By MICHAEL BIESECKER and STEPHEN BRAUN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Cesar Sayoc is an amateur body builder and former stripper, a loner with a long arrest record who showed little interest in politics until Donald Trump came along. He was identified by authorities as the Florida man who put pipe bombs in small manila […]
Chairman of Maryland board resigns after furor over Durkin
By DAVID GINSBURG BALTIMORE (AP) — The chairman of the University System of Maryland board of regents has resigned following the furor over the decision to reinstate football coach DJ Durkin. The board’s decision to reinstate Durkin on Oct. 30 drew harsh criticism from students, players and state politicians. As a result, University President Wallace […]
Harvard: Race can only help, never harm, applicants’ chances
By COLLIN BINKLEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Harvard University intentionally uses a vague “personal rating’’ to reject Asian American applicants in favor of students from other racial backgrounds, according to lawyers on one side of a trial that began on Oct. 15 and carries weighty implications for dozens of other U.S. colleges. Harvard’s legal […]
Orange County, California’s diversity emboldens Democrats
By MICHAEL R. BLOOD Associated Press FULLERTON, Calif. (AP) — Pushy midday shoppers nose their carts through the Korean market, stocking up on bottled kimchi and seaweed spring rolls. A few doors away, customers grab pho to go at a Vietnamese takeout counter. Across the street, lunchtime diners line up for tacos “al pastor’’ — […]
Washington state ends ‘racially biased’ death penalty
By RACHEL LA CORTE and GENE JOHNSON Associated Press OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Washington’s Supreme Court unanimously struck down the state’s death penalty on Oct. 11 as arbitrary and racially biased, making it the 20th state to do away with capital punishment. Execution was already extremely rare in Washington, with five prisoners put to death […]
Gecko butt-dials ‘bazillion’ times from Hawaii seal hospital
By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — If you got incessant phone calls in the first week of October from a hospital that cares for Hawaiian monk seals, you were butt-dialed. Or, more specifically, foot-dialed. By a gecko. Marine mammal veterinarian Claire Simeone was at lunch when she got a call from Ke […]
Northern California gang expert pleads guilty to bribery
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) _ Harry Hu, who helped take down some of the biggest Chinese-American gang leaders in the San Francisco Bay Area, has pleaded guilty to taking bribes and helping a longtime informant avoid prosecution. The former Oakland police gang expert faces up to five years in prison. The Mercury News says a plea […]
Sacramento man charged in international pot growing scheme
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A Sacramento man has been indicted on charges of international money laundering and manufacturing marijuana. U.S. Attorney McGregor Scott says 38-year-old Daniel Zhu’s charges relate to a scheme by a Chinese-based crime organization to grow marijuana in California illegally. Authorities earlier this year seized about 100 Northern California homes involved in […]
Brokers of Portland condo building target buyers in Asia
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A condominium building under construction in Portland is planning to market more than a quarter of its units to Asian buyers. The real-estate brokers tasked with selling units in the TwentyTwenty building in northeast Portland expect to offer up to 45 of the 162 units to buyers from countries that include […]
UN’s Nikki Haley to leave in latest Trump shake-up
By Zeke Miller, Deb Riechmann and Jonathan Lemire WASHINGTON (AP) — In the latest shake-up for President Donald Trump’s turbulent administration, U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley abruptly announced on Oct. 9 she is resigning at the end of the year, raising fresh questions about the Trump team and about the outspoken diplomat’s own political ambitions. The news […]
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