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NYC contract negotiations with NYPD sergeants falls apart; union requests outside mediator
NEW YORK — Contract negotiations between New York City and NYPD sergeants — many of whom are now getting paid less than some police officers they oversee — have completely broken down, forcing the union to declare an impasse with city negotiators and ask for the assistance of an outside mediator, the Daily News has learned.
Vincent ...Read more
Majority of border methamphetamine seizures occur in California, while fentanyl moves east
SAN DIEGO — Seizures at the California-Mexico border accounted for nearly half of all illegal drugs encountered by U.S. border authorities along the Southwest border in the last fiscal year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Enforcement data released this week.
In all, CBP seized more than 275,000 pounds of illegal drugs along the ...Read more
For the first time in years, a Las Vegas jury has sentenced a man to death
LAS VEGAS — Earlier this month, a jury sentenced a 54-year-old man to death for a 2012 murder — the first death penalty sentence a jury in Nevada has handed down in more than five years.
The jury found Robert Brown guilty of murdering his girlfriend, 29-year-old Nichole Nick, after breaking into her apartment, attacking her, shooting and ...Read more
Defense takes aim at Idaho's death penalty ahead of Bryan Kohberger capital murder trial
BOISE, Idaho — Bryan Kohberger’s defense beat back at prosecutors’ plan to give an Ada County jury the option to hand the University of Idaho homicide suspect a death sentence in the latest court filings of the closely watched case.
Kohberger’s attorneys this week filed more than a dozen briefs to support their ongoing effort to strike ...Read more
McDonald's E. coli outbreak is just latest food scare. How can diners stay safe?
The list of recalled foods and foodborne illness outbreaks has lately been a long one: Listeria in Boar’s Head deli meats, smoked salmon from Costco and frozen waffles from Aldi, Target and Walmart. E. coli in McDonald’s Quarter Pounders. Salmonella at Downtown Baltimore’s Fogo de Chao.
And, this week, a contaminated meal that sent dozens...Read more
Jurors who'll decide fate of accused suitcase killer Boone to have additional options besides murder charge
ORLANDO, Fla. — Jurors expected to begin deliberating the fate of accused suitcase killer Sarah Boone on Friday evening will have additional options for convicting her besides the second-degree murder charge that put her on trial.
Boone, 47, charged in the February 2020 suffocation death of boyfriend Jorge Torres Jr., 42, inside a suitcase, ...Read more
California may ban forced labor in prisons. What's involuntary servitude really like?
John ‘J’ Vasquez went into prison at 16 years old and spent a decade becoming “worse inside” before he began to put in the work toward rehabilitation.
Sentenced to 15 years to life for a gang-related murder he committed as a teen, Vasquez spent more than 25 years bouncing around various California prisons before he was released on ...Read more
Former Abercrombie CEO Mike Jeffries pleads not guilty to sex trafficking charges
NEW YORK — Disgraced ex-Abercrombie CEO Mike Jeffries and one of his codefendants pleaded not guilty Friday to charges of sex trafficking and interstate prostitution at their arraignment in Central Islip’s federal court.
Jeffries and James Jacobson were released on bond — $10 million for the former fashion CEO and $500,000 for Jacobson, ...Read more
President Joe Biden to visit Baltimore next week to tout infrastructure and 'pro-union' record
BALTIMORE — President Joe Biden plans to return to Baltimore next week to highlight his administration’s investments in infrastructure and his “pro-union” record, The Baltimore Sun has learned.
He plans to tout the effects of the 2021 Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, according to an administration release provided in advance of the ...Read more
What is E. coli? How do you get sick from it? What to know about bacteria behind McDonald's outbreak
It may not feel like it when the worst stomach flu of your life has you in its grip, but often, the best thing to do when you have E. coli is to rest and keep drinking beverages with electrolytes.
At least 26 people in Colorado and 49 others nationwide got sick from E. coli in an outbreak linked to McDonald’s Quarter Pounder hamburgers ...Read more
NASA astronaut hospitalized after SpaceX Crew-8 splashdown return off Florida coast
ORLANDO, Fla. — A NASA astronaut suffered a medical issue and remains hospitalized in Florida on Friday after returning to Earth from a nearly eight-month stay in space.
NASA did not reveal which of the three NASA astronauts of the four-person crew of the SpaceX Crew-8 mission suffered the issue, but said in a statement the person was in “...Read more
Survey finds Americans more afraid today than at any time in recent history
A decade ago, a few days before Halloween, a team of sociologists at Chapman University published the first “Survey of American Fears,” a poll of more than 1,000 Americans about the things that give them the willies.
The “American Fears” survey quickly became an annual media event, a social science version of Groundhog Day. Most years, ...Read more
How age of Washington state mass shooting suspect will complicate court process
SEATTLE — Because of his age and nearly two decades of legal precedent that requires courts to treat children differently from adults, the 15-year-old boy accused in a mass shooting near Fall City will have a far more complicated court case than if he were even a year older.
On Thursday, King County prosecutors charged the teenager in ...Read more
Taylor Swift-themed cruise returns to Miami after search for missing passenger suspended
Royal Caribbean’s Allure of the Seas returned to Port Miami early Friday, concluding a Taylor Swift-themed cruise during which a woman fell from the ship’s 14th floor and into the water.
The 66-year-old passenger, who has not been identified, went overboard on Tuesday night around 9:30 p.m., a day after the cruise ship departed from Port ...Read more
As Israeli airstrikes destroy cities in Lebanon, some see echoes of Gaza
NABATIEH, Lebanon — The Ottoman-era arches of this city's Old Market had stood witness to the many conflicts that have plagued Lebanon's south.
They tumbled, along with rest of the market, in an Israeli airstrike in Nabatieh. A few days later, another airstrike hit the city's municipal building, killing 16 people, including the mayor. Then a...Read more
Biden issues rare presidential apology over Indian boarding schools
President Joe Biden apologized for the federal government’s role in running a system of Indian boarding schools that separated Native American children from their families and wreaked havoc on tribal communities.
“It’s a sin on our soul,” Biden said Friday at the Gila River Indian Community in Arizona, calling his formal apology “long...Read more
New Mexico judge denies prosecutor's bid to reopen Alec Baldwin manslaughter case
A New Mexico judge has refused to revive Alec Baldwin's manslaughter case in the "Rust" movie shooting, denying a motion from the prosecutor who had asked the judge to reconsider her decision to clear Baldwin of criminal liability.
First Judicial Circuit Court Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer on Friday denied special prosecutor Kari T. Morrissey's ...Read more
Chicago rapper Lil Durk planned private flight to Italy before charges in murder-for-hire plot filed, Feds say
CHICAGO — Rapper and Englewood native Lil Durk, born Durk Banks, was scheduled to take a private jet to Italy when he was arrested Thursday in Florida in connection with an alleged murder-for-hire plot, according to a federal criminal complaint unsealed in California on Friday.
Banks, 32, was charged in the complaint with contracting five ...Read more
Exclusive: Emails reveal how health departments struggle to track human cases of bird flu
Bird flu cases have more than doubled in the country within a few weeks, but researchers can’t determine why the spike is happening because surveillance for human infections has been patchy for seven months.
Just this week, California reported its 15th infection in dairy workers and Washington state reported seven probable cases in poultry ...Read more
California mental health agency director to resign following conflict of interest allegations
California’s mental health commission on Thursday announced its executive director would resign amid revelations that he traveled to the U.K. courtesy of a state vendor while he sought to prevent a budget cut that would have defunded the company’s contract.
Toby Ewing, executive director of the Mental Health Services Oversight and ...Read more
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