SEATTLE — A fire caused by an “incendiary device” damaged hundreds of ballots inside a Vancouver, Washington, ballot box early Monday, potentially affecting one of the most competitive congressional races in the country.

Police suspect a person driving a Volvo had set a similar fire about one hour prior inside a drop box in Portland, ...Read more

Boeing Co. launched a nearly $19 billion share sale, one of the largest ever by a public company, to address the troubled planemaker’s liquidity needs and stave off a potential credit rating downgrade to junk.

The company offered to sell 90 million common shares and about $5 billion of depositary shares, according to a statement Monday, ...Read more

BALTIMORE — The Department of Justice may seize $119,000 from a bank account that belonged to Roy McGrath, the former chief of staff to Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan who died following a standoff with federal agents last year.

The money in the TD Ameritrade account was part of a severance package that became the basis for criminal charges against...Read more

As local government careens from one corruption scandal to the next, the city and county of Los Angeles each charged forward this election season with ballot measures to try to crack down on unethical behavior by public officials.

The city wants to bolster its nearly 35-year-old ethics commission with Charter Amendment ER, which would give the ...Read more

BALTIMORE — A Baltimore County judge on Monday released on home detention a former Baltimore teacher accused of the second-degree rape of his 12-year-old neighbor.

Lewis M. Laury Jr., 24, taught U.S. History at Mergenthaler Vocational-Technical High School until this summer, when he was arrested in July after authorities found a missing 12-...Read more

A new storm could form in the Caribbean this week, and forecasters have been steadily increasing the odds it will strengthen.

As of 2 p.m Eastern time Monday., the National Hurricane Center gave the newest weather system a 40% chance of developing into a tropical depression in the next seven days, with no chance of formation in the next two ...Read more

ATLANTA — Young Thug’s lengthy gang and racketeering trial is set to resume Tuesday morning following days of negotiations over possible plea deals.

It’s unclear whether any of the six defendants intend to plead guilty, but some defense attorneys confirmed meeting with members of the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office late last ...Read more

Jay Johnston, an actor known for “Bob’s Burgers” and “Mr. Show,” has been sentenced to one year and one day in prison for his role in the January 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection.

Johnston, 56, pleaded guilty to a felony count of interfering with law enforcement during civil disorder last July, roughly 13 months after he was arrested in ...Read more

ATLANTA — A pre-arrest diversion center — designed to keep people out of the notoriously overcrowded Fulton County Jail for nonviolent and minor offenses — is now open 24 hours, seven days a week in Atlanta.

The Center for Diversion and Services is located within the city’s detention center and will provide resources related to mental ...Read more

The Florida surgeon accused of removing a man’s liver instead of his spleen — resulting in his death — had another patient die after a surgical procedure that was performed a year earlier, a complaint shows.

Dr. Thomas Shaknovsky’s medical license was suspended in Florida on Sept. 24, after his patient, William Bryan, died during what ...Read more

With the general election drawing close, it’s important to know your rights in case your vote is challenged.

The best way to ensure that your vote is counted is to advocate for yourself. I’m a civil rights attorney and lecturer for the University of Southern California’s undergraduate civil rights advocacy initiative, Agents of ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — The College of Southern Nevada is citing a convicted murderer’s privacy rights in refusing to release his work history to the public, records show.

The Las Vegas Review-Journal has been trying for two years to obtain then-Clark County Public Administrator Robert Telles’ personnel records from the school. In the school’s most...Read more

NEW YORK — Multiple federal agencies converged on MDC Brooklyn, the violence-plagued federal jail where Sean “Diddy” Combs is being held, to conduct what federal prison officials would only call an “interagency operation” Monday.

Defense attorney sources described the operation as a sweeping raid of the building, with federal ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Foreign adversaries have taken part in a misinformation campaign designed to undermine confidence in the Biden administration’s response to two major hurricanes that hit Florida and the U.S. Southeast this fall, according to a newly downgraded U.S. government assessment.

A U.S. official told McClatchy that Russian influence ...Read more

ORLANDO Fla. — The National Hurricane Center increased the odds that a system could develop in the Caribbean and become the season’s next tropical depression or storm.

As of the NHC’s 2 p.m. Eastern time tropical outlook, its said a broad area of low pressure is likely to develop over the southwestern Caribbean Sea in the next few days.

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CHICAGO — In 2011, as Thomas O’Neill was in Springfield pushing for legislation on behalf of utility giant ComEd, he heard one question over and over:

What did Michael Madigan think of the bill?

“Everyone – I think without fail, but most everyone – was interested in where the speaker stood on this,” O’Neill, formerly ComEd’s ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — The Philadelphia Police Department was within its rights to fire or discipline 20 police officers who made racist or offensive posts on Facebook in 2019, a federal judge ruled Monday, bringing an end to a lawsuit the officers filed against the city four years ago.

The ruling by U.S. District Judge Wendy Beetlestone comes just ...Read more

After Iran said it would respond to Israel’s Saturday strikes on its missile and air defense systems in a corresponding fashion, the Israeli government moved its regular meeting to an undisclosed location.

Israeli officials said that, for securƒity reasons, the Cabinet didn’t meet at its usual place in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’...Read more