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Sheriff: 2 dead, 3 hospitalized in Houston market shooting

May 16, 2022 - 08:10 AM HOUSTON (AP) — Two people were killed and three more were taken to a hospital with injuries after a shooting Sunday at a bustling Houston flea market, authorities said. The shooting at the open-air market arose from an “altercation” that involved at least two guns and all five of the people, according to Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez. He said no “innocent bystanders” were injured. Investigators believe one of the people hospitalized was among those who opened fire and two more suspected shooters were detained at the scene, a sheriff’s deputy told ...

Georgian wants Congress to decry prosecution of abortions

May 12, 2022 - 06:41 PM ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia representative is proposing that Congress condemn attempts to criminally prosecute people who perform abortions, have abortions or experience miscarriages. Rep. Nikema Willams, an Atlanta Democrat who formerly lobbied for Planned Parenthood in the Southeast, is i...

Lawyer: Texas man killed by police was shot in back of neck

May 12, 2022 - 06:37 PM HOUSTON (AP) — An attorney for the family of a 29-year-old Black man fatally shot last month by a Houston police officer said that an independent autopsy shows he was shot in the back of his neck. Jalen Randle was shot April 27 as he exited a vehicle, police said. Police said he was being pur...

Woman who said she killed Texas man was girlfriend, not wife

May 10, 2022 - 08:05 PM SPRING, Texas (AP) — After authorities initially said a Houston-area woman told them the man she’d killed over another woman was her husband, they said Tuesday that his family says she was his girlfriend. Karin Stewart, 51, has been charged with murder in the fatal shooting Saturda...

Non-unanimous verdicts at issue at Louisiana high court

May 10, 2022 - 05:25 PM NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana’s Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday on whether the state Constitution provision allowing non-unanimous jury convictions was racially motivated — and whether the now-banned policy must be applied retroactively. An attorney for the state said the ans...

Travis Scott accused of violating Astroworld suits gag order

March 29, 2022 - 03:15 PM HOUSTON (AP) — Attorneys for some of those killed and injured during last year’s deadly Astroworld music festival alleged in court on Monday that rapper Travis Scott has violated a gag order issued in lawsuits they have filed in an effort to influence possible jurors and rebuil...

Trump returns to Georgia confronting test of his grip on GOP

March 26, 2022 - 06:38 PM ATLANTA (AP) — In Donald Trump’s push to fundamentally reshape the Republican Party, few places are a higher priority than Georgia. The former president has issued highly-coveted endorsements in races ranging from governor to state insurance commissioner. His backing...

Louisiana court: Protest leader can be sued for cop’s injury

March 25, 2022 - 06:35 PM NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Louisiana police officer injured when violence broke out over the police killing of a Black man in Baton Rouge in 2016 has grounds to pursue a lawsuit against a protest organizer, Louisiana’s Supreme Court said Friday. The 6-1 opinion was not a ruling in a case, but...

New Orleans schools chief finalists from all 3 U.S. coasts

March 24, 2022 - 12:30 PM NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Orleans Parish School Board has chosen an Alabama school superintendent, an official of a Los Angeles nonprofit and a Florida educational consultant as finalists for superintendent of a system made up largely of charter schools. A news release sent Wednesday identi...

Louisiana twister carved destruction in mere moments

March 23, 2022 - 04:25 PM By GERALD HERBERT and REBECCA SANTANA (AP) — A powerful tornado took mere seconds to rip off roofs and destroy homes as it chiseled a path of destruction through a New Orleans area neighborhood where one man died, residents said Wednesday as they picked through wreckage and mourned their ...

Local Bulletins

Sheriff: 2 dead, 3 hospitalized in Houston market shooting

Georgian wants Congress to decry prosecution of abortions

Lawyer: Texas man killed by police was shot in back of neck

Woman who said she killed Texas man was girlfriend, not wife

Non-unanimous verdicts at issue at Louisiana high court

Travis Scott accused of violating Astroworld suits gag order

Trump returns to Georgia confronting test of his grip on GOP

Louisiana court: Protest leader can be sued for cop’s injury

New Orleans schools chief finalists from all 3 U.S. coasts

Louisiana twister carved destruction in mere moments

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