In The States

CRAWFORDVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Hurricane Helene roared ashore as a powerful Category 4 storm in a sparsely populated region of Florida, peeling the siding from buildings, trapping residents in rising floodwaters and knocking out power to millions of customers. At least five... Read More

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey hit the pause button Wednesday on an offshore wind energy project that is having a hard time finding someone to manufacture blades for its turbines. The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities granted Leading Light Wind a pause... Read More

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Fast-moving Hurricane Helene was advancing Thursday across the Gulf of Mexico toward Florida, threatening an “unsurvivable” storm surge in northwestern parts of the state as well as damaging winds, rains and flash floods hundreds of miles inland across... Read More

NEW YORK (AP) — FBI agents entered the official residence of New York City Mayor Eric Adams and seized his phone early Thursday morning, hours before an indictment detailing criminal charges against the Democrat was expected to be made public.... Read More

SMITHTON, Pa. (AP) — Donald Trump sat in a large barn in rural Pennsylvania on Monday, asking questions of farmers and offering jokes but, in a rarity for his campaign events, mostly listening. The bombastic former president was unusually restrained at an... Read More

WASHINGTON — Federal regulators conducted only a cursory review of potential environmental consequences before authorizing the sale of leases of more than 195,000 acres for wind energy development off the Oregon Coast, a newly filed lawsuit claims. The suit, filed... Read More

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump on Thursday decried antisemitism hours after an explosive CNN report detailed how one of his allies running for North Carolina governor made a series of racial and sexual comments on a website where he also referred to... Read More

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A judge in a rural Kentucky county was fatally shot in his courthouse chambers Thursday, and the local sheriff was charged with murder in the killing, police said. The preliminary investigation indicates Letcher County Sheriff Shawn... Read More

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Health officials warned Wednesday that the Los Angeles area is seeing more dengue fever cases in people who have not traveled outside the U.S. mainland, a year after the first such case was reported in California.... Read More

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The U.S. Department of Energy announced Tuesday that it is teaming up with yet another energy company as part of a mission to transform portions of government-owned property once used for the nation's nuclear weapons program... Read More

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kameale Terry saw it coming before almost anyone else did. She realized the expanding network of electric vehicle charging stations across the U.S. would need a workforce to maintain it. The realization came as she found... Read More

NEW YORK (AP) — An apparent attempt to assassinate former President Donald Trump as he played golf in Florida has rocked a presidential campaign already marred by violence and raised questions about how such a thing could have happened for the second time in... Read More

ATLANTA — Former President Donald Trump won a partial victory Thursday when a Georgia judge dismissed two more charges against him in the criminal case that accuses him and his co-defendants of trying to alter the state’s vote count in... Read More

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A state judge struck down North Dakota's abortion ban Thursday, declaring that broad guarantees of personal liberty in the constitution of his conservative, Republican-dominated state create a fundamental right to abortion before a fetus is viable.... Read More

SEATTLE (AP) — Aircraft assembly workers walked off the job early Friday at Boeing factories near Seattle and elsewhere after union members voted overwhelmingly to go on strike and reject a tentative contract that would have increased wages by 25% over four... Read More

BRISTOL, Pa. (AP) — The presidential debate this week was the final affront to Rosie Torres' lifelong Republicanism. She said her allegiance to Donald Trump, already strained by his stand on abortion, snapped in the former president's “eye opener” encounter with Kamala... Read More

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The Missouri Supreme Court has ruled that an abortion-rights amendment, Amendment 3, will remain on the ballot, summarily ending a few anxious days for supporters of the measure. “Today’s … decision is a victory for both... Read More

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — State police in Florida are showing up at the homes of voters who signed a petition to get an abortion rights amendment on the ballot in November as part of a state probe into alleged petition fraud. Republican Gov. Ron... Read More

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — A police officer dragged Miami Dolphins wide receiver Tyreek Hill out of his sports car by his arm and head and then forced him face-first onto the ground after Hill put up the window of... Read More

RALEIGH, N.C. — The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services announced Monday that it has a confirmed case of measles (rubeola) in a child in Mecklenburg County, which is located in the southwestern part of the state and... Read More

WASHINGTON — Massachusetts and Rhode Island will dramatically scale up their use of wind power as a result of a regional solicitation for bids by developers of three new projects off the Atlantic Coast. The new contracts will be divided... Read More

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A federal trial is set to begin Monday over claims that supporters of former President Donald Trump threatened and harassed a Biden-Harris campaign bus in Texas four years ago, disrupting the campaign on the last day of early... Read More

In a step forward for efforts to acquire the metals crucial to addressing climate change, on Monday a new plant that can extract nickel and cobalt from scrap material opens in Fairfield, Ohio. The resulting metals will be used in... Read More

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — When Donald Trump and Kamala Harris meet onstage Tuesday night in Philadelphia, they’ll both know there’s little debate that Pennsylvania is critical to their chances of winning the presidency. The most populous presidential swing state has... Read More

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — Tyreek Hill of the Miami Dolphins was handcuffed and placed face down on a street outside the team's stadium after he was stopped for speeding and reckless driving Sunday morning before the Dolphins' first game of... Read More

AURORA, Colo. (AP) — Police in the Denver suburb of Aurora say a Venezuela street gang with a small presence in the city has not taken over a rundown apartment complex — yet the allegation continues to gain steam among... Read More

WASHINGTON — NewDEAL, a center-left network of Democratic state and local elected officials, has announced its new class of 15 “forward-thinking” inductees.  With their induction, the new members will bring the total membership of NewDEAL to 214, culled from more... Read More

HELENA, Mont. — Montana Secretary of State Christi Jacobsen had barely gotten done certifying the state’s Constitutional Initiative 128, a measure that if passed would codify a woman’s right to an abortion, before its opponents were vowing to send the... Read More

SYRACUSE, N.Y — New York Gov. Kathy Hochul told attendees at a state-sponsored future energy economy summit on Thursday that if the state is going to achieve its economic development goals, it’s going to need to deploy more clean energy... Read More

Another offshore wind project in New Jersey is encountering turbulence. Leading Light Wind is asking the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities to give it a pause through late December on its plan to build an offshore wind farm off... Read More