Month: February 2024

LANCASTER, Calif. (AP) — Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies say they shot and killed a man armed with two machetes after he charged at them inside a supermarket in Lancaster. The man was pronounced dead at a hospital after the shooting Tuesday morning. Deputies were sent to the Albertsons supermarket by reports that an armed

By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A man accused of murdering two Alaska Native women recorded images of both of his victims, and the break in the case came when a third woman stole the man’s phone and provided police with photos and videos of one of the killings. That’s what prosecutor

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer General Motors’ troubled robotaxi service Cruise has endured a public lashing from a California judge. The judge compared the company to the devious TV character Eddie Haskell for its behavior following a ghastly collision that wrecked its ambitious expansion plans. The withering comparison to the two-faced Haskell from the

By STEVE PEOPLES and BRIAN SLODYSKO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel has discussed the possibility of stepping down during a private meeting with former President Donald Trump. But both have agreed to delay a decision until after South Carolina’s Feb. 24 primary. That’s according to two people familiar

By TOM ODULA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Marauding hyenas have killed a man and wounded two people near a university outside the Kenyan capital, prompting hundreds of students from the school to block streets to protest what they called a lack of security. One of the wounded was a student at Kenya’s Multimedia

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals has honored Annette Bening as its 2024 Woman of the Year. Bening recently received an Oscar nomination for Best Actress for playing the prickly long-distance swimmer Diana Nyad in the movie “Nyad.” It’s her fifth Oscar nod. The Pudding is the

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia senators have passed a bill to remove barcodes from ballots. The measure would mandate that printed text on ballots must be used to count votes, rather than a QR code. The bill would take effect July 1, despite Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger’s position that it’s

By SAMANTHA HENDRICKSON Associated Press/Report For America COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A former Ohio sheriff’s deputy testified in a murder trial Tuesday that the man he killed lifted a gun to shoot him, despite prosecutors saying the man’s gun was found on his kitchen floor with the safety mechanism engaged. Jason Meade took to the

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press Rap legend Jam Master Jay lay, mortally wounded, on his studio floor. One of his aides was in pain from a gunshot to the leg. Another was crying and screaming on the floor. Dashing in from an adjoining room, Randy Allen took in the bloody scene, grabbed a gun and

By AIDA SULTANOVA Associated Press BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) — Preliminary results of Azerbaijan’s presidential elections show incumbent Ilham Aliyev headed to a resounding victory, as expected. The head of the Central Election Commission said most votes from Wednesday’s election had been counted and Aliyev was winning the race with 92.05%. None of his challengers had

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Nearly 500 mudslides. Half of downtown Los Angeles’ yearly rainfall in just three days. A wind gust of 102 mph (164 kph). Those are some of the big numbers from the slow-moving atmospheric river that has been battering California for days. The storm continued to unleash rainfall across Southern California on

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A bill to provide Israel with more military aid went down to defeat Tuesday in the House, spoiling Speaker Mike Johnson’s attempt to separate Israel from other national security priorities, including helping Ukraine defend itself from Russia’s military invasion and deterring crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border. The

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press A witness has testified that the estranged husband of Connecticut mother-of-five Jennifer Dulos pressured him to get rid of items that would later become evidence in the investigation of her 2019 killing. Pawel Gumienny took the stand Tuesday in the trial of Michelle Troconis in Stamford, Connecticut. Troconis denies murder

By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Israeli forces have arrested a 46-year-old Palestinian-American woman after breaking into her home and pulling her from her bed in the occupied West Bank, her family said Tuesday, saying they had no idea where she was nearly two days after she was detained. News of

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A teachers’ union political group has filed a second legal effort to block taxpayer funds from going to a baseball stadium to relocate the Oakland Athletics to the Las Vegas Strip. The group called Strong Public Schools Nevada is backed by the Nevada State Education Association.

By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press Nebraska’s Education Committee is considering a bill that would allow teachers and other staff in schools to be armed in the hopes of deterring school shootings. State Sen. Tom Brewer’s bill is made up of three parts. It would give local school boards the ability to allow off-duty law

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The mother of a 16-year-old who died in a workplace accident at a Mississippi poultry factory is suing the companies that hired and employed him. She accuses them of failing to follow safety standards that could have prevented her son Duvan’s death. Attorneys for

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Iraq’s government is focused on avoiding a domestic or regional spillover of the Israel-Hamas war but continuing attacks on the country threaten its hard-won stability, the U.N. envoy for Iraq is warning. With war raging in Gaza, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert told the U.N. Security Council Tuesday

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A couple of major earthquakes in Oklahoma in recent weeks have raised concerns after years of a declining number of temblors. A 5.1-magnitude quake last week was one of the strongest in years. Most scientists agree the quakes in Oklahoma are related to the high-pressure injection

By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer ESPN, Fox and Warner Bros. Discovery announced plans on Tuesday to launch a sports streaming platform in the fall that will include offerings from at least 15 networks and all four major professional sports leagues. A one-stop app to view most sports should be a welcome sight for fans,

GREENBELT, Md. (AP) — A former top prosecutor for the city of Baltimore has been convicted on one count of mortgage fraud for lying on a loan application. The federal jury announced a split verdict Tuesday evening. Marilyn Mosby was found not guilty on a second mortgage fraud charge. She was previously convicted on two

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Portland Audubon has changed its name to the “Bird Alliance of Oregon,” in the latest example of a local chapter to do so because of John James Audubon’s views as a slave owner. Oregon Public Broadcasting reports the organization shared its decision Tuesday after soliciting community feedback on a new name.

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Red Solo cups – a staple of barbecues and beer pong – are usually synonymous with good times. But on Tuesday, as word of country singer Toby Keith’s death spread, many were raising their red Solos in sad tribute to the singer, who immortalized the humble plastic cups in

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — An op-ed piece that dubbed a Detroit suburb “America’s jihad capital” is being condemned by two Democratic state lawmakers, who described it as “racist and Islamophobic” in a resolution presented Tuesday. Introduced by state Rep. Alabas Farhat and House Floor Leader Abraham Aiyash, the measure calls