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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi’s Republican governor signed a invoice on Friday to broaden the territory of a state-run police division contained in the majority-Black capital metropolis of Jackson, and the brand new regulation is anticipated to face a courtroom problem from the NAACP. The laws was hand...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Woodrow “Woody” Baird, a dogged, straight-talking and expert journalist who lined every little thing from Elvis Presley to panda bears for The Associated Press within the Memphis area for 27 years, has died. He was 77. Baird had suffered a stroke every week earlier than he died April 11 in...

The North Carolina Legislature superior a ladies’s sports invoice after a teen volleyball participant disclosed the intensive accidents she suffered from being hit within the face with a ball spiked by a male-born competitor who identifies as feminine. Payton McNabb, a senior at Hiwassee Dam High School in...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal decide in Washington reprimanded an legal professional whose withdrawal from a Jan. 6 defendant’s case led to a delay within the man’s trial - doubtlessly preserving him behind bars longer - however the decide declined to refer him for disciplinary motion. U.S. District Judge Tr...

Tyre Extinguishers, an environmental saboteur group, struck within the Beacon Hill neighborhood of Boston, deflating the tires of 43 luxurious sports utility autos Wednesday evening. The activists focused Beacon Hill residents as a result of they're rich, in response to the group, and focused the SUVs to c...

Guests 15 and youthful visiting the Knott’s Berry Farm theme park in California will as soon as once more want a chaperone 21 or older from 4 p.m. till closing. Starting Saturday, the chaperone rule is again on. ...

Two males who served practically 17 years in jail after being wrongly convicted of tried homicide have been declared harmless and will likely be paid for his or her time behind bars - at a price of $140 (£112) a day. The males have been freed in 2020 after a retrial involving a dramatic confession by the precise shooter, a gang member who's serving a life sentence for an additional homicide. The conclusion of the brand new trial in Los Angeles means Dupree Glass and Juan Rayford will likely be entitled to compensation.Under a brand new legislation, the state of California is required to pay them every $140 for day by day they spent behind bars, or about $900,000 (£725,000).Mr Glass and Mr Rayford have been 17 and 18 respectively once they have been arrested after a 2004 captu...

Death row inmate Richard Glossip has had his conviction for homicide upheld by an Oklahoma courtroom, paving the way in which for him to be executed subsequent month. Glossip, 60, was sentenced to demise for ordering the 1997 killing of Barry Van Treese, the proprietor of a motel in Oklahoma City the place Glossip labored. He has maintained his innocence.The motel's handyman, Justin Sneed, admitted robbing Van Treese and beating him to demise with a baseball bat, however claimed he did so solely after Glossip promised to pay him $10,000 to do it.Sneed, who ended up with a sentence of life in jail, was the important thing witness in two separate homicide trials for Glossip, each of which led to a conviction and demise sentence. Earlier this month, Oklahoma lawyer basic Gentner...

A Florida girl who spent her life financial savings on breast most cancers remedy for her daughter gained $2m (£1.6m) the day after she completed hospital care. Geraldine Gimblet claimed the highest prize in a $2m scratch card lottery. But when she went to purchase the cardboard, the store assistant advised her they did not have any left. "I asked him to double check because I like the crossword games the best. He found the last one!" she advised Florida lottery officers in an account they revealed in a information launch.Her daughter Lawrencina Jackson described the fortuitous timing. "The day before my mom bought this ticket, I rang the bell and walked out of the hospital after completing my last treatment for breast cancer," she stated."My mom had taken out her life saving...

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. — Officials in a southeast Florida metropolis have canceled a homosexual satisfaction parade and restricted different satisfaction occasions to individuals 21 years and older in anticipation of Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis signing a invoice meant to maintain kids out of drag reveals. T...