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Historic $45 million Chicago police misconduct settlement moves forward
CHICAGO — Chicago aldermen advanced a plan Monday to award a $45 million settlement to a 15-year-old boy left unable to talk and walk after he was injured in a police chase car crash.
The settlement — set to become one of the largest in Chicago’s history if it passes the full City Council Wednesday — will help pay for the medical care ...Read more
4 things to know about California Senate Democrats' plan to fix the budget deficit
SACRAMENTO, California — California Senate Democrats last week unveiled their plan to take early action to address the state’s towering budget deficit.
The caucus is calling the “Shrink the Shortfall” plan the first step of an ongoing process to address a budget which is between $38 billion and $73 billion in the hole.
“The quicker ...Read more
Lawmakers to vote on Alaska governor's veto of $200 million education bill
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Alaska lawmakers are set to convene in a joint session Monday afternoon to vote on overriding the governor's veto of a $200 million education funding package.
Last Thursday, Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy vetoed a bipartisan funding package that included some Republican priorities alongside a $175 million increase to the ...Read more
Trump can't come up with full $454 million bond owed NY attorney general while he appeals fraud ruling
NEW YORK — Donald Trump can’t come up with almost half a billion dollars he owes the New York attorney general for committing large-scale fraud, his lawyers told an appeals court Monday.
With one week to go before the former president’s deadline to put down at least $454 million to appeal the mammoth judgment without its consequences ...Read more
Lawn posters showing Israeli hostages are vandalized at Massachusetts home; police investigating 'hate crime'
BOSTON — A display of posters with the faces of Israelis kidnapped by Hamas terrorists has been vandalized outside a Newton home, as police investigate the “hate crime” and ask neighbors for surveillance footage.
The lawn signs with the names and faces of those held hostage for more than five months were defaced with black spray paint ...Read more
Unsupervised child in wheelchair broke both legs at Colorado school after sliding down ramp, lawsuit alleges
DENVER — An Adams County mother filed a federal lawsuit Monday alleging her disabled 12-year-old son was left unattended at his Westminster elementary school, slid down a ramp in his wheelchair and crashed into a wall, breaking both of his legs.
The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Denver, alleges Adams 12 Five Star Schools violated ...Read more
Mosby legal-defense fund donor list to remain secret following circuit court ruling
BALTIMORE — A list of more than 130 donors to a legal-defense fund created to benefit Baltimore officials Nick and Marilyn Mosby will remain hidden from the public under a recent ruling by the Baltimore City Circuit Court.
The fund, which was the subject of an ethics investigation that ultimately found Council President Nick Mosby was in ...Read more
EPA finalizes ban on all remaining uses and importation of asbestos
The EPA on Monday finalized a rule banning the importation and all remaining uses of chrysotile asbestos, an action officials said has been necessary for decades due to the health effects associated with the toxic mineral.
The mineral has been long linked to lung cancer and mesothelioma, and while its use has waned, EPA Administrator Michael S....Read more
Armed gangs attack Haiti's wealthiest enclaves, leaving bodies on the streets
The violence engulfing Haiti’s capital that has led to daily gun battles between police and gangs extended into the hills on Monday, as Haitians in some of Port-au-Prince’s wealthiest enclaves woke up to bursts of heavy gunfire and bodies riddled with bullets on their streets.
Scores of heavily armed men were spotted in the neighborhoods of...Read more
Unknown costs, legal challenges: Idaho bill to expand death penalty dies after testimony
BOISE, Idaho — An effort to expand capital punishment in Idaho died when a bill that sought to make lewd acts with children under age 12 qualify for the death penalty failed to earn enough support for a Senate floor vote. The bill’s sponsors pledged to try again next year.
House Bill 515 aimed to make Idaho at least the second state to ...Read more
USF students begin hunger strike, confront trustees over Israel-Hamas war
A group of 18 University of South Florida students started their promised hunger strike on Monday, saying they don’t plan to give up until USF severs financial ties with companies supporting Israel.
The students also demanded that USF President Rhea Law state that genocide is occurring in Gaza, where more than 30,000 people have died from ...Read more
Missouri GOP lawmaker was married at 15. She now wants to ban all child marriages
COLUMBIA, Mo. — Ending child marriage in Missouri is personal for Sen. Holly Thompson Rehder, who was married at age 15 to her 21-year-old boyfriend in 1984.
A year earlier, her sister, at age 16, married her 39-year-old drug dealer, said Thompson Rehder, a Sikeston Republican.
“These are the things that are happening in the communities ...Read more
Two attorneys injured in California courtroom stabbing frenzy during murder trial
MARTINEZ, Calif. — Two attorneys were treated for injuries after an Oakland man allegedly used a pen to stab his own defense lawyer before turning his rage onto the prosecutor in a Martinez courtroom, multiple law enforcement sources confirmed.
Ramello Randle, 28, allegedly broke or cut through a restraint device keeping him in a courtroom ...Read more
Gov. Hochul orders 'top-down' review of NY's marijuana licensing process
NEW YORK — New York state has launched a comprehensive review of its sluggish process for licensing cannabis shops, Gov. Kathy Hochul’s office said Monday, targeting a tortured legalization rollout that has allowed a sprawling market of unlicensed retailers to emerge across New York City.
The governor tapped Jeanette Moy, the commissioner ...Read more
Trump, co-defendants ask to appeal judge's decision not to remove DA Willis
ATLANTA — Attorneys for former President Donald Trump and seven co-defendants in the Fulton County election interference case are asking a Superior Court judge for permission to appeal his recent decision that has kept District Attorney Fani Willis at the helm of the prosecution.
The defendants on Monday requested that Judge Scott McAfee ...Read more
Haitian community leaders in South Florida renew calls to aid country. 'A frustration that is boiling inside.'
The worsening crisis in Haiti has leaders in South Florida’s large Haitian American community alarmed and searching for solutions that never seem to come.
“Every day in Haiti people are being murdered, are being raped, killed. Houses, properties are being set ablaze in total impunity. This is what Haiti is living today,” Frandley Julien ...Read more
Trump, co-defendants ask to appeal judge's decision not to remove DA Willis
ATLANTA — Attorneys for former President Donald Trump and seven co-defendants in the Fulton election interference case are asking a Superior Court judge for permission to appeal his recent decision that has kept District Attorney Fani Willis at the helm of the prosecution.
The defendants on Monday requested that Judge Scott McAfee grant a so-...Read more
Families of Oxford victims call for statewide task force to investigate, more reforms
PONTIAC, Mich. — Families of the four Oxford students killed in 2021 continue to call for accountability and change, including the creation of a statewide task force and commission to investigate the emergency response to the shooting and mandatory statewide threat assessment policies.
In a statement issued Monday, the parents of Hana St. ...Read more
Missouri attorney general says government censored social media. The Supreme Court seemed skeptical
WASHINGTON — Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey emerged from the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday, into a biting spring wind and declared that the federal government violated the First Amendment by coercing social media to censor content on their websites.
“We believe that the justices will make the right decision here,” Bailey said, ...Read more
Intermittent fasting linked to heart risks in research surprise
The safety of intermittent fasting, a popular strategy to lose weight by limiting food intake to certain times, was called into question by a surprise finding from research presented at a medical meeting.
Limiting mealtimes to a period of just eight hours a day was linked to a 91% increase in risk of death from heart disease in the study, ...Read more
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