Authorities in southern Wisconsin say dozens of people were injured in a massive traffic pileup amid snowy conditions. The crash blocked Interstate 39/90 for hours Friday. WIFR-TV reports that Beloit Memorial Hospital said at least 27 people were treated for injuries sustained in the crash. … More >>Snow leads to massive pileup in Wisconsin, dozens injured

Four white men with white supremacist ties have been sentenced in federal court in Seattle for an assault on a Black DJ in the suburb of Lynnwood. All four were convicted of committing a hate crime and making false statements. The Daily Herald reports Jason DeSimas, of Tacoma, and Jason Stan… More >>White supremacists who attacked Black DJ at bar sentenced

After being held in detention in Texas for months during his legal fight to remain in the U.S., Afghan soldier Abdul Wasi Safi is now a free man as he works to secure asylum in America. Wasi Safi fled Afghanistan following the withdrawal of U.S. forces in August 2021, fearing reprisals from … More >>Afghan soldier seeking US asylum hopes for 'American dream'

The driver of a car that plunged 250 feet off a treacherous cliff in northern California, injuring his two young children and his wife, has been released from the hospital and jailed on suspicion of attempted murder and child abuse. The San Mateo County District Attorney's Office announced F… More >>Driver in California Tesla crash jailed for attempted murder

A woman who told police she was groped by a former state lawmaker said she is outraged by him calling the incident  “laughable." Elizabeth Daly on Thursday issued a statement through her attorney saying she was outraged by the  claims in a court action filed by former Rep. Perry Hooper Jr. T… More >>Woman in groping case with former lawmaker speaks out

In Oregon, mass timber is increasingly being viewed as a construction material that could help the state build more affordable homes and revive rural logging towns. Mass timber is made from wood products that are fastened together to make large panels or beams. A new prototype of a affordabl… More >>Oregon pins hopes on mass timber to boost housing, jobs

Authorities in Iowa have charged a second teenager with murder in the shooting deaths of two students at a Des Moines educational program. Nineteen-year-old Bravon Michael Tukes faces two counts of first-degree murder, one count of attempted murder and one count of criminal gang participatio… More >>Police charge 2nd teen in Iowa school shooting that killed 2

South Dakota’s Senate Republican leader says that a committee will investigate a suspended senator for allegedly harassing a legislative aide during an exchange over childhood vaccines and breastfeeding. Sen. Casey Crabtree, the Senate GOP leader, had declined to provide details of the alleg… More >>S. Dakota GOP leader: Senator accused of harassment

The Federal Reserve Board has denied a Wyoming cryptocurrency bank’s application for Federal Reserve System membership. The decision deals a setback to the crypto industry’s attempts to build acceptance in mainstream U.S. banking. Many in crypto were looking to Cheyenne-based Custodia Bank’s… More >>Wyoming crypto bank's Federal Reserve application denied

The national president of the Fraternal Order of Police has issued a scathing statement over the actions of five former Memphis police officers involved in the arrest of Tyre Nichols. Patrick Yoes says the officers’ encounter with Nichols “does not constitute legitimate police work or a traf… More >>Live Updates | Release of video in Tyre Nichols' arrest

Amazon is axing free grocery delivery for Prime members on orders less than $150. In an email to Prime members Friday, Amazon said customers who get their groceries delivered from Amazon Fresh — and pay less than $150 — will be charged between $3.95 and $9.95 depending on the order size. The… More >>Amazon axes free grocery delivery on Prime orders under $150

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem has yet to make herself available to the Capitol press during the first three weeks of the state’s legislative session. It breaks with a decades-old ritual of South Dakota governors holding a weekly news conference to publicly discuss their policy initiatives an… More >>South Dakota's Noem breaks news conference tradition

A baby has died after his 32-year-old mother in Massachusetts was charged with injuring him and killing two of her other young children. Plymouth District Attorney Timothy Cruz’s office says in a statement that 7-month-old Callan Clancy died late Friday morning. Lindsay Clancy is facing two … More >>Prosecutor: 3rd child dies after attack by Massachusetts mom

Police body-camera video from a deadly shooting this week in Ohio shows officers shooting a man after he walked toward them with a rifle and raised it at them. The footage shows the officers repeatedly calling for the man to drop the gun before they opened fire. Toledo’s interim police chief… More >>Video shows police repeatedly warn armed man before firing

A judge has ruled that New York state should pay former Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s legal bills as he defends himself against a lawsuit accusing him of sexually harassing a state trooper. Cuomo filed a lawsuit against Attorney General Letitia James in August arguing that she violated state law by de… More >>New York should pay Cuomo's legal fees in suit, judge rules

