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Supreme Court says it won’t review decision that freed Bill Cosby

The U.S. Supreme Court announced Monday without comment that it would not review Bill Cosby’s sexual assault case, leaving him a free man and ending a two-decade legal drama that shifted the cultural landscape, destroyed the groundbreaking Black actor’s reputation, and sent him to prison for several years in his… Read More

Ice-fishing shanty blown across Michigan bay; anglers safe

Three anglers are safe after a homemade ice-fishing shanty was blown about a mile (1.6 kilometers) across a bay in Michigan by winds that neared 50 mph (80 kph), authorities said. A person onshore called Huron County dispatchers about 8 a.m. Sunday after seeing someone struggling with the shanty as… Read More

Sheriff: 7 killed in Iowa tornadoes, 4 from the same family

Four of the seven people killed in devastating storms that tore through central Iowa were members of the same family who had sought shelter inside a home that was razed by a powerful tornado, authorities said. Two children, their father and their grandmother all died when a tornado hit the… Read More

‘The Batman’ screening features guest appearance from a real bat

Moviegoers in Austin, Texas, got to see more than one type of bat during a screening of “The Batman” this weekend. An actual bat was spotted swooping around inside the theater, putting the movie on pause while management called animal control and tried — unsuccessfully — to get the critter… Read More

Idaho town embodies rural trend: Conservatives seeking space

Linda Navarre moved to Sandpoint, Idaho, from Cleveland in 1978, when the town consisted of people in the timber industry and hippies “and they all got along.” Now she barely recognizes the small resort community near the Canadian border that is quickly growing as people disenchanted with big city life… Read More

Hawaii farmers harvest new root that may break record

A super-sized taro root has been harvested on Hawaii’s Big Island. The 50-pound corm, which is the root of a taro plant, was grown on Aina ’Ahiu Farm in Hawaii Island’s South Kona district and could possibly be the largest on record, West Hawaii Today reported Wednesday. Sponsored: One Man… Read More

Boston marathon bomber death sentence reinstated by SCOTUS

The Supreme Court has reinstated the death sentence for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. The justices, by a 6-3 vote Friday, agreed with the Biden administration’s arguments that a federal appeals court was wrong to throw out the sentence of death a jury imposed on Tsarnaev for his role in… Read More

Chelsea Clinton rushes to Biden defense; calls Trump ‘disgraced’

On Wednesday, former first daughter Chelsea Clinton went on ABC’s The View to promote her latest children’s book, She Persisted in Science. Before long, Clinton pivoted to bashing former President Donald Trump and pledging fealty to current President Joe Biden. 9 drugs linked to Alzheimer’s disease? [Sponsored] Co-host Sunny Hostin… Read More

Jury to start deliberating over deadly Amtrak derailment… again

Deliberations in the trial of an Amtrak engineer charged with causing a deadly 2015 derailment in Philadelphia will start anew Friday afternoon after a juror experienced a death in the family. The jury had begun weighing criminal charges against engineer Brandon Bostian on Friday morning when the judge announced around… Read More