A Florida boy was arrested after falsely reporting a school shooting to authorities because he wanted to go home early. The 11-year-old boy was charged with false report of a mass shooting, utilizing a two-way communication device to commit a felony, disruption of a school function and misuse of 911, …
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A Wyoming judge will soon weigh in on the state’s abortion bans, including its first-in-the-nation ban on using medication to end pregnancy. Teton County District Judge Melissa Owens in Jackson has shown sympathy for arguments that the bans violate women’s rights under the state constitution. Three times over the past …
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Gypsy Rose Blanchard, a Missouri woman who pleaded guilty to plotting to murder her abusive mother in 2015, was released from the Chillicothe Correctional Center Thursday at 3:30 a.m. Blanchard, now 32, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for second-degree murder in 2016, when she was 24, but under …
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The Justice Department on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against Texas over a state law allowing authorities to arrest illegal immigrants, pitting Republican Gov. Greg Abbott against the Biden administration as both remain at odds over how to handle the escalating crisis at the southern border. The lawsuit, filed in an …
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NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. – Residents in a predominantly black South Carolina neighborhood say fliers have been distributed claiming to be from the Ku Klux Klan. Local news outlets report the fliers from the Traditionalist American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan showed up last week in a community in North …
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HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Police say an 18-month-old boy found dead in a hot vehicle in Arkansas last week was the son of a juvenile court judge. The Hot Springs Police Department said Monday it was conducting a criminal investigation. It says the boy’s death was likely due to “excessive …
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SAN FRANCISCO – Who and what is a journalist in the age of social media, sponsored content and sagging newspaper circulation? That is one of the questions the American Press Institute set out to answer in a survey of nearly 10,500 alumni of the nation’s leading journalism and communications programs. …
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NEW YORK – Police in New York City say a woman pushed, scratched and bit a subway rider who tried to sit in a seat that had her bag on it. The alleged subway rage occurred aboard a Manhattan-bound F train from Queens last Friday. Police say the 45-year-old victim …
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GULFPORT, Miss. – Marine experts in Mississippi are working around the clock as two whales, their species unseen in South Mississippi for 40 years, fight for survival. Moby Solangi of the Institute for Marine Mammal Studies in Gulfport says a fisherman Tuesday reported what he thought were two dead dolphins …
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NEW ORLEANS – A rare white alligator has died at the Audubon Aquarium of the Americas in New Orleans. The Audubon Nature Institute announced the death of “Spots” the alligator on Monday. The alligator was 28 years old. The cause of death is being investigated. Spots had a rare genetic …
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