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RUTLAND, Vt. (AP) — The owner of a firearms training center in Vermont who was ordered arrested by a judge in December in a long-running legal battle with a town pleaded not guilty to felony aggravated assault Thursday stemming from a scuffle during his arrest the day before, authorities said. Daniel Banyai, with one eye swollen nearly shut, attended his …

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A movie set armorer is challenging her conviction on an involuntary manslaughter charge in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer by Alec Baldwin on the set of the Western film “Rust,” court records released Monday show. Defense attorneys for “Rust” armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed filed a request for a new trial and urged a judge to …

MONTICELLO, Ky. (AP) — A sheriff’s deputy in southern Kentucky was shot and wounded on Monday afternoon, officials said. The Wayne County deputy appeared to have non-life-threatening injuries and was flown to University of Tennessee Medical Center, Wayne County Emergency Management Director Sherwin Corder said. He said there was still an active scene where the shooting occurred that included deputies, …

NUEVA YORK (AP) — Un juez postergó el viernes el juicio penal contra el expresidente Donald Trump en el que está acusado de pagar para evitar la difusión de información comprometedora hasta por lo menos mediados de abril, luego de que sus abogados dijeron que necesitaban más tiempo para examinar cuidadosamente la enorme cantidad de pruebas que obtuvieron recientemente de …

WASHINGTON (AP) — If some U.S. lawmakers have their way, the United States and China could end up with something in common: TikTok might not be available in either country. The House on Wednesday approved a bill requiring the Beijing-based company ByteDance to sell its subsidiary TikTok or face a nationwide ban. It’s unclear if the bill will ever become …

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Authorities have issued an arrest warrant for a 17-year-old youth who they say is the last of four suspects sought in the shooting that wounded eight Philadelphia high school students at a bus stop last week. The U.S. Marshals Service, while offering details Tuesday night on the arrest of a third suspect, called on the fourth person …

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Rats have gotten into confiscated pot at New Orleans’ aging police headquarters, munching the evidence as the building is taken over by mold and cockroaches, said the city’s police chief. “The rats eating our marijuana, they’re all high,” Police Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick told New Orleans City Council members. Kirkpatrick described vermin infestations and decay at the …

PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona officials said a Saudi-owned company they targeted over its use of groundwater to grow forage crops is moving its farming operation out of a valley in the Southwestern state’s rural west. Gov. Katie Hobbs and the Arizona State Land Department announced late Thursday that Fondomonte Arizona is officially no longer pumping water in the Butler Valley …

PHOENIX (AP) — Una jueza federal confirmó las disposiciones de las nuevas leyes de Arizona que requerirían que los condados verificaran el estatus migratorio de los votantes empadronados que no hayan presentado una prueba de tener nacionalidad estadounidense y cotejaran la información del padrón electoral con diversas bases de datos gubernamentales. En un fallo el jueves, la jueza de distrito …

The University of Florida is eliminating its chief diversity officer position, scrapping the program’s staff jobs and halting any contracts involving the subject because of a new law passed last year that was pushed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis. The university in Gainesville, Florida, said in a memo released Friday that staff whose jobs were eliminated will get 12 weeks …