Year: 2023

By BETH HARRIS AP Racing Writer Hall of Fame jockey Bobby Ussery has died. He was 88. Ussery won the 1967 Kentucky Derby and then crossed the finish…

NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon is cutting hundreds of jobs in the unit that handles its popular voice assistant Alexa as it plows more resources into…

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Associates and children of a top leader of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints remembered him at a funeral Friday…

BALTIMORE (AP) — The Federal Aviation Administration says it will investigate after a drone briefly delayed the Ravens-Bengals game in Baltimore.…

DETROIT (AP) — Unions and Detroit’s three casinos have announced a tentative five-year contract that could end a weekslong strike. A labor…

CHICAGO (AP) — The Chicago Police Board has voted to fire an officer accused of dragging a Black woman out of a car by her hair during unrest at a…

By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press LE PECQ, France (AP) — Organizers of next year’s Paris Olympics are scaling back the metal tower they plan to…

By ISABELLA VOLMERT Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A federal judge has heard arguments in a lawsuit filed by a group of Indiana residents…

By MICHAEL RUBINKAM Associated Press READING, Pa. (AP) — A judge has rejected a plea agreement for a Pennsylvania woman charged with killing her…

By JAMES POLLARD Associated Press/Report for America BEAUFORT, S.C. (AP) — Alex Murdaugh has pleaded guilty to stealing millions of dollars from…

PHOENIX (AP) — Police in Arizona have determined that decomposed remains found in August 1992 in a remote desert area outside Phoenix were those of…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Appointees of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis are seeking communications between Disney and local…

NEW YORK (AP) — George “Funky” Brown, the co-founder and longtime drummer of Kool & The Gang who helped write such hits as “Too Hot,”…

By MARK M. MENGONFIA Associated Press MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — Liberian President George Weah has conceded defeat after nearly complete provisional…

SALEM, Ind. (AP) — A Louisiana woman accused of involvement in the death of a 5-year-old Atlanta boy whose body was found in a suitcase in Indiana…

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — At the inaugural Formula One Las Vegas Grand Prix, music and entertainment has taken a front…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey is moving forward with its offshore wind industry, despite the loss of two…

By BABACAR DIONE Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Senegal’s highest court has effectively barred detained opposition leader Ousmane Sonko…

ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (AP) — A man has been found guilty in the death of a woman whose remains were found inside a duffel bag along a rural road in…

By RIO YAMAT Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Four of the eight Las Vegas high school students accused of beating their schoolmate to death in a…

By TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer A New York City woman who died Sunday from cancer has raised enough money to erase millions of dollars in medical debt…

MENTOR, Ohio (AP) — Authorities say a man facing eviction from a mobile home park in Ohio fatally shot the site’s property manager and two other…

NEW YORK (AP) — Charges have been dropped against a New York City lawmaker who brought a gun to a protest because her gun was apparently…