Month: September 2023

By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer Aaron Rodgers and his new team delivered record viewership numbers for their season opener Monday night and the New York Jets will remain prime-time players even without their star QB, though football fans may feel differently about tuning in going forward. Rodgers’ ill-fated Jets debut — which ended after

PAWHUSKA, Okla. (AP) — The defense attorney for the BTK serial killer has insisted that his client was not involved in the 1976 disappearance of an Oklahoma teen, even as the dispute between the sheriff and prosecutor over the investigation intensifies. Defense attorney Rob Ridenour said in a statement Tuesday disputing Dennis Rader’s involvement in

By MICHAEL HILL Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York’s attorney general has released a video of an upstate deputy firing into a fleeing car and killing two teens, raising questions about whether the officer needed to use deadly force to avoid being run over. Attorney General Letitia James released the video as part

SAN QUENTIN, Calif. (AP) — A former California police officer turned serial killer who was on death row after being convicted of murdering six people in the 1980s has died of natural causes. Officials say 79-year-old Anthony Sully died Friday at a medical facility outside the San Quentin Rehabilitation Center. Sully had been housed at

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is recommending changes to a 151-year-old law that governs mining for copper, gold and other hardrock minerals on U.S.-owned lands, including making companies for the first time pay royalties on what they extract. A plan led by the Interior Department also calls for the

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Former NFL receiver Mike Williams, who was injured in a construction accident two weeks ago and later put on a ventilator, died Tuesday, his agent said. He was 36. Williams, who played for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Buffalo Bills from 2010-14, died at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Tampa, agent Hadley

By LARRY LAGE AP Sports Writer EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan State has stumbled from scandal to scandal, including the sexual abuse attacks by sports doctor Larry Nassar. After a female Michigan State graduate filed a complaint about Nassar’s abuse in 2014, a school investigation said he didn’t violate school policy and it took

By JAMES POLLARD Associated Press/Report for America COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Vaccine skeptics got a lot of airtime at a Tuesday meeting of South Carolina lawmakers considering how to best counter future pandemics. Republicans on the state panel were receptive to speakers sewing doubt about vaccine safety and efficacy, as well as distrust in the

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Democratic Gov. Tony Evers has shot down as “bogus” a surprise plan Republicans floated  that would have the Legislature approve new maps drawn by nonpartisan staff.  The Republican move comes as Wisconsin justices are considering two Democratic-backed lawsuits seeking to toss the GOP-drawn maps, first

TAMMY WEBBER and ISABELLA O’MALLEY Associated Press Scientists say the Mediterranean storm that dumped torrential rain on the Libyan coast is just the latest extreme weather event to carry some hallmarks of climate change. Storm Daniel drew enormous energy from extremely warm sea water, and a warmer atmosphere holds more water vapor that can fall

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer TORONTO (AP) — Bayard Rustin, the civil rights activist and primary architect of the 1963 March on Washington, who often worked tirelessly out of the limelight, takes center stage in the new Netflix drama “Rustin.” The film, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on Monday, stars Colman

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — A city watchdog agency is investigating after a body-worn camera captured one Seattle Police Department union leader joking with another following the death of a woman who was struck and killed by a police cruiser as she was crossing a street. Daniel Auderer, who is the vice

By ALANIS THAMES AP Sports Writer MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — HBCU college football classics have become a staple in the Black community. They are a gathering point for fellowship, as well as a means to spotlight and celebrate the rich history tied to historically Black colleges across the United States. They’re like a church

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A new Florida law restricting health care for transgender people can still be applied to adults while it is being challenged in court. Judge Robert Hinkle previously blocked the law’s enforcement on behalf of minors. He ruled Monday that adults seeking to expand his injunction haven’t proven they would be irreparably

By TARA COPP and LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. (AP) — The U.S. could have the first Ukrainian pilots trained on F-16 fighter jets before the end of the year, though it will be longer than that before they are flying combat missions, the director of the U.S. Air National Guard said

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — The teenage son of University of Iowa men’s basketball coach Fran McCaffery was found guilty of failure to yield to a pedestrian who later died from injuries suffered in the crash. A judge on Tuesday found 17-year-old Jonathan McCaffery guilty of the simple misdemeanor in the crash, which injured 45-year-old

By JOHN WAWROW AP Sports Writer A former NFL Media journalist is accusing the league of refusing to address what he calls long-standing institutional discrimination and said his contract was not renewed because he repeatedly voiced concerns regarding equity and racial injustice. In making his allegations in a discrimination and retaliation lawsuit filed Tuesday in

MOSCOW (AP) — The Russian military has announced that one of its warplanes crashed during a training mission in southern Russia without specifying the fate of its crew. The Defense Ministry says the Su-24 bomber went down Tuesday in an unpopulated area in the Volgograd region and rescue helicopters were deployed to the site. The