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It’s not yet known what killed an endangered fin whale, but people can marvel at the large marine mammal as it decomposes on an Oregon beach. “While it’s sad, it’s also super educational,” Tiffany Boothe, assistant manager of the Seaside Aquarium, said Thursday of the rare sight, which she said is only the second dead fin whale that Oregon has …

PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — The father of a Michigan school shooter wants jurors from a different county to decide his involuntary manslaughter case, arguing that he can’t get a fair trial because of widespread publicity and his wife’s recent conviction. “They have been clearly convicted in the court of public opinion,” defense lawyer Mariell Lehman said in a court filing …

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. (AP) — A 29-year-old Texas man died in a gunfight at a café Thursday that also left a central Michigan police officer injured, authorities said. Battle Creek Police Department officers were called to Café Rica at 3:42 p.m. for a report of an unwanted person, the department said in a news release. A female police officer received …

MANASSAS, Virginia, EE.UU. (AP) — Oficiales de policía abatieron a tiros a un hombre armado con un cuchillo y sospechoso de matar a puñaladas a una persona y herir gravemente a otra en un centro de capacitación para trabajadores de la electricidad, dijo el martes la policía. Policías del condado Prince William recibieron una llamada del centro de capacitación en …

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California cities and counties still don’t know how much they’ll have to pay for Gov. Gavin Newsom’s pandemic program to house homeless people in hotel rooms after the Federal Emergency Management Agency said in October that it was limiting the number of days eligible for reimbursement. State and local officials say they were stunned to learn …

El gobernador de Georgia, Brian Kemp, dijo el martes que enviará más soldados de la Guardia Nacional de su estado para apoyar la iniciativa del gobernador de Texas, Greg Abbott, de controlar los cruces ilegales en la frontera sur de Estados Unidos, mientras el también republicano Abbott continúa con su enfrentamiento con el gobierno federal en cuanto a la aplicación …

FILADELFIA (AP) — Un exinspector de la policía de Filadelfia ha sido absuelto de cargos de agresión por utilizar una porra durante un altercado con un manifestante durante una protesta contra la injusticia racial en 2020. El jurado absolvió el miércoles a Joseph Bologna, de 57 años de edad, de cargos de agresión menor y de poseer un instrumento de …

GLEN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — William Post, a Michigan man who played an important role in the development of Pop-Tarts, has died at age 96. Post died Saturday, according to a family obituary which provided no details on his death but says he was raised in Grand Rapids as “one of seven children of Dutch immigrants” and had retired at …

MEDFORD, N.J. (AP) — A crash involving a school bus and a truck sent about a dozen people to hospitals, but no life-threatening injuries were immediately reported, authorities said. Medford Township police say the collision happened shortly before 3 p.m. Tuesday at an intersection in the Burlington County township. TV news images of the crash scene showed front-engine damage to …

LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) — A man who fatally stabbed a police officer in southern New Mexico over the weekend had a long criminal record, authorities said Tuesday. The death of Las Cruces patrol Officer Jonah Hernandez marked the first on-duty death among officers in the 96-year-old history of the city’s police department, officials said. “We will mourn the loss …