Virginia lawsuit stemming from police pepper-spraying an Army officer will be settled
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A town in Virginia has agreed to independent reviews of misconduct allegations against its police force to settle a lawsuit...
Company pulls spicy One Chip Challenge from store shelves as Massachusetts investigates teen’s death
WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) — The maker of an extremely spicy tortilla chip sold as the One Chip Challenge and popularized as a dare on...
Louisiana grand jury charges 91-year-old disgraced priest with sexual assault of teenage boy in...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A state grand jury has charged a now-91-year-old disgraced priest with sexually assaulting a teenage boy in 1975, an extraordinary...
Congressional watchdog describes border wall harm, says agencies should work together to ease damage
PHOENIX (AP) — The construction of a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border under former President Donald Trump toppled untold numbers of saguaro cactuses in...
Texas heat brings the state’s power grid closest it has been to outages since...
HOUSTON (AP) — Texas’ power grid manager on Thursday again asked residents to cut their electricity use as the state endures another stretch of...
Slave descendants on Georgia island face losing protections that helped them keep their land
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Descendants of enslaved people who populate a tiny island community are once again fighting local officials who have proposed eliminating...
Maui beckons tourists, and their dollars, to stave off economic disaster after wildfires
KAHULUI, Hawaii (AP) — Richie Olsten has been in Maui's helicopter tour business for a half century, so long he's developed a barometer for...
New Jersey failed veterans in state-run homes hit by dozens of COVID-19 deaths, federal...
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Widespread dysfunction at New Jersey's two state-run veterans homes left them unprepared to keep residents safe during the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Legal sports betting opens to fanfare in Kentucky; governor makes the first wager
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear plunked down a $20 bet Thursday on two home-state college football teams — and against an...
Donors pledge half a billion dollars to boost the struggling local news industry
NEW YORK (AP) — The MacArthur Foundation is leading a group of donors that have pledged $500 million to help the struggling local news...