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From left Bobby Gumpright and Jermaine Hudson talks with the Associated Press on Tuesday, April 29 in Baton Rouge, La. (AP Photo/Stephen Smith)

A split jury and a lie sent him to prison. Now he’s working to change Louisiana’s law

Bobby Gumpright was in the throws of addiction 25 years ago when he fabricated a story that he had been robbed at gunpoint by a Black man. Jermaine Hudson was arrested and convicted by a nonunanimous jury.
 
A pedestrian walks past the St. Vincent Jewelry Center in the Jewelry District of Los Angeles, Friday, May 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Economic jitters and soaring gold prices create a frenzy for US jewelry merchants

 
Panama's former President Ricardo Martinelli waves to supporters during a campaign rally, in Panama City, Feb. 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Agustin Herrera, File)

Former Panamanian president Martinelli leaves Nicaraguan embassy for asylum in Colombia

 
Tufts University student from Turkey, Rumeysa Ozturk, who was arrested by immigration agents while walking along a street in a Boston suburb, talks to reporters on arriving back in Boston, Saturday, May 10, 2025, a day after she was released from a Louisiana immigration detention center on the orders of a federal judge. (Matthew J. Lee/The Boston Globe via AP)

Turkish Tufts University student back in Boston after release from Louisiana detention center

 
Denny Hamlin (11) goes down the back stretch during a NASCAR Cup Series auto race, Sunday, April 13, 2025, in Bristol, Tenn. (AP Photo/Wade Payne)

Denny Hamlin remains confident in antitrust case brought by 23XI and Front Row against NASCAR

 

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Google will pay $1.4 billion to Texas to settle claims the company collected data on users without permission

 

Guest lineups for the Sunday news shows

 
Red projectiles are seen over Srinagar, in Indian controlled Kashmir, Saturday, May 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)

India and Pakistan accuse each other of violating ceasefire hours after reaching deal

 

Pakistan’s army spokesman says India has fired missiles at 3 Pakistani air bases

 
Newly elected Pope Leo XIV, formerly Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, appears on the central loggia of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican shortly after his election as the 267th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church, Thursday, May 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)

Wordle, White Sox and more: Fast facts about Pope Leo XIV

 
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent testifies before the House Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government, oversight hearing of the U.S. Department of the Treasury on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, May 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Treasury secretary calls on Congress to raise or suspend the debt ceiling by mid-July

 

The pope is on the line: AP is there for pontiff’s call to his brother in Chicago

 
This photo provided by the Kansas Highway Patrol shows Trooper Conroy O’Brien, who was killed in 1978. (Kansas Highway Patrol via AP)

Kansas governor wants board to reconsider parole granted to a state trooper’s convicted killer

 
Gambia's President Yahya Jammeh addresses the 69th session of the United Nations General Assembly at the United Nations headquarters on Sept. 25, 2014. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File)

27 people arrested in a protest in Gambia over the sale of a former dictator’s assets

 
North Carolina Executive Director of the State Board of Election, Karen Brinson Bell is seen during an election forum, Sept. 19, 2024, in Ann Arbor, Mich. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)

Ousted top election official in key swing state urges civility toward ‘caretakers of our democracy’

 

Lab tests connect black bear killed by Florida wildlife officers to fatal attack on man and his dog

 
The statue of Christopher Columbus is removed from Wooster Square Park in New Haven, Conn., on Wednesday, June 24, 2020. (Peter Hvizdak/Hearst Connecticut Media via AP, File)

Columbus statue removed from a Connecticut city in 2020 finally finds a home at a new museum

 

Tesla driver charged in California attacks arrested again for road rage in Hawaii

 

Sen. Cornyn of Texas says federal probe started into Muslim-entered community near Dallas

 

Brett Favre’s defamation lawsuit against Mississippi auditor will move forward, court says

 
CORRECTS NAME TO MEGYN INSTEAD OF MEGAN - FILE - Dr. Casey Means, a wellness influencer, left, and journalist Megyn Kelly, attend a confirmation hearing for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for the Secretary of Health and Human Services post, at the Capitol in Washington, Jan. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

On podcasts, Trump’s surgeon general pick touts organics, questions vaccines and talks spirituality

 
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum speaks with a reporter outside the West Wing of the White House, Thursday, April 10, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

An offshore wind project for New York may be abandoned over Trump administration delays

 
A general view of St. Thomas of Villanova Church on the Villanova University campus is seen, Thursday, May 8, 2025 in Villanova, Pa. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

From Villanova to the Vatican: Alma mater is floored it taught the 1st US pope

 
Maren Morris poses for a portrait on Wednesday, May 7, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Gary Gerard Hamilton)

Maren Morris’ ‘Dreamsicle’ album invites healing as she embraces her new life

 
A baby is carried in the tailgating section before an NFL football game, Nov. 25, 2024, in Inglewood, Calif. (AP Photo/Eric Thayer, File)

Liam and Olivia dominate — again — with top baby names for a sixth year in a row

 
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth arrives before President Donald Trump speaks on his first 100 days at Macomb County Community College Sports Expo Center, Tuesday, April 29, 2025, in Warren, Mich. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

How the military is dealing with Hegseth’s order to remove transgender troops

 
A man with Romanian and European Union flags draped over his shoulders waves in front of a large EU flag, during a pro-EU rally ahead of the second round of the presidential election redo in Bucharest, Romania, Friday, May 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)

Thousands join a pro-EU rally in Romania’s capital as pivotal presidential runoff looms

 
This 2024 photo provided by John Santoro shows, from left, Dr. Michael Groff, Karenna Groff, Dr. Joy Saini, and James Santoro. (Courtesy John Santoro via AP)

Investigators outline final moments of plane crash that killed former college soccer star and family

 
This photo taken in Decatur, Ala., Tuesday, March 25, 2025, shows the Alabama courthouse. (AP Photo/Safiyah Riddle, File)

Alabama ex-officer insists he had ‘stand your ground’ right when he shot an armed Black man

 
The CHS oil refinery is silhouetted against the setting sun, Sept. 28, 2024, in McPherson, Kan. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, file)

15 states sue over Trump’s move to fast-track oil and gas projects via his ‘energy emergency’ order

 

Paying for school construction in rural Nevada is tough. A Nevada lawmaker might have a solution

 
Newly elected Pope Leo XIV concelebrates Mass with the College of Cardinals inside the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican the day after his election as 267th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church, Friday, May 9, 2025. (Vatican Media via AP)

Advocates press for accounting of sex-abuse cases in new pope’s past jurisdictions

 
White South Africans demonstrate in support of U.S. President Donald Trump in front of the U.S. embassy in Pretoria, South Africa, Feb. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)

US to accept white South African refugees while other programs remain paused

 
Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman, D-N.J., speaks with an officer demanding she be let into the ICE Detention office after the arrest of Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, Friday, May 9, 2025, in Newark, N.J. (AP Photo/Angelina Katsanis)

Mayor Baraka of Newark, New Jersey, arrested at immigration detention center he has been protesting

 
Pope Leo XIV, then Bishop Robert Prevost, gives a Mass in Motupe, Peru, Sunday, Aug. 5, 2018. (AP Photo/Julio Reano)

Peruvians know him as the priest who went ‘from Chicago to Chiclayo.’ He is now Pope Leo XIV

 
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