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A mother charged with drowning her three children at New York’s Coney Island beach has been arraigned on murder charges. The Brooklyn district attorney's office says 30-year-old Erin Merdy has been charged with first and second-degree murder in the deaths of her children, 7-year-old Zachary Merdy, 4-year-old Liliana Stephens-Merdy and 3-month-old Oliver Bondarev. Merdy was arraigned remotely on Friday from the hospital where she was sent for a psychiatric examination. A request for comment was sent to her attorney at Brooklyn Defender Services. The children were found unresponsive at the shoreline early Monday. Their deaths have been ruled homicides by drowning.
Prosecutors say an inmate who had just been booked into an Oklahoma jail got away from the booking area and raped a handcuffed female inmate. Prosecutors on Thursday charged 44-year-old Donta Ramone Thomas with raping the woman at the Oklahoma County jail. Prosecutors say Thomas had been booked on assault charges when he walked unsupervised from the booking area to where the victim was handcuffed and unable to escape. District Attorney David Prater called the assault the latest example of the failure of a trust that oversees the jail to protect its inmates. Authorities say the victim was awaiting release when she was attacked.
The Los Angeles Rams and the Atlanta Falcons both look to bounce back from season-opening losses when they meet at SoFi Stadium. The Super Bowl champions need a win to avoid the franchise's first 0-2 start since 2011, while the Falcons are hurting after a late collapse cost them the chance for a positive start to the year. The Rams will be looking for improved play from several stars after dismaying performances in the opener, including All-Pro cornerback Jalen Ramsey. The game is a homecoming for Falcons rookie receiver Drake London, who grew up in Ventura County and went to USC.
Uganda's leader has warned that his government could “find someone else to work with” as French partner TotalEnergies faced mounting pressure to pull out of a partnership to construct a pipeline opposed by climate activists. The comments on Friday followed a resolution by the European Union's Parliament urging the international community “to exert maximum pressure on Ugandan and Tanzanian authorities, as well as the project promoters and stakeholders” to stop oil activities around Lake Albert. But in Uganda, an East African country whose authorities see the pipeline as key to economic development, opposition to the project has sparked indignation. The planned pipeline is expected to be built through seven forest reserves and two game parks.
Juraj Slafkovsky set high standards for himself in the lead up to being selected by the Montreal Canadiens with the No. 1 pick in the NHL draft two months ago. That's why his competitive debut with the Canadiens left him disappointed following a loss to Buffalo in the Sabres six-team prospects tournament. The 18-year-old from Slovakia finished with an assist, and assessed his outing by saying he at times tried too hard and has room for improvement. Miscues aside, Slafkovsky showed signs of brilliance by putting on display his rare combination of size, speed and deft play-making ability.
Former White House press secretary and Arkansas gubernatorial hopeful Sarah Sanders is recovering after undergoing surgery for thyroid cancer. Sanders said she underwent the surgery to remove her thyroid and surrounding lymph nodes. She said she planned to return to the campaign trail soon. Sanders served as former President Donald Trump's chief spokeswoman until 2019. She is running against Democratic nominee Chris Jones in the solidly Republican state. Her dad is former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee.
LOS ANGELES — Chrissy Teigen revealed Thursday that the miscarriage she suffered two years ago was actually an abortion.
ST. LOUIS — A St. Louis jury Friday found former St. Louis reality TV star James "Tim" Norman guilty of conspiring to kill his nephew.
A jury has convicted a 25-year-old man of capital murder in the killing of former Texas Tech basketball star Andre Emmett. The Dallas County jury deliberated about four hours before finding Larry Daquan Jenkins guilty on Friday of the September 2019 slaying. Jenkins was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole, since prosecutors weren’t seeking the death penalty. Prosecutors say Jenkins and two other men followed Emmett, who was 35, from a nightclub to his Dallas home in order to rob him. A witness told police that Jenkins was the one who fatally shot Emmett. The other two men alleged to have taken part in the robbery are awaiting trial on capital murder charges.
