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HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas man who drugged his wife’s drinks in an attempt to induce an abortion was sentenced to 180 days in jail and 10 years on probation. Mason Herring, a 39-year-old Houston attorney, pleaded guilty Wednesday to injury to a child and assault of a pregnant person. He had initially been charged with felony assault to induce …

La CIA cesó esta semana a una mujer cuyo relato de haber sido agredida en una escalera de la sede de la agencia de espionaje provocó que una avalancha de colegas presentaran sus propias denuncias de conducta sexual indebida. El abogado de la mujer consideró que se trataba de una represalia descarada. Aunque la CIA dijo que esa acusación era …

LOVELAND, Colorado, EE.UU. (AP) — La locomotora de un tren de carga se descarriló en el Norte de Colorado la mañana del miércoles, derramando cientos de galones de diésel, informaron las autoridades. La locomotora de Great Western Railway no volcó cuando se salió de los raíles en un cambio de vías justo antes de la 1 a.m. pero un tanque …

SHAWANO, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin teenager has pleaded no contest to charges that he triggered a bonfire explosion that injured more than a dozen people in 2022. Sam Armstrong, 18, pleaded no contest on Monday to 13 counts of injury by negligent use of an explosive. A judge set his sentencing for April 11, WLUK-TV reported. Under Armstrong’s plea …

PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan jury convicted a school shooter’s mother of involuntary manslaughter Tuesday in the killings of four students in 2021, making her the first parent in the U.S. to be held responsible for a child carrying out a mass school attack. Prosecutors say Jennifer Crumbley had a duty under state law to prevent her son, who …

PHILADEPHIA (AP) — A man has been freed after spending nearly four decades in prison on a murder conviction in a 1984 Philadelphia fire attributed to arson under standards that prosecutors said would not support a conviction today. Harold Staten, 71, was convicted in 1986 of setting an early morning fire that killed a man in a north Philadelphia row …

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — An adorable, furry baby Hoffman’s two-toed sloth has made its debut at zoo in Florida. Zookeepers at the Palm Beach Zoo & Conservation Society have been monitoring the baby sloth and its mother, Wilbur, since witnessing the birth early in the morning of Jan. 23. “This happened right in front of my eyes as …

BEAUFORT, N.C. (AP) — The pilot of a small plane that crashed off North Carolina’s coast in 2022, killing the pilot, four teens and three other adults, was likely distracted while trying to program the aircraft’s flight management system after takeoff, according to a final report from federal investigators. The pilot likely failed to monitor the aircraft’s speed as the …

PRESTON, Minn. (AP) — A Minnesota woman is accused of trying to deceive authorities into believing her identical twin sister was the driver who hit a horse-drawn Amish buggy last fall, killing two of the four children inside. Samantha Jo Petersen, 35, of Kellogg, was charged in Fillmore County District Court on Monday with 21 counts including criminal vehicular homicide …

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — An adorable, furry baby Hoffman’s two-toed sloth has made its debut at zoo in Florida. Zookeepers at the Palm Beach Zoo & Conservation Society have been monitoring the baby sloth and its mother, Wilbur, since witnessing the birth early in the morning of Jan. 23. “This happened right in front of my eyes as …