UNION TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) — State police troopers came to the rescue of a bear cub found in a ditch along the side of a major interstate highway in northern New Jersey. Troopers from the Perryville station responded shortly before 1:40 p.m. Wednesday to milepost 12.2 on I-78 eastbound in ...
By DAVID MORENO/Fort Worth Report Nuchi Nashoba grew up looking at a photograph of her great-grandfather Ben Carterby inside her grandmother's Oklahoma home. But, she didn't know much about the man in the frame other than that he was a World War I veteran. It wasn't until 1989 — when ...
By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — A California dairy producer that health authorities have been investigating amid an ongoing outbreak of E. coli is recalling some of its raw cheese products, after initially refusing to do so. Raw Farm of Fresno, California, said ...
By SAFURA SYED/Verite News More than a decade of federal oversight of special education in New Orleans charter schools has ended, following a Tuesday (March 31) decision by U.S. District Judge Jay Zainey to terminate a sweeping consent judgment, which went into effect in early 2015. That ...
By BROOKE KUSHWAHA/The New Bedford Light For four years, since Larry Lewis moved to Cranberry Village, he's heard the rumble of trucks and excavators from a sand excavation site owned by cranberry grower A.D. Makepeace. The noise is a nuisance, but his real concern is when sand particles ...
By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The president of the 165,000-student University of Wisconsin system is fighting attempts by the board of regents to force him to retire or face being fired. The surprise effort to remove Jay Rothman from the post he has held since ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Homeland Security is pausing the purchase of new warehouses intended to house immigrants as it scrutinizes all contracts signed under former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, according to a senior Homeland Security official. The development comes ...
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Jurors failed to reach a verdict on Tuesday in the corruption trial of two fired FirstEnergy Corp. executives charged with alleged roles in a $60 million scheme to bribe politicians for a $1 billion nuclear bailout and other favors. The declaration of an impasse came ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A bipartisan group of four senators has plans to visit Taiwan, Japan and South Korea in the coming days on a trip meant to bolster U.S. alliances seen as important to countering China's dominance in Asia. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire, the top Democrat on the Senate ...
By TRÂN NGUYỄN Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California's Democratic attorney general and a voting rights group launched legal challenges this week to halt a seizure and recount of more than half a million 2025 election ballots by a Republican county sheriff who is ...
By STEPHEN GROVES, MARY CLARE JALONICK and JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — For several hours Friday, in the stillness before dawn, the Senate appeared to have finally figured out how to fund most of the Department of Homeland Security before it faced the longest partial ...
By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — The USS Massachusetts officially joined the Navy fleet on Saturday after a commissioning ceremony, making it the first submarine named after the Bay State. The newest Virginia-class fast attack submarine, which can dive to depths greater ...
By KEVIN FREKING, LISA MASCARO and JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Friday signed a promised executive action to pay Transportation Security Administration employees after a bid to end the shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security ...
By ANNIE MA AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 7 million student loan borrowers who have been enrolled in a Biden-era repayment plan will receive notices beginning Friday with instructions to seek a new plan to repay their debt, the Education Department said. Borrowers ...
By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — A 120-year-old Hawaii dam that reached worrisome levels during heavy rains and devastating flooding, prompting thousands of residents to evacuate for fear of life-threatening failure last week, will soon be taken over by the ...
JUPITER ISLAND, Fla. (AP) — Tiger Woods' arrest Friday for a car crash in Florida was at least the fourth auto-related incident involving the golfer and the second in which he was charged with driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol. Woods showed signs of impairment and was arrested ...
By SARAH BRUMFIELD Associated Press Savannah Guthrie, who will return on April 6 as co-host of NBC's "Today" show after a nearly two-month absence sparked by the disappearance of her 84-year-old mother, said in an interview that aired on Friday that "joy will be my protest." Guthrie, ...
By MAE ANDERSON and JOSH FUNK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Transportation Security Administration officers could get their first full paychecks in more than six weeks as early as Monday after President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday instructing the Homeland Security ...
By JAKE OFFENHARTZ and MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A man accused of planning to firebomb the home of a prominent Palestinian activist has been arrested following a weekslong undercover operation led by the New York City Police Department, officials said Friday. The ...
By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A white Connecticut police officer who fatally shot a Black man in a mental health crisis was fired Friday as public outrage grew over videos showing he began shooting 30 seconds after arriving at the scene, where other officers had ...