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PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Seven men from Chile have been charged in Florida federal court with orchestrating burglaries at the homes of prominent professional athletes around the country, according to a criminal complaint. The FBI complaint doesn’t name the athletes, but lists burglaries already made public involving Joe Burrow of the Cincinnati Bengals, and the [...]
New York last week sued some of the country’s biggest distributors of electronic cigarettes, accusing the companies of violating state laws that prohibit the sale of vaping flavors and designs that appeal to children. Attorney General Letitia James announced the lawsuit targeting middlemen that distribute fruit- and candy-flavored e-cigarettes such as Puff Bar and Elf [...]
COLUMBUS (AP) — An Ohio law requiring fetal or embryonic remains from surgical abortions to be cremated or buried violates the constitutional amendment protecting reproductive rights that the state’s voters approved in 2023, a judge ruled in permanently blocking the law. The decision last week by Hamilton County Judge Alison Hatheway came in a case [...]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration banned the dye known as Red 3 from the nation’s food supply in January, setting deadlines for stripping the brightly hued additive from candies and cough syrup, baked goods and frozen treats. The agency said it was taking the action because studies found that the dye, also known as [...]
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States sanctioned the International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor last week, following up on President Donald Trump’s order targeting the court over its investigations of Israel. The prosecutor, Karim Khan, was added to Washington’s list of “Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons.” Those on the list are barred from doing [...]
BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore is suing gunmaker Glock over design features that allow its handguns to be easily modified to become fully automatic weapons, which enables criminals to inflict more damage and makes the city more dangerous, attorneys argue in a complaint. The lawsuit follows similar cases brought against Glock in Chicago, Minnesota and New [...]
A Franklin County appellate panel affirmed the conviction and sentence of a southeast Columbus man who was implicated in the activities surrounding the disappearance and killing of a teenager in 2023. The three-judge panel of the Tenth District Court of Appeals held that the lower court, in accordance with Crim.R. 11, correctly accepted 19-year-old Miquel [...]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Thomson Reuters has won an early battle in court over the question of fair use in artificial intelligence-related copyright cases. The media and technology company filed a lawsuit against Ross Intelligence — a now-defunct legal research firm — in 2020, arguing it had used materials from Thomson Reuters’ own legal platform [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Education Department is scrapping last-minute guidance issued by the Biden administration that threatened to upend colleges’ plans to pay athletes for their name, image and likeness by making those payments subject to federal Title IX rules. President Donald Trump’s education officials announced the change Wednesday, saying the memo from former [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — For years, Republicans, including President Donald Trump, have railed against the IRS and its cadre of armed agents. Now the administration has big plans for them: It wants the agents to assist with immigration enforcement. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem sent a request to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to borrow IRS workers [...]