The Republican leaders of the Arizona Legislature won't try to defend a new law limiting up-close filming of police that has been blocked by a federal judge. The decision essentially ends the fight over the contentious proposal, although the Republican sponsor says he may push a revised measure next year. The judge gave the Republican leaders until Friday to decide if they wanted their lawyers to intervene after the state attorney general refused to defend the law. The judge agreed with the ACLU and press groups that it violates the First Amendment and temporarily blocked it last week. The groups will now seek a permanent injunction.
The third fight between Gennady Golovkin and Canelo Álvarez took four years to happen. Yet their showdown on Saturday night in Las Vegas always seemed both inevitable and necessary. That’s because the first two meetings between these talented boxers didn’t truly resolve anything about one of the best rivalries in this era. Their first two bouts ended in a draw and a narrow decision victory for Álvarez, yet many observers without an official scorecard believe Golovkin deserved the win in one or both. That’s the nature of this imprecise sport, but almost everyone can agree neither fighter was clearly superior.
The ride-hailing service Uber says all its services are operational following what security professionals are calling a major data breach. It says there is no evidence the hacker got access to sensitive user data such as trip history. A hacker, who appears to have been working alone, announced the breach on Thursday after apparently tricking an Uber employee into providing credentials. Screenshots the hacker shared with security researchers indicate they obtained full access to the cloud-based systems where Uber stores sensitive customer and financial data. It is not known how much data the hacker took.
CHICAGO — Two Chicago police officers have been hit with felony charges of aggravated battery and official misconduct in connection with a shooting in the Pilsen neighborhood this summer that injured two people, including a bystander.
PHILADELPHIA — The Philadelphia Police Department got 72 new officers Friday when its largest class of recruits in three years graduated from the academy, an infusion of personnel that comes amid a shortage of hundreds of officers.
Police say a staffer for Republican U.S. Rep. Jackie Walorski was trying to pass a flat-bed truck on a northern Indiana highway last when the SUV they were in crashed into an oncoming car, killing Walorski and three other people. The Elkhart County Sheriff’s Office said Friday a witness saw the SUV speed up and cross the centerline of the two-lane highway into the path of the other car. Data showed the SUV driven by Zachery Potts, who was Walorski’s district director, was going 77 mph at the time of the crash. Also killed were Walorski's communications director Emma Thomson and Edith Schmucker, 56, of Nappanee, Indiana, who was driving the other vehicle.
New Jersey’s casinos, horse tracks that offer sports betting and the online partners of both types of gambling outlets won $470.6 million from gamblers in August, up more than 10% from a year earlier. The amount of money won from in-person gamblers at casinos was nearly $274 million, up 4.4% from a year earlier. But that total still lagged behind the level of August 2019, before the coronavirus pandemic hit. Returning to pre-pandemic levels for in-person gamblers has been the main goal of Atlantic City’s nine casinos, regardless of the fact that money from internet and sports betting continues to grow.
Alex Jones' criticism of his trial in Connecticut over calling the Sandy Hook school shooting a hoax has become a topic of the proceedings. During the fourth day of the trial Friday, a lawyer for the Sandy Hook families questioned a corporate representative for Jones' Infowars about how seriously the company was taking the trial. The attorney showed a photo he said was of an Infowars webpage depicting the judge with lasers shooting out of her eyes. Jones has called the trial a “kangaroo court." The Infowars representative said she was taking the trial very seriously. Jones is expected to begin attending the trial next week. A jury will decide how much in damages he will have to pay the families for saying the shooting never happened.
MIAMI — Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration last week paid an aviation company $615,000 as part of a new Florida program to relocate undocumented immigrants out of the state, according to state records.
A former star of a reality TV show based in St. Louis has been convicted of arranging the killing of his nephew. A federal jury on Friday found James “Tim” Norman guilty in the March 2016 death of 21-year-old Andre Montgomery. The jury deliberated for about 17 hours before reaching the verdict. Norman and his nephew starred in “Welcome to Sweetie Pie's,” a reality show on the OWN Network, based in a soul-food business founded by Norman’s mother who was also Andre’s grandmother. Prosecutors said Norman arranged Montgomery's murder to collect on a $450,000 life insurance policy. Norman's attorneys argued the murder-for-hire plot was a “made up theory.”
A New Hampshire lawmaker proposes extending the March deadline to close the state’s troubled youth detention center amid concerns that the current timeline would endanger public safety. Deputy Health Commissioner Lori Weaver says she can't predict what the population at the Sununu Youth Services Center will look like in six months, but if it closed today, there definitely would be an impact. Debate over the center's future began years ago, but has come to a boil amid horrific sexual abuse allegations. Rep. Jess Edwards said he plans to file legislation to extend the closure deadline by three months.
Rory McIlroy and U.S. Open champion Matt Fitzpatrick are getting quite comfortable on next year’s Ryder Cup course. But Europe captain Luke Donald made a novice’s error after hitting into the thick rough at the Marco Simone club outside Rome and the hitting the wrong ball for a two-stroke penalty. McIlroy produced an eagle for the second consecutive day and Fitzpatrick had five straight birdies in the second round as they stood 1-2 near the midpoint of the Italian Open. Play was suspended because of darkness for the second straight day. McIlroy is at 9-under 133 overall with Fitzpatrick one stroke behind.
Prince William and Prince Harry will stand vigil beside their grandmother Queen Elizabeth’s coffin at Westminster Hall in London on Saturday evening, a Kensington Palace spokesman said Friday.
A Michigan man has been sentenced to five years in federal prison for his role in the U.S. Capitol attack by a mob that disrupted Congress from certifying President Joe Biden’s 2020 electoral victory. A Justice Department news release says Chief Judge Beryl A. Howell also sentenced Anthony Robert Williams, 47, of Southgate, Michigan, to three years of supervised release after his prison term and ordered him to pay $2,000 in restitution and a $5,000 fine. In June, a jury in Washington, D.C., convicted Williams of obstructing the Jan. 6, 2021, joint session of Congress for certifying the Electoral College vote. Only five other Capitol riot defendants have been sentenced to a longer prison term than Williams.
DALLAS — Eva Schloss is no stranger to Dallas. As a Holocaust survivor willing to share her harrowing life story, she appeared in Richardson as recently as three years ago. In 2002, she flew in from London to see a play about her life, "And Then They Came for Me," which was showcased at Dall…
Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó has offered a broad accounting of millions of dollars under his control and took credit for social programs benefiting people across the troubled South American country. Guaidó said the parallel government he established three years ago has spent at least $130 million, with about $70 million going to social programs including assistance for oncology and other health treatments. While he presented a balance, his address appeared to double as a campaign speech from a candidate seeking another chance from disappointed constituents and attacking an opponent.
The revelation earlier this week that federal prosecutors are involved in investigations of suspected voting system breaches across the U.S. is fueling questions about the security of voting machines just two months before the midterm elections. Security breaches at election offices in Colorado, Georgia and Michigan have been sometimes aided by local officials who allowed unauthorized access to people who copied software and hard drive data, and in several cases shared it publicly. Security experts say the breaches by themselves have not necessarily increased threats to the November elections, but say they increase the possibility that rogue election workers could access election equipment to launch attacks.
U.S. long-term inflation expectations fell to the lowest in more than a year in early September, an encouraging sign for the Federal Reserve as it tries to keep views anchored.
