Month: August 2023

JERUSALEM (AP) — An avalanche of rocks tumbled down a hillside onto a hiking trail near the Dead Sea in Israel on Thursday, trapping many people, killing a 5-year-old boy and injuring at least six others, medics said. The volunteer emergency medical service United Hatzalah said rescue teams recovered numerous people who were trapped under

By EMMA BURROWS and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A preliminary U.S. intelligence assessment concluded that an intentional explosion caused the plane crash presumed to have killed a mercenary leader who was eulogized Thursday by Vladimir Putin, even as suspicions grew that the Russian president was the architect of the assassination. One of

MOSCOW (AP) — A Moscow court ruled Thursday that Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich must stay in jail on espionage charges until the end of November, Russian state news agency Tass reported. Gershkovich has been sitting in jail since the end of March when he was detained in the city of Yekaterinburg, almost 2,000km

By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press REED POINT, Mont. (AP) — Two months after a railroad bridge collapse sent carloads of hazardous oil products plunging into Montana’s Yellowstone River, the cleanup workers are gone and a mess remains. Thick mats of tarry petroleum asphalt cover portions of sandbars. Oil-speckled rocks and bushes line the shore along

By ERIC TUCKER, KATE BRUMBACK and JILL COLVIN Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A scowling Donald Trump posed for a mug shot Thursday as he surrendered inside a jail in Atlanta on charges that he illegally schemed to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia, creating a historic and humbling visual underscoring the former president’s escalating

By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Plans for the start of the Basketball World Cup in Okinawa, Japan, were unaffected Thursday after a North Korean rocket launch prompted an alert ordering some residents to evacuate. Press conferences and practices for the eight teams that are beginning World Cup play in Okinawa

By MARK PRATT Associated Press When members of the marine mammal team from the International Fund for Animal Welfare rush to a Cape Cod beach to help a stranded dolphin or porpoise, they have no choice but to treat the endangered animal on site and then immediately release it. That is about to change. The

By LISA RATHKE Associated Press WESTON, Vt. (AP) — Members of a beloved Vermont acting company were sleeping in theater housing when torrential rains and flooding forced them to flee, with water inundating the playhouse’s vast basement of dressing rooms, costumes and props and reaching into the first floor. The July storms left the large,

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER and JAE C. HONG Associated Press LAHAINA, Hawaii (AP) — During the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century, a developer of land around a threatened Maui community urgently asked state officials for permission to divert stream water to help fight the growing inferno. In letters reviewed by the AP,

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A former principal of an Australian Jewish school has been sentenced to 15 years in prison after she was convicted of sexually abusing two students. A judge order Malka Leifer to serve at least 11 years and six months of the sentence before she can be

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer The seasonal drink that made pumpkin spice a star is turning 20. And unlike the autumn days it celebrates, there seems to be no chill in customer demand. Starbucks’ Pumpkin Spice Latte goes on sale Thursday in the U.S. and Canada, as it does each year when the nights

TRABUCO CANYON, Calif. (AP) — In a story published August 24, 2023 about a shooting at a Southern California bar that left three dead and six wounded, The Associated Press erroneously reported that William Mosby was Marie Snowling’s father. Mosby is a father figure to Snowling, not her actual father, according to the Orange County

MOSCOW, Idaho. (AP) — The trial for a man accused of stabbing four University of Idaho students to death late last year will not happen as scheduled on Oct. 2. KTVB-TV reports Bryan Kohberger waived his right to a speedy trial during an appearance in Latah County Court Wednesday afternoon. His attorney, Anne Taylor, spoke

NEW YORK (AP) — NBA star Jimmy Butler has dressed just like a member of the ball crew at the U.S. Open and picked up a racket to play alongside Frances Tiafoe during a charity event that raised $320,000 for humanitarian relief in Ukraine. Butler led the Miami Heat to the NBA Finals last season

By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump skipped the debate stage typically relished by presidential candidates on Wednesday and instead appeared in an online interview peppered with his election lies, attacks on his rivals and lavish praise for the crowd of supporters he spoke to before they stormed the U.S.

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Members of the U.N. Security Council – minus China and Russia – are condemning the “unrelenting violence” and killing of civilians in Myanmar and again urging its military rulers to stop attacks, release ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi and respect human rights. Thirteen of