Month: October 2023

PEMBROKE PINES, Fla. (AP) — A Florida GameStop employee is facing manslaughter charges after police say he fatally shot a fleeing shoplifter. Derrick Guerrero was being held Wednesday at the Fort Lauderdale jail on $25,000 bail. Pembroke Pines police say the 33-year-old was working at a strip mall GameStop on Tuesday night when he confronted

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer says the city of Orlando plans to purchase the Pulse nightclub property where 49 people were massacred seven years ago with the intention of building a memorial for the victims. Dyer said Wednesday that a proposal to purchase the property for $2 million will be presented before

By JOHN O’CONNOR AP Political Writer SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker is taking his abortion-rights advocacy nationwide, introducing on Wednesday a political organization to fund similar efforts outside Illinois, a state that legalized abortion by statute even before the Supreme Court invalidated the right to undergo the procedure. Think Big America has

By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — When Hamas militants toting grenades appeared in her living room, Rachel Edri served them tea and Moroccan cookies until police stormed in and killed the attackers. Edri’s tale of quick-witted survival during the Israel-Hamas war has turned the 65-year old woman into an unlikely folk hero in

By SOPHIA TAREEN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago’s new police chief says the city’s use of police stations as temporary housing for thousands of migrants seeking asylum has been a “burden” on the nation’s second-largest police department. Police Superintendent Larry Snelling told The Associated Press that one of his main concerns with the housing

By MARK N. MENGONFIA Associated Press MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — Liberia’s presidential election appears headed for a run-off, with the top candidates neck and neck and the votes nearly fully counted. President George Weah, who is seeking a second term, had 43.8% of the vote Wednesday with his main challenger Joseph Boakai at 43.4%, according

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A former official for the contractor hired to build two never-completed nuclear reactors who pleaded guilty to lying to federal authorities has been sentenced to six months’ home detention. The State reports that 72-year-old Carl Churchman must wear a monitoring device, pay a $5,000 fine and serve a year on probation

By SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A lawsuit filed last month relating to Republican Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s new policies on transgender students will be dropped. That follows a move by the school board being sued to adopt guidelines consistent with the governor’s policies. Attorneys at Cooper & Kirk were representing parents

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Hundreds of protesters clashed Wednesday with Lebanese security forces in a Beirut suburb near the U.S. Embassy during demonstrations in support of both Gaza’s civilian residents and the militant group Hamas in its war with Israel. The protest in the Aukar neighborhood came as U.S. President Joe

By SIAN WATSON Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The Streets’ Mike Skinner acts as director, writer and leading man in his film project “The Darker the Shadow, the Brighter the Light.” That was out of necessity. He says he couldn’t get any money to do it and it took seven years. An album of the

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A multimillion-dollar conspiracy trial that stretched across the worlds of politics and entertainment is now touching on the tech world with arguments that a defense attorney for a Fugees rapper bungled closing arguments by using an artificial intelligence program. Prakazrel “Pras” Michel argued that the use of

NEW YORK (AP) — A right-wing social media influencer has been sentenced to seven months in federal prison for spreading falsehoods via Twitter, now known as X, in an effort to suppress Democratic turnout in the 2016 presidential election. Douglass Mackey posted under the alias Ricky Vaughn. His sentencing Wednesday in Brooklyn federal court followed

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — The search continued Wednesday for an inmate who managed to walk out of a Houston courthouse after being left unattended by deputies who were responding to a brawl in a nearby courtroom. At around 10 a.m. Tuesday, Michael Devon Combs was being detained in what is

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A former Missouri detective convicted in the 2019 death a Black man plans another appeal and is asking for bond. Eric J. DeValkenaere’s lawyer on Wednesday asked for his release pending a rehearing or appeal to the Missouri Supreme Court. The former Kansas City detective had been free on bond

By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Because of the fracture in her right leg, Karin Journo had talked herself out of going to the Tribe of Nova music festival and sold her ticket. But a week before Hamas militants turned the party into a killing ground, she bought another. The 24-year-old French-Israeli airport

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Former U.S. Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell’s path to the Democratic nomination to challenge Republican U.S. Sen. Rick Scott of Florida has become a bit clearer. Her main primary opponent dropped out of the race on Wednesday to seek a U.S. House seat. Retired Navy Commander Phil Ehr, who left the Republican Party

By MOSHE EDRI Associated Press GAN YAVNE, Israel (AP) — An Israeli family of five whose bodies were discovered in each other’s arms after being killed by Hamas militants were buried together in a funeral attended by hundreds of mourners. Family and friends bid farewell Tuesday to the Kotz family — a couple and their

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. has imposed sanctions on a group of people and firms based in Iran, China, Hong Kong and Venezuela, tied to the development of Iran’s ballistic missile and drone programs. The Wednesday penalties come as the United Nations’ restrictions on Iran missile-related activities under a Security