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Michigan power crews work, California recovers after storms By RICK CALLAHAN and CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press Some Michigan residents faced a fourth straight day without power Sunday as crews continued work to restore electricity more than 165,000 homes and businesses in the greater Detroit area following last week’s ice storm. Leah Thomas, whose home north…
‘Did they shoot him?’ Family of man killed by deputy sues By THOMAS PEIPERT and COLLEEN SLEVIN undefined DENVER (AP) — The family of a man who was fatally shot by a sheriff’s deputy outside a Colorado middle school while students were being picked up alleges in a wrongful death lawsuit that deputies unnecessarily escalated…
US commits $2 billion in drones, ammunition, aid to Ukraine By LOLITA C. BALDOR and TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon announced a new package of long-term security assistance for Ukraine on Friday, marking the first anniversary of Russia’s invasion with a $2 billion commitment to send more rounds of ammunition and…
Winter storms sow more chaos, shut down much of Portland By CLAIRE RUSH, DREW CALLISTER and JIM SALTER Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Winter storms sowed more chaos across the U.S. on Thursday, shutting down much of Oregon’s largest city with almost a foot of snow and paralyzing travel from parts of the Pacific…
California may get slammed by brutal storm front sweeping US By AMANCAI BIRABEN and JIM SALTER Associated Press PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — A brutal winter storm that trapped drivers on icy roads, blacked out hundreds of thousands of homes, grounded airplanes and closed schools across much of the country was poised to slam California Thursday.…
Flights canceled, highways closed as winter storm wallops US By AMANCAI BIRABEN and JIM SALTER Associated Press PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — A brutal winter storm closed interstate highways from Arizona to Wyoming Wednesday, trapped drivers in cars, knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of people and prompted the first blizzard warning in Southern California…
Massive winter storm brings snow, strong winds, frigid cold By TRISHA AHMED and JIM SALTER Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Brutal winter weather bringing snow, dangerous gusts of wind and bitter cold settled over much of the northern U.S. on Wednesday, shutting down roadways, closing schools and businesses and prompting dire warnings for people to…
Mormon church fined $5M for obscuring size of portfolio By SAM METZ Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and its investment arm have been fined $5 million for using shell companies to obscure the size of the portfolio under church control, the U.S. Securities and Exchange…
Congress floats ways to secure skies after Chinese balloon By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As the only current U.S. senator to have visited space, Mark Kelly knows something about unexplained objects in the skies. Back in his aviator days, Kelly saw Mylar party balloons fly by his cockpit. And once when he…
UPDATE: Monday, 11:45AM Aura Sunada Newlin, from the Heart Mountain Interpretative Center commented on what President Biden said yesterday about the use of internment camps for Japanese-Americans. Her quote has been added to the story. President Joe Biden called the use of internment camp for Japanese Americans who lived on the west coast of the…