Former Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin is stepping away from politics after losing her leadership position in April. Marin, who brought together a five-party, left-wing coalition in 2019, was one of the youngest leaders in Europe when she spearheaded government policy during the COVID-19 pandemic and at the beginning of […]

Brandon A. Thompson will appear in a Dane County courtroom Thursday after a brutal attack left a University of Wisconsin-Madison student hospitalized with life-threatening injuries earlier this week. The 26-year-old, who does not appear to have a prior record, was charged with first-degree sexual assault, first-degree reckless injury and strangulation. […]

A police officer was killed and another was seriously injured Wednesday night when their cruiser was struck by a car speeding through a red light while fleeing a traffic stop in Connecticut’s capital city, authorities said. The driver of the car was arrested. Officer Robert “Bobby” Garten, 34, an eight-year […]

A southwestern Indiana man was sentenced to nine years in prison after pleading guilty to setting a fire that gutted a historic century-old building which had been slated for restoration. A Vanderburgh County judge sentenced Charles James Perrin, 25, on Tuesday after the Evansville man pleaded guilty to felony charges […]

An ex-mayor of Baltimore who was convicted of embezzlement more than a decade ago has announced her candidacy for the city’s 2024 mayoral race. Sheila Dixon’s tenure as Baltimore’s Democrat mayor ended in scandal in 2010 when she resigned as part of a plea agreement in the corruption case.  Dixon […]

MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan ridiculed New York City Mayor Eric Adams on Thursday and called him a Donald Trump “knockoff” after the Big Apple leader warned the migrant crisis could “destroy” the city. “Let me tell you something, New Yorkers. Never in my life have I had a problem that […]

The MacArthur Foundation is leading a group of donors that have pledged $500 million to help the struggling local news industry, hoping to seed outlets that can make up for those that have closed or been hollowed out over the past two decades. While led by a $150 million donation […]

Police in Colorado have released video showing the moment an officer helped save the life of a passenger trapped inside a burning vehicle before it was consumed by flames.  Longmont Police Officer Justin Hill responded to the single-vehicle crash scene Sept. 1, in which alcohol was suspected as a contributing […]

A notice ordering residents of a northern West Virginia community not to use their tap water entered its fourth week Wednesday after a treatment-plant malfunction allowed the release of a hazardous solvent. Dr. Matt Christiansen, the state’s health officer, said preliminary findings from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency showed tetrachloroethylene […]

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is expected to return to the White House next week in a rare public appearance since stepping out of the political limelight. The White House announced that Clinton is scheduled to appear Tuesday to help honor the 2023 winners of the Praemium Imperiale, a […]