REEDLEY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – The 17-year-old who inflicted “substantial, violent wound injuries” – resulting in four deaths in Reedley – did not act alone, according to Reedley Police Chief Joe Garza. The 17-year-old, who has not been officially identified, was also arrested alongside two other suspects: his mother, 34-year-old Brynn Curtis, and her boyfriend 21-year-old […]
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(BCN) — The 2024-25 Free Application for Federal Student Aid and California Dream Act Application are now available online for students seeking financial aid for college. Both financial aid forms, typically launched in October, were delayed while major revisions were made to the applications, according to the California Student Aid Commission. Man with cancer marries […]
LAS VEGAS (KLAS) – During a time of despair, comes even more loss as the home of one of the UNLV professors who was killed in last month’s mass shooting was burglarized. Las Vegas Metropolitan police released a report on the incident and neighbors told 8 News Now they caught the thieves in the act. […]
Somalia has described an agreement that landlocked Ethiopia made with the self-declared republic of Somaliland over sea access as an act of “aggression”. Somaliland seceded from Somalia more than 30 years ago, but is not recognised internationally. It said that Ethiopia agreed to recognise its independence at some point in the future in exchange for […]
LANSING — A divided Michigan redistricting commission sank into dysfunction Thursday, unable to make a decision on whether to appeal a recent court ruling that struck down as unconstitutional 13 of the Detroit-area legislative maps it drew. One commissioner cried “sabotage” after three others did not return after a closed session that lasted more than […]
President Joe Biden commemorated the 80th anniversary of the repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Act, which barred Chinese laborers from entering the country. In a White House official statement released Sunday, Biden said the legislation, enacted in 1882, was a measure that “weaponized our immigration system to discriminate against an entire ethnic group.” It was […]
Some areas of the High Plains Aquifer are continuing a decades-long trend of depletion that could eventually dry up and economically destroy agricultural communities in the west. The report, released last week by the Kansas Geological Survey, highlights glimmers of hope in communities that came together to manage the aquifer, the underground water system that […]
The CROWN Act, a law created to abolish race-based hair discrimination, is legal in 24 states. But a Black teen who was suspended from school in Texas says he’s being singled out for his locs — and he’s not the only one whose hairstyle has been challenged at school or work. What’s happened Darryl George, […]
The Arkansas Public Policy Panel and the Arkansas State Conference NAACP asked for the case to go before the full 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals after a panel ruled 2-1 last month that only the U.S. attorney general can enforce Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. The groups, which are challenging Arkansas’ new […]
BRUSSELS — Members of the European Parliament, EU member countries represented by the Council, and experts from the European Commission have clinched a political deal on the Artificial Intelligence Act, the EU’s pioneering attempt at regulating the emerging technology. Following over 36 hours of negotiations over three days, representatives of the bloc’s three institutions have […]
If a decision handed down by a conservative federal appeals court last week is allowed to stand, it will gut what remains of one of the most important federal laws enacted in my lifetime, the Voting Rights Act. An 8th Circuit Court of Appeals panel held that no one other than the federal government can […]