Month: September 2024

MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian court has handed a six-year prison sentence to an American man convicted on charges linked to his attempt to illegally take his 4-year old son out of Russia. The court in Russia’s westernmost Kaliningrad region said Monday that the convict, whose name wasn’t given, visited Kaliningrad in July 2023 to

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — A Mexican national who is in the U.S. illegally has pleaded guilty to killing his girlfriend and dumping her body along a Michigan freeway. Twenty-five-year-old Brandon Ortiz Vite entered the plea in a Grand Rapids courtroom and is scheduled to be sentenced Oct. 31. His girlfriend, Ruby Garcia, was found

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Faculty have accused the University of California system of labor violations over what they say was a sweeping campaign to suppress pro-Palestinian speech and campus protests across the state earlier this year. The Council of University of California Faculty Associations made the allegations in a complaint filed last week with the

Associated Press Volunteers spent a few hours scrambling across fire-ravaged mountainsides Saturday, planting hundreds of seedlings. The tiny trees are part of a monumental recovery effort in the wake of the largest wildfire in New Mexico’s recorded history. The 2022 blaze was spawned by a pair of botched prescribed burns that federal forest managers intended

BAY CITY, Mich. (AP) — Divers are searching a Michigan river, days after the discovery of a school janitor’s body parts in the waterway. Justie Stilwell’s disappearance and death have been unsettling in Bay City where the 41-year-old worked at Handy Middle School. Stilwell was reported missing on Sept. 18, the same day that a

Associated Press A Republican effort to lock down all of Nebraska’s electoral votes for former President Donald Trump appears doomed because one state lawmaker won’t give backers his crucial support. Sen. Mike McDonnell of Omaha said in a statement Monday that he still opposes awarding Nebraska’s five electoral votes on a winner-take-all basis, like 48

GENEVA (AP) — A U.N.-backed human rights expert monitoring President Vladimir Putin’s Russia has decried increased violence in the country caused by former prisoners who have their sentences shortened or pardoned to fight in Ukraine and then return home to commit crimes including rape and murder. Mariana Katzarova, who is observing rights in Russia under

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The New York City police department is lax in punishing officers who illegally stop and frisk people on the street, undermining efforts to curb wrongful use of tactic than a judge declared unconstitutional more than a decade ago. That’s the finding of a court-ordered study made public Monday. James

Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — After family members of a slain Navajo woman described their grief in a federal courtroom, the judge on Monday sentenced her boyfriend to life imprisonment for first-degree murder in a case that became emblematic of what officials call an epidemic of missing and slain Indigenous women. Five years after Jaime