Park Fire grows to 4th largest blaze in California history
CHICO, Calif. (CN) — The Park Fire has now become the fourth largest fire in California history, as officials say weather conditions potentially are changing for the worse. The fire, which began July...
View ArticleProgrammer impersonated in Mesa County election data leak tells jury he...
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (CN) — Jerry Wood, a software engineer from Mesa County, Colorado was attending Mike Lindell’s Cyber Symposium in August 2021, when he started seeing his name on the news....
View ArticleFirst Circuit upholds gun ban for nonviolent felons
(CN) — The First Circuit upheld a federal law Friday prohibiting nonviolent felons from possessing guns, despite the Supreme Court’s landmark Bruen case that expanded gun rights under the Second...
View ArticleBART extension to San Jose gets $5.1 billion jolt from federal government grant
SANTA CLARA, Calif. (CN) — The Federal Transit Administration awarded a $5.1 billion grant to help Bay Area Rapid Transit extend its rail lines into Silicon Valley. The extension project aims to...
View ArticleEnvironmentalists prevail in lawsuit over feds’ grasshopper suppression program
(CN) — A federal judge on Friday sided with two environmental advocacy organizations in their challenge to the U.S. Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service’s updated program to use pesticides to...
View ArticleDefense secretary overrides plea agreement for accused 9/11 mastermind and...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Friday overrode a plea agreement reached earlier this week for the accused mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and two other defendants,...
View Article‘Serious and troubling’ internal investigations mar Oakland police progress...
OAKLAND, Calif. (CN) — Oakland’s police department still has not rectified ongoing problems with how internal investigators manage cases involving its own officers, according to a longstanding federal...
View ArticleFederal judge declines to halt Arizona horse auction
PHOENIX (CN) — A federal judge declined to block the U.S. Forest Service from selling 13 unowned horses found in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest in a Texas auction. Like many places in the...
View ArticleHawaii announces $4 billion global settlement over Maui wildfires
HONOLULU (CN) — Victims of what has been described as the worst natural disaster in the state of Hawaii will now receive over $4 billion to resolve hundreds of lawsuits filed in the wake of wildfires...
View ArticleNorth Carolina father arrested over son’s drugs can sue cops who withheld...
(CN) — The Fourth Circuit found Monday that a Black minister who was arrested and held on a $5 million bond after helping community members file complaints against the local police department was...
View ArticleTrump attorney will cooperate in Arizona election subversion case
PHOENIX (CN) — Arizona dropped election subversion charges against former Donald Trump attorney Jenna Ellis in exchange for her cooperation in prosecuting the remaining 17 defendants. Ellis will...
View ArticleCivil trial over Southern California surf gang ‘localism’ kicks off
LOS ANGELES (CN) — The civil trial over one of America’s most notorious surf gangs, the Lunada Bay Boys, and the wealthy city that is accused of looking the other way while the Bay Boys jealously...
View ArticleSecond Circuit finds post-9/11 congressional ‘torture’ report not subject to...
MANHATTAN (CN) — A report produced by Congress on the CIA’s post-9/11 detention and interrogation program is not covered by the federal freedom of information law, a Second Circuit panel found Monday....
View ArticleSeattle settles pollution fight with Monsanto for $160 million
(CN) — Seattle’s eight-year legal battle against Monsanto over contamination of the Lower Duwamish River ended Monday with a dismissal following a $160 million settlement with the chemical giant....
View ArticleIllinois abolishes state grocery tax
CHICAGO (CN) — Democratic Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker signed a bill repealing the state’s 1% grocery tax on Monday, a move the governor committed to in the 2025 budget this past June. The bill,...
View ArticleJudge advances Twitter investor suit against Elon Musk to discovery
SAN FRANCISCO(CN) — A federal judge ruled to advance a class action by Twitter investors who claim Elon Musk manipulated Twitter stock leading up to his $44 billion purchase of the social media...
View ArticleFederal judge scrutinizes San Francisco’s collection of homeless residents’...
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — A federal judge ruled Monday that San Francisco officials must provide better training for its workers who collect homeless individuals’ personal belongings as the city ramps up...
View ArticleContainment on California’s Park Fire reaches 34%
(CN) — A Cal Fire official noted Monday afternoon that a large plume of smoke extended into the sky from the Park Fire. Steep terrain, making it difficult for firefighters to approach the blaze,...
View ArticleMesa County elections worker recalls ‘heartbreaking’ voting machine leak
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (CN) — On the witness stand Monday, a Mesa County elections administrator emotionally recalled the day that she learned her office was under investigation for leaking voting...
View ArticleConservative radio host seeks dismissal of election fraud defamation case...
DENVER (CN) — A conservative attorney and the network that hosts his talk radio show asked the Colorado Court of Appeals on Tuesday to reverse a lower court’s denial of anti-SLAPP motions to dismiss a...
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