Police in Georgia responding to gun shots at home detain 19 people, probe possible sex trafficking
SOUTH FULTON, Ga. (AP) — Police in an Atlanta-area city responding to shots fired at a home on Thursday found numerous women there and are investigating the possibility the residence was used for sex trafficking, authorities said.
South Fulton police detained 19 people at the home, most of them women between 16 and about 40 years old, police said. South Fulton is about 20 miles (32km) southwest of Atlanta.
Neighbors had complained the home was used for parties. South
B.C. transit providers seek essential service designation as strike threat looms
VANCOUVER — Coast Mountain Bus Company and the union representing its transit supervisors have both accepted the recommendations of a mediator in an agreement that looks set to avert another Metro Vancouver bus strike.
A statement from the bus firm’s president, Michael McDaniel, said the next step was to sign a memorandum of agreement before the contract ratification process.
“As the Special Mediator noted, labour disruptions in the Lower Mainland’s public transportation system lead to significant public hardship and negative economic impacts,” McDaniel said Thursday.
“Without
Trump’s political operation, spending heavily on legal expenses, starts 2024 with $42M
WASHINGTON (AP) — amassed about $130 million in the final months of last year but after spending heavily, headed into 2024 with more than $42 million to start the election year.
New campaign finance reports filed Wednesday showed that across four committees that make up Trump’s political operation, he ended 2023 having spent about $86 million, with tens of millions of that being diverted to pay legal expenses.
Trump’s main campaign committee closed out the year
An armed man found dead at an amusement park researched mass shootings. His plan is still a mystery
DENVER (AP) — A who was found dead at a Colorado mountaintop amusement park last year had researched mass shootings online, but investigators haven’t determined why he amassed such an arsenal or didn’t follow through on “whatever he was planning,” authorities said Thursday.
The body of Diego Barajas Medina, who died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, was found in a bathroom at the Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park on the morning of Oct. 28 in a building that houses a ride that drops 1
A look at some reaction to the Alberta government’s proposed transgender policies
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has announced changes to rules surrounding transgender youth.
Policies include requiring parental consent for children 15 and under who want to change their names or pronouns at school; students 16 and 17 would not need consent, but their parents would have to be notified.
Gender reassignment surgery would also be banned for those 17 and under, and puberty blockers and hormone therapies for the purpose of gender reassignment or affirmation would not be allowed for those 15 and younger.
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Prosecutors detail possible expert witnesses in federal case against officers in Tyre Nichols death
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Memphis Police Department trainers are prepared to testify in the federal civil rights case against four former Memphis police officers in the fatal beating of that the officers used force inconsistent with their training and failed to prevent their colleagues from hurting him, court documents showed.
Meeting a judge’s deadline, prosecutors revealed in court filings Wednesday potential avenues of trial testimony from Memphis Police Department training instructors, at least one of whom, Juan Gonzalez, taught the officers charged in Nichols’ death.
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Nikki Haley has called out prejudice but rejected systemic racism throughout her career
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Four years after from its Statehouse grounds, offered two separate explanations of the flag’s meaning in less than a week.
Haley, the state’s governor when the flag was pulled in 2015 from its place of honor in Columbia, said in a 2019 interview with conservative radio host Glenn Beck that — murders that were the impetus for the flag’s lowering — had “hijacked” a symbol that many people took to stand for
Gaza protesters blockade truck access to Port of Vancouver
VANCOUVER — Access to the Port of Vancouver has been restored after dozens of protesters with Palestinian flags and banners set up blockades at two entry points this morning.
An email from senior communications adviser Alex Munro says protesters at both the Clark Drive and Commissioner Street entrances have “moved on.”
He says access to the port has been “fully restored.”
A statement issued by protesters says they were calling on the Canadian government to immediately enact an arms embargo on Israel.
Traffic camera photos on the City of Vancouver website earlier
Disney appeals dismissal of free speech lawsuit as DeSantis says company should ‘move on’
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Disney on Thursday appealed a judge’s its free speech lawsuit over what it described as Gov. Ron DeSantis’ retaliatory takeover of Walt Disney World’s governing district, as the Florida governor separately called any appeal “a mistake.”
“They were wrong and we were right,” DeSantis said at a news conference in Jacksonville a day after the ruling. “They should move on.”
Disney filed a notice of appeal over Wednesday’s ruling by a federal judge
Authorities search for Roman Catholic cardinal missing in Panama
PANAMA CITY (AP) — A Roman Catholic cardinal disappeared this week in western Panama near the border with Costa Rica and investigators are searching for the missing cleric, authorities announced Thursday.
Prosecutors in the state of Chiriqui said they opened an investigation Wednesday, a day after Spanish Cardinal José Luis Lacunza was last seen. Lacunza, 79, is the bishop for the David archdiocese in Chiriqui.
The archdiocese confirmed in a statement that Lacunza had not been seen since Tuesday afternoon and said it had reported his disappearance to authorities