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Supreme Court will hear arguments about Trump ballot eligibility

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 15:52:09 GMT

(CNN) — The US Supreme Court said Friday it will review the Colorado Supreme Court’s unprecedented decision removing former President Donald Trump from that state’s ballot.The court scheduled oral arguments for February 8.Trump remains on the ballot as the lower-court ruling disqualifying him has been put on hold pending Supreme Court action.The high court’s decision to hear the case puts the nine justices squarely in the middle of the 2024 election as voting starts in the early primary contests and represents the court’s most significant involvement in a presidential race since its highly consequential decision 23 years ago in Bush v. Gore.The state court’s ruling last month all but ensured that the justices would have to take up the politically fraught case and resolve the controversial question of whether Trump can be removed from the ballot. Though the Colorado ruling only applies to that state, courts in several other states have also reviewed challenges to Trump’s eligibi...

Former police officer sentenced to 14 months in jail, 4 years probation in Elijah McClain’s death

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 15:52:09 GMT

Elijah McClain (Courtesy of McClain family)The only police officer convicted in Elijah McClain’s death was sentenced Friday to 14 months in jail and four years of probation.Adams County District Court Judge Mark Warner sentenced former officer Randy Roedema during a two-hour hearing in Adams County District Court.The 41-year-old was convicted in October of criminally negligent homicide and third-degree assault in McClain’s 2019 death. Roedema faced between one and three years in prison on the homicide conviction and up to 24 months in jail on the assault conviction.Warner sentenced Roedema to four years of probation with 90 days in jail, during which he will be eligible for work-release, on the homicide charge, and 14 months in jail, also with work-release eligibility, on the assault charge.The sentences are to be served concurrently.Roedema must report to the Adams County Jail by March 22, the judge said.He also most complete 200 hours of community service.Roedema did not appear to...

New Red Sox 2B Vaughn Grissom calls trade to Boston a ‘full circle’ moment

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 15:52:09 GMT

Vaughn Grissom’s big league debut was like something out of a dream. Playing the Red Sox at Fenway Park in August of 2022, the then-Atlanta Braves rookie stepped to the plate in the bottom of the seventh and hit a towering home run over the Green Monster to effectively seal the win.Two years later, Grissom will now call Fenway Park home as his big league career truly begins.“I’m really excited, it’s pretty funny how full circle (it is),” Grissom said. “It’s really fun, the stadium was obviously the first one I’d played in and seen, and I was in a dream state. I have a pretty good recollection of what everything looks like and feels like from second base, so that was pretty cool to obviously get the call and to get the call from a team like that where everything started for me.”Acquired last week in exchange for veteran left-hander Chris Sale, Grissom was officially introduced as the Red Sox newest infielder on Friday. After two y...

Lucas: Cucumber cost an inflation stomach ache

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 15:52:09 GMT

Four weeks ago, cucumbers at Market Basket, my go-to store, were two for a dollar, or 50 cents each.Three weeks ago, they were 59 cents each.Two weeks ago, they were 69 cents per cuke.Last week the price rose to a whopping 79 cents a cucumber. I may be the world’s worst shopper, but even I knew that something was going on, and that it was not good.The cost of the cucumber, you see, is my barometer on inflation and the rising cost of living under President Biden. I shop. He doesn’t.In my past life — prior to living alone — I had a mate. So, I never did any grocery shopping. Shopping malls and vast supermarkets were foreign territory. I avoided them at all costs.The only stores I frequented back then were the package store and the hardware store.Since I was never good at fixing anything that required a tool, I gave up the hardware store. That left the packy.But one day, when I suddenly found myself living alone, I had to shop at stores that I had avoided most of my life. Starving was ...

Patriots-Jets injury report: Hunter Henry out, 12 other Patriots questionable

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 15:52:09 GMT

The Patriots ruled out tight end Hunter Henry and left tackle Trent Brown for Sunday’s season finale against the Jets.Related ArticlesNew England Patriots | Last day of school vibes as Patriots wait for snow day in season finale New England Patriots | Why Bailey Zappe has set ‘really good’ example for other Patriots New England Patriots | Patriots down 1 offensive starter at final practice before season finale New England Patriots | Callahan: If Bill Belichick’s time is over, say thank you before goodbye New England Patriots | Nor’easter set to blast Massachusetts with up to 12 inches of snow, Patriots could have a snow game Both players may have played their final games in New England, as Henry and Brown are scheduled to hit free agency this offseason. Henry was downgraded to non-participation at Friday’s practice. He has a lingering knee injury that will keep him out...

