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Sheriff candidates clash over leadership, lawsuit and confidence vote at GOP debate
MOSES LAKE — Leadership, accountability and trust within the Grant County Sheriff's Office took center stage Sept.…
Republicans on cusp of retaking California US House seat
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A former Navy combat pilot built a double-digit lead in the fight for an open U.S. House seat north of Los Angeles, positioning Republicans to capture a Democratic-held congressional district in …
Ocasio-Cortez among top Dems promoting Biden-Sanders unity
WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden and the last rival he bested to become the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, Bernie Sanders, on Wednesday announced the members of joint task forces their campaigns will use t…
Serbia protests priests' detention in Montenegro
PODGORICA, Montenegro (AP) — Serbia on Wednesday strongly protested the detention of eight Serbian Orthodox Church priests in Montenegro after thousands of people attended a religious procession despite a ban on ga…
Casino workers' union holds protest drive on Las Vegas Strip
LAS VEGAS (AP) — The casino workers' Culinary Union held a protest drive up the Las Vegas Strip Tuesday evening to call for casino companies to release their reopening plans and to adopt the union's recommended saf…
Hawaii aims to work with university to train contact tracers
HONOLULU (AP) — The state Department of Health on Tuesday asked lawmakers to appropriate about $2.5 million to fund a program at the University of Hawaii that would train workers to track contacts of people who hav…
Cold cases get colder as coronavirus pandemic wears on
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Cold cases are getting colder. Detectives are struggling to connect with victims through thick masks, and investigators accustomed to wearing plainclothes are digging out their dusty uniforms for…
Judge: US not unreasonably delaying virus relief for tribes
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — The U.S. Treasury Department is not unreasonably delaying the release of coronavirus relief funding to Native American tribes, a federal judge ruled this week.
Basement-bound Biden campaign worries some Democrats
Joe Biden has no foreseeable plans to resume in-person campaigning amid a pandemic that is testing whether a national presidential election can be won by a candidate communicating almost entirely from home.
Top UK court quashes Gerry Adams' prison break convictions
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Supreme Court on Wednesday quashed Irish nationalist politician Gerry Adams’ convictions for trying to break out of prison in the 1970s, handing a long-awaited legal victory to the former Si…
Construction starts in New Mexico on 35K acres for wind farm
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Construction has started on 35,000 acres of state trust land for the La Joya Wind Farm in New Mexico’s Torrance County.
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WI-House-7-elected
BULLETIN (AP) — Tom Tiffany, GOP, elected U.S. House, District 7,
Nebraska primary voters avoid polls, shatter mail-in record
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska's primary voters mostly steered clear of polling sites Tuesday while shattering the state record for absentee voting with nearly 400,000 mail-in ballots in the midst of the coronavirus p…
NE-House-1-nominated
BULLETIN (AP) — Kate Bolz, Dem, nominated U.S. House, District 1,
Arizona governor lifting stay-home order, lets gyms reopen
PHOENIX (AP) — Gov. Doug Ducey said Tuesday he'll let gyms and public swimming pools reopen and will allow his stay-at-home order to expire this week as he continues easing the painful restrictions he imposed on bu…