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No-confidence vote in Grant County sheriff’s administration drew support from majority of participants
EPHRATA — Newly-released public records show that 31 members of the Grant County Sheriff's Office Deputy Sheriffs’…
Kentucky presents back-to-school coronavirus monitoring plan
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Responding to calls for greater autonomy by school administrators, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear unveiled new coronavirus guidelines Monday for re-opening.
3 Mexican wolf pups cross-fostered into an Arizona pack
PINETOP, Ariz. (AP) — Three Mexican wolf pups have successfully been cross-fostered into a pack in northeastern Arizona, according to state Game and Fish Department officials.
Rochester police chief out in fallout over Prude death
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren fired the police chief and suspended her top lawyer and communications director Monday in the continuing upheaval over the suffocation death of Daniel Prude.
Wildfires put Republican meteorologist candidate in hot seat
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Political clashes about the role of climate change in catastrophic West Coast infernos are spilling into a U.S. Senate race in New Mexico, where a Republican meteorologist is campaigning for a…
Report: Death penalty cases show history of racial disparity
WASHINGTON (AP) — Black people have been overrepresented on death rows across the United States and killers of Black people are less likely to face the death penalty than people who kill white people, a new report …
Officers possibly exposed to fentanyl released from hospital
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Five law enforcement and a tow truck driver hospitalized after possible fentanyl exposure on the Golden Gate Bridge have been released from the hospital, an official said Monday.
Trump defies virus rules as 'peaceful protest' rallies grow
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is running as the “law and order” candidate. But that hasn't stopped him and his campaign from openly defying state emergency orders and flouting his own administration’s co…
Republican tries again to get Greens back on Montana ballot
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Montana’s Republican secretary of state on Friday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to restore the names of Green Party candidates to the state's November election ballot after a similar request w…
Harris draws on her past as US faces reckoning on police
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — When Kamala Harris won her first election for San Francisco district attorney in 2003, the office's relationship with the city police force was in tatters. She promised to rebuild trust, b…
Terry Branstad, US ambassador to China, to leave next month
BEIJING (AP) — The U.S. ambassador to China will step down early next month, ending a three-year tenure marked by a trade war and increasingly bitter relations between the world's two largest economies.
Pence says reelecting Sen. Daines key to Trump agenda
BELGRADE, Mont. (AP) — Vice President Mike Pence promised new tax cuts and continued crackdowns on the violent protests occurring elsewhere in the U.S. as he urged Montana voters on Monday to expand Republicans' gr…
3 Mexican wolf pups cross-fostered into an Arizona pack
PINETOP, Ariz. (AP) — Three Mexican wolf pups have successfully been cross-fostered into a pack in northeastern Arizona, according to state Game and Fish Department officials.
Wildfires put Republican meteorologist candidate in hot seat
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Political clashes about the role of climate change in catastrophic West Coast infernos are spilling into a U.S. Senate race in New Mexico, where a Republican meteorologist is campaigning for a…
Report: Death penalty cases show history of racial disparity
WASHINGTON (AP) — Black people have been overrepresented on death rows across the United States and killers of Black people are less likely to face the death penalty than people who kill white people, a new report …
NC Senate candidates trade accusations on virus, vaccine
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Republican Sen. Thom Tillis and Democrat Cal Cunningham battled over the government's COVID-19 response and a future vaccine in a debate Monday, kicking up a notch a campaign tha…