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Could Nebraska lawmakers seek winner-take-all elections in a special session to address taxes? 06/26/2024 05:40pm • Nebraska lawmakers are set to address property tax relief next month in a special session being sought by Gov. Jim Pillen. But the Republican also has signaled his hope that the session could be used to take Nebraska back to a winner-take-all system of awarding electoral votes ahead of this year���s Former Boston attorney once named 'most eligible bachelor' convicted of rape 06/26/2024 05:31pm • BOSTON (AP) ��� A former Boston attorney who was once named one of People magazine���s most eligible bachelors was found guilty of rape on Wednesday after a jury deliberated for five hours, prosecutors said. Gary Zerola, 52, was acquitted of the greater charge of aggravated rape and burglary, accor Bolivia's newly appointed military chief orders military units in capital to return to barracks after attempted coup 06/26/2024 05:28pm • LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) ��� Bolivia's newly appointed military chief orders military units in capital to return to barracks after attempted coup. California dad who drove family off cliff will get mental health treatment instead of trial 06/26/2024 05:16pm • REDWOOD CITY, Calif. (AP) ��� A California radiologist accused of trying to kill his family by driving off a cliff along the Northern California coast will receive mental health treatment instead of standing trial, a judge ruled. Prosecutors charged Dharmesh A. Patel, 43, with attempted murder afte Pennsylvania bishop Sean Rowe elected new leader of Episcopal Church. He's the youngest since 1789 06/26/2024 04:38pm • Sean Rowe, a 49-year-old bishop from western Pennsylvania, on Wednesday became the youngest person ever elected as leader of the Episcopal Church. He immediately issued a sobering call for the church, which has faced division and chronic membership loss, to confront an ���existential crisis��� that Wisconsin youth prison counselor is declared brain-dead after inmate assault 06/26/2024 04:34pm • MADISON, Wis. (AP) ��� A counselor at Wisconsin���s troubled youth prison has been declared brain-dead following a fight with a 16-year-old inmate, the county coroner said Wednesday, less than three weeks after prosecutors filed criminal charges against a warden and multiple staffers in connection w Marsh has four hits and four RBIs as Phillies beat Tigers 6-2 06/26/2024 04:33pm • DETROIT (AP) ��� Brandon Marsh had four hits, including a homer, and drove in four runs and the Philadelphia Phillies beat the Detroit Tigers 6-2 on Wednesday to take two out of three games. Marsh singled in the second inning, hit a two-run homer in the fourth, drove in two runs with a fifth-inning Man who police say urged 'Zionists' to get off NYC subway train faces criminal charge 06/26/2024 04:29pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� A man who demanded that ���Zionists��� identify themselves on a New York City subway train during a protest over the Israel-Hamas war, then suggested that they get out, was charged Wednesday with attempted coercion, a misdemeanor, police said. A video showing the man leading protes Four officers in now-disbanded police unit charged in cover-up of 2020 beating 06/26/2024 03:19pm • BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) ��� Four officers associated with a now-disbanded unit of the Baton Rouge Police Department have been indicted by a Louisiana grand jury on charges alleging that they covered up the beating of a suspect in custody. The charges stem from an attempted strip search in September 2 Smithsonian Folklife Festival returns to DC with lacrosse, skateboarding and dancing 06/26/2024 03:17pm • The Smithsonian Folklife Festival has been an annual tradition in the nation's capital since the late 1960s. This year, it will be held at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian from June 26 to July 1. "The Folklife Festival started in 1967, it was meant to be a two-day eve Bubba Nickles wins Athletes Unlimited AUX softball title; Jocelyn Alo finishes second 06/26/2024 02:47pm • Bubba Nickles captured the Athletes Unlimited AUX professional softball title when Jocelyn Alo was given an intentional walk with the title on the line. Alo was on the verge of winning Tuesday night. One more hit for college softball���s all-time home run leader and one of the all-time greats in the Longtime Sporting KC midfielder Roger Espinoza officially retires from pro soccer 06/26/2024 02:46pm • KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) ��� Longtime Sporting Kansas City midfielder Roger Espinoza, who appeared in a pair of World Cups and at an Olympics for Honduras, has retired from professional soccer. Espinoza, whose last game with Kansas City was in the Western Conference semifinals last November, announced Illinois man rejects deal to plead guilty to 7 murder charges in shooting at 2022 July Fourth parade 06/26/2024 02:13pm • WAUKEGAN, Ill. (AP) ��� The man accused of killing seven people and injuring dozens more at a 2022 Independence Day parade in a Chicago suburb rejected a deal requiring him to plead guilty to seven charges of murder Wednesday in a stunning courtroom scene just days before the second anniversary of t Richardson back on track 200, McLaughlin-Levrone in 400 hurdles as Olympic trials enter homestretch 06/26/2024 01:26pm • EUGENE, Ore. (AP) ��� Sha'Carri Richardson and Noah Lyles are coming back for Part II. Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone and Gabby Thomas are joining the show. The second half of U.S. Olympic trials for track and field kick off Thursday, and the final four days at Hayward Field will feature the full complem Phil Foden leaves England's Euro 2024 camp for 'pressing family matter' 06/26/2024 01:21pm • DUESSELDORF, Germany (AP) ��� Phil Foden has temporarily left England's Euro 2024 base and returned to Britain for a ���pressing family matter," the Football Association said Wednesday. English soccer's governing body did not elaborate further on the reason for Foden's departure. The Manchester City