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AP Headline News - Apr 26 2024 20:00 (EDT)
AP News, I'm Ben Thomas Colorado, a former paramedic convicted of homicide for injecting a black man with a powerful sedative, has avoided prison and been sentenced to probation. Norman Hall has details. The 2019 death of Elijah McLean was among those that fueled racial injustice protest in 2020. Jeremy Cooper had faced up to three years in prison after being found guilty in a jury trial last year of criminally negligent homicide. Cooper administered a dose of ketamine to McLean. The 23-year-old had been forcibly restrained after Blee stopped him as he was walking home in a Denver suburb. I-Norman Hall. Multiple tornadoes reported in Nebraska, one plowing through suburban Omaha this afternoon, damaging hundreds of homes. The Federal Reserve's preferred inflation gauge shows price pressures remain elevated. We defoli has numbers. Prices rose. 0.3 percent from February to March. The same is in the previous month, says the government, compared to a year earlier, prices were up 2.7 percent in March. Better than expected earnings reports for Google's parent company and Microsoft led the stock market to its biggest weekly gain since November. The S&P rose 1 percent Friday, while the Dow added 0.4 percent and the NASDAQ 2 percent. At least a divine reports, temporary farm workers are getting more legal protections against abuses including employer retaliation and unsafe working conditions. The rule, announced by the Biden administration, aims to bolster support workers on H2A visas. Each year, hundreds of thousands of immigrants, mostly from Mexico, take on seasonal jobs in U.S. agriculture. The new rule requires farmers to provide transportation for long distances, prevents retaliation for meeting with unions at provided housing, and implements safeguards to help counter human trafficking among other requirements. Our labor groups applaud the changes, while some business groups warrant excessive regulatory burdens. The rule takes effect June 28. I'm Lisa Dwyer. This is AP News, a new gun law in Tennessee. Governor Bill Lee signed into law a bill that allows teachers and staff to be allowed to carry concealed handguns on public school grounds. The signing comes a year after a deadly shooting at a private elementary school in Nashville. Opponents were very loud. Governor Lee initially asked lawmakers to keep guns away from people deemed a danger to themselves or others. Republican lawmakers like Ryan Williams ignored the request. What you're doing is you're creating a deterrent. According to the statute, which becomes effective immediately, parents and other teachers will be barred from knowing who is armed at their schools. Democrat Justin Jones says this is morally insane. Armed teachers will the books they need, the materials they need, the resources they need. But for God's sake, you don't hear them. What you're doing today is you're going to put guns in our schools for our teachers. It's unclear if any school districts in Tennessee will arm teachers. I'm Ed Donahue. And I'm Ben Thomas. AP News.