Month: January 2024

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN and KEN RITTER Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A federal judge is being asked to issue a stop-work order on a $10 billion transmission line being built through a remote southeastern Arizona valley to carry wind-powered electricity to customers as far away as California. A 32-page lawsuit filed on Jan.

By DYLAN LOVAN Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The Kentucky gun shop that sold the AR-15 used to kill five people at a Louisville bank is facing a lawsuit from survivors and families of the victims. The civil suit filed Monday in Louisville alleges River City Firearms should have been more suspicious of the

By KATHLEEN FOODY and TODD RICHMOND Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — A man suspected of shooting and killing eight people in suburban Chicago fatally shot himself after a confrontation with law enforcement officials in Texas, police said. Police in Joliet, Illinois, said on Facebook that at about 8:30 p.m. Monday 23-year-old Romeo Nance was located

By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The speaker of the Nebraska Legislature has vowed to use his discretion to avoid a repeat of the non-stop filibusters that disrupted the last legislative session. Speaker of the Legislature Sen. John Arch said Monday that if a filibuster is obstructive, he will end the

Criminal gangs are trying to extort ‘protection’ payments from taxi drivers in Mexico’s Caribbean coast resort of Cancun. It is a problem that has long beset the Pacific coast resort of Acapulco, where killings of drivers and torching of taxis has become commonplace. On Monday, prosecutors detained five men who had been demanding about $12

PORT CLINTON, Ohio (AP) — Coast Guard officials say 20 people have been rescued from an ice floe in Lake Erie. The Coast Guard’s Ninth District Great Lakes station said it received a report about 10:20 a.m. Monday that the people were stranded on a mile-long floe about a half-mile off Catawba Island State Park

By RANDALL CHASE AP Business Writer DOVER, Del. (AP) — A federal appeals court has ordered the appointment of an independent examiner in the bankruptcy case of FTX . The ruling comes amid concerns about widespread fraud preceding the collapse of the multibillion-dollar cryptocurrency exchange. A three-judge panel in Philadelphia issued the ruling Friday in

By SUDHIN THANAWALA and JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Republicans in the Georgia House of Representatives have advanced a bill that would activate a new commission to discipline and remove state prosecutors. Some Georgia Republicans want the new commission to discipline Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis for winning indictments of former President

By DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Legislators in Jackson County, Missouri, voted Monday to override the veto of Jackson County Executive Frank White and place the renewal of a sales tax on the April ballot to help fund a new ballpark for the Kansas City Royals. The tax of three-eighth

By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate negotiators are laboring to win support for a deal on border policy as they enter what could be a pivotal stretch for a painstakingly negotiated compromise that could open the door for Republican support to replenish U.S. wartime aid for Ukraine. A core group of negotiators

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s is demanding an investigation into how U.S. military-grade weapons are increasingly being found in the hands of Mexican drug cartels. Mexico’s army is finding weapons like belt-fed machine guns, rocket launchers and grenades that are not sold for civilian use in the United States. Mexico’s top diplomat says the defense

By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press Since the U.S. Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade ruling on Jan. 22, 1973, the time around the anniversary has always been marked by rallies, protests and political pledges. This time, after the 2022 ruling that overturned the nationwide right to abortion that Roe provided, there’s a flurry of activity as

PLACERVILLE, Calif. (AP) — The family of a man who died after being held in a California jail alleges in a lawsuit that he contracted a preventable viral infection there when its medical staff denied him critical HIV medication for two months. The court filing says that when Nicholas Overfield was arrested in February 2022,

By LOLITA C. BALDOR and TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. and British militaries bombed multiple targets in eight locations used by the Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen on Monday night, the second time the two allies have conducted coordinated retaliatory strikes on an array of the rebels’ missile-launching capabilities. According to officials,

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Russia’s foreign minister has clashed with the United States and Ukraine’s supporters at a U.N. meeting where Moscow ruled out any peace plan backed by Kyiv and the West, and China warned that further global chaos could impact the slowing global economy. Sergey Lavrov, Russia’s

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Police in Cyprus are making a renewed bid to clamp down on violence at soccer games. It says fan security screening will be increased at stadium entrances and team fan clubs shuttered if deemed necessary. The police also will call for matches to either be canceled or halted if safety is

FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — Police say a man who fled the country after he was charged with the slaying of his wife more than 30 years ago in northern Virginia has been returned to the U.S. to face murder charges. Fairfax County Police say Jose Lazaro Cruz was charged with the fatal stabbing of his

By KEN MORITSUGU and HAN NG GUAN Associated Press UCHTURPAN, China (AP) — Officials say a magnitude 7.1 earthquake in a remote part of China’s western Xinjiang region has killed at least three people and caused extensive damage in freezing weather. The officials suggest that the area’s sparse population contributed to the “very strong” quake’s

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Norman Jewison, the acclaimed and versatile Canadian-born director whose Hollywood films ranged from Doris Day comedies and “Moonstruck” to such social dramas as the Oscar-winning “In the Heat of the Night,” has died at age 97. Jewison, a three-time Oscar nominee who in 1999 received

CAGLIARI, Sardinia (AP) — Gigi Riva, the all-time leading goalscorer for Italy men’s national team who was known as the “Rombo di Tuono” (Rumble of Thunder), has died. He was 79. The Italian soccer federation confirmed Riva died on Monday as tributes started flooding in for the player, who earned his nickname because of the

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press A former U.S. Army soldier who was convicted of manslaughter for fatally shooting a handcuffed cow herder in Iraq has been arrested on charges that he attacked police officers with a baton during the U.S. Capitol riot three years ago. The FBI says 40-year-old Edward Richmond Jr. was wearing a

By DENIS POROY and CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — Flash floods inundated homes and overturned cars in San Diego on Monday as torrential rain swept through a large swath of the U.S., toppling trees and overflowing streets across California. Early morning flooding hit the town of Guerneville, north of San Francisco, where

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a story published Jan. 22, 2024, about the deaths of two Navy SEALs, The Associated Press, following the accounts of military officials, erroneously reported the sequence of events leading to the deaths. The military officials now say their preliminary findings indicate that Navy Special Warfare Operator 1st Class Christopher J. Chambers