Birmingham, Alabama to pardon 15,000 with marijuana convictions

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Alabama’s largest city will issue blanket pardons for more than 15,000 people with misdemeanor marijuana convictions dating back to 1990, BirminghamRead More

Derek Chauvin guilty of murder and manslaughter in George Floyd case

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Former Minneapolis Officer Derek Chauvin was convicted Tuesday of murder and manslaughter for pinning George Floyd to the pavement with his kneeRead More

Police: 1 killed, 2 wounded in shooting at NY grocery store

WEST HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. (AP) — An employee suspected of shooting three workers at an office inside a Long Island grocery store Tuesday, killing a manager,Read More

Atlanta school named after KKK leader to be renamed to honor Hank Aaron

ATLANTA (AP) — An Atlanta high school that was named after a Ku Klux Klan leader will strip the name and instead honor the lateRead More

AirTags could give a nice bump to Apple’s growing lineup of smaller stuff

(CNN) — When people think Apple, they think big ticket items like iPhones, MacBooks and iPads. But the company’s accessories line of iPhone cases, chargersRead More

Out of sight but center stage, jurors weigh Chauvin’s fate

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The jurors who sat quietly off-camera through three weeks of draining testimony in Derek Chauvin’s murder trial in George Floyd’s death movedRead More

Man charged in connection with drive-by shooting of Minnesota National Guard and police team

(CNN) — A Minneapolis man has been charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm in connection with a drive-by shooting of a team ofRead More

A year before the Indianapolis FedEx mass shooting, the gunman browsed White supremacist websites, police say

(CNN) — The gunman in an Indianapolis shooting that left eight people dead at a FedEx facility browsed White supremacist websites a little over a year beforeRead More

Feds weighing how to respond after verdict in Chauvin trial

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is privately weighing how to handle the upcoming verdict in the trial of former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin,Read More

Cuba’s Communist Party chooses Miguel Díaz-Canel as leader

HAVANA (AP) — In many ways, Cuba’s new maximum leader is nothing like those who have governed the island for the past six decades. MiguelRead More