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Newsy expands, bets on appetite for more news, less politics
Newsy expands, bets on appetite for more news, less politics

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — With the expansion of its Newsy service this week, the E.W. Scripps Co. is betting that consumers have an appetite for more news, instead of just talk about news. Newsy, primarily seen now online and through streaming services, is expanding its programming to 17 hours […] More

October 4, 2021

Unsolved murders and Petito case leave dark cloud over Moab
Unsolved murders and Petito case leave dark cloud over Moab

By KYLE DUNPHEY DESERET NEWS MOAB, Utah (AP) — Every day for the past two weeks, Sean-Paul Schulte sits at the same picnic table at Swanny City Park in Moab, Utah. He brings cookies, flowers, pictures of his family, meticulously painted rocks, and two pairs of black boots from his daughter, Kylen Schulte, and her […] More

October 4, 2021

Jurors in airman’s murder trial hear from cellphone expert
Jurors in airman’s murder trial hear from cellphone expert

By FELICIA FONSECA Associated Press FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Jurors hearing the case against U.S. Air Force airman Mark Gooch heard lengthy testimony Friday from a cellphone data expert who mapped the route that Gooch allegedly drove the day a Mennonite woman was kidnapped from northwestern New Mexico. Sasha Krause, who worked at a publishing […] More

October 1, 2021

California takes step to return land to Black couple’s heirs
California takes step to return land to Black couple’s heirs

By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press MANHATTAN BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Nearly a century ago, white leaders of a Southern California city robbed a Black family of their prime beachfront land and legacy. Descendants of Willa and Charles Bruce — including the couple’s great-great grandson — returned to the scene of the crime in Manhattan Beach […] More

October 1, 2021

After 15 years in prison, man cleared in deaths of 5 kids
After 15 years in prison, man cleared in deaths of 5 kids

By ED WHITE Associated Press PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — Murder charges were dismissed Thursday against a man who spent 15 years in prison for the fire-related deaths of five children in suburban Detroit, the climax of an investigation that found misconduct by police and prosecutors. Juwan Deering will not face a second trial, Oakland County […] More

September 30, 2021

Jury hears from airman’s brother in Arizona murder trial
Jury hears from airman’s brother in Arizona murder trial

By FELICIA FONSECA Associated Press FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — The brother of a U.S. Air Force airman on trial in the death of a Mennonite woman testified Wednesday that the defendant asked him to remotely scrub information from his cellphone shortly before he was arrested and later charged with kidnapping and murder. Samuel Gooch’s testimony […] More

September 29, 2021

Georgia prisoner gets life without parole in guard killings
Georgia prisoner gets life without parole in guard killings

EATONTON, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia prisoner found guilty of murder in the 2017 killings of two guards on a transport bus was sentenced Wednesday to serve life in prison without parole. After taking only a few hours last week to convict Donnie Rowe of malice murder and other crimes, jurors could not agree on […] More

September 29, 2021