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A Winter Weather Advisory is in effect through 8 a.m. Sunday for parts of central and southern Iowa, areas that are seeing the first snow of the season. Accumulations of 1 to 3 inches are likely along and southeast of a line extending from Marshalltown, Des Moines, and Atlantic, with isolated possibilities around Lamoni of around 4 inches.…

The 10 Freeway in downtown Los Angeles was shut down indefinitely in both directions early Saturday after two wooden pallet yards caught fire, damaging an overpass and destroying several vehicles, including a firetruck, authorities said.Westbound and eastbound lanes of the heavily traveled freeway are closed between Alameda Street and Santa Fe…

Source: Election results and race calls are from The Associated Press. The Times estimates the share of votes reported and the number of remaining votes, based on historic turnout data and reporting from results providers. These are only estimates, and they may not be informed by reports from election officials. The Associated Press also…

Four people are dead and a murder suspect has been arrested after a shooting in Dayton, Ohio, according to Butler Township Police.Police were called to the 7200 block of Hardwicke Place around 11:30 a.m. Friday on reports of shots fired. When officers arrived on the scene, they found a total of four victims at multiple crime scenes…

Washington CNN  —  Republican Rep. Dan Newhouse and Democrat Doug White will advance to the general election out of the top-two primary in Washington’s 4th Congressional District, CNN projects. Newhouse is one of the 10 Republican House members who voted for…

Republicans in Georgia violated a landmark civil rights law in drawing voting maps that diluted the power of Black voters, a federal judge in Atlanta ruled on Thursday, ordering that new maps must be drawn in time for the 2024 elections.Judge Steve C. Jones of the Northern District of Georgia demanded that the state’s legislature move swiftly to…

A woman accused of causing a crash that killed five people, including a pregnant woman, Thursday in Los Angeles County has been arrested, according to the California Highway Patrol.The driver, Nicole Lorraine Linton, 37, was hospitalized with moderate injuries and faces a charge of vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence, Highway Patrol…

Aug 5 (Reuters) - U.S. conspiracy theorist Alex Jones must pay the parents of a 6-year-old boy killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre $45.2 million in punitive damages - on top of $4.1 million in compensatory damages already awarded - for falsely claiming the shooting was a hoax, a Texas jury decided on Friday.Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis,…

Some Northern California cities appear to have instituted rolling blackouts on Tuesday in error after a miscommunication with the operator of the state electric grid, the California Independent System Operator, amid the historic heat wave. At least three Bay Area cities initiated the rotating outages Tuesday night — Alameda,…

Bob Kettle and Joy Hollingsworth clenched victories in their Seattle City Council races Friday as results begin to codify wins for moderates.Nonprofit worker and former basketball player Hollingsworth will represent District 3 on after her opponent, transportation advocate Alex Hudson, conceded the race Friday morning. Not long after,…