Month: November 2023

By DAVE CAMPBELL AP Sports Writer The Minnesota Wild have fired coach Dean Evason and assistant Bob Woods. General manager Bill Guerin announced the moves without confirming Evason’s replacement. According to multiple reports, John Hynes will be the next coach. The Wild have lost 14 of their first 19 games. Evason had the job for

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A woman who was shocked in the back with a Taser while lying on the ground in Pueblo, Colorado, last year is suing the police officer who stunned her and the city’s police chief, accusing the police department of failing to report excessive force by the officer

NEW YORK (AP) — New York cannabis regulators have approved a deal to settle lawsuits that have blocked recreational marijuana shops from opening. The state’s Cannabis Control Board approved the settlement on Monday. It still needs a judge’s approval before if can take effect. The deal would lift a court order that has blocked the

SALEM, S.C. (AP) — Authorities say an 83-year-old woman has died after she fell through rotting floorboards in a century-old South Carolina house and down a well shaft the owner didn’t know was there. Oconee County Coroner Karl Addis says it took rescuers nearly four hours Sunday to get the women’s body out of the

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press BLUFFTON, S.C. (AP) — Nikki Haley argued Monday former President Donald Trump causes too much chaos to be successful in a second White House term, reiterating her argument about the GOP front-runner at a large town hall in her home state of South Carolina. The former governor and United Nations

NEW YORK (AP) — For a year, New York’s Adult Survivors Act suspended the usual legal deadlines to give sexual assault victims one last chance to file lawsuits over misconduct that occurred years or decades ago. By the time the law expired last week, more than 3,700 legal claims had been filed, with many of

PORT WASHINGTON, Wis. (AP) — A local Wisconsin official who posted a selfie with his marked ballot on Facebook during the April 2022 election has had a felony charge against him dropped. Fifty-two-year-old Mequon-Thiensville School Board member Paul Buzzell had faced maximum penalties of 3 1/2 years behind bars and $10,000 in fines. Ozaukee County

By KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Two men who served decades in prison for separate murders in New York City have been exonerated after reinvestigations found that they had been convicted based on unreliable witness testimony. Forty-nine-year-old Jabar Walker walked free on Monday after he was cleared of the 1995 double murder

By AAMER MADHANI and DANIEL POLITI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Argentine President-elect Javier Milei is getting a meeting with a top Biden aide. National Security Council spokesman John Kirby says Milei will sit down with White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan on Tuesday in Washington. President Joe Biden will be traveling to Georgia

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Officials say a stabbing at a North Carolina high school has left one student dead and another hospitalized. News outlets reported that the stabbing happened during a Monday morning fight in the gym at Southeast Raleigh High School. Raleigh Police Chief Estella Patterson said a juvenile suspect was in custody, but

By JILL LAWLESS and NICHOLAS PAPHITIS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A diplomatic spat has erupted between Greece and Britain after the U.K. canceled a planned meeting between Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Greek premier Kyriakos Mitsotakis. Mitsotakis angrily accused Sunak of trying to avoid discussing the contested Parthenon Marbles. Mitsotakis is visiting London and

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press A federal lawsuit accuses police officers of illegally entering a Maryland apartment without a warrant, detaining roommates and unnecessarily shooting their pet dog, which was left paralyzed and ultimately euthanized. The four plaintiffs who sued Prince George’s County on Monday claim the officers panicked and unnecessarily fired their weapons at

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A proposed amended contract between Puerto Rico’s government and the operator of a coal-fired power plant accused of contaminating low-income communities has drawn scrutiny during a heated public hearing. Environmentalists and lawyers demand to see the redacted details of amendments sought by AES Puerto