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ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Carbon monoxide poisoning may be the cause of two deaths at a North Carolina hotel, police said.Jacob Galloway, 28, of Troy, and James Landreth, 39, of Southern Pines, were found dead in a room at the Best Western hotel in Asheville on June 9, news outlets reported …
6/26/19, 5:57 PM
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — The Oregon Capitol remained at a standstill Wednesday with only four days left in the legislative session, and it remains unclear when — or if— the Senate's 11 Republicans will return to the statehouse and end a walkout over a climate bill.Republicans have …
6/26/19, 5:57 PM
BOSTON (AP) — Employees at online home furnishings retailer Wayfair walked out Wednesday to protest the company's decision to sell $200,000 worth of furniture to a government contractor that runs a detention center for migrant children in Texas.The protest triggered a broader backlash …
6/26/19, 5:49 PM
Jack Malik (Himesh Patel) is a soulful if brooding young man, with a very pleasant singing voice. But when we meet him, the fledgling songwriter and supermarket clerk from coastal England feels stuck in the middle of a hard day's night. If he doesn't get any help soon, he'll end up a real nowhere …
6/26/19, 5:47 PM
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council will be heading to Colombia in July for a firsthand look at implementation of the 2016 peace agreement between the government and the country's main rebel group.Peruvian Ambassador Gustavo Meza-Cuadra and Deputy British Ambassador Jonathan …
6/26/19, 5:45 PM
DALLAS (AP) — A federal jury in Texas has ruled that Huawei stole technology from a Silicon Valley startup, but it didn't award any damages.After a three-week trial, jurors determined Wednesday that while Huawei had misappropriated secrets from the startup, CNEX, Huawei didn't benefit from …
6/26/19, 5:44 PM
NEW YORK (AP) — Kim Kardashian West has received backlash on social media from people who object to what they say is appropriation of the traditional Japanese kimono in the name of her upcoming shapewear line.The reality star, makeup mogul and budding lawyer announced the line, Kimono …
6/26/19, 5:44 PM
DALLAS (AP) — Lawsuits allege a Dallas man already charged in the deaths of 12 elderly women also killed six additional elderly people, which would bring the number of his victims to 18.The six lawsuits filed Tuesday in Dallas County against The Tradition-Prestonwood independent living …
6/26/19, 5:40 PM
DOTHAN, Ala. (AP) — A man has been reunited with the Auburn University class ring he lost most than 50 years ago.The Dothan Eagle reports 74-year-old Victor Voss got his ring back Monday. Voss says he was wearing the ring over his gloves on a cold day in 1966 because it was too large for …
6/26/19, 5:39 PM
NEW ULM, Minn. (AP) — The Diocese of New Ulm in Minnesota has reached a $34 million settlement in its bankruptcy case with 93 people who say they were sexually abused by priests and others, the diocese and an attorney representing survivors said Thursday.Attorney Jeff Anderson, who …
6/26/19, 5:36 PM
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan officials said Wednesday they have foiled a plot to overthrow the government that included assassinating President Nicolás Maduro and his closest political allies.Maduro spokesman Jorge Rodríguez said on state television that a network of …
6/26/19, 5:35 PM
Infighting at the National Rifle Association exploded Wednesday, when the powerful association severed ties with its longtime public relations firm, suspended operations of its fiery online TV station and lost its top lobbyist.The latest turmoil emerged just a year before the critical 2020 …
6/26/19, 5:35 PM
SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — The family of a 54-year-old man fatally shot by a white officer is suing the officer and the city of South Bend, Indiana, where Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg (BOO'-tuh-juhj) is mayor.Eric Logan's relatives filed the lawsuit Wednesday in federal …
6/26/19, 5:32 PM
SAN DIEGO (AP) — A Navy SEAL witness could face a perjury charge after testifying that he — and not Special Operations Chief Edward Gallagher— had killed a young Islamic State prisoner in Iraq, according to an email sent to a lawyer for the witness.Officials are considering …
6/26/19, 5:29 PM
CHICAGO (AP) — Lawyers for a former University of Illinois doctoral student who faces a possible death sentence for kidnapping and killing a visiting scholar from China have their client offered after his arrest to plead guilty and divulge where her remains were in exchange for a life …
6/26/19, 5:24 PM
BOSTON (AP) — The Latest on a protest by Wayfair employees over the company's furniture sale to a contractor that runs detention centers for migrant children in Texas. (all times local):____5:15 p.m.The Red Cross says it has accepted a $100,000 donation from online home furnishings retailer …
6/26/19, 5:24 PM
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina man who was once on death row for a shopkeeper's slaying won't be retried in the case that put him behind bars for more than 40 years.The prosecutor filed a dismissal notice in the case of 81-year-old Charles Ray Finch of Wilson, who was released last …
6/26/19, 5:22 PM
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A former campus gynecologist at the University of Southern California was charged Wednesday in the sexual assaults of 16 patients at the campus student health center, authorities said.Dr. George Tyndall has been the subject of a Los Angeles police investigation for more …
6/26/19, 5:22 PM
SAN MARTIN, El Salvador (AP) — The mother of a man who drowned alongside his 23-month-old daughter while trying to cross the Rio Grande into Texas says she finds a heartbreaking photograph of their bodies hard to look at but takes some comfort in knowing "they died in each other's …
6/26/19, 5:20 PM
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A New Mexico couple arrested in an abuse case marked by allegations of child beatings and tortured pets can be released on bond, a magistrate judge ruled Wednesday.Martha and Timothy Crouch made initial court appearances Wednesday, two days after their arrests in …
6/26/19, 5:20 PM