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  • US proposes changes to Mexican gray wolf management

    October 28, 2021 - 2:50 PM

    ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Federal wildlife officials are proposing to change the way Mexican gray wolves are managed in the American Southwest, saying removing population limits and setting goals for genetic diversity will help the endangered species recover.

  • Feds: Man used virus relief loan to buy $57,000 Pokemon card

    October 28, 2021 - 2:54 PM

    DUBLIN, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia man pleaded guilty Thursday to illegally obtaining a coronavirus relief loan and using more than $57,000 of the money to buy a collectable Pokemon card.

  • Biden urges restraint in Sudan as death toll rises to 9

    October 28, 2021 - 2:48 PM

    CAIRO (AP) — U.S. President Joe Biden called Thursday for Sudan's people to be allowed to protest peacefully as the number of those killed in recent demonstrations against the military coup rose to nine.

  • County botches Spanish-language ballot instructions

    October 28, 2021 - 2:40 PM

    Some Spanish-speaking voters in a Pennsylvania city where Hispanics account for nearly 70% of the population are at risk of being disenfranchised in next week’s general election because of an error in Spanish-language instructions that accompanied 17,000 mail-in ballots, activists and elected officials said Thursday.

  • Oklahoma resumes executions, kills inmate for 1998 slaying

    October 28, 2021 - 2:35 PM

    McALESTER, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma executed a man Thursday for the 1998 stabbing death of a prison cafeteria worker, the state’s first lethal injection following a six-year moratorium.

  • Jury hears opening statements in 'Unite the Right" trial

    October 28, 2021 - 2:27 PM

    CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — Jurors heard opening statements Thursday in a civil lawsuit that accuses white nationalists of conspiring to commit violence at the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville in 2017.

  • Rival: Violent past should bar Herschel Walker from Senate

    October 28, 2021 - 2:23 PM

    MARIETTA, Ga. (AP) — Georgia Agriculture Commissioner Gary Black said Thursday that GOP rival Herschel Walker's history of violence against women should disqualify him from being a U.S. senator, saying that Republicans should discuss Walker's problems now to avoid fatal Democratic attacks against a flawed candidate in the fall.

  • Latest Michigan news, sports, business and entertainment at 5:20 p.m. EDT

    October 28, 2021 - 2:21 PM

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  • Mississippi: 14K pandemic food cards mistakenly deactivated

    October 28, 2021 - 2:16 PM

    JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — More than 14,000 low-income children in Mississippi had their pandemic food cards mistakenly deactivated, prompting an apology from state officials and a promise that new cards would be mailed to their families within days.

  • Wisconsin sheriff seeks investigation of nursing home voting

    October 28, 2021 - 2:16 PM

    MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin sheriff who supports former President Donald Trump accused the bipartisan state Elections Commission of breaking the law during last year's election, taking the unusual step Thursday of detailing the allegations publicly even though no charges have been filed.

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