NEW YORK — Subway service was suspended in Manhattan on the No. 4, 5 and 6 lines Friday morning as police responded to reports of a body on the tracks near E. 28th St., sources told The New York Daily News.

An official alert from the MTA said trains were not running on the Lexington Ave. line between Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall and the E. 86th ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles City Council signed off on Mayor Karen Bass’ $12.8-billion budget on Thursday, cutting 1,700 vacant positions and engaging in a back-and-forth over police spending.

On a 12-3 vote, the council approved a spending plan that eliminates the positions at agencies responsible for animal shelters, public works, ...Read more

A New Mexico judge denied a motion to dismiss the involuntary manslaughter case against Alec Baldwin, clearing the way for the high-profile actor to stand trial for his alleged role in the deadly “Rust” movie shooting.

New Mexico First Judicial District Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer’s decision late Friday was a setback to Baldwin and his ...Read more

Louisiana became the first state to make it a crime to possess the two main U.S. abortion pills without a prescription, after a new law added mifepristone and misoprostol to the list of controlled substances like highly addictive narcotics.

Gov. Jeff Landry, a Republican who opposes abortion access, said in a social-media post Friday that he’...Read more

WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin will turn over his authorities to his deputy while he undergoes a medical procedure linked to a bladder issue that left him hospitalized for two weeks in January.

Doctors will perform “a scheduled, elective, and minimally invasive follow-up non-surgical procedure related to his previously reported...Read more

Missouri state Rep. Ben Baker revealed Friday that his daughter and son-in-law were killed by a gang while working as missionaries in Haiti.

“My heart is broken in a thousand pieces,” he wrote in a Facebook post. “I’ve never felt this kind of pain.”

He added: “They went to Heaven together. Please pray for my family we desperately ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A Jackson County jury handed down a substantial $10 million verdict Friday after nearly two weeks of testimony centered around a deputy who shot two people, killing one of them.

Allen Cates, 29, and Randi McGaugh were in a car in Independence when Jackson County Deputy Tyler Naudet fired at them on Sept. 12, 2019. Cates ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — They wanted to please their partners.

One woman led an afterschool program. Another helped manage her daughter's child-care center. A third worked as a Hennepin County corrections officer. Their spotless records gave the men in their lives — felons who weren't legally allowed to possess a firearm — access to guns.

Over the ...Read more

A severe thunderstorm warning was issued by the National Weather Service on Friday at for several northern Texas counties, including wind gusts of up to 60 mph and half-dollar-sized hail.

According to the NWS, "For your protection get inside a sturdy structure and stay away from windows."

Actions to take when lightning threat is imminent

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A former Kentucky prosecutor has been sentenced to three years and five months in prison for his conviction in a case in which he solicited sexually explicit images from a woman and helped her on her criminal charges.

The sentence for Ronnie Goldy was the maximum under advisory guidelines.

Chief U.S. District Judge Danny C. Reeves sentenced ...Read more

A man was sentenced to 30 years in prison for raping and stabbing a 15-year-old girl he met through Snapchat, the Gwinnett County district attorney said Friday.

Zachary Iona, 22, of Flowery Branch, pleaded guilty to rape, aggravated assault, aggravated battery, statutory rape, child molestation and possession of a knife during the commission of...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A federal judge has rejected a bid by convicted S.C. lawyer and Trump supporter David Johnston of Charleston to quickly get his law license back.

In legal filings in the District of Columbia federal court, former lawyer Johnston, whose law license was suspended after his 2022 arrest, argued he would have a better chance of ...Read more

A trio of women community leaders of color with personal and professional ties to Seattle police Chief Adrian Diaz say racism and a "mutiny" within the ranks of the department are behind a series of recent legal claims and accusations of sexual harassment leveled against him.

The women held a news conference Thursday outside El Centro de la ...Read more

Cabinet Minister Michael Gove said he was standing down as a member of Parliament, adding to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s struggles during the opening days of campaigning ahead of the July 4 general election.

While Gove, 56, said he still supported Sunak, he argued that the toll of being a politician meant it was time for “a new generation�...Read more

PITTSBURGH — On four occasions last year, medical helicopters flew over Pittsburgh transporting not injured humans, but wounded pigs.

The pigs — bleeding heavily from the abdomen — were stabilized in the air by an autonomous medical intervention system developed by the University of Pittsburgh as part of a military-funded study with the ...Read more

DETROIT — Sexual assaults, fights and poor supervision are rampant at Wayne County's troubled Juvenile Detention Facility, according to multiple former employees who paint a portrait of a facility in chaos.

In interviews with nearly half a dozen former employees, many of whom asked to remain anonymous out of fear of retaliation, they ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Since the earliest plans for the California High-Speed Rail Project, the segment connecting the Central Valley to Los Angeles has been fraught with controversy and technical conundrums. Political pressure and other concerns ultimately pushed the route away from the Grapevine and over the Tehachapis to the Antelope Valley, where ...Read more

Group of Seven finance ministers will lay the groundwork for using the profits from frozen Russia assets to help Ukraine, according to a draft of the communique that they’re set to sign off on Saturday.

The officials meeting in the northern Italian town of Stresa will set out the plan and progress in the statement, with a view to leaders ...Read more