Sen. Mike Lee has won Utah’s Republican primary by brushing off attacks from two challengers who didn’t vote for former President Donald Trump in 2020. The second-term Republican and Trump loyalist defeated former state lawmaker Becky Edwards and political operative Ally Isom in Tuesday’s pr…
Suburban Chicago personal injury lawyer Kathy Salvi has won the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in Illinois. Salvi topped a field of seven candidates Tuesday to win the nod to take on first-term incumbent Democratic Sen. Tammy Duckworth in November. Duckworth is a veteran of the Iraq W…
A wildfire in Northern California has forced evacuations as it threatens about 500 homes and other buildings. Authorities say the blaze erupted Tuesday afternoon near the Yuba River in Nevada County and has spread to more than 500 acres. Fire officials say power lines also are threatened in …
R. Kelly is being sentenced in a sex trafficking case that could put him behind bars for years. A judge is set to impose the sentence Wednesday in a federal court in New York City. Prosecutors are seeking a minimum 25-year term. The defense says a sentence of 10 years or less is all he deser…
R. Kelly’s musical accomplishments have been accompanied by a long history of allegations that he sexually abused women and children. Now the R&B singer could be put away behind bars for a quarter-century or more when he is sentenced Wednesday in a federal courtroom in New York City. A j…
Shares have retreated in Asia after another broad decline on Wall Street as markets remain gripped by uncertainty over inflation, rising interest rates and the potential for a recession. U.S. futures rose while oil prices fell back. On Tuesday, the S&P 500 fell 2%, the Dow Jones Industri…
Colorado Republicans have rejected an indicted county clerk as their nominee for secretary of state, choosing a former local official who ran on a platform of taking politics out of running elections. In spurning Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters, Republican primary voters appeared to reject the…
R. Kelly’s musical accomplishments have been accompanied by a long history of allegations that he sexually abused women and children. Now the R&B singer could be put away behind bars for a quarter-century or more when he is sentenced Wednesday in a federal courtroom in New York City. A j…
Shares have retreated in Asia after another broad decline on Wall Street as markets remain gripped by uncertainty over inflation, rising interest rates and the potential for a recession. U.S. futures rose while oil prices fell back. On Tuesday, the S&P 500 fell 2%, the Dow Jones Industri…
Colorado Republicans have rejected an indicted county clerk as their nominee for secretary of state, choosing a former local official who ran on a platform of taking politics out of running elections. In spurning Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters, Republican primary voters appeared to reject the…
Aide: Trump dismissed Jan. 6 threats, wanted to join crowd
All four members of the U.S. House from Utah defeated Republican primary challengers Tuesday. First-term Congressman Blake Moore won the nomination over two challengers in District 1, and Chris Stewart, John Curtis and Burgess Owens each defeated a single challenger. The Democratic nominatio…
Voters in Colorado’s Republican primaries have decisively rejected right-wing candidates for U.S. Senate, governor and secretary of state as the party prepares to challenge Democrats’ stranglehold on the state’s top offices. Voters on Tuesday also selected their November nominees in the stat…
Winston-Salem Police and the Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office responded Tuesday evening to a “disturbance with weapons” inside the Target store on Hanes Mall Boulevard.
Protests against overturning Roe vs. Wade channel mixture of disgust, anger and shock. But the Supreme Court's action should not have come as a surprise.
SAM has seen a flood of questions about Medicare scams. Here’s a column from earlier this year that explains how to avoid such scams.
Q: Why is the Chick-fil-A in Kernersville closed? When will it reopen?
The state House cleared Tuesday its attempt at a limited version of Medicaid expansion focused on rural parts of the state.
A N.C. House committee advanced Tuesday the controversial “ICE” sheriffs cooperation legislation that resurfaced last week after being dormant since March 2021.
Through his nonprofit, A Son Never Forgets, Reader has started buying single and multi-family properties in the south end of Greensboro and intends to rent or sell them to low-income people.
Two Davidson County-focused bills have cleared the N.C. Senate, while a third bill is just a formality vote away from taking the same step.
A Lexington woman accused of killing an 8-year-old girl and seriously injuring her 3-year-old daughter made her first appearance Monday in Davidson District Court.
Five people face multiple drug charges in Surry County after investigators found illegal drugs in two vehicles and two homes since April, authorities said Tuesday.
A Greensboro man accused of running a scam in which he collected more than $54,000 in rent from places he didn't own or didn't have permission to sell was sued last year for doing the same thing to a Forsyth County man.
A former detention officer at the Forsyth County Jail was arrested Tuesday after she was accused of providing marijuana to an inmate, authorities said.
The state House cleared Tuesday its attempt at a limited version of Medicaid expansion focused on rural parts of the state.
A N.C. House committee advanced Tuesday the controversial “ICE” sheriffs cooperation legislation that resurfaced last week after being dormant since March 2021.
Two Davidson County-focused bills have cleared the N.C. Senate, while a third bill is just a formality vote away from taking the same step.
North Carolina’s GOP says the state’s Republican Party offices in Raleigh were vandalized Friday night following the Supreme Court ruling that overturned the constitutional right to an abortion.
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