Month: February 2024

By SAMANTHA HENDRICKSON Associated Press/Report For America COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A former Ohio sheriff’s deputy testified in a murder trial…

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…

By AIDA SULTANOVA Associated Press BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) — Preliminary results of Azerbaijan’s presidential elections show incumbent Ilham Aliyev…

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).…

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A bill to provide Israel with more military aid went down to defeat Tuesday in the House,…

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press A witness has testified that the estranged husband of Connecticut mother-of-five Jennifer Dulos pressured him to get…

By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Israeli forces have arrested a 46-year-old Palestinian-American woman after breaking…

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A teachers’ union political group has filed a second legal effort to block taxpayer funds from…

By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press Nebraska’s Education Committee is considering a bill that would allow teachers and other staff in schools…

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…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Iraq’s government is focused on avoiding a domestic or regional spillover of the…

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A couple of major earthquakes in Oklahoma in recent weeks have raised concerns after years of…

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…

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…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Portland Audubon has changed its name to the “Bird Alliance of Oregon,” in the latest example of a local chapter to…

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…

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — An op-ed piece that dubbed a Detroit suburb “America’s jihad capital” is being…

By JOHN ANTCZAK Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — When rainstorms like this week’s powerful atmospheric river hit California, the earth begins…

MILWAUKEE (AP) — A judge has waived to adult court a 16-year-old boy charged in a shooting after a Juneteenth celebration last year that left six…

By JOHN RABY Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A Virginia bank that is seeking to recover more longstanding unpaid business loans to the…

By TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon believes it has identified the mechanical failure in an Osprey aircraft that led to a…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Actor Gina Carano on Tuesday sued Lucasfilm and its parent The Walt Disney Co. over her…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Fifteen years ago, bourbon barons poured whiskey out on the Kentucky Capitol steps to…