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Crews searching for teen hiker near Mount St. Helens

Mon, 28 Sep 2020 19:30:33 GMT

MOUNT ST. HELENS, Wash. (AP) - Search and rescue crews are searching for a 16-year-old hiker near Mount St. Helen’s Spirit Lake trail.

The boy had been hiking with his family early Sunday and vanished after leaving the trail to use a restroom, KATU-TV reported.

He had no ...

Judge orders Georgia to have paper pollbook backups

Mon, 28 Sep 2020 19:28:33 GMT

ATLANTA (AP) - A federal judge ruled Monday that every polling place in Georgia must have at least one updated paper backup of the electronic pollbooks that are used to check voters in.

U.S. District Judge Amy Totenberg called the requirement “a limited common sense remedy to the real and ...

Conservatives ask for immediate halt to Wisconsin mask order

Mon, 28 Sep 2020 19:28:25 GMT

MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Conservatives asked a judge on Monday to immediately put an end to Wisconsin's mask mandate, arguing that Democratic Gov. Tony Evers doesn't have the authority to issue such an order that comes as cases of COVID-19 continue to surge across the state.

Attorneys for the Wisconsin ...

Judge: Man charged in 2006 Iraq slayings to remain jailed

Mon, 28 Sep 2020 19:27:41 GMT

PHOENIX (AP) - A judge in Arizona has ruled that an Iraqi immigrant arrested on charges of participating in the 2006 killings of two police officers in Iraq will remain jailed until his extradition case concludes.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Michael Morrissey concluded Ali Yousif Ahmed Al-Nouri is at risk of ...

Closing prices for crude oil, gold and other commodities

Mon, 28 Sep 2020 19:23:21 GMT

Benchmark U.S. crude oil for November delivery rose 35 cents to $40.60 a barrel Monday. Brent crude oil for November delivery rose 51 cents to $42.43 a barrel.

Wholesale gasoline for October delivery rose 3 cents to $1.25 a gallon. October heating oil rose 1 cent to $1.14 a gallon. ...

Hospital company says its computer networks knocked offline

Mon, 28 Sep 2020 19:22:50 GMT

KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa. (AP) - Universal Health Services, a major hospital chain operating in the U.S. and Britain, says its computer networks have been knocked offline by an unspecified “security issue.”

The Fortune 500 company, which has 400 hospitals and clinics and 90,000 employees, said in a short statement ...

Police: Man with machete smears blood on sorority house

Mon, 28 Sep 2020 19:19:25 GMT

GREENVILLE, N.C. (AP) - A man armed with a machete smeared satanic and sadistic messages in blood on a sorority house at a North Carolina college and on a vehicle belonging to a student living there, police said Monday.

East Carolina University Police Cpt. Chris Sutton told WITN that someone ...

Kamala Harris: We won't let Trump 'infection' spread to Supreme Court

Mon, 28 Sep 2020 19:17:11 GMT

Democratic vice-presidential nominee Kamala D. Harris said Monday that the American people aren't about to allow the "infection" President Trump has spread throughout the country to infiltrate the U.S. Supreme Court.

"We will not give up and we will not give in," Ms. Harris said in a speech in North ...

Former US Ambassador to Ukraine to be honored by PEN America

Mon, 28 Sep 2020 19:11:47 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) - Marie Yovanovitch, the former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine who was forced out of her job last year by the Trump administration, is being honored by PEN America.

The literary and human rights organization announced Monday that Yovanovitch has won the PEN/Benenson Courage Award, of which previous ...

Bullock, Daines set to debate as mail voting begins soon

Mon, 28 Sep 2020 19:11:18 GMT

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) - The two candidates vying for a Montana U.S. Senate seat that's considered pivotal in determining if Democrats can wrest the majority from Republicans come November are set to face off in a Monday night debate.

First-term Republican Sen. Steve Daines is leaning on the popularity ...

Secretary of Health: Hospitals can handle more virus cases

Mon, 28 Sep 2020 19:09:44 GMT

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) - South Dakota's hospitals have plenty of capacity to care for COVID-19 patients, a top health official said Monday, even as the state has become one of the nation’s coronavirus hotspots.

South Dakota has reported the nation’s second-highest number of new cases per capita in the ...

Indiana teacher charged with battery in student's discipline

Mon, 28 Sep 2020 19:05:21 GMT

WARSAW, Ind. (AP) - A northern Indiana teacher faces a battery charge for allegedly causing an 8-year-old student to repeatedly fall down while disciplining the child.

Debra Wiley, 58, was arrested Friday after officers were called to Harrison Elementary School on reports from several teachers that another teacher had physically ...

Mississippi: 'Fake' letter claims mask mandate abolished

Mon, 28 Sep 2020 19:04:32 GMT

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - A letter circulating on social media claiming to be from the office of Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves and abolishing the statewide mask mandate is fake, Mississippi Emergency Management Agency officials said Sunday.

“The letter is a FAKE,” the agency wrote on its Facebook page, adding ...

Colorado sees drug overdose rise with virus-related stress

Mon, 28 Sep 2020 19:00:31 GMT

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) - Drug overdose deaths have increased in Colorado amid the coronavirus pandemic.

About 130 people died of overdoses in May across the state, nearly doubling the average from recent years, The Gazette reported. State health department data reported 73 deaths in 2019, 79 in 2018 ...

Brad Parscale body-cam video released; ex-Trump campaign manager allegedly threatened suicide

Mon, 28 Sep 2020 19:00:00 GMT

Police in Florida released body-cam video Monday of officers responding to the home of former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale and tackling him to the ground after he allegedly threatened suicide.

"I didn't do anything!" a shoeless and shirtless Mr. Parscale protested as Fort Lauderdale police officers handcuffed ...

Court records show a Texas sheriff has been charged with evidence tampering in the death of a Black

Mon, 28 Sep 2020 18:58:10 GMT

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Court records show a Texas sheriff has been charged with evidence tampering in the death of a Black man in custody.

Man's death at Garden City motel ruled a homicide

Mon, 28 Sep 2020 18:56:58 GMT

GARDEN CITY, Kan. (AP) - Garden City police said a man was killed inside a motel in the city during the weekend.

Officers were called to the Sunflower Inn Sunday morning to investigate a report of a man not breathing. They found the body of 23-year-old Alec Cantu on the ...

Woman in small South Carolina city dies in crossfire

Mon, 28 Sep 2020 18:54:50 GMT

NEWBERRY, S.C. (AP) - A 72-year-old woman getting out of her car in a small South Carolina city died after being caught in the crossfire between people in two vehicles, authorities said.

Carolyn Sims was able to tell police officers in Newberry that people in a truck and a car ...

Hospitalizations due to virus hit new high in North Dakota

Mon, 28 Sep 2020 18:51:39 GMT

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - Hospitalizations due to illness from the coronavirus reached an all-time high in North Dakota with 105 people receiving treatment in medical centers, state health officials reported Monday.

The record comes a day after state officials met with leaders at two hospitals in Bismarck who told a ...

Malta seeks shark tooth fossil presented to Prince George

Mon, 28 Sep 2020 18:50:54 GMT

VALLETTA, Malta (AP) - Malta says it will seek to retrieve a shark tooth that was presented to Britain’s Prince George by veteran broadcaster and naturalist David Attenborough, who found the fossil during a holiday on the Mediterranean island in the 1960s.

Culture Minister Jose Herrera said he will “get ...