Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg reached out to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., in recent weeks to discuss how his company handles viral misinformation, but she has not called him back or personally replied, according to two people familiar with the exchanges. Pelosi’s decision not to engage with Zuckerberg, one of the most powerful technology Read More…
The constitutionality of South Dakota’s protest laws will be argued in a Rapid City courtroom on Wednesday. Arguments in the American Civil Liberties Union’s lawsuit against Gov. Kristi Noem, Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg and Pennington County Sheriff Kevin Thom are scheduled to begin at 3 p.m. Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Rapid City. The Read More…
Very soon, an unmanned aircraft will be able to launch from the Montana border of North Dakota and fly to the state line of Minnesota uninterrupted and hundreds of miles away from its pilot. The North Dakota Legislature passed a bill this year infusing $33 million into UAS, $28 million of which is earmarked for Read More…
CASPER – Hospitals in Wyoming charged private insurance plans more than three times what Medicare would pay for the same care in 2017, according to a national study that looked at 14 hospitals here and nearly 1,600 facilities statewide and found further evidence that the Eq-uality State has a serious problem with health-care prices. “What Read More…
Jun 14, 2019; Pebble Beach, CA, USA; Gary Woodland lines up his putt on the eighth hole during the second round of the 2019 U.S. Open golf tournament at Pebble Beach Golf Links. Kyle Terada-USA TODAY Sports June 15, 2019 By Steve Keating PEBBLE BEACH, CA. (Reuters) – Some of golf’s biggest names will try Read More…
INDEPENDENCE, Mo. (AP) – A jury has convicted a 19-year-old Independence man of second-degree murder and a weapons count in the January 2018 shooting death of a teen. The Kansas City Star reports that Tyler Gates was found guilty Thursday in the death of 17-year-old Matthew Haylock in the Kansas City, Missouri, suburb of Independence. Read More…
Dozens of tractors made their way through Winnipeg Saturday as part of the lead-up to this year’s Manitoba Threshermen’s Reunion and Stampede. (Walther Bernal/CBC ) It’s not every day you see farm tractors roll down one of Winnipeg’s busiest thoroughfares. But dozens of vintage tractors paraded down Portage Avenue Saturday morning to celebrate Manitoba’s agricultural Read More…
BALTIMORE (AP) – Police say a teen wounded aboard a Baltimore-area bus appears to have accidentally shot himself. Police say they responded late Friday night to a report of a shooting downtown. Officers found a 16-year-old boy with a wound to his leg. Investigators believe he was riding an MTA bus when he appears to Read More…
Transparency is key… or is it? In the world of exchange-traded funds, that idea is now officially being put to the test, with the Securities and Exchange Commission granting approval for the first-ever non-transparent, actively managed ETF structure last week. Unlike most traditionally structured ETFs, which reveal their holdings every day, this structure — created Read More…
FRANKLIN, MASS. (WHDH) – Franklin police are warning the public after a girl says she was approached by a male in a vehicle while she was walking home from school on Friday. The girl told police she was walking home from Benjamin Franklin Classical Charter School when a male in a vehicle approached her on Read More…
I feel like I’ve been a good father to my four children. We had the faith talk, the sex talk, the “just say no” drug talk. However, some of my children ended up on drugs. One son even became addicted to heroin and became homeless. I am the son of a long line of pastors Read More…
FILE PHOTO: A person walks past the logo of Germany’s Social Democratic Party (SPD) at the party’s headquarters in Berlin, Germany, June 3, 2019. REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke/File Photo June 15, 2019 BERLIN (Reuters) – Support for Germany’s Social Democrat (SPD) party, a junior partner in Chancellor Angela Merkel’s coalition, has slumped to a record low, a Read More…
Mexico on Friday released a copy of a supplementary agreement to stop migrant flows into the U.S. — days after Trump inadvertently flashed parts of the deal to cameras. The June 7 deal will require migrants moving to the border via Mexico to seek asylum there, and for Mexico to identify changes in domestic law Read More…
PINKHAM NOTCH, N.H. – The annual race up the highest peak in the Northeast has ended in the first photo finish. Twenty-nine-year-old Brittni Hutton, of Lubbock, Texas, led the entire race but 27-year-old Heidi Caldwell, of Craftsbury Common, Vermont, caught her at the finish line Saturday. Both finished with a time of 1 hour, 16 Read More…
