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Updated 1 week, 6 days ago

UPDATED: Former Moses Lake doctor arrested after shootout with U.S. Marshals in Florida

STUART, Fla. — Former Moses Lake surgeon Thomas Earl Steffens, 72, has been arrested in Florida after an altercati…

Updated 5 years, 3 months ago
Ex-prosecutor writes of drug addiction in sentencing letter

HONOLULU (AP) — A former Honolulu prosecutor, convicted of conspiracy in Hawaii's biggest corruption case that also took down her police chief husband, apologized for her actions in a handwritten letter to the judg…

Updated 5 years, 3 months ago
AP News in Brief at 9:04 p.m. EST

Restaurant workers out of work again as virus surges anew

Updated 5 years, 3 months ago
Ex-Mexico treasury chief rejects 2nd set of accusations

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s former treasury and foreign relations secretary, Luis Videgaray, angrily denied accusations Tuesday by a lawyer for another former Cabinet secretary who claimed he used embezzled governm…

Updated 5 years, 3 months ago
Judge: California can't ban offensive license plates

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California can't enforce a ban vanity license plates it considers “offensive to good taste and decency” because that violates freedom of speech, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.

Updated 5 years, 3 months ago
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Montana: Allow Marijuana Legal Age (To be set by law)

Updated 5 years, 3 months ago
California OK'd aid in name of Scott Peterson, other killers

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California's system for paying unemployment benefits is so dysfunctional that the state approved more than $140 million for at least 20,000 prisoners, local and federal prosecutors said Tu…

Updated 5 years, 3 months ago
The Latest: Biden says split Congress affects Cabinet picks

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Updated 5 years, 3 months ago
Coast Guard suspends search for missing fishing vessel crew

BOSTON (AP) — The Coast Guard said Tuesday it called off the search for the four-member crew of a Maine fishing boat that sank off Massachusetts.

Updated 5 years, 3 months ago
Man pleads guilty in plot to attack White House, Trump Tower

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A South Carolina man has pleaded guilty to a terror charge for plotting to bomb or shoot up sites including the White House and Trump Tower in New York City in attacks inspired by the Islamic Sta…

Updated 5 years, 3 months ago
Michigan professor placed on leave after racist remarks

BIG RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — A science professor at a Michigan university has been placed on administrative leave and is being investigated after denying the severity of the coronavirus and using racist, anti-Semitic a…

Updated 5 years, 3 months ago
AP News in Brief at 6:04 p.m. EST

Restaurant workers out of work again as virus surges anew

Updated 5 years, 3 months ago
AP News Digest 6:05 p.m.

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Updated 5 years, 3 months ago
Report: Syria claims Israeli attack on post south of capital

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syria's military said suspected Israeli warplanes struck locations south of the capital Damascus late Tuesday, causing only material damage, state-run media reported.

Updated 5 years, 3 months ago
2 New York City officers shot, suspected shooter killed

NEW YORK (AP) — Two New York City police officers shot and killed an off-duty college security officer on Tuesday after he opened fire and wounded them as they responded to a domestic violence call at his home, Pol…

Updated 5 years, 3 months ago
California sent jobless aid to Scott Peterson, other killers

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California's system for paying unemployment benefits is so dysfunctional that the state approved more than $140 million for at least 35,000 prisoners, prosecutors said Tuesday, detailing a…