Tuscon news

• R. Kelly fate now in jury’s hands at sex trafficking trial

  24-09-2021 23:59
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — R. Kelly’s fate is now in a jury’s hands after weeks of lurid testimony in a sexual misconduct trial. The panel of seven men and five women began deliberating racketeering and sex trafficking charges against the R&B superstar Friday. They ended the day without reaching a verdict. The 54-year-old singer is accused of running a Chicago-based criminal enterprise that recruited his accusers for unwanted sex and mental torment. The witnesses said Kelly subjected
  
  Read more

• COVID at the UN: One topic, used to make many points

  24-09-2021 23:46
  
  Unsurprisingly, the coronavirus pandemic was THE talking point at the United Nations General Assembly this week — serving as projection, promotional tool and proxy for other pressing issues put forward by world leaders in their signature annual addresses. Through the lenses of vaccine inequality, economic disaster, scientific misinformation and social isolation, just about every president, king, foreign minister and head of state talked about the pandemic as a sweeping global catastrophe.
  
  Read more

• Ironman World Championship leaves Hawaii for 1st time

  24-09-2021 23:44
  
  KAILUA-KONA, Hawaii (AP) — The Ironman World Championship is being held outside Hawaii for the first time in four decades. That is because of uncertainty over whether the Big Island will be able to host the triathlon as scheduled in February during the coronavirus pandemic. West Hawaii Today reports triathletes will instead head to St. George, Utah, to compete on May 7. Organizers plan to bring the contest back to the islands in October 2022. Ironman participants swim, ride bikes and run a
  
  Read more

• EXPLAINER: Medication abortion becomes latest GOP target

  24-09-2021 23:44
  
  Medication abortion accounts for about 40% of all abortions in the U.S. The increasingly common method relies on pills rather than surgery, opening the possibility for abortions to be done in a woman’s home rather than a clinic. It’s an option that has become important during the COVID-19 pandemic. As Republican states move to restrict access to abortion generally, many of them also are limiting access to medication-induced abortions. Abortion providers say medication abortion is saf
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Forecasters: Subtropical Storm Teresa forms north of Bermuda, is not expected to strengthen

  24-09-2021 23:40
  
  MIAMI (AP) — Forecasters: Subtropical Storm Teresa forms north of Bermuda, is not expected to strengthen.The post Forecasters: Subtropical Storm Teresa forms north of Bermuda, is not expected to strengthen appeared first on KVOA.
  
  Read more

• California GOP looks to 2022 contests for House, Legislature

  24-09-2021 23:33
  
  SAN DIEGO (AP) — California Republicans are looking ahead to 2022 races for Congress and the Legislature, after Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom soundly defeated an attempt to remove him from office in a recall election. Party delegates gathered in San Diego for a three-day convention to work on a comeback in the heavily Democratic state. Party Chairwoman Jessica Millan Patterson said at a sparsely attended lunch that “we are undeterred” despite the loss. She says Democrats remain
  
  Read more

• Subtropical Storm Teresa forms as Hurricane Sam strengthens

  24-09-2021 23:28
  
  MIAMI (AP) — Subtropical Storm Teresa has formed north of Bermuda and Hurricane Sam has intensified farther south in the Atlantic. The U.S. National Hurricane Center said Friday that Teresa had maximum sustained winds of 45 mph with little change in strength expected. The storm was centered about 155 miles north of Bermuda. Forecasters noted that Teresa will likely be the ninth “shortie” of the hurricane season — systems that are short-lived and relatively weak. Hurricane
  
  Read more

• No stalking order for rival in GOP candidate murder plot

  24-09-2021 23:18
  
  ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — A judge has denied a Florida Republican congressional candidate’s petition for a permanent restraining order against a former rival she accused of stalking and plotting to have her murdered by a purported foreign hit squad. Pinellas County Circuit Judge Doneene Loar ruled Friday that incidents involving GOP candidate Anna Paulina Luna did not meet the legal definition needed to prove repeated harassment by William Braddock. Luna has former President Donald
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Sexual assault cases spur protests on campuses across US

