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Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte.Photo: Thom Bridge/Independent Record via AP As anti-LGBTQ+ bills work their way through Montana’s state legislature, many members of the queer and trans community are calling on Republican Gov.Greg Gianforteto reject any legislation that reaches his desk — including the governor’s own child. Opening up in a recent interview with theMontana Free Press, David, 32, explained that as the bills grew closer to reaching their father’s desk for a signature or veto, they began to feel a duty to express concerns to Montana’s top politician, knowing that most people wouldn’t be afforded the same opportunity....

Photo: Hillsboro Police DepartmentA Hillsboro, Ore., resident is facing a second-degree murder charge after being accused of arson.According toOregon Live, Washington County prosecutors filed a new 21-count indictment against 34-year-old Roel Leon on Monday.The indictment comes after Leon allegedly set the Weil Arcade in downtown Hillsboro on fire Jan. 2, the news outlet added.In anews releaseissued Tuesday, police identified the body of the man who died of smoke inhalation inside the arcade as 40-year-old Ronald William Knapp....

The results of the tests have not yet been confirmed, though preliminary medical reports indicated no sign of the coronavirus,Bloomberg Newsreported. One of the passengers was a 54-year-old woman from the Chinese region of Macau who had a fever,The Guardianreports. She was reportedly put into isolation. The second passenger was her husband, who reportedly had not exhibited any symptoms of the coronavirus but was also put into isolation. CBS Newsreports that the cruise ship is carrying almost 7,000 passengers and crew members, including 114 American tourists....

Mr. Handsome the mountain lion.Photo: Oakland Zoo/Facebook This mountain lion is headed back to the wild! On Wednesday night, authorities captured the 2-year-oldmale mountain lionthat San Francisco residents had spotted roaming around the neighborhood of Bernal Heights for two days, according toThe Los Angeles Times. The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) apprehended the big cat after someone spotted the animal hiding in a tree. Afterward, CDFW officials took the mountain lion to the Oakland Zoo to undergo a physical exam and receive several preventative vaccinations....

Kris Tyson before and after 6 months of hormone replacement therapy.Photo:Kris Tyson/TwitterKris Tysonis celebrating a new milestone after coming out as transgender earlier this month.On Sunday, the Youtube star — known for appearing alongsideMrBeast— posted a before and after selfie onTwitter, showing off her transformation since starting hormone replacement therapy.“6 months on HRT!!🥰” she captioned the photo.In February, Tyson, 27, started hormone replacement therapy (HRT) — which the Cleveland Clinic explains as a process that helps gender nonconforming people achieve a more traditionallymasculineorfeminineappearance — and has since beensharing frequent updateswith her fans....

Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado.Photo:RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty ImagesThree bodies found “fairly mummified”in a remote Colorado campsite earlier this month have been identified as two sisters and a teenage boy.The Gunnison County Coroner’s Office identified them as Christine Vance, 41, Rebecca Vance, 42, and Rebecca’s 14-year-old son in a release to theColorado Sun,Denver GazetteandAssociated Press.The Gunnison County Coroner’s Office has not yet responded to PEOPLE’s request for a statement....

Photo: Mesquite Police Department/ AP; Facebook Amber Guyger, 31, the white off-duty Dallas police officer who shot and killed an unarmed black man inside his own apartment last September, is on trial for murder — and that trial is set to begin today. Opening statements were expected to begin at 9 a.m.,according to theDallas Morning News, and jurors will be tasked with determining whether Guyger’s killing of Botham Jean, a 26-year-old accountant from St....

Calvin Jones, center, with Taurida Symphony Orchestra in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 2017.Photo: Courtesy Calvin Jones In St. Petersburg, Russia in July 2017, composer and pianist Calvin Jones was working with the 55-piece Taurida International Symphony Orchestra to record a dozen songs he’d composed or arranged, including the Ukrainian song “Shchedryk (Carol of the Bells).” “We had a beautiful collaboration,” Jones, an American who had lived in Ukraine since 2014, recalls to PEOPLE....

Mick Mars.Photo: Kevin Mazur/Getty Mick Mars, a founding member and guitarist of heavy metal bandMötley Crüe, has filed a lawsuit against the band and their touring companies for allegedly attempting to oust him. “After 41 years as a founding member of the band Mötley Crüe, Petitioner Mick Mars, the lead guitar player and backing vocalist for the band, announced that, due to his horrifically debilitating ankylosing spondylitis, he could no longer tour with the band,” the documents read....

A New Jersey bridal store owner has been arrested after multiple customers allegedly paid forweddingdresses but never received them. AMaplewood Police statementsaid the victims reported they had purchased and paid for wedding dresses dating back to August 2022. They alleged they never got the gowns and claimed they stopped receiving any communication with the business, police said. Mayers was arrested on March 22 and transported to Essex County Jail. Thebridal store owner has pleaded not guiltyand was released on bail, NJ....

John Formisano and Christie Formisano.Photo: Facebook A veteran New Jersey policeman is behind bars this week, accused of shooting his estranged wife to death Sunday night in an incident that also left the woman’s boyfriend seriously wounded, PEOPLE confirms. John Formisano, 49, has been charged with first-degree murder, first-degree attempted murder, possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose and endangering the welfare of the two children he shared with the victim, his 37-year-old wife Christie Formisano....

Vanessa Pierre.Photo: GoFundMe But Pierre’s plans were suddenly cut short when in the early morning hours of October 23, 2020, her boyfriend pulled to the side of the Horace Harding Expressway in Queens, N.Y., and strangled the mother of his unborn child, then dumped her limp body on the side of the road. He drove away, leaving the 29-year-old with a pair of gray sweatpants wrapped around her neck....

Picasso’s Le Moulin de la Galette.Photo: Estate of Pablo Picasso/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Pablo Picassotruly was a man of mystery. A hidden detail has been uncovered in one of the Spanish artist’s paintings hanging at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the museum announced last week in anews release. After close examination, conservators found that a lapdog was originally included in Picasso’s paintingLe Moulin de la Galette, but was later painted out....