Eileen O’Neill Burke, a Democrat and retired appellate judge, defeated a more liberal candidate in last week’s primary election for the job of top prosecutor in Cook County, Ill., according to The Associated Press. The result came after more than a week of counting ballots, including mail-in votes, that were not able to be reported…
El Paso County and two immigrant rights groups sued Texas officials on Tuesday to challenge a sweeping new law that allows state and local police to arrest migrants who cross from Mexico, setting up a legal showdown over federal immigration policies. The federal lawsuit came a day after Gov. Greg Abbott signed the bill, which…
More than 20 counties in western and Central Florida have issued evacuation orders as Hurricane Idalia approaches, including parts of Tampa, the state’s third-largest city. Each county in Florida has its own website that residents can check for the recommended level of preparation. Here is the latest, as of 5 a.m. Eastern time on Tuesday.…
At least four people were dead, including a gunman, and six others were injured after a man believed to have been a retired law enforcement officer opened fire at a popular biker bar in Southern California on Wednesday evening as a crowd gathered for a rock music show and spaghetti night, the authorities said. The…
A dozen hilltop homes in one of the most affluent areas of coastal Los Angeles County were collapsing into a canyon on Monday after a landslide over the weekend forced the evacuation of a neighborhood in the community of Rolling Hills Estates. Local officials said that about 16 people were evacuated late Saturday after fire…
Tina Peters, a Trump loyalist who was barred from overseeing elections in a Colorado county after her indictment on charges related to tampering with voting equipment, was sentenced on Monday to home detention after she was convicted in a separate obstruction case. Ms. Peters, the former clerk in Mesa County, was given four months of…
A prolonged winter storm that knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of customers in the Upper Midwest was continuing its assault on the region on Thursday, as portions of Southern California prepare for blizzard conditions, forecasters said. More than 800,000 customers were without power early Thursday across Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Minnesota, according to…
Blizzard warnings were issued for more two million people across the United States this week, some in places you’d expect, like Minnesota, and some in places you probably would not, like the mountains around Los Angeles. Almost all of the country is experiencing some form of notable weather this week, meteorologists said. While much of…
A 52-year-old man armed with three guns went on a shooting rampage in a rural Mississippi town on Friday, killing six people, including his ex-wife, and shocking a community that had not seen such mass violence in more than two decades, the authorities said. The man, Richard Dale Crum, of Arkabutla, Miss., who was in…
San Mateo County, Calif., has agreed to pay $4.5 million to the family of a Black man who died in 2018 after a sheriff’s deputy repeatedly used a Taser on him during a struggle that began when law enforcement officers saw the man jaywalking on a busy street, the county confirmed on Tuesday. The man,…