Norfolk Southern railroad worked with the state of Ohio and Youngstown State University to revive plans for a $20 million first responder training center near the site of the worst derailment in a decade in East Palestine, Ohio. Building a training center to help prepare firefighters to deal ...
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Since it was created in 2018, the federal government's cybersecurity agency has helped warn state and local election officials about potential threats from foreign governments, showed officials how to protect polling places from attacks and gamed out how to respond to the ...
MIFFLINBURG, Pa. (AP) — Christmas went on the auction block this week in Pennsylvania farm country, and there was no shortage of bidders. About 50,000 Christmas trees and enough wreaths, crafts and other seasonal items to fill an airplane hangar were bought and sold by lots and on ...
Norfolk Southern railroad worked with the state of Ohio and Youngstown State University to revive plans for a $20 million first responder training center near the site of the worst derailment in a decade in East Palestine, Ohio. Building a training center to help prepare firefighters to deal ...
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A fifth consecutive Formula 1 championship is within Max Verstappen's reach following the disqualifications of contenders Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri after Saturday night's Las Vegas Grand Prix. Verstappen won the event for the second time in three years to close the gap ...
By HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa's largest school district released a report Friday claiming that it received an abbreviated background check and what was likely a forged transcript when it was hiring its former superintendent, who was charged in a ...
By CHRISTINE FERNANDO Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — A judge's blistering 223-page opinion has offered a cache of striking new details from body camera footage about agents' use of force during a federal immigration crackdown in the Chicago area dubbed "Operation Midway Blitz." U.S. ...
By KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press It's the ultimate homecoming photo — a smiling family rushing to reunite with a U.S. Air Force officer in 1973 who spent years as a POW in North Vietnam, his oldest daughter sprinting ahead with her arms outstretched, both feet off the ground. "Burst ...
KINGSTON, N.Y. (AP) — A former New York state trooper accused of ramming his car into an SUV that crashed during a high-speed chase was acquitted of murder in the death of a 11-year-old passenger. A jury on Thursday found Christopher Baldner, 52, not guilty on seven of eight counts and ...
By TERRY TANG Associated Press OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Last week, Oakland's new mayor found herself consoling the friends and family of a beloved community college football coach who was shot on campus. The day after her visit, Barbara Lee sat with The Associated Press for an hour at her ...
By PATRICK AFTOORA-ORSAGOS and JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Ohio police officer who shot and killed Ta'Kiya Young, a pregnant Black mother who had been accused of shoplifting, was acquitted on all counts Friday, including murder. Blendon Township police ...
VERO BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A Florida sheriff's deputy was killed while attempting to serve an eviction notice Friday in a beachside residence on the state's Atlantic coast, a county sheriff said. The accused shooter, another deputy and a locksmith working for law enforcement were all wounded, ...
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey Democratic Gov.-elect Mikie Sherrill resigned from her seat in the U.S. House and the current governor on Friday set special election dates to fill her position for next year. The resignation was expected ahead of her inauguration as the state's 57th governor ...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Torrential rains drenched parts of Southern California on Friday, leading to new flash flood warnings following earlier storms that put the region on track for near-record November rainfall, the National Weather Service said. Before dawn Friday, residents were warned of ...
By JULIE WATSON Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Trump administration has sued California for providing in-state college tuition, scholarships, and state-funded financial aid to students who do not have legal status to be in the United States. The lawsuit, filed Thursday in the ...
SANDERSVILLE, Ga. (AP) — Three former Georgia sheriff's deputies have been found not guilty of murder in the death of a Black man who raised a white homeowner's suspicions by asking for a drink of water while walking through a small Georgia town. Eurie Martin, 58, was repeatedly shocked with ...
ST. LOUIS (AP) — An officer at St. Louis' busiest airport fatally shot a man who wielded a knife early Friday morning outside the doors of a terminal, police said. No one else was injured. The shooting at St. Louis Lambert International Airport happened around 1 a.m., St. Louis County Police ...
By SIMON D. SCHUSTER/Bridge Michigan Bridge Michigan Three weeks ago, state Rep. Angela Rigas woke up to the sound of protesters chanting outside her west Michigan home. The group of several dozen activists were demanding the Caledonia Republican withdraw her sponsorship of a bill that ...
By COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press A motorist in western North Carolina escaped injury when the carcass of a cat crashed into the passenger side of her front windshield along a highway near the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. In a call to 911, the unidentified driver on U.S. Route 74 ...
By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press A judge set bail Friday for an Indiana man accused of killing a house cleaner who showed up at his home by mistake at $25,000 and ordered him to surrender his passport. Prosecutors charged Curt Andersen of Whitestown, on Monday, with voluntary ...