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A California woman has said in a jailhouse interview that she drowned her three young children to protect them from abuse by their father in the midst of a custody battle. Liliana Carrillo was interviewed Thursday by KGET-TV. Carrillo alleges that the father, Erik Denton, sexually abused the children and that she regrets killing them but felt it was the only way to keep them safe. Custody case court documents say Denton denied abusing the children and that the mother was delusional. The children were found dead Saturday. Carrillo hasn’t been charged in their deaths but was arrested and has pleaded not guilty to carjacking.

Uncertainty lingers over LSU athletics as the Tigers football program concludes spring practice. A logo in Tiger Stadium in recognition of Sexual Assault Awareness Month for this weekend’s spring game is among measures meant to promote healing on a campus that was found to have a culture hostile to women making allegations of sexual misconduct. The U.S. Department of Education and a state Senate select committee are reviewing how the university has handled sexual misconduct allegations. The school is also contending with a $50 million federal lawsuit. What the fallout will be remains unclear. But LSU will need time to restore its tarnished brand.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — President Joe Biden, former President Barack Obama and a slew of celebrities including Billy Crystal, Jennifer Hudson and Lin-Manuel Miranda are part of a special aimed at boosting COVID-19 vaccination rates. “Roll Up Your Sleeves,” airing…

The Justice Department has sued Donald Trump's ally Roger Stone, accusing the conservative provocateur and his wife of failing to pay nearly $2 million in income tax. The lawsuit was filed in federal court in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on Friday. It alleges the couple underpaid income tax by more than $1.5 million from 2007 until 2011 and separately alleges Stone also owes more than $400,000 for not fully paying his tax bill in 2018. Stone tells The Associated Press that the Internal Revenue Service is “well aware that I have no assets and that their lawsuit is politically motivated." Stone is a longtime friend of the former president's.

Scott Dixon opens the IndyCar season in search of the motorsports milestone mark of seven championships. The mark has been set by Michael Schumacher and Lewis Hamilton in Formula One, In NASCAR, Richard Petty, Dale Earnhardt and Jimmie Johnson have won seven titles. In IndyCar, only A.J. Foyt has seven championships. Dixon last season won his sixth title. He opens his 21st season on Sunday at Barber Motorsports Park in Birmingham, Alabama. He's considered the greatest driver of his generation. 

A judge has denied Ghislaine Maxwell's efforts to toss charges that she recruited three teenager girls from 1994 to 1997 for then-boyfriend Jeffrey Epstein to sexually abuse. U.S. District Judge Alison Nathan in Manhattan on Friday rejected arguments that a non-prosecution agreement Epstein reached with federal prosecutors over a dozen years ago protects Maxwell from prosecution. She also rejected arguments that some of all charges should be tossed out for a variety of reasons. The judge, however, did agree that Maxwell can be prosecuted separately on perjury charges. And she said arguments the defense will make against new sex trafficking charges will be decided later.

The release of body camera footage showing a Chicago police officer fatally shooting a 13-year-old was another test for news organizations. The March 29 shooting forced newsrooms to weigh how much graphic material they should show now that video of police confrontations is becoming commonplace. One Chicago digital site offered subscribers a choice to read the story with or without the video. National television outlets took similar approaches. They showed jumpy body camera footage of officer Eric Stillman chasing Adam Toledo and ordering him to drop a gun, followed by Toledo’s empty hands being raised. The video is stopped at the moment of the fatal shot.

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council has authorized international monitors to watch over a nearly six-month-old cease-fire agreement in Libya as the country heads toward December elections after a decade of fighting and upheaval. In a vote announced…

Federal officials on Friday reversed Trump administration restrictions on using human fetal tissue for medical research. The changes clear the way for using government money on work that in the past has led to treatments for a variety of diseases,…

A retired Ohio county sheriff from outside Cleveland and his tiny K-9 partner were inseparable. When Dan McClelland retired as Geauga County sheriff in late 2016, his drug-sniffing Chihuahua-rat terrier mix Midge retired as well. They spent a decade together as partners. Both died Wednesday. The 67-year-old McClelland died after a long battle with cancer and 16-year-old Midge, perhaps, of a broken heart. McClelland's family says they will be buried together. Midge was certified by Guinness World Records as the smallest police dog on the globe. McClelland spent 44 years with the sheriff's office outside Cleveland, and the last 13 as sheriff.

YouTube personality, businessman and musician Jeffree Star was hospitalized after a car crash in Wyoming. The Wyoming Highway Patrol says Star veered off a slushy road in the Casper area Friday morning and overturned his Rolls Royce. A friend, Daniel Lucas, also was in the car. Both were taken to Wyoming Medical Center in Casper with undisclosed injuries. Star is best known for his cosmetics business. The Casper Star-Tribune reports Star has been splitting time between California and his small ranch near Casper since December. Star has said he plans to employ locals at a warehouse for his company, Jeffree Star Cosmetics.

The State Department's internal watchdog has concluded that former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and his wife violated federal ethics rules by asking staffers to run personal errands and perform non-official work for them. In a report released on Friday, the department's inspector general concluded that those requests were “inconsistent” with the regulations. But, because Pompeo is no longer a federal employee, it did not call for any action against the former secretary who left office on Jan. 20. Instead, it recommended that the State Department clarify its policies to better define tasks that are inappropriate for staffers and make it easier to report alleged violations. The department accepted all recommendations in its response to the report.

The Pittsburgh Steelers have become the 10th group of NFL players to say they won’t be attending in-person voluntary offseason workouts. With a post through the NFL Players Association, the Steelers joined the Super Bowl champion Buccaneers, Broncos, Seahawks, Giants, Bears, Raiders, Lions, Browns, and Patriots in declaring their intent to skip the sessions that can begin on Monday. On Wednesday, the league issued a memo to all 32 teams announcing that the first four weeks of the voluntary program will be virtual before transitioning to in person at the team’s respective training facilities. Last year, the offseason programs were all done virtually.

Keith Urban and Mickey Guyton will have a small audience at this year's Academy of Country Music Awards show on Sunday of vaccinated medical workers. The two hosts said there's no one more deserving of a special seat than the healthcare heroes during the COVID-19 pandemic. Guyton and Urban are co-hosting together for the first time, but they already have good chemistry. Guyton is the first Black woman to host the country music awards show and she said she wants to hold the door open for others in the country music community.