Month: August 2023

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press CHANTILLY, Va. (AP) — Travelers taking off and landing at Dulles International Airport outside the nation’s capital will soon see an array of 200,000 solar panels that comprise the largest renewable energy project ever built at a U.S. airport. Dominion Energy and the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority ceremonially broke ground

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Three Florida residents argue in a federal lawsuit that state agencies aren’t adequately notifying low-income and disabled people that their public health insurance is ending. The class-action lawsuit was filed Tuesday by the Florida Health Justice Project and the National Health Law Program on behalf of the three Floridians. The defendants

By The Associated Press A nightmarish summer of wildfires for Greece took its deadliest turn yet on Tuesday when firefighters found the burned bodies of 18 people near the city of Alexandroupolis. A hint of the scope of the fire can be seen in this image by Associated Press photographer Achilleas Chiras. The dead were

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — No one aboard an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 was hurt during a rough landing at a Southern California airport during Tropical Storm Hilary. Alaska Airlines says the flight experienced an issue with its landing gear late Sunday at John Wayne Airport in Orange County. A brief description of the incident

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kerry Washington and Martin Sheen, a pair of fictional former politicos, turned Hollywood’s strikes into a rousing campaign rally Tuesday with speeches celebrating unity across the industry and with labor at large. “We are here because we know that unions matter,” said Washington, who played

NEW LONDON, Conn. (AP) — Bipartisan federal legislation is being introduced that would protect U.S. Coast Guard Academy cadets who report a sexual assault from being disciplined for minor collateral misconduct, such as underage drinking. Such a change would put the Connecticut service academy in line with policies at Department of Defense military academies. House

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM, STEVE REED and TERESA M. WALKER Associated Press MOORESVILLE, N.C. (AP) — The father of Tennessee Titans cornerback Caleb Farley died overnight in an explosion that destroyed the NFL player’s North Carolina home and left another person injured, authorities said Tuesday. Robert M. Farley, 61, was found dead in the debris of

By VALERIE GONZALEZ Associated Press McALLEN, Texas (AP) — Thousands of homes and businesses in the South Texas city of Corpus Christi are without power Tuesday after the state’s first tropical storm of the hurricane season made landfall, bringing strong winds and welcome rain following months of dry weather. Tropical Storm Harold, which never reached

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio State University says its new president will be the current head of Nebraska’s university system. Walter “Ted” Carter Jr. is a veteran higher education leader with extensive military experience. He’ll start his new role on Jan. 1. Trustees voted for his appointment on Tuesday,

By REBECCA REYNOLDS Associated Press A giraffe without spots at a Tennessee zoo may be plain, but she’s definitely not ordinary. The female reticulated giraffe was born July 31 at the family-owned Brights Zoo in Limestone, a rural community in northeastern Tennessee. David Bright, one of the zoo’s owners, said the plain brown animal is

NEW YORK (AP) — IBM is selling assets of The Weather Company — including Weather.com and The Weather Channel mobile app — to private equity firm Francisco Partners. The two companies announced the sale Tuesday but did not disclose its price. IBM said it will still keep its sustainability software business and plans to still

By MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court handed civil liberties advocates a victory, ruling that state police can’t hide from the public its policy governing how it monitors social media. The win for the ACLU means state police must hand over an unredacted copy of its policy on using software

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Authorities say bullets have ripped into homes at least 96 times this year in South Carolina’s capital county. Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott says most of those shootings involved rival gangs. Over the weekend, a drive-by shooting wounded an off-duty sheriff’s deputy and his fiancee. At

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says President Joe Biden will attend next month’s Group of 20 summit in New Delhi, India. Biden’s national security adviser Jake Sullivan said that the meetings—and Biden’s talks with leaders on the sidelines of the summit—will focus on climate change, Russia’s war in Ukraine and more. The White House

NEW YORK (AP) — The NBA has fined Philadelphia 76ers guard James Harden $100,000 for public comments he made about his status with the team. Harden said last week he would not perform the services called for under his player contract unless he were traded. The league talked to Harden as part of its investigation

LAWRENCEVILLE, Ohio (AP) — Authorities say a school bus full of children overturned after a crash with a minivan in Ohio, killing one child and injuring 23 others, one seriously. Trooper Tyler Ross of the Ohio State Highway Patrol says there were 52 children from Northwestern Local Schools and a driver on the bus when

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A bus carrying Mexicans and Venezuelan migrants has crashed into a freight truck in central Mexico, killing 16 people and injuring 36. The National Immigration Institute said that 15 of the dead were Mexicans, but one was a Venezuelan citizen. Nine of the injured were Venezuelans who had appointments to apply

SENATOBIA, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi police officer who took part in the arrest and jailing of a 10-year-old child who urinated in a parking lot is “no longer employed,” and other officers will be disciplined over the incident. Senatobia Police Chief Richard Chandler announced the news Monday on Facebook. He didn’t specify whether the

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Police in Puerto Rico are investigating the deaths of 35 cats at a horse racing facility. Authorities said Tuesday that a security guard making the rounds at the Camarero Hippodrome in the northern town of Canovanas found the dead cats and contacted police. Police say a necropsy is being

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A guard was abducted by inmates at a downtown St. Louis jail, but freed hours later after a police SWAT team intervened. Officials with the St. Louis Department of Public Safety say the 70-year-old guard was abducted Tuesday by two inmates while serving breakfast. Other inmates eventually joined in, but authorities

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — On New Year’s Eve, Colombian superstar Maluma bid farewell to his musical alter ego Papi Juancho. “Fue un placer,” he wrote on Instagram. “It was a pleasure.” Then he teased a new era. Don Juan, coming 2023. Now, the wait is over. On Friday, Maluma

By The Associated Press An ambitious but failed attempt by Russia to return to the moon after nearly half a century has exposed the massive challenges faced by Moscow’s once-proud space program. The destruction of the robotic Luna-25 probe, which crashed onto the surface of the moon over the weekend, reflects the endemic problems that

By KAREN MATTHEWS and JULIE WALKER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City man who menaced Black Lives Matter protesters wearing a glove with serrated blades and then got in his SUV and tried to run them over has been convicted of nine counts of attempted murder. Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz