By BROOKE KUSHWAHA/The New Bedford Light For four years, since Larry Lewis moved to Cranberry Village, he's heard the rumble of trucks and excavators from a sand excavation site owned by cranberry grower A.D. Makepeace. The noise is a nuisance, but his real concern is when sand particles ...
By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The president of the 165,000-student University of Wisconsin system is fighting attempts by the board of regents to force him to retire or face being fired. The surprise effort to remove Jay Rothman from the post he has held since ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Homeland Security is pausing the purchase of new warehouses intended to house immigrants as it scrutinizes all contracts signed under former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, according to a senior Homeland Security official. The development comes ...
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Jurors failed to reach a verdict on Tuesday in the corruption trial of two fired FirstEnergy Corp. executives charged with alleged roles in a $60 million scheme to bribe politicians for a $1 billion nuclear bailout and other favors. The declaration of an impasse came ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A bipartisan group of four senators has plans to visit Taiwan, Japan and South Korea in the coming days on a trip meant to bolster U.S. alliances seen as important to countering China's dominance in Asia. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire, the top Democrat on the Senate ...
By TRÂN NGUYỄN Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California's Democratic attorney general and a voting rights group launched legal challenges this week to halt a seizure and recount of more than half a million 2025 election ballots by a Republican county sheriff who is ...
