Month: July 2023

By SARA CLINE Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana officials say juveniles currently housed at the country’s largest maximum-security adult prison will be moved to a new youth detention facility by mid-November. The juvenile lockup at Angola has faced staunch opposition, with critics saying that the trauma of being housed at the infamous

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron is challenging a federal judge’s injunction that blocks portions of a new state law that bans gender-affirming care for transgender youth. Cameron filed an emergency motion to the Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Friday. It challenges last month’s federal court ruling that temporarily blocks

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Firefighters rescued two men who fell into a manhole during heavy rain in downtown Omaha on Friday, including one who was washed about a mile (1.6 kilometers) through sewer pipes before getting trapped behind a metal grate. The men, who were workers for a private contractor, Ace Pipe Cleaning, were swept

By HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Republican-controlled Legislature in Iowa will aim to enact a ban on abortion after roughly six weeks of pregnancy during a rare special session that starts Tuesday. That’s according to a draft of the bill released Friday. The measure is similar to a 2018 law

BERLIN (AP) — Austria’s top court has dismissed a case brought by a dozen minors seeking to force the government to take tougher action against climate change. The plaintiffs, born between 2006 and 2015, had argued that their constitutional rights were infringed because the Alpine nation’s climate law doesn’t sufficiently protect them from the consequences

WINNETKA, Ill. (AP) — The family of a suburban Chicago man who drowned in Lake Michigan while trying to help children struggling in the water says he was a survivor of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. Witnesses say 43-year-old Luke Laidley was boating Tuesday with others on the lakefront

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press A Florida man prosecutors say is affiliated with the Proud Boys extremist group was sentenced on Friday to five years in prison for attacking police officers with pepper spray as they tried to defend the U.S. Capitol against supporters of President Donald Trump on Jan. 6, 2021. Barry Ramey,

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Voter registration closes Monday in Ohio for a high-stakes Aug. 8 election on whether to make it tougher to amend the state constitution. Early in-person voting starts Tuesday. If approved, Issue 1 would raise the threshold for passing future constitutional changes from a simple majority

By ANDREW SELIGMAN AP Sports Writer Northwestern has suspended coach Pat Fitzgerald for two weeks without pay following an investigation into alleged hazing within the football program. The school says an investigation led by law firm ArentFox did not find “sufficient” evidence that the coaching staff knew about ongoing hazing. But the report says there

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A judge refused Friday to toss out a lawsuit challenging Wisconsin’s 174-year-old abortion ban, keeping the case inching toward a final decision in a perennial presidential battleground state where abortion has become a key issue. Wisconsin lawmakers enacted statutes outlawing abortion in all cases except to

BERLIN (AP) — A U.N. technology agency assembled a group of robots that physically resembled humans at a news conference. The International Telecommunication Union invited reporters to ask them questions on Friday at an event meant to spark discussion about the future of artificial intelligence. The nine robots were posed along with some of the

BLANCHARD, Okla. (AP) — A search is underway for a missing pet wallaby in the rural Oklahoma community of Blanchard. City Clerk Diana Daniels says the wallaby escaped its backyard enclosure on Wednesday and is believed to be in some thick woods near the edge of town. Wallabies are native to Australia and similar to