This story contains sensitive material about childbirth that may be triggering. A family says a Georgia doctor used too much force and decapitated a woman’s baby after it became stuck during delivery, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday. Plaintiff 20-year-old Jessica Ross is suing Dr. Tracey St. Julian and Southern Regional Medical Center, a hospital in…
Eric VanDussen was looking for certain documents relating to the kidnapping plot of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, when his open records request was denied. VanDussen filed a lawsuit against the rejected request, leading to Court of Claims Judge James Redford noting that the exhibits had already been introduced in an “open court, in a public hearing,…
College professors across the country are working frantically to “ChatGPT-proof” their assignments as some educators report seeing dozens of students cheating with the tool. Some professors are planning to return to paper exams after years of conducting them digitally. Others are more drastic and plan to require students to show the draft history on their…
CNN — An American nurse and her daughter have been released in Haiti after being kidnapped around two weeks ago. This comes after the abduction garnered international attention and reignited conversation about Port-au-Prince’s kidnapping-for-profit epidemic. Here’s what else you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. At least 36 people…
San Francisco Mayor London Breed reportedly was on Maui Wednesday when wildfires swept through the Hawaiian island, destroying parts of a centuries-old town and killing at least 36 people. Breed has since been transported to the Hawaiian island of Oahu, where she remains in Honolulu, Politico first reported, citing a person familiar with the matter….
New York CNN — The federal government is allowing airlines to continue to run reduced flight schedules to major airports serving New York City and Washington in hopes of curbing flight cancellations and reducing the burden on short-staffed air traffic controllers. The Federal Aviation Administration is extending the relaxed requirements it first announced last March…
MAUI, Hawaii − Evacuations and damage assessment will continue Thursday on the battered island of Maui where catastrophic blazes killed at least 36 people, damaged hundreds of structures and leveled a historic and beloved town in one of the deadliest U.S. wildfires in recent years. Officials said more than 270 structures were damaged or destroyed including…
An inmate was beaten to death Tuesday morning inside the hospital wing of Cook County Jail, the sheriff’s office said. Jail security responded to a disturbance shortly after 9 a.m. and found two inmates fighting, the sheriff’s office said in a statement. Staff immediately separated the men and began performing lifesaving measures on Johnny Hendrix,…
Minneapolis CNN — For the first time in more than 12 months, consumer prices heated up on an annual basis. The Consumer Price Index rose 3.2% for the year through July, up from June’s 3% annual increase, according to data released Thursday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Persistently high inflation — specifically grocery, gas…
At least 36 people have died, officials say, and hundreds of structures have been destroyed as fires continue to rage on the island of Maui in Hawaii. The fires first began Tuesday, and have since grown and spread in destruction, forcing hundreds of evacuations and leaving thousands without power. The exact cause of the fires…