Month: October 2023

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A freshman football player at Rocky Mountain College was fatally shot over the weekend and police in Billings, Montana have arrested two teenagers. The Yellowstone County Coroner’s office says Chandler Wyatt Stalcup of Crystal River, Florida, was shot early Saturday near campus. KULR-TV reports he remained on life support until Monday

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD AP Political Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s recent trip to China was highlighted by a surprise meeting with leader Xi Jinping. But it might be best remembered for a video showing him steamrolling a schoolboy during a basketball game. The two-term Democrat took a detour from his

By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee and U.S. Rep. David Kustoff are praising security measures at a Memphis Jewish school where an ex-student with a gun was stopped from entering the building in July. The politicians stressed during Monday’s visit to the suburban Memphis school that strong safety

TOK, Alaska (AP) — Authorities say an Alaska State Trooper fatally shot a man who was brandishing a rifle outside a motel in the community of Tok. The state Department of Public Safety says the trooper was responding to a 911 call about a man trying to break into a motel room. The agency says

By MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Millions more dollars are flowing into Pennsylvania’s race for a state Supreme Court seat, as labor unions, trial lawyers and billionaires spend heavily. The latest reports due Friday show that spending zipped past $17 million, as Democrat Dan McCaffery, Republican Carolyn Carluccio and their allies claw

By The Associated Press American gymnastics legend Mary Lou Retton says she is “overwhelmed with all the love and support” she has received and is slowly recovering with family after being hospitalized with a rare form of pneumonia earlier this month. Retton, 55, posted a statement Monday on Instagram in her first public comment since

By AMY TEIBEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Just last month, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu predicted a new era of peace and prosperity in the Middle East, based on growing acceptance of Israel within the region. Today, with the Israel-Hamas war in its fourth week, that vision is in tatters. The mobilization of 360,000

LEXINGTON, N.C. (AP) — The wife of an Irish businessman and her father have entered pleas to voluntary manslaughter in her husband’s beating death at their North Carolina home. News outlets report that Molly Corbett pleaded no contest Monday and Thomas Martens pleaded guilty. Corbett’s husband, Jason Corbett, died at their home in a golf

ATLANTA (AP) — An Alabama man has been indicted on federal charges that he threatened violence against a Georgia prosecutor and sheriff related to an investigation into former President Donald Trump. The indictment returned Oct. 25 and unsealed Monday accuses Arthur Ray Hanson II of Huntsville of leaving threatening voicemails for Fulton County District Attorney

SHEFFIELD, England (AP) — South Yorkshire Police are investigating the death of American ice hockey player Adam Johnson after his neck was cut by a skate blade in an English game. The police have urged the public to avoid speculation about the incident. The English governing body has reacted by making all ice hockey players

By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas judge has put a new state law on medication abortions on hold and blocked the state from enforcing older abortion restrictions. The order Monday from a district judge suspended laws that have spelled out what providers must tell patients and have forced patients

By RANDALL CHASE Associated Press WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — A jury has been picked for the trial of a suspected serial killer who calls himself “the Beast.” Forty-one-year-old Keith Gibson is accused in the deaths of several people in Delaware and Pennsylvania in 2021. A jury panel of 12 was selected Monday for the trial.

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Ivanka Trump’s testimony at her father’s New York civil fraud trial is being delayed until next week so there is sufficient time for her to be questioned, a judge said Monday. Former President Donald Trump’s eldest daughter had been set to take the witness stand

By MANUEL RUEDA Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Allies of Colombian President Gustavo Petro have been defeated by wide margins in municipal and provincial elections, in what analysts say is a sign of growing discontent with the country’s first left-wing government. Candidates from the president’s Historical Pact Party failed to win mayorships in any

By MEGAN JANETSKY Associated Press ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) — Hurricane Otis shredded Acapulco, Mexico, last week and tore apart the lives of hundreds of thousands of people. It damaged nearly all of Acapulco’s homes, left bodies bobbing along the coastline and much of the city foraging for food. While authorities have been hard at work

By DANIEL POLITI and ALMUDENA CALATRAVA Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Long lines have formed at gas stations throughout Argentina as surging demand outstrips supply, becoming a campaign issue just weeks ahead of the second round of the country’s presidential race. Economy Minister Sergio Massa, who is one of the two remaining presidential

By MEGAN JANETSKY Associated Press ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) — Estela Sandoval Díaz was huddled in her tiny concrete bathroom, sure these were the final moments of her life, when Hurricane Otis ripped off her tin roof. With it went clothing, savings, furniture, photos and 33 years of the life Sandoval built piece-by-piece on the forgotten

By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — From auto production lines to Hollywood, the power of labor unions is back in the national spotlight. But despite historic strikes and record contract negotiations seen this year, there’s still a lot stacked against organizing today. Rates of union membership have been falling for decades.

By JACQUES BILLEAUD Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — A federal appeals court has agreed to give abortion rights advocates a chance to revive their bid to block an Arizona law that makes it a felony for doctors to perform abortions on patients seeking the procedure solely because of a fetal genetic abnormality, such as Down

By VALERIE GONZALEZ Associated Press McALLEN, Texas (AP) — A federal judge Monday ordered Border Patrol agents not to interfere with razor wire that Texas installed at a busy crossing for migrants on the U.S.-Mexico border, ruling that the barrier can only be cut to provide aid during medical emergencies. The temporary restraining order signed