Minneapolis — Federal agents detained a five-year-old boy and his father outside their Columbia Heights home on January 20 during an ICE operation, prompting local officials and activists to allege the child was used to draw others out while DHS says the father fled and abandoned the child. School leaders...
Little Rock, Arkansas — Lottery officials confirmed multiple major drawings this week, with winners claiming prizes across several states. Arkansas announced the anonymous claimant of the Dec. 24 $1.8 billion Powerball jackpot took a one-time cash payout of $834.9 million before tax; the ticket was sold in Cabot. Powerball reported...
PORTLAND, Maine. Federal immigration agents conducted a sweeping enforcement operation this week in Maine, arresting about 50 people on the first day and identifying roughly 1,400 operational targets, officials said. State and local leaders, including Gov. Janet Mills and city mayors, demanded warrants and transparency while sheriffs reported the detention...
Wichita, Kan. — Wichita State defeated East Carolina 77-60 on Wednesday as Kenyon Giles scored 27 points, giving the Shockers a 12-8 record and a 4-3 mark in the American Athletic Conference. Honolulu — Hawaii beat CSU Bakersfield 98-71 on Thursday as Quandre Bullock posted 17 points and 12 rebounds,...
Across the United States, local governments and nonprofits opened warming shelters and expanded beds as severe cold and winter storms approached. Cities including Mullins, Elyria, St. Louis, Asheville and Eupora mobilized shelters, donated supplies, outreach and Code Blue activations to protect unhoused and heat-insecure residents. Shelters operated from city halls,...
Corpus Christi, Texas — A jury acquitted former Uvalde school police officer Adrian Gonzales on Jan. 21 after more than seven hours of deliberation in the trial over his response to the May 24, 2022, Robb Elementary School shooting. Jurors found Gonzales not guilty on all 29 child-endangerment counts, each...
United States — State transportation agencies prepared roads ahead of a weekend winter storm this week, pre-treating highways with brine, loading salt and applying sand mixtures. Agencies reported staffing crews, readying hundreds of plows and spreaders, and positioning supplies for round‑the‑clock monitoring beginning Thursday through Sunday. Officials in Texarkana, Oklahoma...
Raleigh, N.C. Governors in North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia declared states of emergency Wednesday and mobilized state agencies ahead of a major winter storm forecast to arrive this weekend. State transportation departments pretreated roads and restocked salt; national guards and emergency response teams were activated. Officials urged residents to...
DES MOINES, Iowa, Former Des Moines Public Schools superintendent Ian Roberts pleaded guilty Thursday to federal counts of falsely claiming U.S. citizenship and illegally possessing firearms, according to a plea agreement released Wednesday. Roberts, a native of Guyana who led the district of about 30,000 students, was arrested Sept. 26...
Chicago. Meteorologists across the U.S. Midwest and Plains warn of an approaching winter system that will produce heavy snow in parts of Kansas and Missouri, lake-effect and scattered snow in Michigan and Wisconsin, and dangerously low wind chills from the Dakotas to Ohio this week. National Weather Service offices and...
