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Pipeline restores gas flow after lightning-sparked inferno 04/29/2023 02:40pm • CORINTH, Miss. (AP) — Natural gas is flowing again in a Mississippi pipeline after a towering blaze Friday that officials believe was caused by a lightning strike. The pipeline's owner, TC Energy Corp. of Calgary, Alberta, said Saturday that it had “completed operational adjustments.” The Cana NYC transit agency pulls the brake on Twitter service alerts 04/29/2023 10:21am • NEW YORK (AP) — Shortly after midnight Thursday, several New York City subway trains slowed to a crawl as emergency crews tended to a person discovered on the tracks in Manhattan. The delays were flagged for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s rail control center, where a customer servic Nursing program ramps up to address labor shortage 04/29/2023 09:01am • BALTIMORE (AP) — A nursing accelerator program, conceived during some of the worst months of the coronavirus pandemic to add extra hands in University of Maryland Medical System hospitals, is ramping up and expanding — even as some of the demands of the public health crisis scale back. That’s Inflation pressures remain persistent as consumers pull back 04/29/2023 07:46am • WASHINGTON (AP) — Key measures of prices and wages remained high in March, keeping the Federal Reserve on track to raise interest rates next week for the 10th time since March of last year in its drive to defeat high inflation. An index that is closely followed by the Fed, which excludes volatile 'Completely unacceptable': 6 DC firefighters put on leave, man arrested after brawl caught on camera 04/29/2023 05:11am • A man was taken into custody after he and a group of D.C. firefighters got into a physical fight on Tuesday night, according to an incident report from the Metropolitan Police Department of D.C. In a police report, officials claim a man was acting aggressively toward a firefighter out on a 911 ca Outspoken abortion provider LeRoy 'Lee' Carhart dies at 81 04/28/2023 10:40pm • LeRoy “Lee” Carhart, who emerged from a two-decade career as an Air Force surgeon to become one of the best-known late-term abortion providers in the United States, has died. He was 81. Carhart died Friday, according to Clinics for Abortions & Reproductive Excellence in Bellevue, Nebraska, w NBA conference semifinal preview capsules 04/28/2023 09:54pm • Preview capsules for the NBA's conference semifinals: EASTERN CONFERENCE No. 2 BOSTON CELTICS (57-25, 4-2) vs. No. 3 PHILADELPHIA 76ERS (54-28, 4-0) Season series: Celtics, 3-1. Schedule: Monday at Boston, Wednesday at Boston, Friday at Philadelphia, May 7 at Philadelphia, May 9 at Boston, May 11 at Victim's sister tells jurors about quick funeral, remarriage 04/28/2023 09:13pm • BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The sister of a woman killed in what prosecutors say was a doomsday-focused plot told jurors Friday that her sister's funeral was held so quickly that some family members couldn't attend and that she was devastated when she learned her former brother-in-law remarried just a few Conflict over transgender rights simmers across the US 04/28/2023 07:45pm • As transgender people have increasingly gained acceptance and visibility, conservative lawmakers have zeroed in on restricting their rights: keeping transgender children off girls’ sports teams and out of certain bathrooms, and blocking them from receiving gender-affirming medical care. In respons School ages near toxic plumes as Nevada tribe calls for help 04/28/2023 06:46pm • CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Cracked windows, a bat colony in the ceiling, spotty heating and close proximity to hazardous contaminants in a long-dilapidated school brought over 100 tribal members to the Nevada Legislature on Thursday, where they said longstanding funding pleas for a new school have b Utah judge to rule next week on state abortion clinic ban 04/28/2023 06:03pm • SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Planned Parenthood Association of Utah argued in court on Friday that a ban on abortion clinics would “functionally eliminate” abortion access if implemented next week as scheduled. After hearing arguments from attorneys representing Utah and abortion providers, state North Dakota's abortion ban bill becomes veto-proof 04/28/2023 05:25pm • North Dakota state senators overwhelmingly passed a bill that would ban abortion at all stages of pregnancy. Narrow exceptions would be granted for rape and incest up to six weeks of pregnancy under the bill passed April 19. Abortions for certain medical emergencies are allowed at any stage of pregn Abortion bans fail in conservative South Carolina, Nebraska 04/28/2023 05:12pm • LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Abortion bans in Nebraska and South Carolina fell short of advancing in close votes amid heated debates among Republicans, confounding conservatives who have dominated both legislatures and further exposing the chasm on the issue of abortion within the GOP. In Nebraska, where 2 abortion bans failed, 1 passed in US statehouses this week 04/28/2023 05:02pm • Ten months after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade and a nationwide right to abortion, states are pushing in opposite directions on the issue. This week, one state adopted a ban, two states tried to but didn't get support from enough lawmakers and three states advanced measures to prote Containers secured to shore after Wisconsin train derailment 04/28/2023 04:48pm • MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Crews have secured two container cars that began floating away in the Mississippi River after a freight train derailed in southwestern Wisconsin, officials said Friday. Thursday's derailment in Crawford County involved two of the train’s three locomotives and 10 cars carr