Toxic 'forever chemicals' found in Michigan farm's beef

Fri, 28 Jan 2022 19:18:46 -0500

Officials say beef produced at a small Michigan farm was found to contain toxic "forever chemicals.”

Defense: 3 officers at Floyd killing not trained adequately

Fri, 28 Jan 2022 19:18:17 -0500

An attorney for one of the three former Minneapolis police officers on trial for allegedly violating George Floyd's civil rights says the police department didn't adequately train new officers on certain policies and taught them to obey their superiors

At fraud trial, Avenatti asks Stormy Daniels about ghosts

Fri, 28 Jan 2022 19:10:01 -0500

Michael Avenatti is seeking at his fraud trial to portray former client Stormy Daniels as someone who might be delusional

US East Coast battens down the hatches ahead of blizzard

Fri, 28 Jan 2022 19:03:02 -0500

The U.S. East Coast is bracing for a powerful winter storm that is expected produce blizzard conditions and coastal flooding followed by punishing cold

Court upholds man's conviction in fire above secret tunnels

Fri, 28 Jan 2022 18:54:02 -0500

Maryland’s highest court has upheld a wealthy stock trader’s conviction on a charge of involuntary manslaughter in the fiery death of a man who was helping him dig tunnels for a nuclear bunker under a home

Nashville officer in shooting loses police power amid review

Fri, 28 Jan 2022 18:50:01 -0500

Nashville’s police chief has stripped an officer of his policing authority after he fired the final two shots to end a fatal highway standoff in which nine officers opened fire on a man who stopped traffic while holding a box cutter

China: UN council should try to avoid civil war on Myanmar

Fri, 28 Jan 2022 18:42:16 -0500

China’s U.N. ambassador says the U.N. Security Council’s primary goal in strife-torn Myanmar should be to avoid more violence and a civil war

Bridge collapses, drops city bus into Pittsburgh ravine

Fri, 28 Jan 2022 18:12:18 -0500

Rescuers had to rappel nearly 150 feet down a Pittsburgh ravine and form a human chain to reach a few people after a bridge collapsed and took a municipal bus down with it

New York gives final salute to slain NYPD officer

Fri, 28 Jan 2022 17:17:47 -0500

New York City police officers have given a final salute to a rookie colleague gunned down with his partner a week ago

Governor kept mum amid conflicting accounts of deadly arrest

Fri, 28 Jan 2022 17:08:02 -0500

Text messages obtained by The Associated Press show Louisiana's governor was informed within hours of the deadly 2019 arrest of Ronald Greene that troopers engaged in “a violent, lengthy struggle” that ended with the Black motorist’s death