This week’s new entertainment releases include albums from Kelsea Ballerini and 5 Seconds of Summer, a Oprah Winfrey-produced documentary about acting icon Sidney Poitier and a starry celebration of Norman Lear that includes George Clooney, Rita Moreno, Anthony Anderson and Jennifer Aniston. “Quantum Leap” is jumping back to TV with a sequel to the 1989-93 sci-fi series about a scientist trapped in the past by an experiment gone awry. And the film “On the Come Up” is about a 16-year-old girl with rap ambitions that is based on the best-selling 2019 young-adult novel by Angie Thomas.
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem is showing no sign of fighting an action taken against her by a state ethics board over her actions surrounding her daughter's application for a real estate appraiser's license. Friday was the deadline for Noem to say whether she would defend herself against evidence that she engaged in misconduct by taking a hands-on role in a state agency just after it had moved to deny her daughter the license. Three retired judges on the state’s Government Accountability Board voted unanimously last month that there was enough evidence for them to believe the Republican governor had committed malfeasance and engaged in a conflict of interest. The board took unspecified “action” against the governor.
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem is showing no sign of fighting an action taken against her by a state ethics board over her actions surrounding her daughter's application for a real estate appraiser's license. Friday was the deadline for Noem to say whether she would defend herself against evidence that she engaged in misconduct by taking a hands-on role in a state agency just after it had moved to deny her daughter the license. Three retired judges on the state’s Government Accountability Board voted unanimously last month that there was enough evidence for them to believe the Republican governor had committed malfeasance and engaged in a conflict of interest. The board took unspecified “action” against the governor.
State Treasurer Dale Folwell is strongly considering a run for North Carolina governor in 2024. That could put the veteran elected leader in a Republican primary with Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, whose political profile has grown widely since his 2020 victory. Folwell told WRAL-TV in a recent interview about a potential gubernatorial bid. He confirmed it Friday with The Associated Press and said he wouldn't make any decision until after the November elections. Folwell is a former local school board member and state legislator who was initially elected treasurer in 2016. Robinson has been a favorite of social conservatives and has said he is fairly certain that he will run for governor.
Idaho’s unemployment rate rose one-tenth of a percent to 2.7% in August but remained below 3% for the seventh consecutive month. The Idaho Department of Labor on Friday said that more than 930,000 Idaho workers have jobs while about 26,000 are seeking work. The agency says the state's labor force of 956,000 is up by 4%, or nearly 37,000 workers, compared to August 2021, as the state continues its rebound from the COVID-19 pandemic and fast population growth continues. Industries with the greatest job gains in August included transportation, warehousing and utilities, while job declines occurred in natural resources, health care and social services.
France sent a message on its way to grabbing a spot in the EuroBasket championship game. Guerschon Yabusele scored 22 points, and France rolled past Poland 95-54 in the semifinals of the European championships. Next up for France: either Spain or host Germany, who were meeting in the late semifinal. The gold- and bronze-medal games are Sunday.
NEW YORK — The troubled Brooklyn woman accused of drowning her three children in the ocean off Coney Island was arraigned on murder charges Friday.
Republican Gov. Jim Justice has signed into law a ban on abortions at all stages of pregnancy. West Virginia is now the second state to enact a law prohibiting the procedure since the U.S. Supreme Court’s June ruling to end the constitutional protection of the procedure. Justice described the legislation in a tweet as “a bill that protects life.” The ban has exemptions for medical emergencies and for rape and incest victims until eight weeks of pregnancy for adults and 14 weeks for children. Victims must report their assault to law enforcement 48 hours before the procedure. Minors can report to the police or a doctor, who then must tell police.
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COLUMBIA, S.C. — The South Carolina Supreme Court will take up an appeal in January from Gov. Henry McMaster and Corrections Director Bryan Stirling of a state judge’s ruling earlier this month that both the electric chair and the firing squad execution methods are unconstitutional.
After definitively playing male lead Don Draper in the landmark cable TV series “Mad Men” from 2007 to 2015, the charismatic Jon Hamm lost his way. He played himself in episodes of both “Barry” and “Curb Your Enthusiasm.” But his other work did not stick. For a time, he was best known as the…