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Chauvin Trying Again To Overturn Federal Conviction

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin is making another attempt to overturn his federal civil rights conviction in the 2020 murder of George Floyd, saying new evidence shows that he didn’t cause Floyd’s death. In a motion filed in federal court Monday, Chauvin said he never would have pleaded guilty to the charge in 2021 if he had known about the theories of a Kansas pathologist with whom he began corresponding in February. Chauvin is asking the judge who presided over his trial to throw out his conviction and order a new trial, or at least an ...

Traffic Restrictions Set As Parade Shifts To The South

From STAFF REPORTS WHEELING — The annual Main Street Bank Fantasy In Lights Parade is just around the corner, and this year, the parade will be turning some new corners on its route. With that new route comes some road closures and parking restrictions not normally associated with the event, which moved from downtown Wheeling to the Center Wheeling due to the extensive Downtown Streetscape work. The Wheeling Police Department announced Tuesday that this year’s parade will start at the intersection of 24th and Market streets and make a right turn, traveling north along Main ...

Seeking 15-Week Sweet Spot

The conventional wisdom after the Nov. 7 elections is that abortion is a killer for the GOP. Republicans had high hopes of winning the Virginia legislature but lost the Virginia House and did not gain the Virginia Senate. In Ohio, an abortion constitutional amendment passed. But a review of the Virginia data suggests a 15-week abortion compromise actually is a winning issue for the Republicans. In 2023, anticipating a hard Democrat attack against the GOP on the issue of abortion, Gov. Glenn Youngkin of Virginia led the GOP to embrace a 15-week abortion law that would prohibit ...

Abortion Issue Vexes Republicans

Republicans don’t know how to “talk about abortion.” Donald Trump said that following a string of losses blamed on his party’s efforts to severely restrict it. Other Republican candidates have used the same words. The problem for Republicans is not how they talk abortion but what they did about it. Trump vowed that as president he would appoint justices who would overturn Roe v. Wade, which established a constitutional right to abortion. He did and they did. Reproductive rights are not some debate club topic like tax breaks for electric vehicles. They affect the core of ...

Sometimes It Takes a Push To Become Who You Really Are

How do we become who we are? It’s tough to say sometimes, but I’m convinced you can trace my path to Mrs. Zimmerman. My family and I had moved to the U.S. from Greece, then hopscotched around the country, and though we’d been in America for years, I was still an awkward girl with a funny name whose backyard occasionally contained grazing sheep awaiting their Easter Sunday fate. But one spring day at Jean Gordon Elementary School, my teacher, Mrs. Zimmerman, handed me a flier for an essay contest. The winner would join other Louisiana children in covering the Republican ...

Review: Dylan’s ‘The Complete Budokan 1978’ Box Set Is A Welcome Release, Flute And All

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press Bob Dylan with flute and saxophone isn’t for everyone. But that’s what you get with “The Complete Budokan 1978,” a deluxe box set presenting two live shows at Tokyo’s Nippon Budokan Hall, from a tour that has been derided in some corners as “Dylan going Vegas.” The extravagantly packaged four-disc set expands upon the 1979 “Bob Dylan at Budokan” live record that caught Dylan in Japan on just the second week of his 1978 world tour that would run for 10 months. The tour started after the widely acclaimed Rolling Thunder guerilla ...