BALTIMORE — A Baltimore judge has paused the city’s lawsuit against an Anne Arundel County gun shop — a complaint that alleges the store sold thousands of untraceable “ghost guns” miles from city limits — ahead of trial because of a U.S. Supreme Court case that could determine the legal definition of a firearm.

Baltimore’s case ...Read more

The Somerville City Council has reaffirmed its commitment as a sanctuary city, while elected officials across Massachusetts continue to worry President-elect Donald Trump’s mass deportation plan will harm illegal immigrants who are not violent criminals.

Somerville is the latest Bay State sanctuary city to extend its support of that status, ...Read more

NEW YORK — A federal judge held New York City in contempt of court Wednesday for failing to improve conditions at Rikers and other jails — and her scathing ruling says she’s now “inclined” to place the entire correctional system under federal control.

The bombshell ruling from Manhattan Federal Court Chief Judge Laura Taylor Swain ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Concluding a multi-year disciplinary proceeding, the Florida Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that a Seminole County judge who a judicial commission found acted like a “playground bully” in court, cursing defendants and denying their rights, will receive a 60-day suspension and a public reprimand.

Circuit Court Judge Wayne ...Read more

CHICAGO — Six years ago, Chicago Ald. Daniel Solis sat in House Speaker Michael Madigan’s office to break the news that he would not be seeking re-election to the City Council.

But don’t worry, Solis told Madigan, he still had a few months left in office, and there were major new real estate developments going up in his ward, and that ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — More than 100 locations nationwide participating in new clinical trials for a drug that shows promise for treating epileptic seizures among patients for whom other medications do not work.

The drug, BHV-7000, activates potassium receptors in the brain in a way that appears to modulate seizures, explained Dr. Taha Gholipour, a ...Read more

War is often less seen than heard, and as a ceasefire between Hezbollah and Israel came into effect on Wednesday morning, Ibrahim Najdi marveled at the absence of one particular sound: the buzz of Israeli drones that had been a near-constant presence in Beirut over the last few months.

"You can't hear them, can you? They're gone," he said. He ...Read more

U.S. Rep. Katie Porter, D-Calif., was granted a temporary restraining order by a judge Tuesday after she alleged that her former partner engaged in “harassment and threats” that harmed her relationship with her family and her professional reputation.

The temporary domestic violence restraining order mandates that Julian Willis, Porter’s ...Read more

BOSTON – Boston Mayor Michelle Wu said she never intended to pick a fight with federal officials in the incoming Trump administration while firmly reiterating the city’s intent to resist mass deportation plans.

“When you talk about 10 to 20 million people that is not just those with a criminal warrant; that is uprooting families from ...Read more

A Delaware court judge has dismissed a defamation lawsuit against Fox News filed by a Jan. 6 rioter who said the network falsely identified him as an FBI informant.

U.S. District Court Judge Jennifer L. Hall granted Fox News' motion to dismiss the suit filed last year by Ray Epps.

The now-Utah-based Epps claimed his life was upended after ...Read more

Three people were killed and another was hospitalized after a Tesla Cybertruck crashed in Piedmont, California, on Wednesday, according to authorities.

Piedmont Police Chief Jeremy Bowers said that dispatchers got an iPhone alert from a passenger in the Cybertruck around 3:08 a.m. The vehicle had gotten into a collision at King Avenue and ...Read more

ATLANTA — Georgia had the 10th highest rate of abortions performed in the country in 2022, according to federal data released Wednesday.

Abortions were performed in Georgia at a rate of 17.2 per 1,000 women between the ages of 15 and 44, according to data shared by the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The CDC ...Read more

ATLANTA — Unable to reach a verdict after more than eight hours of deliberations, the Fulton County jury hearing the sprawling “Young Slime Life” gang and racketeering case was sent home Wednesday afternoon for the holiday weekend.

Two defendants remain in the longest trial in Georgia’s history. Shannon Stillwell and Deamonte Kendrick ...Read more

Thought just 17, Donald Trump’s granddaughter appears to relish her role as an aspiring, up-and-coming MAGA influencer, as she shares slickly produced videos on social media about the fun she has hanging out with her beloved, president-elect “grandpa.”

But there’s only so much that Kai Trump can do to soften the image of a man who has ...Read more

ATLANTA — On the night before Thanksgiving for each of the past 30 years, Melba McKnight of Conyers swears she hears her doorbell ring, only to find no one at the door.

McKnight and her daughter, Amber Lett-Hammond, believe the ringing doorbell is a sign from Melba’s sister, Shirley McKnight, who was murdered by her longtime ex-boyfriend ...Read more

CHICAGO — A Cook County judge who made a controversial decision to release a man on electronic monitoring weeks before he killed his estranged wife is not hearing domestic violence cases due to threats he has received, according to a statement from the chief judge’s office.

Judge Thomas Nowinski on Oct. 9 denied a Cook County prosecutor’s...Read more

ATLANTA — Unable to reach a verdict after more than eight hours of deliberations, the Fulton County jury hearing the sprawling “Young Slime Life” gang and racketeering case was sent home Wednesday afternoon for the holiday weekend.

Two defendants remain in the longest trial in Georgia’s history. Shannon Stillwell and Deamonte Kendrick ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Brooke L. Rollins is posed to tackle foreign investments in U.S. agricultural land if confirmed as Agriculture secretary, but she will face some limitations on the scope of her power to do so.

President-elect Donald Trump announced on Nov. 23 that he will nominate Rollins to lead the Agriculture Department. Rollins was a senior ...Read more