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Salem's Satanic Temple pipe bomb arrest: Man accused of throwing explosive onto porch
BOSTON — FBI agents have nabbed an Oklahoma man accused of throwing a pipe bomb onto the porch of the Satanic Temple in Salem.
Sean Patrick Palmer, 49, has been charged with using an explosive to cause damage to a building used in interstate or foreign commerce.
Palmer was arrested on Wednesday, and will make an initial appearance in the ...Read more
Livery driver advocate offers $5,000 reward after wave of Uber, Lyft robberies
NEW YORK — A New York City livery and taxi driver advocate is offering a $5,000 reward to anyone with information that can help cops make arrests in a string of recent attacks and carjackings among working drivers.
“We are outraged that, in seven days, we have had upwards of six armed robberies,” Fernando Mateo, founder of the New York ...Read more
Alaska Senate to set aside extra school funding after warning from the feds
JUNEAU, Alaska — The Alaska Senate is planning to set aside around $15 million in its draft budget in extra school funding. That's because the federal government says state funding was not adequate for the highest-need schools during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The 2021 American Rescue Plan Act gave over $125 billion to schools across the nation ...Read more
Illinois House OKs measure to give mental health workers called to emergencies the same benefits as other first responders
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Lawmakers are moving ahead with a measure that would make mental health professionals who get sent on emergency calls alongside law enforcement eligible for the same benefits as other first responders if they’re also hurt in the line of duty.
Mental health advocates for years have pushed for a more holistic approach to ...Read more
Students occupy Columbia University as Shafik testifies at antisemitism congressional hearing
More than 100 pro-Palestinian students Wednesday occupied the main lawn of Columbia University, as college President Minouche Shafik defended before Congress her handling of rising campus antisemitism amid the Israel-Hamas war.
Members of the Republican-led U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce grilled Shafik on the administration...Read more
Senate rejects impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas
WASHINGTON — Senators were sworn in at 1 p.m. Wednesday for their third impeachment trial in four years, this time of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro N. Mayorkas.
Three hours later, they had voted along party lines to dismiss both counts against Mayorkas.
House Republicans, who say Mayorkas has failed to fulfill his duties in ...Read more
Urgent care worker posing as nurse assaults over a dozen women, Pennsylvania cops say
Additional charges have been filed against an urgent care worker arrested in March as a result of him posing as a nurse and assaulting patients, police said.
Ramon Garcia, 33, of Philadelphia, who was employed by Carbon Health Urgent Care as a medical assistant, was arrested March 11 on charges of assault and invasion of privacy, McClatchy News...Read more
White House renews internal talks on invoking climate emergency
WASHINGTON — White House officials have renewed discussions about potentially declaring a national climate emergency, an unprecedented step that could unlock federal powers to stifle oil development.
Top advisers to President Joe Biden have recently resumed talks about the merits of such a move, which could be used to curtail crude exports, ...Read more
Federal officials challenge authority of court-ordered special master at FCI Dublin women's prison
The Federal Bureau of Prisons appears unwilling to allow a court-appointed special master to have broad oversight of its closure of the scandal-plagued FCI Dublin women’s prison in Northern California, according to a recent court filing.
The agency’s challenge to the prison’s first-of-its-kind special master comes the same week the ...Read more
Georgia Supreme Court hears Cobb redistricting lawsuit
ATLANTA — The legal battle over whether counties have the right to draw their own district lines went to the Georgia Supreme Court Wednesday.
The case involves the Cobb County Commission’s decision to overrule state legislative redistricting, which would have drawn a Democratic commissioner out of her district mid-term, and claim it could ...Read more
Alex Murdaugh will appeal his 40-year federal sentence for financial crimes
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Convicted killer and fraudster Alex Murdaugh will appeal his 40-year sentence for federal financial crimes.
His lawyers on Tuesday filed a notice of appeal to the U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals. The 40-year sentence — perhaps the stiffest ever for financial crimes in South Carolina — was handed down on April 1 by U.S. ...Read more
UNC System board committee approves policy gutting DEI. Students say they were kept out.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Administrative positions and offices dedicated to diversity, equity and inclusion are likely to be eliminated at all public universities across North Carolina following a vote Wednesday by members of the board that oversees the campuses.
The UNC System Board of Governors’ University Governance committee approved a policy ...Read more
Students occupy Columbia University as Shafik testifies at antisemitism congressional hearing
NEW YORK — More than 100 pro-Palestinian students Wednesday occupied the main lawn of Columbia University as college President Minouche Shafik defended before Congress her handling of the school’s response to campus antisemitism amid the Israel-Hamas war.
Members of the House Committee on Education & The Workforce grilled Shafik on the ...Read more
Sentencing set for Nicolae Miu, Minnesota man convicted of fatally stabbing teen at Apple River
Sentencing has been scheduled for Nicolae Miu, the Prior Lake, Minnesota, man who was convicted of stabbing a teenager during a 2022 confrontation at the Apple River in western Wisconsin.
Miu, 54, will learn on July 31 his sentence from St. Croix County District Judge Michael Waterman after jurors found him guilty on April 11 of first-degree ...Read more
'All are welcome': Mayor Quinton Lucas invites migrants overwhelming other cities to work in KC
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas says the local labor market would benefit from an influx of workers seeking asylum in the United States legally but who are now stuck in crowded shelters in big cities like New York as they await work permits.
“All are welcome in Kansas City,” Lucas said Tuesday in a social media post in ...Read more
Over 1,600 illegal mopeds, dirt bikes seized in NYPD crackdown
NEW YORK — Over 1,600 illegal mopeds, motorcycles, ATVs and dirt bikes were pulled off New York City streets in a massive NYPD crackdown on the ear-splitting rides, police say.
Cops seized scores of scooters and mopeds without proper registrations and license plates during a 10-day operation across the five boroughs last week. ATVs and dirt ...Read more
Lawyers for Gilgo Beach serial killer suspect Rex Heuermann get more evidence from prosecutors
The team prosecuting suspected Long Island serial killer Rex Heuermann shared with his lawyers lab reports and disclosures focused on 388 leads detectives were investigating.
Heuermann appeared in court Wednesday with his lawyers, who despite the shared information, said they have not received all the evidence they are entitled to.
But Suffolk...Read more
Senate dispenses with Mayorkas impeachment without a trial
WASHINGTON — The Senate voted Wednesday to dispense with impeachment articles against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas without a trial, in a show of procedural hardball from the Democratic caucus.
Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., who had said his party would quickly dispense of the impeachment, made two procedural ...Read more
Supporters of Colorado child sex abuse amendment press appeal for 'only chance survivors have for justice'
DENVER — The Colorado Senate gave initial approval Tuesday to a constitutional amendment that seeks to ultimately allow victims of years-old child sexual abuse to file lawsuits against their abusers and the institutions that protected them.
But Republican opposition, which solidified in late February, still threatens to derail the effort ...Read more
Training center protesters cause $10 million in damage, Atlanta mayor says
ATLANTA — A faction of protesters who oppose the city’s planned public safety training center have caused more than $10 million in damage by torching construction equipment and police vehicles and committing other acts of destruction throughout the metro area, Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens said Wednesday.
“They do not want Atlanta to have ...Read more
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