The man charged with fatally striking “Gone Girl” actor Lisa Banes with an electric scooter last year pleaded guilty to manslaughter Wednesday and is expected to be sentenced to one to three years in prison. Brian Boyd, 27, will be sentenced Nov. 30 in the death of Banes, who was …
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U.S. consumers grew more confident for the second month in a row as gas prices continued to fall. The Conference Board said Tuesday that its consumer confidence index rose to 108 in September, from 103.6 in August. The back-to-back monthly increases follow three straight monthly declines as American households were …
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Montgomery, Ala. — – A federal judge on Monday blocked Alabama from executing an inmate who says the state lost his paperwork requesting an alternative to lethal injection. U.S. District Judge R. Austin Huffaker, Jr. issued a preliminary injunction to block the state from executing Alan Miller on Thursday by …
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Washington — The Justice Department moved to stay a portion of a Florida federal judge’s order banning the government from using some of the documents it seized from former President Donald Trump’s residence while an independent third party reviews the documents. On Friday, the department filed a motion asking the 11th …
Read More »PayPal said Friday that the company will no longer sponsor the Phoenix Suns if owner Robert Sarver remains part of the franchise when his suspension ends. PayPal said its current partnership deal with the Suns ends after the coming 2022-23 season, meaning it will expire during Sarver’s one-year suspension from …
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Alabama could be ready to use a new, untried execution method called nitrogen hypoxia to carry out a death sentence later this month, a state attorney told a federal judge Monday. James Houts, a deputy state attorney general, told U.S. District Judge R. Austin Huffaker Jr. that it is “very …
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President Biden is making his third trip to Pennsylvania in less than a week and returning just two days after his predecessor, Donald Trump, staged his own rally there — illustrating the battleground state’s importance to both parties as Labor Day kicks off a nine-week sprint to crucial midterm elections. …
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The Michigan Board of Canvassers on Wednesday rejected an abortion rights initiative after its two Republican board members voted against putting the proposed constitutional amendment on the November ballot. The two Democrats on the board voted in favor, but getting the measure on the ballot required at least three votes …
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Police are searching for the gunmen who opened fire outside an elementary school and wounded three people in the Kensington neighborhood in Philadelphia early Wednesday, CBS Philadelphia reports. Dozens of shots were fired around 1 a.m. and one of the bullets went into the school itself, authorities said. All three …
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After about 10 years as a New York City barista, Desiree Camacho decided it was time to nail down a new career path — construction. “Even my own mom when I told her I was interested in doing this, she’s like, ‘Why would you want to do that? That’s a …
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