebec (AP) — Air Canada, Canada’s largest carrier, had the worst on-time performance among large airlines in North America in 2023. According to a report from Cirium, the aviation analytics company, Canada’s flag-carrying airline landed 63% of its 276,451 flights on time last year, placing it last among the continent’s 10 largest airlines. That

KISSIMMEE, Fla. (AP) — A group of volunteer divers believe they have found the remains of a woman in a vehicle submerged in a retention pond near Walt Disney World, apparently solving a 12-year-old mystery about what happened to her. Divers from Sunshine State Sonar said they believe they found the remains of Sandra Lemire

By NOAH TRISTER AP Sports Writer The possibility of college teams using NFL-style communication technology has been viewed with a little more urgency in the aftermath of the Michigan sign-stealing scandal. This bowl season, teams have taken advantage of the opportunity to try out various devices. Maryland had access to coach-to-player communication technology in the

By CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press MAYVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — Salman Rushdie’s plans to publish a book about a 2022 attempt on his life may delay the trial of his alleged attacker, which is scheduled to begin next week. A judge Tuesday said that Hadi Matar, the man charged with repeatedly stabbing Rushdie before a lecture

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A prosecutor says that separate murder, kidnapping and conspiracy cases will be combined so that a former NBA developmental league player and his ex-girlfriend can be tried together in the killing of a woman whose body was found last month in southern Nevada. Twenty-seven-year-old Chance Comanche made an initial court appearance

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Police have released new body camera footage that includes audio of the shootout that ended a gunman’s deadly rampage a month ago at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. The video released Tuesday provides the first audio recording of the police gunfire that killed the 67-year-old shooter. Two university officers killed

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The earliest iteration of Mickey Mouse is on a rampage, barely two days in the public domain. Slashed free of Disney’s copyright as of Monday, the iconic character from “Steamboat Willie” is already the focus of two horror films. On Monday, just hours after the 1928 short entered the public domain,

By MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A liberal activist wants a Pennsylvania court to bar U.S. Rep. Scott Perry from the state’s primary ballot, arguing that Perry engaged in insurrectionist activity and cannot appear on the state’s ballot under the Constitution’s insurrection clause. The seven-page lawsuit was filed Tuesday in Pennsylvania’s Commonwealth

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Atlantic City is adding hundreds of security cameras to the 3,000 already keeping an eye on the seaside gambling resort. But authorities won’t say if the existing cameras recorded anything to help solve the deaths of two men on New Year’s Day in apparently unrelated