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October 20, 2020 at 2:36 am

AP finds most arrested in protests aren’t leftist radicals

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump portrays the hundreds of people arrested nationwide in protests against racial injustice as violent urban left-wing radicals. But an...

FILE – In this May 30, 2020, file photo, protesters demonstrate as a Salt Lake City police vehicle burns, in Salt Lake City. Investigators studied video footage to find Jackson Stuart Tamowski Patton, 26, who is accused of tossing a combustible substance into the patrol car, feeding the flames that destroyed it, prosecutors said in court documents. The Department of Justice is using aggressive tactics against those it has charged in the civil unrest over racism. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File) WX201 WX201

October 20, 2020 at 2:30 am

AP finds most arrested in protests aren’t leftist radicals

Contrary to portrayals by the Trump administration, an analysis of protest-related arrests found that very few of those charged appear to be affiliated with highly...

October 10, 2020 at 9:00 pm

‘We can’t lose our momentum:’ Louisiana vows to rebuild VIEW

LAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) — Back-to-back hurricanes in the space of six weeks left parts of Louisiana blanketed Sunday with tarpaulins, mangled metal and downed...

October 9, 2020 at 11:02 pm

Delta adds insult to injury in hurricane-ravaged Louisiana VIEW

LAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) — The day after Hurricane Delta blew through besieged southern Louisiana, residents started the routine again: dodging overturned cars, trudging through...

October 9, 2020 at 10:34 am

Professor charged in China case sues Harvard over legal fees

BOSTON (AP) — A Harvard University professor charged with hiding his ties to a Chinese-run recruitment program sued the Ivy League school on Friday over...

October 7, 2020 at 7:15 am

US asks Supreme Court to hear Boston Marathon bomber’s case

BOSTON (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department asked the nation's highest court Tuesday to review the case of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, whose death...

In this Sept. 11, 2019 photo, Bennett Walsh, superintendent of the Soldiers’ Home in Holyoke, speaks at a 9/11 ceremony in West Springfield, Mass. Walsh and medical director David Clinton were indicted Thursday, Sept. 24, 2020, on charges of mishandling the coronavirus outbreak at the home for aging veterans where more than 70 died from COVID-19. (Don Treeger/The Republican) MASPD501 MASPD501

September 25, 2020 at 8:19 am

2 charged over handling of virus outbreak at veterans home

Nearly 80 people sickened by the virus have died at the Holyoke Soldiers' Home. A scathing independent report cited administrators' "utterly baffling" decisions that helped...

September 24, 2020 at 12:05 pm

AP Explains: Powerful grand juries stay shrouded in secrecy

The announcement that no police officers would be charged in the death of Breonna Taylor threw a spotlight on the role of grand juries, which...

September 24, 2020 at 6:58 am

In Taylor case, limits of law overcome calls for justice

“Arrest the cops who killed Breonna Taylor” became a rallying cry this summer, emblazoned on T-shirts worn by celebrities and sports stars while protesters filled...

Protesters speak, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2020, in Louisville, Ky. A grand jury has indicted one officer on criminal charges six months after Breonna Taylor was fatally shot by police in Kentucky. The jury presented its decision against fired officer Brett Hankison Wednesday to a judge in Louisville, where the shooting took place.(AP Photo/Darron Cummings) KYDC139 KYDC139

September 23, 2020 at 2:54 pm

In Taylor case, limits of law overcome calls for justice

The legal outcome for police in their killing of Breonna Taylor demonstrates the vast disconnect between the public’s perception of what justice should look like...