  24-09-2021 23:15
  
  TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Reports of sexual assaults have fueled protests on at least eight U.S. college campuses early in the fall semester. Victims’ advocates say more young people are vulnerable this year as they settle into campus life, while students also are more engaged and adept at social media. Sexual assault allegations have led students to demonstrate over the past month at colleges in Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, Alabama, Michigan, Massachusetts and Missouri and at a Kansas high sch
  
  Read more

• School system pulls 2 books with graphic sex from libraries

  24-09-2021 23:10
  
  FALLS CHURCH. Va. (AP) — A northern Virginia school system said it is removing two books from school libraries, including an illustrated memoir that contains explicit illustrations of sexual encounters involving children. Stacy Langton is a parent in the Fairfax County school system. She questioned the school board at a public meeting Thursday about the books’ availability in high school libraries. As she quoted from explicit passages in the book, a school board member interrupted he
  
  Read more

• Wisconsin Republicans take redistricting case to high court

  24-09-2021 23:09
  
  MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Republican state lawmakers are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to dismiss a redistricting lawsuit brought by Democrats that asks a federal court to draw political boundary lines in the battleground state. The filing by attorneys representing the Republican-controlled Legislature comes two days after the conservative-controlled Wisconsin Supreme Court said it would hear a similar case backed by the GOP. Republicans feel they will have a better shot in the state
  
  Read more

• Court indicates it may wait to rule on Georgia abortion law

  24-09-2021 23:04
  
  ATLANTA (AP) — A federal appeals court seemed to indicate it would wait until the U.S. Supreme Court rules on a separate Mississippi abortion case before ruling on the appeal of a lower court’s ruling blocking a restrictive Georgia abortion law. A federal judge ruled last year that the law cannot take effect because it’s unconstitutional. The state appealed that ruling to the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. A three-judge panel of the appeals court heard arguments on that ap
  
  Read more

• Nebraska advances new congressional map that could help GOP

  24-09-2021 23:01
  
  OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska lawmakers have advanced new congressional boundaries that could make it harder for Democratic presidential hopefuls to pick up one of the state’s five Electoral College votes, as they’ve done twice since 2008. The measure was endorsed by nearly all Republicans in the one-house, officially nonpartisan Legislature. It’s a sign that the newly drawn, Omaha-area district could be more favorable to the party in both U.S. House and presidential races.
  
  Read more

• The Latest: Group files civil rights complaint against Idaho

  24-09-2021 22:59
  
  BOISE, Idaho — An advocacy group for older adults has filed a civil rights complaint against Idaho over state crisis standards of care guidelines for hospitals overwhelmed amid the coronavirus pandemic.
  The group Justice in Aging wants the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to investigate Idaho’s health care rationing plan.
  The group in the complaint filed Tuesday says the plan discriminates against older adults by using factors like age in prioritizing which patients may g
  
  Read more

• GLIMPSES: Phone in hand, Barbados PM dials into issues at UN

  24-09-2021 22:56
  
  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Barbados Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley didn’t phone in her speech at the U.N. General Assembly on Friday. But she did have what appeared to be an iPhone in hand while delivering impassioned remarks to fellow world leaders. Mottley, who became prime minister of the Caribbean country in 2018, spoke energetically and seemingly off the cuff, delivering vivid lines not replicated in her prepared text. She appeared to refer to her phone throughout. The General Assem
  
  Read more

• Panera offers free coffee to parents, caregivers on Sept. 29

  24-09-2021 22:38
  
  ST. LOUIS, Mo. (CNN) - Here's something that will lift your parenting spirits.National Coffee Day is Sept. 29t and Panera Bread is helping parents and caregivers celebrate the day.The restaurant says it is dedicating the annual holiday to parents of all kinds.People can let the Panera cashier know they're a caregiver and get free coffee all day.Panera says it doesn't matter if you're a parent to toddlers, teens, foster parents or grandparents, you're eligible for the National Coffee Day offer.
  T
  
  Read more

• Harry and Meghan visit with students at a Harlem school

  24-09-2021 22:33
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, have made an appearance at a Harlem public school. The couple, who were masked, offered lots of hugs while spending about an hour Friday at PS 123, the Mahalia Jackson School. Meghan read her picture book, “The Bench,” to about two dozen children, including second-graders seated on round, green cushions in the play yard. The couple also donated a vegetable garden to the school, which serves students without perma
  
