NEW YORK — Around an hour after former President Donald Trump appeared in a New York courtroom on Friday to challenge a civil jury’s findings that he sexually abused and defamed writer E. Jean Carroll, the GOP presidential nominee appeared to defame her once again.

In comments to reporters at a Trump Tower press conference at which he did ...Read more

An outpouring of grief and heartbreaking portraits washed over Winder on Thursday as hints remained elusive about what may have prompted a 14-year-old boy to allegedly open fire inside Apalachee High School, killing four people and injuring nine others.

In the wake of authorities identifying ninth-grader Colt Gray as a suspect in Wednesday’s ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — While Southern California and the Southwest swelter under their most punishing heat wave of the year, international climate officials have confirmed that the summer of 2024 was Earth’s hottest on record.

The global average temperature in June, July and August — known as the boreal summer in the Northern hemisphere — was a ...Read more

BALTIMORE — A recent statewide poll found that a majority of likely Marylander voters, about 58%, prefer “strict” juvenile justice laws over “lenient” ones, which secured roughly 34% support.

That majority preference persisted among Democrats, Republicans, white respondents, Black respondents and each age group — and remain largely ...Read more

BALTIMORE — A priest lured 9-year-old David Schappelle into a private area of St. Rose of Lima Catholic Church in Gaithersburg decades ago under the guise of teaching him about confession.

Father Wayland Brown proceeded to masturbate under his “ceremonial robe,” withdraw his hand when he was finished and tell the boy that “God will be ...Read more

Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the U.S. is investigating the death of an American citizen who was shot and killed during a protest in the West Bank, an incident that threatened to further strain ties with Israel.

Blinken declined to answer if the killing might prompt a re-evaluation of the Biden administration’s move to keep sending ...Read more

DENVER — Greenhouse farmers will be able to write off their agricultural equipment from their personal property taxes permanently under a law signed Friday by Gov. Jared Polis.

Passed as House Bill 1003 during the legislature’s special session last month, the law extends in perpetuity an exemption that was set to expire in tax year 2027. ...Read more

BOSTON — Gov. Maura Healey is going all-in on wind energy.

Amid the fallout of the Vineyard Wind turbine blade failure off the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts has secured the largest offshore wind energy procurement in state history.

The selected 2,678 megawatts from three projects, announced Friday, is also the largest purchase in New ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Two former Central Florida cops with ties to the far-right Proud Boys pleaded guilty Friday for their roles in the 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.

Kevin and Nathaniel Tuck — who are father, 52, and son, 32, and worked for the Windermere and Apopka police departments, respectively — both admitted to entering a ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris will mark the 23rd anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks with a visit to Shanksville, site of the Flight 93 National Memorial.

The site in Stonycreek Township 80 miles southeast of Pittsburgh was where one of the four planes hijacked by Arab terrorists on Sept. 11, 2021...Read more

A Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy charged with murder after killing a 12-year-old boy in a high-speed crash while off duty has pleaded no contest to vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence.

Ricardo Castro, 30, was at the wheel of his pickup truck on Nov. 3, 2021, when it rammed a car turning left in front of him at an intersection, ...Read more

WINDER, Ga. — The 14-year-old accused of fatally shooting two teachers and two students this week at Apalachee High School and his father made their first appearances in court Friday, and prosecutors announced that more charges are forthcoming.

Shackled at the hands and waist, a bleached-blond Colt Gray was the first to appear before Chief ...Read more

NEW YORK — GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump was back in a New York courtroom Friday, appearing before the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals to challenge a civil jury’s findings that he sexually abused and defamed writer E. Jean Carroll and demand a new trial.

The Republican nominee, who was not required to attend, ambled into the 17th-...Read more

ATLANTA – At least 11 juveniles and one adult in Georgia have been arrested and accused of making school threats in the days after four people were killed and nine others were injured in a shooting at Apalachee High School.

Each of the students have been charged with making terroristic threats. If convicted of a felony charge, they could face...Read more

NEW YORK — Donald Trump will not be sentenced in his Manhattan hush money case until after the November presidential election, a judge ruled on Friday.

Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan said he would rule on Trump’s outstanding motion to toss his conviction on Nov. 12.

He said Trump would be sentenced on Nov. 26 “if necessary....Read more

BALTIMORE — When firearms sold at Maryland gun stores turned up at crime scenes in Washington, D.C., and the surrounding suburbs in 2021, federal prosecutors took action against the man who bought the guns and illegally re-sold them, known as a straw purchaser.

Earlier this week, the attorneys general of Maryland and D.C. moved against other ...Read more

DENVER — Laboratory mice with cognitive issues including Alzheimer’s disease showed improved memory skills within a couple of weeks of treatment with a new medicine tested at Colorado State University.

The combination of drugs targets two brain proteins critical in neuroinflammation, which is involved in brain aging and Alzheimer’s, ...Read more

WINDER, Ga. — The 14-year-old accused of fatally shooting two teachers and two students this week at Apalachee High School and his father made their first appearances in court Friday, and prosecutors announced that more charges are forthcoming.

Shackled at the hands and waist, a bleached-blond Colt Gray was the first to appear before Chief ...Read more

DENVER — Laboratory mice with cognitive issues including Alzheimer’s disease showed improved memory skills within a couple of weeks of treatment with a new medicine tested at Colorado State University.

The combination of drugs targets two brain proteins critical in neuroinflammation, which is involved in brain aging and Alzheimer’s, ...Read more