ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The federal government's nuclear waste repository in New Mexico has major issues in fire training and firefighting vehicles, with its fleet in disrepair after years of neglect, according to an investigation by the U.S. Energy Department's Office of Inspector General. The investigation was spurred by allegations regarding fire protection concerns at [...]
SEATTLE (AP) — President Joe Biden is taking steps to restore national forests that have been devastated by wildfires, drought and blight. Biden was expected to sign an executive order last Friday designed to protect some of the nation's largest and oldest trees. Old-growth trees are key buffers against climate change and provide crucial carbon [...]
WASHINGTON — You have the right to remain silent. Everyone knows police aren't supposed to question suspects without reading them their Miranda rights. But what happens when law enforcement officers don't first read suspects their rights? The Supreme Court last week wrestled with whether a sheriff's deputy can be sued for money damages for violating [...]
DEAL, N.J. — Deal has made a deal. And it just might satisfy everyone who had been fighting about public access to a beach in this wealthy Jersey Shore enclave in a lawsuit that had been bouncing around the legal system for three years. In a settlement this month, the borough of Deal, the American [...]
INGLEWOOD, Calif. — As college football tries to navigate unprecedented upheaval, the status quo holds with the College Football Playoff that crowns its national champion. The playoff is likely to stick with the current four-team format through the end of its contract. It has no plans to engage players on name, image and likeness rights. [...]
ORLANDO, Fla. — The idea was presented to Florida lawmakers in a movie house outside Orlando 55 years ago, with Walt Disney, who had died less than two months earlier, helping make the pitch from the screen: Let Disney form its own government and in exchange it would create a futuristic city of tomorrow. That [...]
Legislation referred earlier this month to a committee in the Ohio Senate would limit penalties for late filings of municipal income tax returns and modify the law regarding extensions of these returns. Having cleared the House of Representatives by a vote of 61-29, House Bill 519 originated from a lengthy social media post, according to [...]
MIAMI (AP) — For years after leaving Cuba, the mother of two tried to get her children and parents into the United States through legal channels. Finally, she decided she wouldn’t wait any longer: She paid more than $40,000 dollars to someone to help them sneak in through Mexico. “I said to myself, `Enough. I [...]
TWIN BRIDGES, Calif. (AP) — In a California forest torched by wildfire last summer, researcher Anne Nolin examines a handful of the season's remaining snow, now darkened by black specks from the burned trees above. Spring heat waves had already melted much of the year's limited snowfall across California and parts of the West when [...]
HELENA, Mont. (AP) — For the past year a company that "mines" cryptocurrency had what seemed the ideal location for its thousands of power-thirsty computers working around the clock to verify bitcoin transactions: the grounds of a coal-fired power plant in rural Montana. But with the cryptocurrency industry under increasing pressure to rein in the [...]