CORONA, Calif. – A gunman who had been in an argument inside a Southern California Costco opened fire — killing a man, wounding two other people and sparking a stampede of terrified shoppers before he was taken into custody, police said. Police swarmed the Costco after shots were reported shortly Friday night at the huge Read More…
On this day, June 15 … 2018: President Trump announces a 25 percent tariff on up to $50 billion in Chinese imports. Also on this day: 1864: Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton signs an order establishing a military burial ground which became Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. 1904: More than 1,000 people die when fire erupted aboard Read More…
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) – Police in Virginia are looking for three suspects who attacked a man who was sleeping in the streets. The Richmond Police Department said in a news release that the attack and robbery happened late Wednesday. The victim told police that three men he didn’t know attacked and robbed him. The victim Read More…
The owner of a famous bookstore in New York City is pushing back on a decision to commemorate it with a historic landmark designation, blasting it as “eminent domain” and a “bureaucratic straitjacket.” Nancy Bass Wyden, owner of the ‘Strand Bookstoe’ — one of the few remaining in the city — is “already a landmark” and that the historic designation Read More…
President Trump may be a fan of some conspiracy theories, but when it comes to UFOs, he’s a skeptic. “Do I believe it? Not particularly,” Trump told ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos, who asked him what he thought of reports that US Navy pilots have seen more unidentified flying objects recently. “I think it’s probably — Read More…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) – A Topeka man has been sentenced to nearly 18 years in prison for the July shooting death of another man. The Capital-Journal reports that 33-year-old Tony Lee Foster was sentenced Friday. A Shawnee County jury found him guilty in March of second-degree murder and a weapons count in the July 9 Read More…
LAS VEGAS (AP) – Authorities say a Las Vegas police officer shot a suspect who led officers on a foot chase before turning and reaching for his waistband. Capt. Nichole Splinter of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department says the incident happened late Friday night on the city’s west side. Officers responding to a call Read More…
HOLTON, Kan. (AP) – A Nebraska woman has been sentenced to more than four years in prison for a November 2017 head-on crash in northeastern Kansas that killed four members of a Sabetha family who were returning home from a state championship football game. The Capital-Journal reports that 49-year-old Maria Perez Marquez, of Omaha, Nebraska, Read More…
HAMILTON, Mont. (AP) – A Montana man has pleaded not guilty to charges stemming from two poaching cases in Ravalli and Missoula counties in 2017. The Ravalli Republic reports that Brady J. Stamps, of Libby, faces numerous hunting violations, including a felony charge of unlawful possession of a trophy bull elk. Stamps pleaded not guilty Read More…
DURHAM, N.C. (AP) – Police say they’ve filed a murder charge against a man accused of assaulting a man who died after hitting his head on the pavement outside of a North Carolina bar. The Durham Police Department issued a news release Friday saying that 34-year-old Daniel Peter Mohar faces a murder charge in the Read More…
IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (AP) – The recent discovery of a 78-year-old eastern Idaho woman’s death five years ago has led to charges against her son-in-law and grandson, authorities said. The Post Register reports in a story on Saturday that Naoma Ware’s grandson, 24-year-old Harley Howell, is charged with abuse or neglect of a vulnerable adult Read More…
President Trump is “all in” on the latest attempt to make flag-burning illegal, he wrote Saturday in a post boosting a proposed constitutional amendment. “All in for Senator Steve Daines as he proposes an Amendment for a strong BAN on burning our American Flag,” Trump tweeted. “A no brainer!” Daines (R- Montana) and Sen Kevin Read More…
CULLMAN, Ala. (AP) – An Alabama man is in custody for the hit-and-run crash at this year’s Rock The South event that left a pedestrian seriously injured. The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency late Friday announced the arrest of 40-year-old Kevin Michael Talley, of Cullman. He faces a felony charge of leaving the scene of an Read More…
A group of Jimmy Buffett-diehards from Oklahoma were sick as hell in paradise — the latest in an ever-growing list of tourists to be sickened during a jaunt to the Dominican Republic, a report said. Dana Flowers, a travel agent who vacationed to Punta Cana with the Buffett-loving Central Oklahoma Parrothead Association, said that four Read More…
