Park City, Utah. A Utah mother, Kouri Richins, was convicted in March of aggravated murder after prosecutors say she laced her husband Eric Richins’ cocktail with five times the lethal dose of fentanyl at their Park City-area home in 2022; she faces sentencing Wednesday and a jury also convicted her...
Chamblee, Georgia. Republican Brad Raffensperger, Georgia's secretary of state and a candidate for governor, spoke Tuesday in Chamblee as part of a campaign push to reintroduce himself after his 2020 refusal to overturn the presidential election results; he told reporters he is stressing his conservative, Christian businessman credentials and has...
Washington: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued Golden Qi Holdings, LLC and its owner Yuan Yao in Collin County on May 13, alleging they operated non-existent childcare and autism-therapy businesses in Allen, Texas to fraudulently obtain H‑1B visas and to deceive regulators. The filing names websites that purported to show...
Washington, United States. U.S. government data this week showed wholesale prices jumped sharply in April, with the Producer Price Index rising 6.0 percent year‑on‑year and 1.4 percent month‑on‑month; President Donald Trump told reporters on Tuesday he viewed the surge as short-term and tied the rise to disruptions from the Iran...
Missoula, Mont. residents questioned the proposed Midtown Commons mixed-use development at City Council public comment this week, expressing concern whether the project’s hundreds of housing units will be attainable for lower-income people. Missoula Redevelopment Agency project manager Annette Marchessault said the plan was not formally income-restricted and instead focuses on...
Minneapolis — Bailey Ober threw a two-hitter for his first career shutout, leading the Minnesota Twins to a 3-0 victory over the Miami Marlins on Tuesday at Target Field. Byron Buxton stole home and Ryan Jeffers hit a two-run homer, and Ober completed the game using 89 pitches while striking...
Los Angeles. The Los Angeles Dodgers will give Shohei Ohtani a scheduled break from designated-hitter duties this week, benching him for Thursday’s game and removing him as the DH when he starts Wednesday, manager Dave Roberts said after Tuesday night’s 6-2 loss to the San Francisco Giants in which Ohtani...
Las Vegas. Vegas Golden Knights defenseman Brayden McNabb checked Anaheim Ducks center Ryan Poehling hard into the boards midway through the first period Tuesday night in Game 5; officials assessed a five-minute major for interference and issued a game misconduct after Poehling went to the ice and appeared wobbly before...
CLEVELAND — Angel Martinez homered and Cleveland's pitchers struck out 13 Tuesday night at Progressive Field, helping the Guardians beat the Los Angeles Angels 3-2; in Pittsburgh, Paul Skenes delivered eight innings of two-hit, no-walk ball with 10 strikeouts as the Pirates defeated the Colorado Rockies 3-1, both games occurring...
Washington — U.S. intelligence assessments this week show Iran has regained operational access to 30 of 33 missile sites along the Strait of Hormuz and retained roughly 70 percent of its mobile launchers and pre-war missile stockpile, according to classified reports cited by The New York Times. The assessments, prepared...
