A federal judge on Thursday rejected a request to temporarily block Connecticut’s landmark 2013 gun control law, passed after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, until a gun rights group’s lawsuit against the statute has concluded. U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven ruled the National Association for […]

An otter attacked three women who were floating on inner tubes on a Montana river Wednesday night.  Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks said that the women were about three miles upstream from Sappington Bridge on the Jefferson River at about 8:15 p.m. local time when they observed one or two […]

Biologist Ashley Wilson carefully disentangled a bat from netting above a tree-lined river and examined the wriggling, furry mammal in her headlamp’s glow. “Another big brown,” she said with a sigh. It was a common type, one of many Wilson and colleagues had snagged on summer nights in the southern […]

Texas A&M University reached a $1 million settlement Thursday with a Black journalism professor whose hiring was sabotaged by backlash over her past work promoting diversity. The nation’s largest public school agreed to pay Kathleen McElroy and apologized to her while admitting “mistakes were made during the hiring process.” Texas […]

Six former Mississippi police officers, including some calling themselves “The Goon Squad,” pleaded guilty Thursday to a racist assault on two Black men that ended with an officer shooting one man in the mouth. The officers, who are all white, entered a house without a warrant on Jan. 24, assaulting […]

A Florida man was arrested Wednesday for the murder of his wife after her dismembered body was found in three suitcases at different locations in a Delray Beach canal. William Lowe, 78, is accused of first-degree murder and abusing a dead body in the killing of his 80-year-old wife Aydil […]

A notable member of the New York Times editorial board attacked New York City Mayor Eric Adams for having a “cold approach” when it came to handling the influx of migrants. Mara Gay’s piece on Thursday criticized Adams’ response to the thousands of undocumented migrants flooding his city. While she […]

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The United States Attorney’s Office announced Thursday that former NBA player Terrence Williams has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for defrauding the league’s health and welfare benefit plan out of more than $5 million.  Williams has been incarcerated in Brooklyn since the spring of 2022 after he threatened […]

Eight people were killed when a freight train struck a pickup truck that was crossing railway tracks in an eastern province of Thailand early Friday morning, authorities said. The accident at 2:20 a.m. also injured four people in the Muang district of Chachoengsao province, according to the State Railway of […]