Month: January 2024

By JEFF AMY Associated Press Another sports gambling bill is moving forward in Georgia. Supporters say they can legally set up betting under the Georgia Lottery Corporation without putting it to a statewide vote through a constitutional amendment. The Senate Economic Development and Tourism Committee voted 8-2 Tuesday to advance the measure to create 16

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Two current and two former Massachusetts State Police troopers were among six people charged Tuesday in a scheme to allegedly take bribes including a new snowblower and driveway in exchange for giving passing scores on commercial driving tests, the U.S. attorney’s office said. The troopers are accused

By SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — France’s new prime minister is vowing to boost employment, restore authority in schools and support workers including farmers who have been protesting for days across the country over their eroding incomes. Gabriel Attal, 34, gave his policy address to French lawmakers three weeks after he was appointed.

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A military veteran who shot and killed a handcuffed civilian in Iraq nearly 20 years ago has been ordered jailed on charges that he used a metal baton to assault police officers during the U.S. Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021. Chief Judge James Boasberg ruled Tuesday

By AAMER MADHANI and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Tuesday indicated he had decided how to respond after the killing of three American service members Sunday in a drone attack in Jordan that his administration has pinned on Iran-backed militia groups, saying he does not want to expand the

By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press Federal authorities say a rare whale found dead off Massachusetts shows potential evidence of injury from entanglement in fishing gear, which is one of the most pressing threats to the species. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said it was notified about the dead female North Atlantic right whale on

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency will assign artists to treasured bodies of water in the United States under a new program announced Tuesday at a White House-sponsored conference on exploring ways to use the arts and humanities as another instrument for problem-solving. Leaders from government, the arts, academia

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia police say two officers had their weapons holstered before a scuffle with a man inside a corner deli when one of the officers was shot by a suspect who was then fatally shot by the wounded officer’s partner. The department on Tuesday is promising full “transparency” about the Friday night encounter

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Democratic Gov. Tony Evers has vetoed a redistricting proposal that the Republican-controlled Legislature passed last week in a last-ditch effort to avert the drawing of legislative boundaries by the state Supreme Court. Tuesday’s veto came a day after five of Wisconsin’s Republican members of Congress

LA CROSSE, Wis. (AP) — A man charged in the fatal 2021 shootings of three men whose bodies were found outside a Wisconsin quarry has been sentenced to life in prison. A La Crosse County judge sentenced 46-year-old Khamthaneth Rattanasack on Monday to a life sentence specifying that the Wausau man cannot seek early release

BERLIN, Germany (AP) — The foreign minister in Poland’s new pro-European Union government says he would like Germany’s leaders to think in a “creative” way about compensating Poland for huge losses it suffered at German hands during World War II. The request was greatly toned down from that of Poland’s previous right-wing government, which had

By ADRIAN SAINZ, JONATHAN MATTISE and TRAVIS LOLLER Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — The city of Memphis Tennessee has released about 21 more hours of video and audio in the case of five former police officers charged with the violent beating and death of Tyre Nichols. The recordings were released Tuesday based on a

By TERRY TANG and LINLEY SANDERS Associated Press A majority of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the United States call their personal financial situation good. But, recent polling shows the outlook isn’t quite as sunny when it comes to the nation’s economy, rising household expenses and unexpected medical costs. Those are the findings of

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Four Mexican tourists have died after a boat carrying 19 people capsized or swamped between Cancun and Isla Mujeres. Authorities said Tuesday that the captain of the boat had been detained. Investigators in the Caribbean coast state of Quintana Roo are looking into whether the boat had been overcrowded, or if

By FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — A Zimbabwe opposition figure who spent nearly two years in pretrial detention is set be freed after a magistrate sentenced him to a suspended prison sentence for inciting violence. Job Sikhala is seen by many as the face of resistance to Zimbabwe’s ruling ZANU-PF party and

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — With four young children and a fifth on the way, Kristina Stadelman was ecstatic after qualifying for a $50,000 bonus for taking a hard-to-fill job as a special education teacher in Oklahoma. She used the money to finish home improvements and buy a new car for

By JIM VERTUNO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Federal investigators say a local want ad for a yoga instructor in Costa Rica helped them capture the woman who killed rising pro cyclist Anna Moriah Wilson in 2022. Kaitlin Armstrong was convicted and sentenced to prison for 90 years in November for gunning down Wilson

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The National Science Foundation has given a consortium of Great Lakes-area universities and tech companies $15 million to develop ways to extract harmful substances from wastewater. The foundation announced Monday that it has named the Great Lakes ReNEW group as one of 10 regional innovation engines across the country. Each will

ISTANBUL (AP) — The Turkish Parliament has stripped an imprisoned opposition lawmaker of his parliamentary status, defying a ruling made by the country’s top court in September. After months of legal and political turmoil that saw two of the highest courts in Turkey clash, the decision by the Court of Appeals to unseat Can Atalay,

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — The Georgia Ports Authority says it handled a record number of automobiles on its docks last year. The state agency reported Tuesday that more than 775,000 autos and heavy machinery units moved through the Port of Brunswick in the 2023 calendar year. That is an increase

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A collision between a passenger bus and a freight truck on a highway in northern Mexico has left at least 19 people dead and 18 injured. The accident occurred Tuesday on a highway in the Pacific coast state of Sinaloa. The director of the state civil defense office said the crash

By CHRISTINA LARSON AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Like a moth to flame, many scientists and poets have long assumed that flying insects were simply, inexorably drawn to bright lights. But that’s not exactly what’s going on, a new study suggests. Rather than being attracted to light, researchers believe that artificial lights at night

By LORNE COOK and JARI TANNER Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Parliament has opened an investigation into news reports that a Latvian member of the assembly, Tatjana Ždanoka, has been working as a Russian agent for several years. In a statement, the office of the president of the parliament, Roberta Metsola, says she