Oconee County Sheriff James Hale speaks at the Georgia Anti-Gang Network meeting held Tuesday at Athens Technical College. Law enforcement officials from throughout northeast Georgia recently said more needs to be done to tamp down violent crimes associated with gangs and to keep children from getting pulled into the criminal organizations. Athens Technical College this…
WASHINGTON ― A bipartisan group of senators has been talking about ways to reform Social Security in order to avert a funding shortfall expected sometime around a decade from now. And one item under discussion is raising the eligibility age for Social Security benefits for future retirees ― a politically fraught move that is more…
HONOLULU (AP) — In a case that reflects Hawaii’s nuanced and complicated relationship with race, two Native Hawaiian men are scheduled to be sentenced Thursday for a federal hate crime in the brutal beating of a white man who tried to move into their remote, traditional fishing village. The jury convicted Kaulana Alo-Kaonohi and Levi…
By Hyunjoo Jin SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – More than a dozen Tesla executives took the stage at the company’s Investor Day on Wednesday, a departure from its previous such events where Elon Musk tended to dominate. The move, a first for Tesla, appeared to be aimed at showcasing the depth of its executive bench as…
Newly unsealed court documents reveal Idaho murder suspect Bryan Kohberger’s public defender told a judge she had no conflict of interest that would prevent her from representing Kohberger. Public defender Anne Taylor told Latah County Magistrate Judge Megan Marshall during a secret court hearing in late January that she has never met murder victim Xana…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Seven months after a decisive statewide vote affirmed abortion rights in Kansas, the Republican-controlled Legislature’s annual session in some ways looks a lot like previous ones, with multiple anti-abortion proposals. But key players are focusing on incremental changes, instead of a ban. Their biggest goal this year is getting more financial…
