Month: February 2024

By DEEPTI HAJELA Associated Press The pomp, the glamour, the conflicts, the characters – when it comes to the United Kingdom’s royal family, the Americans can’t seem to get enough. That was evident this week, following the announcement of King Charles III’s treatment for cancer. While, yes, the United States got its start in 1776

ATLANTA (AP) — Former professional baseball and football player Vincent “Bo” Jackson, a running back who won the Heisman Trophy at Auburn, has won a $21 million verdict in his civil case against his niece and nephew for trying to extort him. The Feb. 2 decision included a permanent protective order barring Thomas Lee Anderson

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — Andra Day normally deals with nervousness before any big show — especially in front of her peers. But the Grammy winner eventually leans on prayer to settle her anxiety. On Sunday, Day will certainly use the same approach before she graces the Super Bowl

By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — An attorney representing passengers of an Alaska Airlines flight that lost a door plug in midair says a “whistling sound” was heard on a previous flight of the same Boeing 737 Max 9. Mark Lindquist is representing 22 passengers of Alaska Airlines flight 1282 in a

By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska would become one of the last Republican-led states to enact a so-called “stand your ground” law under a bill being considered by lawmakers. State Sen. Brian Hardin says he brought the bill Thursday at the urging of his constituents. He also wants to keep

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Donald Trump has amassed another win at a Republican caucus held in the U.S. Virgin Islands, where officials flouted several GOP party rules, including holding the contest earlier than allowed. Thursday’s caucus is the third Republican contest held this election season with delegates at

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah’s Republican governor and other state officials are calling out a conservative state school board member for insinuating in an online post that a member of a girl’s high school basketball team was transgender, when in fact she is not. The post by Natalie Cline

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The confrontation begins with police officers ordering a group of migrants to leave a bustling Times Square block. It escalates when one of those men, slowly walking away, lobs an insult in Spanish: “They look like Ugly Betty.” Seconds later, he is pushed up against a

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Defense lawyers have unsuccessfully sought a mistrial in the case against two men charged with the murder of Jam Master Jay. They say prosecutors improperly guided a witness to testify Thursday that one defendant confessed to her decades ago that he killed the Run-DMC star and

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Nevada jury has awarded about $130 million in damages in a lawsuit filed by five people who suffered liver damage after drinking bottled water marketed by a Las Vegas-based company before the product was recalled from store shelves in 2021. The Clark County District Court

LAHAINA, Hawaii (AP) — It has been six months since a wildfire leveled most of Lahaina, a centuries-old town on the Hawaiian island of Maui. Authorities say 100 people were killed and three are still missing from the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century. Thousands of residents who lost their homes in the

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A bounty of 10 African penguin chicks has hatched in just over a year at a San Francisco science museum. The California Academy of Sciences announced Tuesday that the penguins hatched from November 2022 through January of this year. Academy officials say the chicks are part of ongoing conservation efforts. African

By SUMAN NAISHADHAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A jury on Thursday in Washington, D.C. said climate scientist Michael Mann was defamed 12 years ago when a pair of conservative writers compared his depictions of global warming to a convicted child molester. The jury awarded him $1 million. Mann, a professor of climate science at

By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska state Sen. Loren Lippincott is touting a bill that would give the Nebraska State Patrol $200,000 to hire “an ethical hacker.” The hacker would spend his or her days trying to break into the state’s computer network and election equipment and software. The idea

By WALTER BERRY and JOHN ANTCZAK Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Heavy snow shut down parts of major interstates in northern Arizona on Thursday while low-lying clouds delayed dozens of flights in Phoenix, after storms earlier this week battered California and left a muddy mess. The mountainous region of northern Arizona recorded 2 feet (61

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A wayward kangaroo was corralled safely by sheriff’s deputies Thursday after it was spotted hopping around the pool area of a Florida apartment complex. The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office released video and still photos of the kangaroo, including some footage shot from a helicopter. The agency also released audio of a

TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — A federal civil-rights lawsuit says a Washington State Patrol trooper arrested a woman on suspicion of drunken driving when she was actually experiencing a life-threatening brain bleed. The Seattle Times reports the lawsuit filed in Tacoma Feb. 1 says Nicole McClure was booked into Thurston County Jail in 2022 and lay

By KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A prosecutor says a New Hampshire man brutally beat his 5-year-old daughter to death and spent months moving her body around before disposing of it “like yesterday’s trash.” But a lawyer for Adam Montgomery says he didn’t harm his daughter and the last person who saw

By JOSH FUNK Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A prosecutor says he won’t charge two off-duty police officers who shot and killed two men while working weekend security at a bar in Nebraska’s largest city.  Authorities said the two who were shot had argued with a group of people outside the Extasis Night Club

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s ruling Republicans are moving to make it harder for workers at companies that get economic incentives to join labor unions, in what could be a test of current federal law. The state Senate voted 31-23 on Thursday for a bill backed by Gov. Brian Kemp that

By JOSH BOAK and SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The longstanding concerns about President Joe Biden’s age and memory intensified on Thursday after the release of a special counsel’s report investigating his possession of classified documents. The report described the 81-year-old Democrat’s memory as “hazy,” “fuzzy,” “faulty,” “poor” and having “significant limitations.”

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — A ruling by Hawaii’s high court saying that a man can be prosecuted for carrying a gun in public without a permit uses pop culture references in an apparent rebuke of a U.S. Supreme Court decision that expanded gun rights nationwide. The state Supreme Court ruling