LEXINGTON, Ky. — Gov. Matt Bevin was arrested by the Bourbon County Sheriff’s Office Thursday, according to local 911 dispatchers.

More information wasn’t immediately available. Officials at the Bourbon County jail didn’t respond to request for comment.

Bevin had been wanted for months after failing to disclose financial records as ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — In what authorities are calling a “critical misstep,” three hikers relied heavily on Google’s Gemini AI to guide them through a Mount Shasta summit, leaving them stranded on the mountain’s southeastern flank.

On Saturday, three young, novice hikers from Roseville, more than 200 miles south of the mountain, made camp at ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said Thursday construction work would begin on President Donald Trump’s proposed memorial arch, as the administration proceeds with a project that has drawn backlash over its size and location.

“We are preparing to start, over the next two-week period, the excavation work necessary,” Burgum ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The California program helping Eaton and Palisades fire survivors access recovery resources and navigate the FEMA reimbursement process will be terminated at the end of the month because of a lack of federal funding.

The state says that the federal administration has failed to provide the money necessary to continue the Disaster...Read more

BOSTON — The weight of 9/11 pulled into the Seaport.

A steel beam from the World Trade Center stopped in Boston Thursday morning, part of a tour to commemorate those lost in the tragedy almost 25 years ago. The beam will end its journey at the White House next week.

The “Steel Across America” tour is organized by the Tunnel to Towers ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he would meet with representatives of U.S. President Donald Trump in the coming days and that the envoys would also travel to Russia, signaling a renewed effort to revive long-stalled talks.

“We expect to see the U.S. President’s envoys here in Kyiv. They confirmed they will have a...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Gov. Matt Bevin was arrested by the Bourbon County Sheriff’s Office Thursday, according to local 911 dispatchers.

More information wasn’t immediately available. Officials at the Bourbon County jail didn’t respond to request for comment.

Bevin had been wanted for months after failing to disclose financial records as ...Read more

TALLAHASSEE — In a letter sent Wednesday to top DeSantis administration officials, Florida’s Democratic nominee for attorney general is demanding that all Hope Florida-related communications be preserved in case of a lawsuit.

José Javier Rodríguez is insisting the officials — and mostly his election-season opponent, Attorney General ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The U.S. Coast Guard says it rescued 37 migrants aboard a boat last week after it drifted for days without food or water near Oxnard.

Coast Guard radio operators received a distress call about 3:40 p.m., Aug. 28 from the driver of a 30-foot pleasure craft 88 miles off of Channel Islands Harbor in Oxnard.

The driver said the ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Emergency officials reopened Highway 1 in Big Sur on Thursday, providing a lifeline to restaurants, hotels and other businesses that have been largely shut down for nearly a month during the height of tourist season as the Timber fire has burned across thousands of acres.

The move, just in time for the Labor Day holiday ...Read more

HARTFORD, Conn. — After a week of raids by federal agents, the Danbury City Council voted overwhelmingly to allow some immigrants without citizenship to apply for jobs as city police officers.

The council members said they wanted to send a message and acted quickly to approve the measure by a vote of 18-2 after agents from the Immigration ...Read more

PLYMOUTH, Mass. — One juror in the Lindsay Clancy triple-murder trial is holding up deliberations, according to defense attorney Kevin Reddington.

“There is one juror who refuses to listen to the law,” Reddington said in open court Thursday. “My motion is to remove the juror.”

Reddington made the motion after jurors sent in a note in...Read more

SEATTLE — Major changes to Medicaid coverage will land in Washington as soon as next month, pushing the state's top public officials and health leaders on Thursday to announce a plan to try to soften the blow of the coming losses.

In an executive order signed at a Seattle community clinic, Gov. Bob Ferguson promised to bring state hospital ...Read more

The Missouri Supreme Court on Thursday blocked the state’s gerrymandered congressional map from being used in the November election, a seismic ruling that halts a Republican attempt to force Kansas City’s longtime congressman out of office.

The unanimous decision found that Republican Secretary of State Denny Hoskins was wrong to reject a ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Convicted former Philadelphia labor leader John Dougherty will have his six-year prison term cut short after President Donald Trump agreed to sign a commutation ending the rest of Dougherty’s sentence, according to Dougherty’s lawyer.

George Bochetto said in an interview Thursday night he’s hopeful that Dougherty, the ...Read more

NEW YORK — A Ponzi schemer got a six-year prison sentence Thursday for his boozy bamboozle to trick investors into thinking they were giving loans to wine collectors who were putting up their rare bottles as collateral.

The wine didn’t exist, but the hangover was real — Stephen Burton’s scheme siphoned more than $83 million from 141 ...Read more

The Missouri Supreme Court on Thursday blocked the state’s gerrymandered congressional map from being used in the November election, a seismic ruling that halts a Republican attempt to force Kansas City’s longtime congressman out of office.

The unanimous decision found that Republican Secretary of State Denny Hoskins was wrong to reject a ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The two Minneapolis police officers wounded by gunfire during a mass shooting in Loring Park on Wednesday have been identified by authorities.

Joseph Michnowski, a five-year veteran of the force, and Yayhe Ahmed, a 2024 lateral transfer who previously served with the Richfield and Metro Transit police departments, were struck ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The United States and Iran have intensified tit-for-tat military strikes in recent days, remaining locked between ceasefire and all-out war as the White House struggles to end the six-month conflict.

“Very clearly militarily, we are stalled,” Republican Representative Pat Harrigan of North Carolina, who sits on the House ...Read more