  Read more

• Draft of Arizona GOP’s election review finds Biden won

  24-09-2021 22:32
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — A draft of an election review in Arizona’s largest county finds that President Joe Biden did win the county and state. The partisan review was conducted by supporters of former President Donald Trump who were hired by Arizona Senate Republicans. The full report is scheduled to be released Friday. The finding is the climax of the Senate GOP’s bizarre quest to find evidence supporting Trump’s false claim that he lost in Arizona because of fraud. Nearly every
  
  Read more

• Autopsy: Actor Michael K. Williams died of drug intoxication

  24-09-2021 22:27
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — New York City’s medical examiner says actor Michael K. Williams died of acute drug intoxication. Williams, known for playing Omar Little on “The Wire,” had drugs including fentanyl, heroin and cocaine in his system when he died Sept. 6 in Brooklyn. The 54-year-old actor was found dead by family members in his penthouse apartment. Police said at the time that they suspected a drug overdose. The medical examiner’s office ruled Williams’ death an
  
  Read more

• Congress, court pressure New York City to fix jails crisis

  24-09-2021 22:26
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — New York City is facing mounting pressure to solve its spiraling jail crisis, with members of Congress calling for a federal civil rights investigation and a court-appointed monitor blasting the city for a failure of leadership amid staggering violence, self-harm and the deaths this year of at least 12 inmates. U.S. District Judge Laura Swain, overseeing a jail consent decree, said on an emergency conference call Friday that the city’s notorious Rikers Island jail com
  
  Read more

• Zoo Miami: Orangutan dies following dental surgery

  24-09-2021 22:19
  
  MIAMI (AP) — Officials say an orangutan has died at Zoo Miami following a dental surgery. The South Florida zoo says Kumang, a 44-year-old Bornean orangutan, died Thursday during recovery from anesthesia. Officials say the great ape had been anesthetized for the removal of two teeth.  The anesthesia, examination and dental care went as planned. Kumang was closely monitored by veterinarians, veterinary technicians and a human cardiologist. After the procedure, Kumang was returned to he
  
  Read more

• New this week: ‘Sopranos’ prequel, Jon Stewart and Carlile

  24-09-2021 22:19
  
  This week’s new entertainment releases include new music from Brandi Carlile and the Doobie Brothers, as well as the return of Jon Stewart to prime time and a prequel film to “The Sopranos” called “The Many Saints of Newark.” In other film options, Jake Gyllenhaal teams up with director Antoine Fuqua and screenwriter Nic Pizzolatto for the tense thriller “The Guilty.” And if disaster is more your style, check out NBC’s “La Brea,” which
  
  Read more

• Civil rights complaint targets Idaho health care rationing

  24-09-2021 22:15
  
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — An advocacy group for older adults has filed a civil rights complaint against Idaho over state crisis standards of care guidelines for hospitals overwhelmed amid the coronavirus pandemic. The group Justice in Aging wants the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to investigate Idaho’s health care rationing plan. The group in the complaint filed Tuesday says the plan discriminates against older adults by using factors like age in prioritizing which patients
  
  Read more

• Stocks end mixed on Wall Street, S&P 500 manages weekly gain

  24-09-2021 22:13
  
  Stocks ended a wobbly day with mixed results on Wall Street Friday as the market cooled off following a two-day rally. The S&P 500 edged up 0.1% and ended the week higher, breaking a two-week losing streak. The Dow Jones Industrial Average also rose about 0.1% but the Nasdaq composite and a measure of small-company stocks closed lower. Nike slumped 6.3% after saying supply chain issues could hurt its revenue. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note rose to 1.46%, having risen from 1.31% on Mo
  
  Read more

• NY hospitals, schools fear staff shortage from vaccine rules

  24-09-2021 22:10
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Some of the nation’s most aggressive COVID-19 vaccine mandates are scheduled to take effect Monday in New York amid continued resistance from some to the shots. That’s left hospitals and nursing homes across the state and schools in New York City bracing for possible staff shortages. Health care workers have been given until Sept. 27 to get at least their first shot. Teachers in the city face a similar deadline. Some hospitals and nursing homes were preparing co
  
