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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…
Complaints against Wisconsin officer who killed 3 dismissed
WAUWATOSA, Wis. (AP) — A suburban Milwaukee police and fire commission has voted to dismiss the complaints filed against a police officer by the families of three men he shot while on duty over a five-year period.
Police respond to Wisconsin mall, witnesses report gunshots
WAUWATOSA, Wis. (AP) — Officers were responding Friday to “a very active situation” at a suburban Milwaukee mall, according to a police dispatcher, and local media reported several people could be seen being taken …
Lawyers: Children detained at border facing COVID exposure
HOUSTON (AP) — Border Patrol agents are detaining about 65 immigrant children at a station in South Texas in conditions that don't control the spread of the coronavirus, with limited social distancing and a lack of…
Pence pitches Georgia senators as last line of GOP defense
GAINESVILLE, Ga. (AP) — Vice President Mike Pence campaigned with Georgia's two Republican senators Friday, trying to hold off their Democratic challengers in Jan. 5 runoffs that will determine who controls the Sen…
Who needs Russia? Loudest attacks on US vote are from Trump
WASHINGTON (AP) — Russia didn't have to lift a finger.
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3 former Missouri city officials charged in fraud scheme
NEW MADRID, Mo. (AP) — Three former city officials in a small southeast Missouri town are facing felony charges after a
Toronto goes back into lockdown because of a surge cases
TORONTO (AP) — Canada’s largest city is going back into lockdown because of a surge in COVID-19 cases.
Lieutenant gov's flags fly in the face of some PA lawmakers
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania’s lieutenant governor, Democrat John Fetterman, may have gotten under somebody’s skin.
Harvard petition demands scrutiny of ex-Trump officials
BOSTON (AP) — A petition circulating at Harvard University demands new accountability standards for former Trump administration officials who seek to work or speak on campus, an idea that has drawn outrage from pro…
'No more room for delay': Biden wants emergency COVID-19 aid
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — President-elect Joe Biden is calling on Congress to enact billions of dollars in emergency COVID-19 assistance before the year's end, according to a senior adviser who warned Friday that “th…
Trump tries to leverage power of office to subvert Biden win
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump sought to leverage the power of the Oval Office on Friday in an extraordinary attempt to block President-elect Joe Biden’s victory, but his pleas to Michigan lawmakers to ov…
Man freed, case dropped in deadly 1994 stabbing of NYC woman
NEW YORK (AP) — A New York man has been cleared after more than a quarter-century behind bars for a deadly robbery, with prosecutors acknowledging that witnesses against him — including a 10-year-old boy — weren't …
Illinois teen charged in protest slayings posts $2M bail
KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — A 17-year-old from Illinois who is charged with killing two people during a protest in Wisconsin and whose case has become a rallying cry for some conservatives posted $2 million bail Friday an…
The Latest: Arizona governor asked to implement mask mandate
PHOENIX — Four Democratic mayors called on Republican Gov. Doug Ducey on Friday to institute a statewide requirement for Arizona residents to wear masks in public, a move that came as state health officials reporte…