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Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A judge has overturned a Black man’s conviction in a 2009 double homicide that was investigated by a discredited white Kansas City, Kansas, police detective. The ruling Monday in the case of 34-year-old Cedric Warren came exactly one week after Roger Golubski died in an apparent suicide just

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump is promising expedited federal permits for energy projects and other construction worth more than $1 billion. But like other Trump plans, the idea is likely to run into regulatory and legislative hurdles, including a landmark law that requires federal agencies to consider the environmental impact before deciding

AP Film Writer The hardest movie ticket to get this weekend was for a film audiences have been able to watch at home for years: Christopher Nolan’s “Interstellar.” The science fiction epic starring Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway earned $4.5 million from only 166 screens in the U.S. and Canada. Its 70mm IMAX film presentations

Associated Press Former U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner has filed to run for a seat on the New York City Council, launching a potential political comeback after his once-promising career was destroyed by sexting scandals and a criminal conviction for having illicit online contact with a 15-year-old girl. New York City campaign finance records list Weiner,

Associated Press MALIBU, Calif. (AP) — In coastal Southern California, a university has extensive plans for students to shelter in place in case of a wildfire. That’s what happened as a blaze erupted Monday night and rushed across the hillsides in the picturesque community of Malibu. Some 3,000 students at Pepperdine University remained on campus

Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Ohio Supreme Court has ruled that Ohio’s product liability law prohibits counties from bringing public-nuisance claims against national pharmaceutical chains as they did as part of national opioid litigation. Tuesday’s decision could overturn a $650 million judgment against the pharmacies in a lawsuit brought by Lake and Trumbull

Associated Press Police became convinced they were investigating a crime rather than a voluntarily missing person two weeks after a University of Mississippi student disappeared. Oxford Police Chief Jeff McCutchen testified Tuesday in the capital murder trial of Sheldon “Timothy” Herrington Jr. McCutchen says officers believe Herrington lied to them about his interactions with 20-year-old

Boeing is resuming production of its bestselling plane, the 737 Max. It’s the first time that Max jets have moved down the assembly line since September, when about 33,000 workers went on strike for higher pay. Boeing said Tuesday that work on the Max has resumed at its factory in Renton, Washington, near Seattle. Both

AP Baseball Writer For the second straight Major League Baseball offseason, a norm-shattering contract has been the talk of the winter, with Juan Soto agreeing with the New York Mets on a $765 million, 15-year deal that’s the richest in baseball history. It comes almost exactly one year after the Los Angeles Dodgers forked out

WOODBINE, Ga. (AP) — Authorities have arrested and charged a southeast Georgia man with the 1985 killing of a couple at a Black church. Harold and Thelma Swain were shot to death inside Rising Daughter Baptist Church in Waverly, Georgia. A judge in 2021 exonerated Dennis Perry, who was originally charged in the shooting and

Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Another recount won’t be ordered by North Carolina election officials in a close state Supreme Court race after a partial hand recount failed to suggest the trailing Republican candidate could overtake the Democratic incumbent. Associate Justice Allison Riggs maintained a 734-vote lead over Jefferson Griffin following a machine recount

Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — High-profile legal battles are nothing new for Texas attorney Tony Buzbee, with his latest being a lawsuit he’s filed against Jay-Z, accusing the iconic rapper as well as Sean “Diddy” Combs of sexually assaulting a minor at an awards show after-party in 2000. The lawsuit against Jay-Z is part of

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Southwest Airlines jet wound up on the same runway with a small private plane that had stopped after an air traffic controller cleared both planes to land on the same California runway in October, according to federal investigators. The National Transportation Safety Board said Tuesday that the planes came within 900

Associated Press Luigi Nicholas Mangione was apparently living a charmed one: the grandson of a wealthy real estate developer, valedictorian of his elite Baltimore prep school and with degrees from one of the nation’s top private universities. Friends at an exclusive co-living space at the edge of touristy Waikiki in Hawaii where the 26-year-od Mangione

DENVER (AP) — An arraignment for a Colorado funeral home owner accused of keeping a woman’s corpse in the back of a hearse for over a year and improperly stashing the cremated remains of at least 30 people has been delayed again, this time because prosecutors have filed additional charges. Miles Harford had been scheduled

Associated Press DOVER, Del. (AP) — A Delaware judge says a UPS driver who crashed his truck after downing several beers while driving is not entitled to workers’ compensation for his injuries. The judge ruled that Delaware’s Industrial Accident Board abused its discretion and made legal errors in awarding compensation to Timothy Willis. The judge

AP National Writer The athletes whose lawsuit against the NCAA is primed to pave the way for schools to pay them directly also want a players’ association to represent them in the complex contract negotiations that have overtaken the sport. Grant House, Sedona Prince and Nya Harrison wrote to the judge overseeing what’s known as