Two drivers were injured in a crash that shut down a stretch of westbound Interstate 80 in Monroe County on Tuesday. According to the Pennsylvania State Police, troopers responded to a two-vehicle crash around 6:15 a.m. in Tunkhannock Township. They found a white box truck on its driver’s side and a red Lexus SUV in […]
BERLIN (AP) — A trailer packed with people celebrating May Day overturned in southern Germany on Wednesday, leaving 30 injured, 10 of them seriously, police and media reports said. According to the German news agency dpa, the accident happened near the city of Freiburg. Police say it took place in the village of Kandern, and […]
MADRID (AP) — About 50 migrants were missing after their boat overturned some 100 kilometers (60 miles) south of Spain’s Canary Island of El Hierro in the Atlantic Ocean, Spanish media reported Monday. The national marine rescue service said one of its helicopters rescued nine people who were found clinging to the boat Monday morning […]
NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s highest court on Thursday overturned Harvey Weinstein ’s 2020 rape conviction, finding the judge at the landmark #MeToo trial prejudiced the ex-movie mogul with “egregious” improper rulings, including a decision to let women testify about allegations that weren’t part of the case. “We conclude that the trial court erroneously […]
NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s highest court on Thursday overturned Harvey Weinstein ’s 2020 rape conviction, finding the judge at the landmark #MeToo trial prejudiced the ex-movie mogul with “egregious” improper rulings, including a decision to let women testify about allegations that weren’t part of the case. “We conclude that the trial court erroneously […]
New York’s highest court has overturned Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 rape conviction, finding the judge at the landmark #MeToo trial prejudiced the ex-movie mogul with improper rulings, including a decision to let women testify about allegations that were not part of the case. The state Court of Appeals ruling reopens a painful chapter in America’s reckoning […]
A federal appeals court struck down a West Virginia law that barred transgender athletes from competing on girls’ and women’s sports teams in public schools and colleges. In a 2-1 ruling, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sided with Becky Pepper-Jackson, 13, a transgender girl who argued that the law prevented her from running […]
CHARLESTON, West Virginia — A federal appeals court has overturned a West Virginia transgender sports ban, finding that the law violates Title IX, the federal civil rights law that prohibits sex-based discrimination in schools. The ruling Tuesday from the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals blocks a West Virginia law banning transgender girls from playing […]
A pedestrian was killed on West International Speedway Boulevard just east of DeLand Friday morning and the westbound lanes of the highway were blocked, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. The vehicle involved in the crash remained on the scene. The crash happened about 5 a.m. in the westbound lanes of West International Speedway Boulevard […]
A Texas appeals court on Thursday overturned the illegal voting conviction of Crystal Mason, who was given a five-year prison sentence for casting a provisional ballot in the 2016 election while on supervised release for federal tax evasion. The decision by the Tarrant County-based Second Court of Appeals means she is formally acquitted of the […]
Nikita Mazepin originally joined Haas in 2021 on a multi-year deal Russian racing driver Nikita Mazepin has overturned European Union sanctions imposed as part of the response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Mazepin, who drove in Formula 1 for Haas in 2021, and his father had assets frozen and were given a travel ban. His […]
A Russian formula one driver, Nikita Mazepin, won a court case on Wednesday to revoke EU sanctions imposed on him in the wake of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine. The EU General Court in Luxembourg ruled that a family connection to his father, Russian businessman Dmitry Mazepin, is not sufficient to target the racing […]