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June 06, 2017 SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP)- A Southern California jury has awarded $2 million to a relative of Trinity Broadcasting Network founders Jan and Paul Crouch. The woman, now 24, says she was sexually assaulted when she was 13 by a Trinity employee in a Georgia hotel room, but when she reported it to

By ALISON NOONAssociated Press June 16, 2017 CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) – Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval signed into law Thursday the nation’s strictest requirements for pharmaceutical companies to reveal how they set certain prescription drug prices.The bipartisan legislation focuses on insulin – one of many life-sustaining prescription treatments sold in the U.S. at prices that

Man dies when air bag inflator ruptures during car repair By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer July 11, 2017 DETROIT (AP) – Another person has been killed in the U.S. by an exploding Takata air bag inflator, but this death wasn’t the result of a crash. Ramon V. Kuffo, 81, of Hialeah, Florida, was working

Police: Venus Williams at fault in fatal car crash By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press June 30, 2017 FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) – Tennis star Venus Williams caused a car crash earlier this month that led to the death of a passenger in another vehicle, according to a police report released Thursday. Palm Beach Gardens police

Parents sue amusement park where son, 8, drowned in pool June 30, 2017 SUNBURY, Pa. (AP) – The parents of an 8-year-old boy who drowned in a Pennsylvania amusement park’s swimming pool have filed a wrongful-death lawsuit contending the lifeguards were incompetent. Mohamad and Fadma Boudriss say staffers at the Knoebels Amusement Resort in Elysburg

Wrong way chase ends in fiery crash; 4 sent to hospitals July 11, 2017 NEWNAN, Ga. (AP) – A high-speed chase going the wrong way on a Georgia highway ended in a fiery crash that sent a woman and three children to hospitals, state police said. The chase began when a trooper clocked a subcompact

Gay pride parades sound a note of resistance and face some By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZAssociated Press June 26, 2017 SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – Tens of thousands of people waving rainbow flags lined streets for gay pride parades Sunday in coast-to-coast events that took both celebratory and political tones, the latter a reaction to what some

Police: Neighbor stopped man who was stabbing 4 relatives July 05, 2017 ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) – A 20-year-old man was arrested after he stabbed four relatives in a family dispute that was broken up by a neighbor with a baseball bat, Southern California police said Tuesday. The Anaheim Police Department booked Gino Liam Fuentes into

Jury: Railroad to pay $3.9M for train death of film worker By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press July 18, 2017 SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) – A railroad owner must pay $3.9 million to the family of a movie worker killed on a Georgia railroad trestle in 2014, a jury decided Monday in civil verdict that found the

Some residents couldn’t hear alarms in deadly Honolulu blaze By CALEB JONES Associated Press July 17, 2017 HONOLULU (AP) – As flames raged through a Honolulu high-rise building, killing three people and injuring a dozen others, some residents didn’t even realize a blaze had broken out until they opened their doors or saw firefighters racing