BOSTON — Lindsay Clancy could testify in a wrongful death suit against her healthcare providers, according to her ex-husband’s attorney.

“You know who hasn’t testified yet? Lindsay Clancy,” Howard Cooper, the lawyer representing Patrick Clancy in a suit against his ex-wife’s mental healthcare providers, said at a hearing in Norfolk ...Read more

MIAMI — A Florida International University student expelled over racist and violent messages exchanged in private group chats testified Wednesday that even comments about beheading Black people were intended as humor, insisting that the university misunderstood deliberately shocking jokes when it punished students for their participation.

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DENVER — Colorado’s collared wolves primarily stuck around the state’s central mountains over the past month — except for at least one wolf that roamed the state’s northwest borderlands.

They spent time in the corner of Colorado that borders Wyoming and Utah, a new map released Wednesday by Colorado Parks and Wildlife shows. CPW ...Read more

Michigan State University Trustee Mike Balow has filed a federal lawsuit against a fellow board member and the board's secretary for sanctions he received after he refused to sign the revised Board Code of Ethics and Conduct earlier this year.

The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan, argued that Board ...Read more

OAKLAND, Calif. — Secret audio recordings captured longtime Oakland businessman David Duong proclaiming “a deal is a deal,” while railing about then-Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao’s lack of follow-through in late 2023 on an alleged bribery scheme.

“I will go to jail for this,” added David Duong, while voicing his resolve to ensure the ...Read more

DENVER — A 32-year-old man was arrested after Colorado State Patrol troopers found a suspicious device designed to look like a bomb inside the state Capitol on Wednesday morning, agency officials said.

The Denver Police Department bomb squad responded to the building after troopers found the device on a windowsill near the east entrance, the ...Read more

NEW YORK — A protest against the shooting of Oscar Belgal by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents ended in arrests after multiple demonstrators blocked traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge Wednesday, cops said.

Around 30 protesters formed a line in the Brooklyn-bound lanes on the Manhattan side of the span to block pedestrian and vehicular ...Read more

DENVER — Courtroom fights, false claims and mountains of spending have dominated the high-stakes battle over the ballot measure that would increase income taxes on higher-earning Coloradans while cutting them for everyone else.

Opponents of Amendment 87— mostly made up of conservative advocacy groups — have outraised the liberal groups ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Before Missouri became the first state in the country to overturn a near-total abortion ban in 2024, Republican lawmakers were already signaling a plan to strike down the results.

“People will be given an opportunity to vote again,” Sen. Mary Elizabeth Coleman, an Arnold Republican, said before nearly 52% of voters ...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The Greenville Police Department has closed its investigation into the death of actress Hayden Panettiere and no charges have been filed.

The investigation results agree with the Greenville County Coroner’s ruling that Panettiere died of an accidental drug overdose.

Toxicology results showed Panettiere had fentanyl, 4-ANPP...Read more

CHICAGO — Police officials had few answers Wednesday as aldermen questioned them about the gunshot detection technology Mayor Brandon Johnson plans to start testing in Chicago neighborhoods soon.

Interim police Superintendent Fred Waller acknowledged a gunshot detection pilot program could launch across a third of the city in as little as a ...Read more

DENVER — The state Capitol was evacuated and multiple Denver streets were closed on Wednesday morning after Colorado State Patrol troopers found a suspicious device designed to look like a bomb on a windowsill near the east entrance, agency officials said.

Law enforcement eventually determined there was no threat to the public after CSP ...Read more

Flávio Bolsonaro landed in the U.S. on Wednesday after fleeing Brazil, threatening to add new strains to relations between Brasilia and Washington and raising questions about his family’s future as a force on the Brazilian right.

The right-wing senator arrived in Miami shortly after 9 a.m. local time, ending days of speculation about his ...Read more

NEW YORK — The NYPD is backing away from a $750,000 no-bid contract with a company accused of treading on people’s civil rights for a new technology that can quickly pinpoint a suspect’s cellphone after Mayor Zohran Mamdani faced heat over the city using tech from the controversial firm, the New York Daily News has learned.

The department...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Salim Ahmed Said, a central figure in the largest pandemic-era fraud scandal in the United States, was sentenced Wednesday to 30 years in prison for perpetuating the scheme to steal millions of dollars from a federal program meant to feed needy children.

Said, 37, was found guilty at trial last year alongside Aimee Bock, who is ...Read more

MIAMI — Four Florida International University students who were suspended or expelled over private group chats containing racist remarks and references to violence are taking their fight to federal court Wednesday, arguing that the university violated their First Amendment rights by punishing speech that, however offensive, was constitutionall...Read more