  Read more

• Japan’s leader says Olympics were ‘symbol of global unity’

  24-09-2021 22:08
  
  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. General Assembly meeting of world leaders has been packed with global gloom. But Japan’s outgoing leader highlighted what he cast a moment of inspiration — the Tokyo Olympics. They were controversially held amid the coronavirus pandemic. Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga acknowledged in Thursday’s speech that there were differences of opinion about holding the Games. But he said that Japan fulfilled its responsibilities and that the Games &ldquo
  
  Read more

• Supermarket gunman was a sushi vendor, family friend says

  24-09-2021 21:57
  
  Parking lot of Kroger supermarket located at 240 New Byhalia Road in Collierville, Tennessee, where civilians and police gather after shooting, Photo Date: 9/23/2021
  COLLIERVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A gunman who killed one person and wounded 14 others in a Tennessee grocery store didn’t appear to target anyone specifically as he rampaged through the building on a sunny Thursday afternoon. Police say the entire shooting was over within minutes as first responders swarmed the Kroger in Coll
  
  Read more

• Study: Odds of school virus flare-up lower with mask mandate

  24-09-2021 21:53
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — Researchers say Arizona schools without mask requirements were several times more likely to experience COVID-19 outbreaks than schools with mandates in place when the current school year began. An article published Friday by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention looked at the impact of mask requirements at K-12 district schools in the state’s two most populous counties. It said the “odds of a school-associated COVID-19 outbreak were 3.5 times hig
  
  Read more

• Thunberg joins large German climate rally ahead of election

  24-09-2021 21:43
  
  BERLIN (AP) — Tens of thousands of environmental activists have rallied outside Germany’s parliament two days before the country holds a national election and demanded that politicians take stronger action to curb climate change. The protest outside the Reichstag in Berlin was part of a string of demonstrations held around the world Friday amid dire warnings of dangerous temperature rises unless greenhouse gas emissions are cut sharply. Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, whose solo pro
  
  Read more

• The Latest: UN crowds return but still lag pre-COVID times

  24-09-2021 21:31
  
  The Latest on the UN General Assembly:
  ___
  UNITED NATIONS — The part-virtual, partly in-person U.N. General Assembly meeting is again drawing people to the world body’s headquarters a year after going remote because of the coronavirus pandemic. But newly released numbers show it’s still far from the pre-pandemic crowd.
  Over 1,900 people entered the U.N. headquarters on Tuesday, the first day of the national speeches that form the meeting’s main event. That compares to les
  
  Read more

• Court battle ends tree dispute in pricey San Francisco area

  24-09-2021 21:31
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Tall trees are venerated across California, but an appeals court ruling this week says one towering Monterey Pine at the center of a heated dispute in San Francisco’s wealthiest neighborhood has to go. A state appeals court ordered a couple in the hilltop Pacific Heights neighborhood to remove the tree, which is at least 32 feet tall. The San Francisco Chronicle reports a neighbor argued the tree was blocking her view of the San Francisco Bay and other city landm
  
  Read more

• Powell meets a changed economy: Fewer workers, higher prices

  24-09-2021 21:23
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Restaurant and hotel owners struggling to fill jobs. Supply-chain disruptions forcing up prices for small businesses. Unemployed Americans unable to find work even with job openings at a record high. Those and other disruptions to the U.S. job market — consequences of the viral pandemic that erupted 18 months ago — appear likely to endure, a group of business owners and nonprofit executives told Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Friday. The changing work
  
  Read more

• Hundreds hold London vigil for slain primary school teacher

  24-09-2021 21:21
  
  LONDON (AP) — Hundreds gathered Friday in southeast London to light candles and to mourn for slain primary school teacher Sabina Nessa and demand an end to violence against women. Nessa’s death — as she walked through a park to meet a friend a few minutes from her home — is the second high-profile killing of a young woman this year in London, fueling concerns that women aren’t safe on the streets of Britain’s capital. Nessa, 28, was found dead in Kidbrooke, so
  
