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Redacted Mueller report to be released within a week

Published on Tue, 04/09/2019 - 12:00am

WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General William Barr said Tuesday that he expects to release a redacted version of the special counsel’s Trump-Russia investigation report “within a week” as he defended

Thieves keep stealing police car wheels

Published on Tue, 04/09/2019 - 12:00am

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Somebody slowed the police’s roll: Thieves keep stealing the wheels off of the patrol cars in Mississippi’s capital city. Jackson police spokesman Sgt. Roderick Holmes tells

NYC orders mandatory vaccines for some

Published on Tue, 04/09/2019 - 12:00am

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City declared a public health emergency Tuesday over a measles outbreak centered in an ultra-Orthodox Jewish community and ordered mandatory vaccinations in the neighborhood.

Feds break up $1.2B orthopedic brace scam

Published on Tue, 04/09/2019 - 12:00am

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal authorities said Tuesday they’ve broken up a $1.2 billion Medicare scam that peddled unneeded orthopedic braces to hundreds of thousands of seniors via foreign call centers.

SHORT TAKES

Published on Tue, 04/09/2019 - 12:00am

› › Trump says not looking to reinstate family separation policy WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says he’s not looking to reinstate the much-criticized practice of separating migrant families

Suit filed over gun controls inspired by synagogue shooting

Published on Tue, 04/09/2019 - 12:00am

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Gun rights groups sued Tuesday to block Pittsburgh from enforcing firearms legislation passed after a synagogue massacre, accusing city officials of blatantly defying the state’s prohibition on

SHORT TAKES

Published on Tue, 04/09/2019 - 12:00am

› › Police: Man buys $8 million island then steals from Kmart KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) — A man who had just bought an $8 million island off of Key

Bank raising hourly minimum wage to $20

Published on Tue, 04/09/2019 - 12:00am

NEW YORK (AP) — Bank of America plans to raise its starting pay to $20 an hour over a two-year period, the bank said Tuesday, starting with a hike next

Cousin: Upstate NY burial likely for WWII airman

Published on Tue, 04/09/2019 - 12:00am

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A New York airman whose remains were recently identified more than 75 years after he died in World War II will likely be reburied in a

Cohen’s usefulness to prosecutors may be drying up

Published on Tue, 04/09/2019 - 12:00am

NEW YORK (AP) — As Michael Cohen seeks another reprieve from his three-year prison sentence, there are mounting indications his usefulness to federal prosecutors is drying up. Several prosecutors assigned