Town Hall News

MEXICO CITY, June 13 – Authorities in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca are investigating the fatal shooting of the mayor of San Miguel Amatitlan, the state prosecutor’s office said on Saturday, as security forces launched an operation to hunt those responsible. Jose Angel Bravo Martinez died after being shot in an attack in the Mixteca region, officials said, adding that they were treating the case as a high-impact crime […]

The Pittsburgh Penguins acquired forward Oliver Okuliar from the Florida Panthers in exchange for defenseman Emil Pieniniemi. Okuliar played for Skelleftea AIK in the Swedish Hockey League last season, posting 15 goals and 14 assists in 46 games. During the postseason, the 26-year-old was tied for the league-lead in goals (six) and helped lead his team to the SHL Championship. During the 2024-25 season, Okuliar played for the Charlotte Checkers […]

Cleveland Cavaliers player James Harden was arrested on Saturday in Houston on a misdemeanor charge of unlawful carrying of a weapon in a motor vehicle, according to the Harris County District Clerk’s Office. Harden was arrested at 3:41 a.m. and booked just before 5 a.m., then posted $100 bond and was released from police custody, according to charging documents, which said he had a handgun in plain view that was […]

NEW YORK (AP) — OpenAI received a subpoena from several states as part of a probe into the safety of users of its chatbot as it prepares to offer stock to the public for the first time. The company behind the popular chatbot, ChatGPT, said it will respond to the inquiry “constructively” and that it already has in place measures to protect its customers. “AI is a new and powerful […]

A medical examiner has ruled the death of a Haitian asylum seeker after being released from federal custody a homicide. An attorney representing her family said he expects her relatives to sue Immigration and Customs Enforcement in connection with her death. Daphy Michel, 31, died March 2. She was found at a bus shelter. The Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office found her cause of death to be hypothermia and ruled […]

TRACY, Calif. (AP) — Officials in a Northern California city urged people sensitive to smoke to keep indoors as firefighters spent a third day Saturday battling a fire in a huge medical equipment warehouse. Air quality on the south side of Tracy, a city of 100,000 people where the Medline warehouse fire has been burning since Thursday, was in the “unhealthy” range, according to air monitors. Firefighters expected the next […]

The Texas Rangers placed outfielder Evan Carter (oblique) on the 10-day injured list on Saturday. In a corresponding move, the club recalled utility man Cody Freeman from Triple-A Round Rock. Carter exited Friday’s game against the Boston Red Sox due to right oblique soreness. It is now being labeled as a right oblique strain. Carter recorded six home runs, 21 RBIs, 10 stolen bases and a .172/.292/.321 batting line for […]

Ken Morrow liked to consider himself the answer of a trivia question as the only hockey player who won an Olympic gold medal and hoisted the Stanley Cup in the same year. He was part of the 1980 U.S. “Miracle on Ice” team and then joined the New York Islanders for their first of four titles in a row. A half-dozen Canadians have done it since the NHL started sending […]

ROME (AP) — Tens of thousands of people marched through the streets of the Italian capital in rival anti- and pro- migration demonstrations Saturday, after a far-right citizens’ initiative seeking sweeping measures against migrants garnered enough support to be brought to Parliament. A petition by the initiative, named “Remigration and Reconquest,” gathered the 50,000 signatures needed to trigger parliamentary discussion, pushing the once-fringe concept of “remigration” into the political mainstream. […]