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Utah Supreme Court blocks execution of prisoner with dementia who chose to die by firing squad 08/29/2025 10:17pm • The impending execution of a man by firing squad in Utah was blocked by the state���s Supreme Court on Friday after his attorneys argued he should be spared because he has dementia. Ralph Leroy Menzies, 67, was set to be executed Sept. 5 for abducting and killing Utah mother of three Maurine Hunsake Oregon could join Hawaii in mandating pay-per-mile fees for EV owners as gas tax projections fall 08/29/2025 09:44pm • Oregon could become the second U.S. state to require electric vehicle owners to enroll in a pay-per-mile program as lawmakers began a special session Friday to fill a $300 million transportation budget hole that threatens basic services like snowplowing and road repairs. However, the special session NYC Legionnaires��� outbreak linked to two city-run buildings, including Harlem Hospital 08/29/2025 07:52pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� A New York City hospital and another city-run building were sources for a deadly outbreak of Legionnaires��� disease in Harlem that killed seven people and sickened dozens of others, health officials announced Friday. The New York City Health Department said bacteria from cooling Lawyer: Oregon firefighter arrested by Border Patrol during wildfire was on track for legal status 08/29/2025 07:43pm • SEATTLE (AP) ��� Lawyers are demanding the release of a longtime Oregon resident arrested by Border Patrol while fighting a Washington state wildfire, saying Friday that the firefighter was already on track for legal status after helping federal investigators solve a crime against his family. His ar Miami LB Adarius Hayes charged with 3 counts of vehicular homicide following May crash 08/29/2025 07:18pm • LARGO, Fla. (AP) ��� Miami linebacker Adarius Hayes has been charged with three counts of vehicular homicide and one count of reckless driving with serious bodily injury, all of which followed the investigation into a May crash that killed three people. Hayes surrendered to police Friday morning in Western states seek to end long-running water dispute over dwindling Rio Grande 08/29/2025 05:55pm • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) ��� A simmering feud over management of one of North America���s longest rivers reached a boiling point when the U.S. Supreme Court sent western states and the federal government back to the negotiating table last year. Now the battle over waters of the Rio Grande could be nea 2 Kentucky deputies shot while serving warrant. Suspect then took his own life, authorities say 08/29/2025 04:30pm • WALTON, Ky. (AP) ��� Two Kentucky sheriff���s deputies were shot by a man while serving a warrant at an apartment, and the man then took his own life, authorities said. The Boone County Sheriff���s Office said in a statement that the deputies were in stable condition at a hospital Friday with multi Bill Belichick won big in the NFL. Can he do it as a rookie college coach at North Carolina? 08/29/2025 03:23pm • CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) ��� North Carolina bet big on Bill Belichick to elevate its football program beyond decades of also-ran status and mid-tier bowl appearances. More simply, though, it was a bet Belichick could do something he never has before. The 73-year-old with six Super Bowl titles as an NF A Broadway show asks a white actor to replace an Asian one. The backlash was swift 08/29/2025 01:46pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� The Broadway rom-com ���Maybe Happy Ending��� isn't in a very happy place these days. A casting controversy threatens to dampen the show's post-Tony Award-winning glow. The strife began when producers of the South Korea-based musical chose to cast Andrew Barth Feldman as the male l Gov. Meyer vetoes bill to loosen marijuana zoning regulations in Delaware 08/29/2025 01:35pm • Gov. Matt Meyer vetoed a bill Thursday that would have loosened regulations around where marijuana businesses can locate in Delaware, likely further delaying the growth of the weeks-old industry. But the governor also offered a competing proposal on such zoning reforms, based upon revenue-sharing fr Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein dreams are alive 08/29/2025 01:16pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� On the first day of shooting ���Frankenstein,��� Guillermo del Toro held up a drawing of the creature he had made when he was a teenager. ���He said, ���This is like Jesus to me,������ recalls Oscar Isaac. For the Mexican-born filmmaker, Mary Shelley���s 1818 gothic novel and the 1 Abrego Garcia's lawyers seek gag order on Trump administration officials after perp walk video 08/29/2025 12:36pm • Attorneys for Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Salvadoran national who was erroneously deported to El Salvador earlier this year, have asked a federal judge to order Trump administration officials to stop making negative comments about him that they say could jeopardize his right to a fair trial on human s Japan accelerates missile deployment amid rising regional tensions 08/29/2025 12:03pm • TOKYO (AP) ��� Japan plans to deploy its domestically developed long-range missiles a year earlier than planned, the Defense Ministry announced Friday, as the country steps up efforts to strengthen its strike-back capability in response to rising challenges in the region. Under the new schedule, a f Ayuso responds with mountain stage win at Spanish Vuelta, Traeen keeps overall lead 08/29/2025 11:35am • CERLER, Spain (AP) ��� Spanish rider Juan Ayuso won a mountainous seventh stage of the Spanish Vuelta on Friday to bounce back from a poor performance the previous day, while Torstein Traeen of Norway kept the overall lead. Ayuso attacked on an ascent with 11 kilometers (seven miles) to go and dropp Trump suggests more US cities need National Guard but crime stats tell a different story 08/29/2025 11:07am • President Donald Trump has threatened to deploy the National Guard to Chicago, New York, Seattle, Baltimore, San Francisco and Portland, Oregon, to fight what he says is runaway crime. Yet data shows most violent crime in those places and around the country has declined in recent years. Homicides th