Los Angeles Times guild stages 1-day walkout in protest of anticipated layoffs
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Guild members of the Los Angeles Times walked off the job Friday to protest what it says are imminent layoffs, the first newsroom union work stoppage in the newspaper’s 143-year history.
The paper’s journalists and their supporters rallied in an LA civic center park, chanting and waving signs that read, “Don’t Cut Our Future.” The guild said members would also protest in other cities.
The guild said in a statement that the Times is planning to
US government rejects complaint that woman was improperly denied an emergency abortion in Oklahoma
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services says an Oklahoma hospital did not violate federal law when doctors told a woman with a nonviable pregnancy to wait in the parking lot until her condition worsened enough to qualify for an abortion under the state’s strict ban.
Jaci Statton, 26, was last year who challenged abortion restrictions that went into effect in Republican-led states after the Supreme Court in 2022.
Rather than join a lawsuit, Statton filed a complaint with the Department of Health
Biden and Netanyahu have finally talked, but their visions still clash for ending Israel-Hamas war
WASHINGTON (AP) — and Israeli finally spoke Friday after a glaring, nearly four-week gap in direct communication during which fundamental differences have come into focus over a possible pathway to Palestinian statehood once the fighting in Gaza ends.
Biden and his top aides have all but smothered Netanyahu with robust support, even in the face of global condemnation over the mounting civilian death toll and humanitarian suffering in Gaza as the Israelis have carried out military operations in the aftermath of the Oct. 7 attack on Israel.
But the leaders’
Parents of Mississippi football player who died sue Rankin County School District
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The parents of a Mississippi high school football player have filed a lawsuit against a school district after the teenager died following a collapse during practice in 2022.
Phillip and Ashanta Laster, of Pearl, filed the lawsuit on Jan. 11 in federal court for the Southern District of Mississippi. It names Rankin County School District as the sole defendant.
The Lasters’ 17-year-old son, Phillip “Trey” Laster, died from a cardiac arrhythmia after
Critics call for review of Alberta Energy Regulator over withheld liability study
EDMONTON — Critics are calling for a public inquiry into the actions of the Alberta Energy Regulator, after documents surfaced suggesting the agency downplayed the industry’s environmental liabilities and withheld information on those costs.
“The (regulator) has failed to do its job,” Opposition New Democrat energy critic Nagwan Al-Guneid said in a release Friday.
The regulator announced earlier this week that Alberta faces a $33-billion liability from abandoned and inactive wells.
The Canadian Press reported on internal documents suggesting the real figure is
Driver and passengers arrested near Kingston were in possession of fraudulent credit cards, weapons: OPP
A Toronto driver and two passengers are facing charges after their vehicle was pulled over near Kingston, Ont., leading officers to discover 22 fraudulent credit cards and a stolen passport.
Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) said officers in Lexington and Addington County were on patrol on Wednesday when they stopped a vehicle for speeding on eastbound Highway 401, just east of the Beachwood Road overpass.
The driver failed a sobriety test and was charged with impaired operation of a motor vehicle. Further investigation of the car revealed two weapons
A diverse coalition owed money by Rudy Giuliani meets virtually for first bankruptcy hearing
NEW YORK (AP) — A group of people and businesses who say they are owed money by Rudy Giuliani gathered virtually Friday for the first court hearing since he declared bankruptcy last month after to two Georgia election workers.
During a two-hour Zoom hearing, an attorney for Giuliani told a U.S. bankruptcy judge that the former New York City mayor lacks the funds to pay the $148 million he owes the election workers for spreading a conspiracy about their role in the 2020 election.
Loblaws bringing back 50 per cent discount on last day sale items
Just days after it was announced, Loblaws has confirmed it will be bringing back the 50 per cent discount on last-day sale items.
In an emailed statement to CityNews, the company said it listened to feedback from customers and colleagues since the announcement and will bring back the discounts where it existed before
Loblaw Cos. Ltd. was previously offering discounts of up to 50 per cent on these last-day items but said on Monday, they would be lowering its range to between 30 and 50 per
DNA proves a long-dead man attacked 3 girls in Indiana nearly 50 years ago, police say
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A man who died in a Texas prison decades ago has been identified as the person who abducted and stabbed three Indiana girls and left them in a cornfield nearly 50 years ago, police said, citing DNA evidence.
The girls, ages 11, 13 and 14, survived the attack, but “a clear suspect” was never pinpointed and the case went cold — until now. Investigators using “forensic genetic genealogy” have identified the attacker as Thomas Edward Williams, who died
Attorneys argue woman is innocent in 1980 killing and shift blame to former Missouri police officer
CHILLICOTHE, Mo. (AP) — Attorneys for a Missouri woman who has spent more than four decades in prison for a murder her supporters believe she did not commit argued at a hearing this week that the evidence points to a police officer who was investigated for burglaries and later went to prison.
The only evidence linking Sandra Hemme to the 1980 killing of St. Joseph library worker Patricia Jeschke is the “wildly contradictory” and “factually impossible” statements she made to detectives while she was a patient at