Month: January 2024

NEW YORK (AP) — The woman who was pinned under a food truck when a driver fleeing police plowed into pedestrians in midtown Manhattan has been identified as an actor who has appeared in films such as “Black Panther” and “The Color Purple.” Actor and stunt performer Carrie Bernans’ mother posted on Instagram that Bernans

NORTHFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — Four people from an Arkansas family have been publicly identified as the victims of a fatal house explosion in Michigan over the weekend. Authorities say the explosion Saturday was likely caused by flammable fuel in the air and not a result of foul play. The dead were identified as Hope

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley are set to appear at next week’s Republican presidential debate on CNN, while former President Donald Trump participates in a Fox News town hall at the same time. Both events will be held at

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The bloom is off the final rose for “Bachelorette” star Rachel Lindsay and husband Bryan Abasolo, who found love on the reality dating show. Court records show that Abasolo filed to end their marriage Tuesday. He cited irreconcilable differences for the breakup and his filing in Los Angeles Superior Court says

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli prime minister’s office says Zvi Zamir, a former director of the Mossad spy service who warned that Israel was about to be attacked on the eve of the 1973 Mideast war, has died. He was 98. Zamir led the Mossad from 1968-1974 during a turbulent period that included a number

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Officials with New Mexico’s largest electric utility said Tuesday that a proposed multibillion-dollar merger with a U.S. subsidiary of global energy giant Iberdrola has been scuttled. Under the proposal, Connecticut-based Avangrid would have acquired PNM Resources and its two utilities — Public Service Co. of New Mexico and Texas New Mexico

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina’s election board has finalized the candidates for the state’s March 5 presidential primaries. The unanimous decision Tuesday by the State Board of Elections means President Joe Biden is the lone Democrat for the job on the ballots and Republican Donald Trump among the

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — An appeals court says Michael Cohen can’t hold ex-president Donald Trump, his former boss, liable because he was jailed for what he claimed was retaliation for writing a tell-all memoir. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday rejected Cohen’s attempt to revive a lawsuit

NEW YORK (AP) — Officials say a 1.7 magnitude earthquake that hit New York City may have caused a series of small explosions on an island between Manhattan and Queens. he U.S. Geological Survey reported that a 1.7 quake occurred at 5:45 a.m. Tuesday near the Astoria section of Queens. There were no reports of

By TOM WITHERS AP Sports Writer CLEVELAND (AP) — Frank Ryan wasn’t your average NFL quarterback. His arm helped make the Cleveland Browns champions. His intellect earned him wider acclaim off the field. Ryan, who led the the Browns to their last NFL title in 1964 while spending his offseasons getting a doctorate diploma in

GARY, Ind. (AP) — Police say a woman who was trapped in a car that crashed early on New Years Day was rescued after a passerby directed officers to the crash scene along a little-used northwest Indiana road. Police and emergency responders spent two hours searching unsuccessfully for the car after a woman called 911

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A man has been found dead at Salt Lake City International Airport after police say he breached an emergency exit door and climbed inside a jet engine. Officers found 30-year-old Kyler Efinger unconscious inside an engine mounted to the wing of a commercial aircraft loaded with passengers on Monday night.

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has derided South Korea’s conservative president for being “foolishly brave,” but called his liberal predecessor “very smart.” Kim Yo Jong’s statements are likely aimed at trying to stoke a domestic divide in South Korea. She

By LESLIE AMBRIZ Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — J.A. Bayona’s “Society of the Snow” provides a fresh look at the 1972 Andes plane crash, a tragic tale that’s been told many times. The film is based on journalist Pablo Vierci’s book of the same title on the Uruguayan Air Force plane disaster. The Old

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A small daily newspaper in the U.S. Virgin Islands whose owner credited past generations of literate slaves for its survival is closing after 180 years in print. The St. Croix Avis published its first edition in 1844. The owner says the newspaper can no longer compete with social media

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — A judge has ruled that a former county clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples in Kentucky must pay up.  Kim Davis must pay a total of $260,104 in fees and expenses to attorneys who represented one couple. That’s in addition to $100,000 in damages a jury says

By OMAR FARUK Associated Press MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Somalia’s president has rejected an agreement signed between Ethiopia and the breakaway region of Somaliland to give landlocked Ethiopia access to its coast. President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud asserts that the agreement is a violation of international law. The deal would allow Ethiopia to lease a 20-kilometer

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI and COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A man leaving the scene of a car wreck Tuesday shot his way into the Colorado Supreme Court building and inflicted “extensive damage” to the building before being arrested by police, authorities said, adding the incident seems unrelated to the court’s recent ruling banning

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — An explosion in Beirut on Tuesday killed Saleh Arouri, a top official with the Palestinian militant group Hamas and three others, officials with Hamas and the Lebanese group Hezbollah said. Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency said the blast killed four people and was carried out by an

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI and DAVID SHARP Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday appealed a ruling by Maine’s secretary of state barring him from the state’s primary ballot over his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. Trump, the early front-runner for the 2024 Republican presidential

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — Police say a man who died after crashing an SUV loaded with gas cans outside an upstate New York concert venue appeared to have been aiming at a pedestrian crossing. But investigators have found no evidence that the crash that killed two ride-share passengers early on New Year’s Day was terror-related.