Month: October 2023

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The eighth installment of the “Mission: Impossible” franchise has been postponed a year, signaling a new wave of release schedule juggling for Hollywood studios as the actors strike surpasses three months of work stoppage. Paramount Pictures on Monday shifted the release date of “Dead Reckoning

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A wave of violence killed least 19 people in Mexico’s southwestern states of Guerrero and Michoacan on Monday. Authorities say a local security secretary and 12 police officers were shot dead in a town on Guerrero’s Pacific coast, while a community leader was slain in the state capital. Officials in neighboring

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A police spokesperson says an off-duty St. Louis County officer accused of shooting a gun at a school trick-or-treating event no longer is employed at the department. The St. Louis County Police Department on Monday confirmed Matthew McCulloch is no longer at the agency. McCulloch has been charged with child endangerment,

LONDON (AP) — Photos of iconic celebrities and historic moments from the collection of Elton John and David Furnish are set to go on display in London next year. The Victoria and Albert Museum said Tuesday that the “Fragile Beauty” exhibition will include 300 images by more than 140 photographers. The exhibition will include portraits

AKRON, Ohio (AP) — Officials say eight Ohio police officers who fired scores of shots that killed Jayland Walker after a car and foot chase last year are back on active duty. Akron Capt. Michael Miller cited a state investigation and an Ohio grand jury’s decision against indicting any officers in the 25-year-old Black man’s

By JEAN-YVES KAMALE and JUSTIN KABUMBA Associated Press KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Local officials say at least 16 people were killed Monday when a boat caught fire on the Congo River. The boat was carrying fuel and was on its way to the city of Mbandaka from the eastern part of the capital, Kinshasa. At

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A federal appeals panel wants to know why lawyers for former President Donald Trump didn’t try years ago to deflect a defamation lawsuit from a woman who accused him of sexual assault with a presidential immunity claim. A three-judge panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court

THOMASTON, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia man is charged with murder after police said he killed his girlfriend, stuffed her body in a suitcase and stashed it in the closet of the apartment they shared. Freddrick Durham of Thomaston is being held without bail in the Upson County jail. Durham appeared before a judge on

By MICHAEL HILL Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who resigned after multiple women accused him of sexual harassment, discussed running to reclaim the office in 2022 but decided against it because he didn’t want to subject his daughters to another campaign, one of his top aides says in

By TRISHA AHMED Associated Press/Report for America MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A former Minneapolis police officer has been sentenced to 15 days in the county workhouse after pleading guilty to assaulting a Black man during the unrest that followed the murder of George Floyd by another officer in 2020. Thirty-five-year-old Justin Stetson received two years of

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Autopsies have confirmed that five people who died when a chemical tanker overturned in central Illinois last month died from exposure to caustic anhydrous ammonia fumes. Effingham County Coroner Kim Rhodes said Monday the official results confirmed preliminary findings from the Sept. 29 crash involving a tanker carrying the agricultural fertilizer

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Federal prosecutors have expanded investigations into Tesla beyond the electric vehicle maker’s partially automated driving systems, and they have issued subpoenas for information instead of simply requesting it, the company disclosed Monday. In a quarterly report filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Tesla said the

By JOHN MARSHALL AP Sports Writer Reigning AP national player of the year Zach Edey is a unanimous selection on The Associated Press preseason All-America team in college basketball. The big man tested the NBA waters before deciding to play one more season for No. 3 Purdue. Edey is joined by Marquette guard Tyler Kolek,

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A California business owner will spend a year in federal prison for sending more than 200 vile online messages to a father whose daughter was killed in a Florida school massacre. James Catalano of Fresno must also serve three years probation and undergo mental health

By ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Investigators say they have identified several people of interest in the fatal stabbing of a Detroit synagogue president. Authorities found 40-year-old Samantha Woll’s body outside her home early Saturday. Detroit Police Chief James E. White said during a news conference Monday that Woll attended a wedding Friday

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A search warrant released Monday says investigators found methamphetamine while searching the home of a Minnesota man who’s now charged with attempted murder in the shootings of five drug task force officers. Documents released earlier shows that investigators suspected 64-year-old Karl Thomas Holmberg and his wife of

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press MISSION, Kan. (AP) — A mother is suing a shuttered Christian boarding school in Missouri, blaming her son’s death on a gang rape and other abuse he endured there. Agape Boarding School has been subjected to a wave of litigation as a series of abuse allegations emerged, but the case

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A former National Security Agency employee from Colorado pleaded guilty Monday to trying to sell classified national security information to Russia. Federal prosecutors agreed to not ask for more than about 22 years in prison for Jareh Sebastian Dalke when he is sentenced in April if he

By ARON HELLER Associated Press KFAR SABA, Israel (AP) — Ohad Munder-Zichri’s 9th birthday is on Monday. But instead of celebrating at home with his family and friends, he is believed to be somewhere in Gaza, one of more than 200 hostages held by Hamas since the militants’ devastating Oct. 7 incursion. The fourth-grader from

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A Montana man has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for making repeated racist phone calls to a Billings church. Joshua Leon Hiestand was sentenced Friday for making harassing telephone calls. Prosecutors say Hiestand went to a Presbyterian church in November 2020 seeking help and that a 72-year-old Black