Month: November 2021

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The label “date movie” hasn’t traditionally been applied much to documentaries but filmmakers Betsy West and Julie Cohen have twice now made non-fiction films of trailblazing female icons that also happen to be portraits of loving, supportive marriages. In “RBG,” the 2018 Oscar-nominated bio-documentary of

By BEN FINLEY Associated Press CHESAPEAKE, Va. (AP) — Court records show that a man killed by Virginia State Police had been mentally ill for years. Brian Michael Price was judged not guilty by reason of insanity after striking his mother with a baseball bat in 2014. He was released from a mental hospital last

By RASHID YAHYA and BASSEM MROUE Associated Press DOHUK, Iraq (AP) — Thousands of people from Middle Eastern nations devastated by conflict have been trying to slip into the European Union since summer. They are using a backdoor opened by Belarus earlier this year. Some made it through, sneaking across the EU’s eastern border with

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus police have suspended one officer and 11 constables after launching an investigation into how a boat loaded with migrants gave them the slip and set sail again after docking at a local harbor. Police said in a statement Friday that the boat carrying 61 people was intercepted early Wednesday off

By JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — A man is scheduled to go on trial next week in the deaths of one of 18 women he’s charged with killing in Texas over a two-year span. Across Dallas and its suburbs, family after family puzzled over the suddenness of their older but otherwise healthy loved

BENTON HARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Michigan and local officials have been targeted in a lawsuit over high levels of lead in Benton Harbor’s drinking water. The lawsuit was filed this week in federal court. It accuses the state and city of “deliberate indifference” in their response to the problem, which began to emerge in 2018.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The Alabama Supreme Court says a Minnesota woman seeking more than $360,000 in child support from the estate of one-time NFL quarterback Tavaris Jackson can pursue her claim before an appeals court. Jackson was living near Montgomery when he died in a car wreck and Jessa Roginski asked an Alabama court

MOSCOW (AP) — New pandemic restrictions prepared by Russian authorities are set to go into effect next year. Bills outlining the measures were introduced in parliament on Friday. They would restrict access to many public places, as well as domestic and international trains and flights, to those who have been fully vaccinated, have recovered from

By FAY ABUELGASIM and NOHA ELHENNAWY Associated Press KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — The United States, Britain and the European Union have slammed the Sudan coup leader’s latest move to tighten the military’s grip on power by appointing himself the head of an army-run governing body. The Western nations say it’s a unilateral decision that undermines

CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago police say they’ve arrested an 18-year-old man in this week’s shooting death of a Chinese student near the University of Chicago’s campus. At a Friday evening news conference, police say they have charged Alton Spann with first-degree murder, armed robbery and unlawful use of a weapon. Police say they were able

By BRYAN ANDERSON AND GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press/Report for America RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Rep. Madison Cawthorn says he’ll run in a new congressional district under North Carolina’s newly approved map. His Thursday night announcement to run in a redder district was a strategic move to thwart the chances of GOP state House Speaker