Under pressure to improve, did American, Southwest have more on-time flights in 2023?

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 15:52:09 GMT

Alexandra Skores | The Dallas Morning News (TNS)Major airlines went back to the basics in 2023, emphasizing getting passengers to their final destinations and cutting down on disruptions after several turbulent years of delays and cancellations.So how well did major airlines like Fort Worth-based American Airlines or Dallas-based Southwest Airlines do at getting their passengers where they needed in 2023?American ranked third on aviation analytics firm Cirium’s on-time performance results in 2023, at 80.61%, while Southwest ranked fifth at 76.26% for North American airlines. At the top, was Delta Air Lines, which flew at 84.72% for the year. Alaska Airlines and United Airlines also ranked top five.Atlanta-based Delta, which recently announced major expansions at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, ranked fourth globally, below Avianca Airlines, Azul Airlines and Qatar Airlines. American also ranked tenth among global air carriers.Looking at airports around the world, DFW Interna...

The Supreme Court allows Idaho to enforce its strict abortion ban, even in medical emergencies

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 15:52:09 GMT

By MARK SHERMAN (Associated Press)WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Friday allowed Idaho to enforce its strict abortion ban, even in medical emergencies, while a legal fight continues.The justices said they would hear arguments in April and put on hold a lower court ruling that had blocked the Idaho law in hospital emergencies, based on a lawsuit filed by the Biden administration. Hospitals that receive Medicare funds are required by a federal law to provide emergency care, potentially including abortion, no matter if there’s a state law banning abortion, the administration argued.The legal fight followed the court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and allow states to severely restrict or ban abortion. The Biden administration issued guidance about the law, the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, or EMTALA, two weeks after the high court ruling in 2022. The Democratic administration sued Idaho a month later.U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill in Idaho ...

Lead-tainted applesauce pouches also contained another possible toxic substance, FDA says

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 15:52:09 GMT

By JONEL ALECCIA (AP Health Writer)Recalled cinnamon applesauce pouches that were tied to lead poisoning in hundreds of U.S. children contained an additional contaminant, federal health officials said Friday.Besides lead, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said investigators detected “a high level” of the chemical element chromium, which can be toxic, in WanaBana apple cinnamon fruit puree and in cinnamon collected from the Ecuador factory where the pouches were manufactured. The additional details come as the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported 287 confirmed, probable or suspected lead poisoning cases from 37 states in the outbreak first detected in October. At least one adult has reported high blood lead levels after eating the lead-tainted pouches, but the median age of those sickened is 1, the FDA said. It’s not clear what type of chromium was detected in the products, FDA investigators said. Chromium is a naturally occurring element wit...

Supreme Court agrees to review Trump’s Colorado ballot ban in historic case

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 15:52:09 GMT

The Supreme Court agreed to take up whether former President Trump can be disqualified from appearing on Colorado’s ballot over his actions surrounding the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack, setting up a historic case that could upend the presidential election.The justices’ order sets the case up to be heard at a speedy pace, with oral arguments scheduled for Feb. 8 and a decision to follow that could spark Trump’s removal from the ballot in states across the country.Dozens of challenges to Trump’s eligibility under the 14th Amendment have been filed nationwide, though many cases have been rejected by lower courts.But two states — Colorado and Maine — last month took the extraordinary step of removing Trump from the primary ballot.Although those rulings remain on hold until Trump’s appeals are resolved, enabling his name to remain on the ballot in the meantime, the justices’ decision to hear the Colorado case equips the high court to provide a national resolution in advance of the genera...

WWII-era munitions found at dumping site off SoCal coast in deep-sea survey

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 15:52:09 GMT

SAN DIEGO (KSWB) — An unprecedented expedition to map parts of Southern California's deep-sea has uncovered World War II military weaponry littering the seafloor in massive dumping sites off the coast of Los Angeles.The research effort spearheaded by Scripps Institute of Oceanography sheds new light on exactly what objects lay beneath the surface after thousands of "barrel-like" objects likely containing toxic chemicals were discovered by sonar in stretches of the seafloor in 2021.Made public on Friday, the latest survey using sonar and robotic vehicles found a multitude of discarded munitions boxes and other explosives along debris lines between Los Angeles and Catalina, thousands of feet below the surface where they were previously identified. Orca sightings have surged in SoCal. What experts believe is keeping the whales here Among the items discovered were depth charges typically used to attack submarines, Hedgehog and Mark 9 depth charges, and Mark 1 smoke floats, which are c...