  Read more

• The Latest: Tennessee judge blocks Gov. Lee’s mask opt-out

  24-09-2021 21:18
  
  NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A federal judge handed down a second blow to Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee’s order allowing parents to opt out of school mask requirements.U.S. District Judge J. Ronnie Greer on Friday ruled Knox County Schools must implement a mask mandate to help protect children with health problems amid the coronavirus pandemic. He also blocked Lee’s order from being implemented while the legal battle continues to move its way through court.This is the second time in a week tha
  
  Read more

• Census ponders producing less granular data in next release

  24-09-2021 21:15
  
  U.S. Census Bureau officials are pondering whether to produce less granular data in the next release of 2020 census data, dealing with housing and family relationships. That stands to upset researchers who rely on neighborhood-level information for their projects. Census Bureau officials on Friday described the proposal as a tradeoff for producing more accurate information while protecting the privacy of participants in the nation’s head count. This Census Bureau this year introduced a new
  
  Read more

• Coen premieres a stark ‘Macbeth,’ with Denzel and McDormand

  24-09-2021 21:12
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Joel Coen, in his first solo outing as a filmmaker, premiered a strikingly stark, black-and-white adaptation of Shakespeare’s “Macbeth,” with Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand, at the New York Film Festival on Friday. “The Tragedy of Macbeth,” which on Friday night was to open the 59th New York Film Festival, isn’t a mud-and-blood adaptation set on medieval Scottish fields, but a minimalist, noir nightmare, boxed in an academy ratio
  
  Read more

• Elon Musk, singer Grimes ‘semi-separated’ after three years

  24-09-2021 21:10
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Elon Musk and singer Grimes have ended their romantic relationship after three years. The Tesla and SpaceX founder tells the New York Post that he and the Canadian singer are “semi-separated.” But he says they remain on good terms, she still lives at his house in California and they continue to raise their 1-year-old son together. Musk blames the breakup on his constant travel for work. The 50-year-old entrepreneur has six children from previous relationships
  
  Read more

• Charges urged for Missouri cops who let dog bite Black man

  24-09-2021 21:04
  
  WOODSON TERRACE, Mo. (AP) — St. Louis-area racial injustice activists are calling for the firing and prosecution of three white police officers after cellphone video showed them allowing a police dog to repeatedly bite a Black man during an arrest. St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Wesley Bell says he is investigating the incident that happened Monday in Woodson Terrace, Missouri, but has declined further comment. Police have declined comment except for a Facebook posting. About 20 rac
  
  Read more

• CDC urges schools in Pima, Maricopa counties to mask up in light of statewide mandate ban

  24-09-2021 21:03
  
  TUCSON (KVOA) - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended that schools in Pima and Maricopa counties continue mask-wearing policies Thursday after analysis of data collected at the beginning of the academic school year suggested universal indoor masking greatly decreased the odds of a COVID-19 outbreak.In a study released by the CDC Thursday, health officials took a closer looked at the COVID-19 cases at schools in Maricopa and Pima counties between late July through early Augus
  
  Read more

• Van Life 2.0: Dutch students’ road trip in solar mobile home

  24-09-2021 21:00
  
  THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A group of Dutch students has reimagined van life and is hitting the road to Portugal. They call their groundbreaking new solar-powered vehicle “a self-sustaining house on wheels.” A team from the Technical University in the southern Dutch city of Eindhoven designed the sleek, odd-looking mobile home. It took a test drive Friday at a Renault facility outside Paris. Solar panels on the roof of the vehicle, called Stella Vita, generate enough energy
  
  Read more

• Frustrated Abbas gives Israel ultimatum in harsh UN address

  24-09-2021 20:54
  
  JERUSALEM (AP) — President Mahmoud Abbas on Friday gave Israel one year to end its occupation of territories the Palestinians want for a future state. He threatened to withdraw political recognition — a cornerstone of three decades of failed peace efforts — if it failed to do so. In an unusually harsh but vague speech to the the U.N. General Assembly, he accused Israel of “apartheid” and “ethnic cleansing.” Those are explosive terms rarely employed by th
  
  Read more

• National Book Awards ceremony will again be held online

  24-09-2021 20:48
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — For the second straight year, the National Book Awards ceremony will be held online. The National Book Foundation, which presents the awards each fall, announced Friday that it had decided to make the Nov. 17 event virtual because of the pandemic. The foundation initially hoped to return to the awards’ longtime venue, Cipriani Wall Street in downtown Manhattan. Last week, the foundation announced longlists of 10 for the five competitive categories: fiction, nonfiction
  
