Mariners/MLB announce 2023 All-Star Legacy recipients
Mariners VP Fred Rivera, April Brown, MLB’s Senior VP of Social Responsibility, and Deputy Seattle Mayor, Monisha Harrell The following is taken from the Mariners’ release on the All-Star Legacy recipients’ announcement: MLB AND THE SEATTLE MARINERS
Cantwell-led group urges passage of Rail Safety Act
Seattle Fire Battalion Chief Andy Collins talks about what would happen if a freight train derailed in the Seattle tunnel You can watch the entire news conference on the Rail Safety Act in the video below: The
Plans to demolish Robb Elementary, hold cops accountable are moving forward: Officials
Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images(UVALDE, Texas) — Plans are moving forward to demolish the site of the school shooting last year in Uvalde, Texas, officials said Monday.
The leaders of the small Texas community also said they’re close to finalizing a…
Special counsel subpoenaed Trump Organization for potential foreign business records: Sources
Adam Glanzman/Bloomberg via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — The special counsel investigating former President Donald Trump’s handling of classified documents previously requested documents from the Trump Organization related to potential business dealings…
Patient, doctor suing state of Texas say they were forced to travel elsewhere to get abortions
Rick Kern/Getty Images for the Center for Reproductive Rights(AUSTIN, Texas) — Lauren Miller is speaking out after she became one of five women who filed a lawsuit against Texas and its attorney general, alleging that the state’s abortion ban put the…
Hundreds of new species discovered in this remote part of the world, researcher say
Sirachai Arunrugstichai/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Researchers have discovered hundreds of new animal and plant species in remote parts of the world previously inaccessible to humans, according to the World Wildlife Fund.
Among the 380 newly found spec…
Georgia man found dead in bed bug infested jail cell died of ‘severe neglect’: Independent autopsy
Ben Crump Law(ATLANTA) — LaShawn Thompson, the man whose family claimed was “eaten alive by insects and bed bugs” in the Fulton County Jail, died of “complications due to severe neglect,” according to an independent autopsy.
Thompson’s family spoke o…
E. Jean Carroll seeks to amend other Trump lawsuit for his reaction to battery verdict
Stephanie Keith/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Former President Donald Trump’s words about writer E. Jean Carroll may, again, come back to haunt him.
Carroll’s attorneys sought on Monday to amend her initial defamation lawsuit against Trump, filed in 2019,…
Halle Bailey, Fantasia Barrino and more shine in ‘The Color Purple’ trailer
Warner Bros. PicturesThe official trailer for The Color Purple is here.
The film, which is based on the 1982 novel by Alice Walker and the Tony Award-winning musical of the same name, stars Halle Bailey, Colman Domingo, Fantasia Barrino, Taraji P. Hen…
Inside the first responder hazmat training being embraced after East Palestine derailment
TRANCAER(EAST PALESTINE, Ohio) — The derailment of a Norfolk Southern freight train earlier this year in East Palestine, Ohio, sent toxic chemicals into the surrounding community and brought national attention to the potential risks of transporting ha…