LAS VEGAS — The ex-congressional candidate was dressed as Ken from the “Barbie” movie. He was allegedly on top of Christopher Tapp, punching him.

This is what a woman alleged she saw at a Halloween party at an exclusive Resorts World suite — an ill-fated gathering that authorities said would lead to the Nov. 5 death of Tapp, 47, an ...Read more

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. — The Catholic bishop of Monterey, whose district includes San Luis Obispo County, said his diocese could go bankrupt amid a flood of lawsuits alleging childhood sexual abuse.

In a letter to parishioners April 18, the Most Rev. Daniel E. Garcia said after the state reopened the statute of limitations for childhood ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Five days before pro-Israeli counterprotesters attacked a pro-Palestinian camp at UCLA, the university police department asked other campuses for additional police, according to the head of the UC police officers union.

But the requests — which would have provided UCLA with more police officers as they dealt with the camp and ...Read more

PITTSBURGH — One after another, family members aimed their grief and anguish at Heather Pressdee, who sat quietly on the other side of the Butler County courtroom.

Some called her the devil. One woman told her to burn in hell. They told she was not God, that she was no longer in control.

"I hope you live to 100," Jack Rogers' niece told her....Read more

ATLANTA — The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights is investigating alleged discrimination against Arab, Muslim and Palestinian students at Emory University this year.

The Georgia chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-Georgia) and Palestine Legal filed a federal civil rights complaint against the ...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Taylor Shelton, a South Carolina woman in her mid-to-late 20s, wasn’t planning to get pregnant. She took precautions, including having an intrauterine device.

But it wasn’t foolproof, and she discovered she was pregnant at the four-week mark.

Shelton went to a crisis pregnancy center in Charlotte, North Carolina, which...Read more

CHICAGO — The suspect wanted in connection with last month’s fatal shooting of off-duty Chicago police Officer Luis Huesca was taken into custody in the west suburbs late Wednesday, according to CPD.

A Cook County judge last week issued an arrest warrant charging Xavier Tate, 22, with murder in the April 21 killing of Huesca, 30, near ...Read more

ATLANTA — In the midst of ongoing demonstrations concerning the Israel-Hamas war on college campuses, school officials are now grappling with how to manage graduates who decide to protest during commencement ceremonies.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported Wednesday that one student at a Georgia State University graduation tried to walk ...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — President Joe Biden traveled to Charlotte Thursday to honor the law enforcement officers killed in a mass shooting.

The president’s daily schedule announced he’d be at Charlotte Douglas International Airport around midday to “pay his respects to the brave law enforcement officers killed and wounded in the line of duty ...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — State lawmakers took action on Thursday to get legislation that would provide teachers more flexibility and help tackle the teacher shortage signed into law before a legislative deadline.

The S.C. House of Representatives unanimously approved two bills that now include measures to give teachers more freedom to change jobs ...Read more

ATLANTA — Democratic leaders of the Georgia Senate on Thursday lambasted Gov. Brian Kemp for his decision not to fully expand Medicaid to poor Georgia adults.

Their remarks, in a press conference held in front of a shuttered hospital, come after Kemp last month told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s “Politically Georgia” that not only ...Read more

In the fall of 1986, divestment was a hot topic on the campus of the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. The university endowment board had already pulled funds from companies doing substantial business with the all-white apartheid government of South Africa, but student and faculty groups demanded a complete divestment.

At the time, the ...Read more

CHICAGO — A first-degree murder charge was approved by Cook County prosecutors Thursday in the fatal April shooting of off-duty Chicago police officer Luis Huesca.

Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx’s office said in a statement Thursday that 22-year-old Xavier Tate Jr. was charged with first-degree murder for allegedly killing Huesca ...Read more

BOSTON — The Bay State could get nearly $60 million in new opioid funding from the Biden administration to fight the unrelenting drug overdose crisis.

Massachusetts will have the chance to apply for up to $59.5 million in State Opioid Response (SOR) funding in fiscal year 2024, according to the federal Department of Health and Human Services....Read more

BOSTON — A coalition led by a Massachusetts General Hospital doctor is forming to oppose a ballot question that would decriminalize psychedelics for mental health treatments, with leaders of the group arguing a home-grow provision ignores public safety risks.

Dr. Anahita Dua, a vascular surgeon who helps lead the MGH’s Peripheral Artery ...Read more

ATLANTA — In a message recapping the week of campus protests over the war in Gaza, University of Georgia administrators said only one of the five protests held there this week resulted in arrests. And those who were taken into custody, “chose to be,” officials wrote.

“Make no mistake: These individuals chose to be arrested, and they ...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — Attorney General Dana Nessel's office has decided not to bring charges against a man who mounted a non-functioning camera and lighting system near an absentee ballot drop box in Plymouth Township.

In February, police in the township began investigating whether the camera and the lighting system that was set up to flash when ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Authorities have found Miguel Ángel Luna González, the fifth victim of the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse to be pulled from the Patapsco River.

Officers recovered the body of Luna, 49, from inside a red truck discovered by salvage teams, the Key Bridge Unified Command said late Wednesday in a news release.

Nearly 40 days the...Read more