A camera atop Hawaii’s tallest mountain has captured what looks like a spiral swirling through the night sky. Researchers believe it shows the aftereffects of a SpaceX rocket launch when the company’s Falcon 9 rocket sent a GPS satellite into orbit. The images were captured on Jan. 18 by a c… More >>Camera captures night sky spiral after SpaceX rocket launch

Police say a man accused of torturing a woman he held captive in Oregon, and who was convicted in Nevada of keeping another woman in captivity, is using dating apps to try to find unsuspecting people to help him escape a police manhunt or find new victims. Benjamin Obadiah Foster is the subj… More >>Police warn that Oregon torture suspect is using dating apps

Officials in Nevada say a key stretch of the main freeway between Los Angeles and Salt Lake City will be closed all weekend as part of a project to reshape a busy interchange serving the Las Vegas Strip. Interstate 15 will be shut down late Friday to early Monday to allow for demolition of a… More >>'Dropicana': Stretch of I-15 in Vegas closing for weekend

A teenage girl who, along with a younger boy, engaged in a shootout with Florida deputies from a home they had broken into in 2021 was sentenced Friday to 20 years in prison after reaching a plea deal. During a hearing Friday, 15-year-old Nicole Jackson-Maldonado pleaded no contest to attemp… More >>Teen who fired at Florida deputies sentenced to 20 years

North Dakota landowners testified for and against a carbon capture company’s use of eminent domain. Some landowners said carbon companies should not be able to forcibly buy people's land. Other landowners said carbon companies should be able to so they can complete pipeline construction quic… More >>North Dakota landowners at odds in carbon pipeline plans

South Dakota’s congressional delegation has written a letter to President Joe Biden in support of the Pine Ridge and Rosebud reservations’ requests for a major disaster declaration following winter storms that left six people dead. U.S. Sens. Mike Rounds and John Thune, and U.S. Rep. Dusty J… More >>S. Dakota tribes seek disaster declaration in storm recovery

The interim manager appointed by the U.S. Department of Justice to reform the troubled water system in Mississippi’s capital city has released a new financial plan to change Jackson’s billing system and spend hundreds of millions of federal relief funds paying down the system’s debt. The pla… More >>DOJ appointee releases new plan for 'tenuous' Jackson water

Authorities say a 29-year-old woman used false documents to enroll as a New Jersey high school student and attended some classes over a four-day period before her scheme was discovered last week. It's not yet known what the woman’s intentions were, and officials say she's been charged with p… More >>Police: 29-year-old posed as teen to enroll in high school

A sixth teenager pleaded guilty to charges in a 2022 shooting outside a Des Moines high school that left one person dead and two others injured. The Des Moines Register reports that 17-year-old Braulio Hernandez-Salas pleaded guilty to two counts of intimidation with a dangerous weapon. Pros… More >>6th teen pleads guilty in 2022 shooting near Iowa school

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration quietly removed its top official in Mexico last year over improper contact with lawyers for major narcotraffickers. Nicholas Palmeri’s socializing and vacationing with Miami drug lawyers, detailed in confidential records obtained by the Associated Pre… More >>DEA's Mexico chief quietly removed over ties to drug lawyers

A timeline of events in the Tyre Nichols case, which sparked state and federal investigations into police brutality and led to murder and other charges against the five officers involved in his arrest this month. More >>A timeline of events in Tyre Nichols arrest, death

Some student leaders at a Minnesota college where a lesson on Islamic art included a painting of the Prophet Muhammad are supporting the embattled president. The students wrote in a letter on Hamline University’s student news site that they do not want school President Fayneese Miller to res… More >>Student groups show support for Minnesota college president

Tyre Nichols was killed by police in Memphis after they pulled him over Jan. 7. Video of the incident is to be released to the public on Friday. Family and friends remember Nichols as a generous, lovable man who worked hard to be a good father to his 4-year-old son. He was passionate about p… More >>Tyre Nichols remembered as beautiful soul with creative eye

Mstyslav Chernov’s documentary “20 Days in Mariupol,” a first-person account of the early days of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, won the audience prize for world cinema documentary at the Sundance Film Festival. Juries for the various sections at the festival announced the winners at an aw… More >>'20 Days in Mariupol' wins Sundance audience award

The fallout from the shooting of a teacher by a first-grader in Virginia has prompted a staff shakeup in the Newport News school district. In addition to the firing of  Superintendent Gary Parker this week, the principal and assistant principal of Richneck Elementary School have also left th… More >>Fallout from shooting by first-grader includes staff shakeup

Rep. George Santos’ campaign committee is facing new questions from federal regulators after submitting paperwork listing a new treasurer who says he never took the job. The Federal Election Commission sent a letter Thursday to the Devolder Santos for Congress campaign seeking clarity on the… More >>FEC wants answers on Rep. Santos' chaotic treasurer switch

