DENVER — Gov. Jared Polis pardoned 27 people Thursday for relatively minor crimes as he nears the end of his time as Colorado’s governor.

Among those pardoned was Vanessa Peoples, who was featured in a 2021 Denver Post story after she received $100,000 in a police brutality settlement from Aurora. Officers used excessive force on Peoples ...Read more

A virus linked to the deaths of about 220 fish at a Nevada County lake was detected in California for the first time, the state Department of Fish and Wildlife said.

“This is a sobering discovery given how widely distributed largemouth bass are in California, how popular they are as a sport fish and their economic importance to our rural ...Read more

MIAMI — Dozens, and possibly hundreds, of inmates could now join a federal lawsuit alleging that extreme temperatures at Dade Correctional Institution, a state prison in South Miami-Dade, are putting them at “substantial risk of serious harm.”

U.S. District Court Judge Kathleen Williams allowed the case to expand into a class action ...Read more

CHICAGO — A federal judge on Thursday agreed to delay by two weeks a potentially explosive hearing into prosecutorial misconduct in the now-defunct “Broadview Six” case.

U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutros and several assistant prosecutors had been ordered by U.S. District Judge April Perry to testify under oath on Monday about their actions in ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mourners at a funeral for slain jogger Katie Suarez were encouraged Thursday to remember the Brooklyn bank teller for the upbeat and positive way she lived instead of the cruel and heartless way she died.

Family, friends and co-workers filled a Gravesend church to say their final goodbyes to a woman whose grisly murder shocked the ...Read more

NEW YORK — The City Council on Thursday passed a bill that would ban surveillance pricing in New York City, a tactic under which companies assess how much an individual consumer might pay.

Under surveillance pricing, companies tap shoppers’ personal data to decide what they’re charged — resulting in some consumers paying more for ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — No one disputes that a Cypress High School teacher last year told a Muslim student of Palestinian descent: “I don’t negotiate with terrorists.”

School officials called it a mere joke, nothing personal.

The student’s lawyer called it a racial epithet that shamed a teenager because of his Palestinian-American roots.

The ...Read more

DENVER — A combination of extreme fire behavior and human error contributed to the deaths of four firefighters who were overtaken by a wildfire on Colorado’s Western Slope this summer, according to the results of a federal investigation released Thursday.

Firefighters Emily Barker, Nick Hutcherson and Sydney Watson were killed after they ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The California Department of Food and Agriculture will conduct research on cyclospora following the national foodborne illness outbreak this summer.

The agency said it is using $250,000 of unused specialty block grant funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to support a broader food safety research project. The ...Read more

Typically, when people hear about nitrates, it involves runoff from farm fields, sewage systems and cities that can fuel harmful algae blooms and raise the risk of a serious illness in infants known as “blue baby syndrome.”

But a river can also run through a sparsely populated landscape with little farming and still contain ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The 20th class of the California Hall of Fame — and Gov. Gavin Newsom’s last — was announced Thursday morning, with a slew of icons in sports, film, arts, activism and cuisine etched into the state’s canon.

A group of 19 Californians, including legends such as Barry Bonds, Metallica and Guillermo del Toro, will be...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Thursday shut down his administration’s on-again-off-again talks with Iran, saying he would not seek a deal to formally end the nine-month-old conflict with Tehran.

The possible end of the pursuit of a diplomatic solution came nine days after Trump and congressional Republicans suffered massive losses ...Read more

NEW YORK — A contractor involved in construction at the site of the deadly Brooklyn collapse had been cited by New York City for problems related to demolition at the Bedford Avenue location, including violating a stop-work order aimed at halting problematic work, city records reviewed by the Daily News show.

The records reviewed by the Daily...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina State University leaders gathered Thursday for Board of Trustees committee meetings — their first since police search warrants revealed evidence of horrific hazing at the school’s Sigma Nu fraternity. Fraternity brothers, according to search warrants, were being forced to eat one another’s vomit, put ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Public health officials in Santa Cruz County this week closed Capitola Beach — a popular stretch of sand lined with cheery pastel-colored homes and cozy waterfront cafes — amid an E. coli outbreak.

The E. coli O157 outbreak has sickened at least nine children, the Santa Cruz County Health Services Agency said in a statement....Read more

President Donald Trump on Thursday was facing major questions about his cozy financial and political ties to Jensen Huang after the disgraced Nvidia CEO resigned over reports of affairs with a fellow executive and an alleged Chinese spy.

Critics, including Democrats who will control the next Congress, are asking if Trump looked the other way ...Read more

United Launch Alliance is set for the return of its Vulcan rocket Friday after nine months of delays on a mission that looks to reinvigorate Amazon’s game of catchup to SpaceX’s lucrative Starlink satellite program.

Flying for only the fifth time, the replacement for ULA’s Atlas V and Delta IV family of rockets, is targeting liftoff from ...Read more