Ricky Finley Jr. was chasing a dog who got loose from a van parked on the side of the highway around 10:30 p.m. Thursday, June 13, about 3 miles south of Ryder. He was chasing the dog west across the southbound lane in the rain when a Buick Enclave driven by Mariah Wolf, 23, of Read More…
Shea Lindsey, a 25-year-old teacher at East Middle School, made her first appearance Friday, June 14, at the state court in Rapid City where she was told she could face up to 10 years in prison if convicted of child abuse. Lindsey, who remains out of jail on a $2,500 bond, will enter a plea Read More…
Pro-democracy protesters plan to keep marching in Hong Kong to make sure, they say, that the government makes good on promises to nix a bill giving mainland China extradition powers. The Civil Human Rights Front vowed Saturday to keep up the pressure until Hong Kong’s legislature fully withdraws the bill, the Straits Times reported. “We Read More…
The world’s plumpest parrots are dying. New Zealand’s kakapo parrots, an endangered bird that can grow to nearly five pounds, are being killed off by a fungal infection. Seven of the chubby chicks have died from Aspergillosis, which threatens the respiratory system and spreads during the parrot’s breeding season, according to the Auckland Zoo. The Read More…
The Juice is loose on Twitter — maybe. A Twitter account claiming to be owned by O.J. Simpson popped up on the social media site late Friday night, and it darkly promises to settle old scores. The handle @TheRealOJ32 includes a video with Simpson speaking to a camera. “Coming soon to Twitter you’ll get to Read More…
A: Thanks for sending the good photo. Burning bush, also called winged euonymus, was among the shrub types that experienced injury from our long, cold winter. They are also a favorite of rabbits. I think your burning bush is going to be just fine because in the photo I see decent growth coming from the Read More…
Mark Krebsbach is asking the court to reverse the judgment against him and order a trial. Court-appointed Master Karen Klein dismissed the case on the grounds the statute of limitations had expired. Krebsbach is challenging whether the phlebotomist through which he alleges the infection transfer occurred is considered a professional for whom a two-year medical Read More…
Robertson was one of the first operators in a product category now worth more than $250 million annually in the United States (according to estimates by SPINS, Information Resources, Mintel and Green Circle Capital in July 2018): “Better-for-you” pasta alternatives. The Gluten-Free Mall’s online store has more than 50 sans-wheat pasta options, Trader Joe’s has Read More…
Barnes & Noble and its defunct competitor Borders were, once upon a time, themselves the disruptors and destroyers, big box stores driving mom-and-pop shops out of business. Now, however, Barnes & Noble is the final bastion of hope, the tiny remnant of an industry that has traded cramped stacks delivering instant gratification for distant warehouses Read More…
A 17-year-old who lost her leg and two fingers to a shark in North Carolina says the attack isn’t going to keep her down. Paige Winter was swimming with her dad at Fort Macon State Park when she disappeared below the water. Her father, Charlie Winter, a former US Marine who is also a local Read More…
The first worshippers to hear Mass at Notre-Dame Cathedral since the devastating fire two months ago will be wearing hard hats. The service, slated for 4 p.m. Saturday, will be held in a small side chapel of the Gothic landmark in Paris, as church leaders aim to show life goes on at the cathedral. Attendance Read More…
The lesbian couple attacked by a homophobic mob on a London bus said it was clear the men who punched and robbed them viewed the pair as “sexual objects” there to “entertain.” In a new interview, Melania Geymonat, 28, and her partner Chris, 29, said the bloody beating was “firstly, an attack against women” that Read More…
She takes little medication so there’s nothing detrimental that I can see that we can change except to improve her balance. It makes me angry that she won’t allow this therapist to come to help her. She’s always hated people fussing over her, so I get where she is coming from, but she still needs Read More…
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Mike Stenvold has been selected to serve as a hole marshal for the PGA 3M Open which will be played at Blaine, Minn., July 3-7. “I am just pumped. I’m so excited about this,” Stenvold said. “I get to go down there and work. I get to see all the rounds of the guys who Read More…
The military analogy falls apart at this point, because the majority of those 23 campaign logos are as inspirational as bottled-water labels. Is Jay Inslee running for president or trying to sell us Internet service circa 1995? Who is “Jo Biden”? How on Earth did Amy Klobuchar and Wayne Messam end up with typestyles so Read More…