A federal judge has delayed sentencing of a former Mississippi welfare director in a case about misspending money that was intended to help needy families. John Davis pleaded guilty to federal and state charges in September and agreed to testify against others in Mississippi’s largest public… More >>Federal sentencing delayed in Mississippi welfare fraud case

Alex Murdaugh’s comments to police about his whereabouts around the time his wife and son were fatally shot may not have been accurate. That's according to video evidence presented by prosecutors Friday at the South Carolina attorney’s murder trial. In cross examining one of the detectives w… More >>Hours after killings, Alex Murdaugh said he didn't see wife

The federal perjury case against Baltimore’s former top prosecutor likely faces further delays now that a judge has allowed her entire defense team to quit. A judge on Friday also declared Marilyn Mosby indigent and therefore eligible to be represented by a public defender. Her six private l… More >>Baltimore ex-prosecutor's perjury trial faces more delays

Groups representing social workers and women say they have succeeded in forcing a small Ohio city to significantly narrow its abortion ban and dropped their lawsuit. The National Association of Social Workers and the Abortion Fund of Ohio said their move Jan. 12 followed the city of Lebanon … More >>Ohio city rewrites abortion ban, advocacy groups end lawsuit

Newly released video shows the husband of former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi fighting for control of a hammer with his assailant during a brutal attack in the couple’s San Francisco home last year. The footage was released Friday after a coalition of news agencies, including The Associat… More >>Video shows struggle for hammer during Pelosi attack

Newly released video of attack on Paul Pelosi shows him fighting for control of hammer before he is struck. More >>Newly released video of attack on Paul Pelosi shows him fighting for control of hammer before he is struck

The families of five passengers killed in a plane crash off the North Carolina coast have settled wrongful death lawsuits for $15 million. Their attorneys told the court that the companies that owned the plane and employed the pilot paid the money. The suits claimed the pilot failed to prope… More >>Lawsuits in NC plane crash that killed 8 settled for $15M

The archives of the late Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne have been acquired by the New York Public Library. The material spans letters and wedding pictures to manuscripts and screenplay drafts. The library announced the acquisition Friday. Didion and Dunne were married from 1964 until his… More >>Didion-Dunne archives acquired by New York Public Library

Two months after undergoing surgery for serious burns, Jay Leno is now contending with a number of broken bones after being knocked off a motorcycle. The comedian and former “Tonight Show” host told a Las Vegas Review-Journal columnist Thursday that he broke his collarbone and two ribs and c… More >>Jay Leno breaks bones in motorcycle wreck months after fire

Ten Filipino men who worked for a major offshore oil industry employer under federally granted visas claim in a federal lawsuit they were treated like prisoners at a company bunkhouse and that some of them were abandoned there when Hurricane Ida struck the Louisiana Gulf Coast in August 2021… More >>Filipino workers: Oil company abandoned us in Hurricane Ida

A comet is streaking back our way after 50,000 years. NASA says the dirty snowball last visited during Neanderthal times. It will come within 26 million miles of Earth on Wednesday before speeding away again. And it might not return for millions of years. Discovered less than a year ago, thi… More >>Green comet zooming our way, last visited 50,000 years ago

Prosecutors in Massachusetts are basing their murder case against a man whose wife is presumed dead but whose body has not been found in large part on a series of gruesome internet searches. But experts warn that incriminating internet searches are not enough alone to build a case. Prosecuto… More >>Internet evidence key, but not enough in no-body murder case

It’s been nearly a decade since Smokey Robinson’s last album, but new music from the King of Motown is on the horizon. Robinson announced Friday that he will release the nine-track album “Gasms” on April 28. “Gasms” features new songs produced and written by Robinson himself. The former vice… More >>Smokey Robinson, 'King of Motown,' to release new solo album

The city of Memphis and the nation are awaiting the release of a police video depicting five officers viciously beating a Black man who later died. Tyre Nichols' death prompted murder charges against the officers and outrage at the country’s latest instance of police brutality. The officers … More >>Memphis braces for release of video in Tyre Nichols' arrest

The next novel by two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward is the story of an enslaved teenage girl that the publisher is calling a blend of magical realism, historical narrative and Dante’s “Inferno.” Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, announced Friday that Ward’s “Let Us … More >>Jesmyn Ward novel 'Let Us Descend' to be published Oct. 3

Several years of pandemic restrictions and curriculum battles have emboldened longtime advocates of funneling public funds to private and religious schools in statehouses throughout the country. Republicans and parents’ rights activists are pushing voucher-style education savings account pro… More >>Pandemic, culture wars revive 'school choice' policy push