ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — A federal judge in Florida has voided the national mask mandate covering airplanes and other public transportation as exceeding the authority of U.S. health officials. The decision Monday by U.S. District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle in Tampa also said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention improperly failed to justify its decision and did not…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Monday is Tax Day, the federal deadline for individual tax filings and payments. The IRS expects to receive tens of millions of last-minute filings electronically and through paper forms. The executive director of the National Society of Tax Professionals, Nina Tross, says if people haven’t filed their taxes by now they’re better off filing an extension. Tross…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Unemployment rates fell last month in Kentucky. The Kentucky Center for Statistics said in a statement that the state’s preliminary unemployment rate in March was 4%, down 0.2 percentage points from February and down 0.7 percentage points from a year ago. Kentucky’s civilian labor force was over 2 million last month. The number of people employed…
RICHMOND, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky man accused of fatally shooting the daughter of a former Kentucky lawmaker during a home invasion has been indicted on a charge of capital murder. Shannon Gilday allegedly broke into a multi-million dollar Madison County home in February owned by former lawmaker C. Wesley Morgan. Authorities say he shot Jordan Morgan while she was…
(Credit: Pixabay)NEW YORK (AP) — The man charged in this week’s Brooklyn subway attack has been ordered held without bail, with prosecutors saying he terrified the “entire city.” Frank James appeared in federal court Thursday, a day after his arrest in an attack that left 10 people shot. Authorities say the 62-year-old unleashed smoke bombs and dozens of bullets. His…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky lawmakers have passed new abortion restrictions over the Democratic governor’s veto. Abortion-rights activists say the restrictions will force the two abortion clinics in Kentucky to halt the procedures while the new law is challenged in court. The activists said Wednesday night that the law will draw immediate federal lawsuits. They say attorneys for the clinics…
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is offering to buy Twitter. He says the social media platform he has criticized for not living up to free speech principles needs to be transformed as a private company. Musk is currently Twitter’s biggest individual shareholder. The company says in a regulatory filing that he has proposed buying the remaining shares of Twitter that he…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration has announced it will extend through May 3 the nationwide mask requirement for airplanes and public transit as it monitors an uptick in COVID-19 cases. The order was set to expire April 18, but the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday extended it by two weeks. The administration had been hoping to…
NEW YORK (AP) — Authorities have arrested a man wanted in an attack on a subway train in Brooklyn that left 10 people wounded by gunfire. Law enforcement officials told The Associated Press that Frank R. James was taken into custody Wednesday in Manhattan’s East Village. Investigators had announced Tuesday afternoon that they were searching for James, who was believed…
NEW YORK (AP) — Law enforcement sources say five people were shot at a subway station in Brooklyn, New York. Fire personnel responding to reports of smoke Tuesday morning at the 36th Street station in Sunset Park found multiple people shot and unexploded devices. The fire department said 13 people were injured, but no details were provided. A photo from…