  Read more

• Huawei executive resolves criminal charges in deal with US

  24-09-2021 20:47
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — A top executive of Chinese communications giant Huawei Technologies has resolved criminal charges against her as part of a deal with the U.S. Justice Department that could pave the way for her to return to China. The agreement with chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou also concludes a case that roiled relations between Washington and Beijing. It was disclosed in federal court in Brooklyn on Friday. The deal calls for the Justice Department to dismiss the case next December,
  
  Read more

• Massage therapist gets 25 years to life for sex crimes

  24-09-2021 20:45
  
  LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — A judge has sentenced a massage therapist to three prison terms of 25 years to life for several sex crimes against five people. They include a child and three female soccer players at the University of Kansas in Lawrence. Douglas County Judge Sally Pokorny sentenced 50-year-old Shawn P. O’Brien on Friday after jurors in August found him guilty on eight counts. Three of the charges accused O’Brien of indecent liberties with a child under the age of 14 for f
  
  Read more

• Mystery solved: Biden gets proof of family ties to India

  24-09-2021 20:28
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden sat down with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for important talks about the Indo-Pacific region. But first the leaders caught up on the president’s own family ties to the subcontinent. Biden said that after he was first elected to the U.S. Senate, he received a letter from a man in Mumbai who said his last name was Biden. He later learned of a Capt. George Biden who came to India with the British East India Company. Modi told the president th
  
  Read more

• NWFD crews work house fire burning on northwest side of Tucson

  24-09-2021 20:26
  
  Northwest Fire District
  TUCSON (KVOA) - Northwest Fire District crews are working on a house fire that ignited on the northwest side of Tucson Friday morning.
  According to NWFD, the blaze is currently burning a residence located in the 4400 block of West Pyracantha Drive near Magee and Oldfather roads.Details surrounding the blaze are limited at this time,Stay with News 4 Tucson for the latest details.
  Crews are responding to a house fire on the 4400 block of W Pyracantha Dr. Please avoid with
  
  Read more

• Hastert’s settlement with accuser to be finalized Monday

  24-09-2021 20:26
  
  YORKVILLE, Ill. (AP) — The deadline to finalize an out-of-court settlement between former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert and a man who accused him of child sexual abuse has been delayed until next week. The court clerk’s office in Kendall County, Illinois, says a hearing on the agreement and an order to dismiss the man’s lawsuit will be held Monday. The attorneys originally had until Friday to present the written agreement to the judge. The man alleges that Hastert refused t
  
  Read more

• Meghan and Harry visit with students at a Harlem school

  24-09-2021 20:20
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Meghan and Harry, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, have made an appearance at a Harlem public school. The couple, who were masked, offered lots of hugs while spending about an hour Friday at PS 123, the Mahalia Jackson School. Meghan read her picture book, “The Bench,” to about two dozen children, including second-graders seated on round, green cushions in the play yard. The couple also donated a vegetable garden to the school, which serves students without perma
  
  Read more

• ADPS: Suspect, black sedan involved in I-10 road rage shooting sought

  24-09-2021 20:15
  
  TUCSON (KVOA) - The description of the suspect vehicle involved in Thursday's shooting at the Interstate 10 and 19 interchange was released by Arizona Department of Public Safety officials Friday morning.
  At around 12:20 p.m. Thursday, an occupant of a black sedan reportedly shot a driver of another vehicle twice in the leg on northbound I-19 near the exit for westbound I-10.Officials say they believe the shooting was in connection to a road rage incident.The driver was transported to the hospit
  
  Read more

• Second Tennessee judge blocks Gov. Lee’s mask opt-out

  24-09-2021 20:12
  
  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A federal judge has handed down a second blow to Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee’s contentious order allowing parents to opt out of school mask requirements. U.S. District Judge J. Ronnie Greer on Friday ruled that Knox County Schools must implement a mask mandate to help protect children with health problems amid the coronavirus pandemic. He also blocked Lee’s order from being implemented while the legal battle continues to move its way through court. This is t
  
  Read more

Follow @Tucson_News_ on Twitter!