New York State

Three Rivers, MI

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Three Rivers, Mich. - Three store owners in Three Rivers are facing charges after allegedly labor trafficking a woman who was brought to the United States under the pretext of marriage.

Three Charged After Woman Forced to Work at Three Rivers Store for 8 Years With No Pay

Indianapolis, IN

The Quick Historian

The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department has made arrests in a heartbreaking case of neglect and malnourishment resulting in the death of 5-year-old Kinsleigh Welty. The child was found unresponsive and malnourished at her residence on Denver Drive, leading to her tragic passing at Riley Hospital for Children.

Man, woman arrested after starving 5-year-old daughter dies

Los Angeles, CA

Connecticut Public

Every spring, a remarkable sight unfolds in the San Gabriel Mountains north of Los Angeles, as thousands of songbirds fly north.

Scientists study the mysteries of bird migration in the mountains of Los Angeles

Connecticut State

Willimantic, CT

A home health care company failed to protect a visiting nurse who was killed during an appointment with a convicted rapist at a Connecticut halfway house and should be fined about $161,000, federal workplace safety officials said Wednesday. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration released the results of its investigation...

Employer of visiting nurse who was killed didn't protect her and should be fined, safety agency says

Canton, CT

Spring is baby season for many Connecticut wildlife, which means many homeowners may end up finding young critters seemingly alone and defenseless in their yards. But that doesn’t necessarily mean they need human intervention. Wildlife rehabilitators said it depends on the species of animal and what circumstances it was found in.

Found a baby animal on its own this spring? Here are some dos and don'ts

Phoenix, AZ

Orange, CA

NewSantaAna

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A 33-year-old Phoenix man has been convicted of murdering four men in a failed attempt to take over the drug business that left three of the men shot to death, their bodies set on fire inside of a burning car left abandoned in a residential neighborhood in Orange in the middle of the day in 2015. The body of a fourth man was found inside of a car in Fontana six days after he was shot to death; his killers recorded his dying moments on a cell phone, according to the OCDA .

Phoenix man convicted of killing and burning four cartel drug dealers in Orange and in Fontana

New Haven, CT

Yale New Haven Health is asking the state Superior Court to be let out of its contract with Prospect Medical Holdings for the purchase of Manchester Memorial, Rockville General and Waterbury hospitals. YNHH is suing Prospect, from whom it is trying to purchase the three Connecticut hospitals, charging that Prospect...

Yale New Haven Health wants out of deal to buy Prospect hospitals

Jacksonville, FL

Jacksonville Today

A corrections officer is one of 17 people who have been arrested after a six-month investigation into illegal drug trafficking at the Duval County jail. Jacksonville Sheriff T.K. Waters on Tuesday announced the arrest of corrections officer Kobe Collett, 23, the fifth employee the agency has arrested this year.

Corrections officer among 17 charged in Duval jail drug ring

Orange County, CA

Santa Ana, CA

Homicide Detectives are attempting to locate Roxanne Briseno of Santa Ana who is wanted as a person of interest in a homicide that occurred in November 2019. Roxanne is known to frequent hotels in the Orange County Area and believed to reside in the City of Santa Ana.

The SAPD is searching for a woman who may have witnessed a homicide

Hawaii State

Honolulu, HI

Last month, we asked NPR readers what poetry means to them. We received nearly 500 responses, from lifelong poetry fans to those who have only recently come to enjoy the genre. From sparking the imagination to helping with mental health, listen to poems read by NPR readers and see how poetry has affected their lives.

Bearing witness, celebrating strength: How poetry has changed lives for NPR's audience

Bridgeport, CT

After an absentee ballot scandal upended Bridgeport’s mayoral election, the Connecticut Supreme Court is weighing whether voters in the city can seek the arrest of two key figures in the case. The court heard oral arguments Wednesday in an appeal that will test whether a decades-old state law that...

Can Bridgeport voters seek arrests for election misconduct? CT Supreme Court to decide

Maryland State

Norwalk, CT

Connecticut officials on Monday praised first responders and construction crews who worked through the weekend to get a stretch of Interstate 95 in Norwalk reopened to traffic following a Thursday tractor-trailer fire. Hundreds of construction personnel worked over the weekend to demolish the Fairfield Avenue Bridge, which was structurally damaged...

‘An amazing work of art’: Officials celebrate rapid reopening of I-95 after bridge fire, demolition

New Jersey State

Newark, NJ

Morristown Minute

The elaborate scheme involved falsifying accounts receivable to secure and misuse a substantial line of credit. In a significant legal development, Nitin Vats, a former employee of the defunct New Jersey-based company Lotus Exim International Inc. (LEI), has admitted to participating in a fraudulent scheme that resulted in a $17 million loss to a bank. This confession was made before U.S. District Judge Susan D. Wigenton, marking a pivotal moment in the investigation led by U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger.

Former Employee Guilty of $17M Bank Fraud

Connecticut will receive $3 million in federal funding to help repair a bridge on Interstate 95 in Norwalk that was destroyed by a tanker fire and closed down the highway for a few days. The emergency relief funds will be immediately available for use by the Connecticut Department of Transportation...

After Norwalk fire, CT to get $3 million in federal funding for I-95 bridge repairs

NewsBreak

Harvey Weinstein's 2020 sex crimes conviction in New York overturned

Editor's note: This report includes descriptions of sexual assault. On Thursday morning, the highest court in New York state overturned the 2020 felony sex crime conviction...

Harvey Weinstein's 2020 sex crimes conviction in New York overturned

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