Image of Yolanda Jaimes from DPS AUSTIN (KXAN) – The Texas Department of Public Safety issued a CLEAR Alert Saturday for a missing woman in Austin. Yolanda Jaimes was last seen Friday in the 7000 block of Craybrough Circle at about 6 a.m. Jaimes was described as a 39-year-old woman with brown eyes and black…
Wisconsin’s Evers looks for boost from anger over abortion
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin’s Democratic Gov. Tony Evers hopes to translate anger over the U.S. Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade into votes this fall as he vows to fight a 173-year-old state abortion ban in any way he can. Evers, who won election in the battleground state four years ago by just…
3 wounded, suspect arrested in Illinois warehouse shooting
BOLINGBROOK, Ill. (AP) — Three people were wounded and one person was arrested following a shooting Saturday at an automotive interior products warehouse in suburban Chicago. Bolingbrook police responded about 6:25 a.m. to reports of the shooting at the WeatherTech facility, Capt. Anthony Columbus told WLS-TV. The suspected shooter fled the building, but was found…
‘Mitt Romney Republican’ is now a potent GOP primary attack
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Mitt Romney isn’t up for reelection this year. But Trump-aligned Republicans hostile toward the Utah senator have made his name a recurring theme in this year’s primaries, using him as a foil and derisively branding their rivals “Mitt Romney Republicans.” Republicans have used the concept to frame their primary opponents…
Mass same-sex wedding in Mexico challenges discrimination
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Even after five years of living together in the Pacific resort city of Acapulco, something as simple as holding hands or sharing a kiss in public is unthinkable for Dayanny Marcelo and Mayela Villalobos. There is an ever-present fear of being rejected or attacked in Guerrero, a state where same-sex relationships…
Guns in paradise: Ruling could undo strict Hawaii carry law
HONOLULU (AP) — Megan Kau takes occasional weeklong hunting trips to the Hawaiian island of Lanai, where she enjoys watching the sunrise and hearing the distant rustle of deer and mouflon sheep in the tropical wilderness, a rifle ready at her side. As a gun owner, she also goes to shooting ranges several times a…
Milan to turn off fountain spigots as drought bakes Italy
MILAN (AP) — The mayor of Milan signed an ordinance Saturday turning off the spigots of public decorative fountains and the city’s archbishop prayed for rain in a tour of churches as northern Italy endures one of its worst droughts in decades. The city ordinance follows the declaration Friday of a state of emergency in…
7 accusers write to Ghislaine Maxwell’s sentencing judge
NEW YORK (AP) — Seven women who say Ghislaine Maxwell helped Jeffrey Epstein steal the innocence of their youth and poison the promise of their future are asking a judge to consider their pain as she decides what prison sentence she will dispense Tuesday to the incarcerated British woman. Their statements were put in the…
With new owners, Florida Project motel dwellers must leave
KISSIMMEE, Fla. (AP) — Residents at a motel along a tourist strip not far from Walt Disney World that was used as the setting for the 2017 film “The Florida Project” were told that they must vacate on short notice because the complex has been sold to another owner. Residents of the Magic Castle Inn…
Toronto police looking for man after four fast food restaurant robberies
Toronto police are looking for a man after a string of robberies at fast food restaurants beginning on Friday night and into the early morning hours Saturday. Police say the robberies started around 9 p.m., when a man entered a fast food restaurant in the area of Yonge Street and Front Street and threatened staff…