Month: May 2024

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The bodies of four men and two women have been found strangled and dumped in a pile in Mexico’s Pacific coast resort of Acapulco. Prosecutors in the southern state of Guerrero said Tuesday that the bodies were found late Monday with their hands tied behind their backs. The identities of the

By CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A chance for parole has been delayed for a former Los Angeles police detective serving a sentence of 27 years to life in the cold-case slaying of her ex-boyfriend’s wife in 1986. Stephanie Lazarus was convicted in 2012 of killing Sherri Rasmussen, a nurse who was

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Authorities in Belarus carried out raids and property seizures targeting more than 200 opposition activists, the latest step in the unrelenting government crackdown against dissent, coinciding with the opposition’s “day of solidarity with Belarusian political prisoners.” Authoritarian president, Alexander Lukashenko, began the clampdown in August 2020

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Fred Roos, the Oscar-winning producer of “The Godfather Part II” who helped launch the careers of numerous superstars from Jack Nicholson to Tom Cruise, has died. He was 89. His representative says Roos died at his home in Beverly Hills, California, on Saturday, just days after his and Francis

By WALTER BERRY Associated Press A former University of Arizona graduate student was convicted Tuesday of first-degree murder for fatally shooting a hydrology professor on campus, months after he was expelled. A Pima County Superior Court jury deliberated for less than three hours before reaching a verdict against Murad Dervish, 48, in the death of

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.N. World Food Program said Tuesday the new U.S. $320 million pier project for delivering aid to Gaza may fail unless Israel starts ensuring the conditions the humanitarian groups need to operate safely. The operation was halted for at least two days after

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Authorities have opened an investigation into how Matthew Perry received the supply of ketamine that killed him, police said Tuesday. Los Angeles police are working with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service with a probe into why the 54-year-old “Friends” star had so much of the

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A top ally of Pakistan’s imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan has been released from prison after nearly a year when a court granted him bail in a corruption case. That’s according to Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party. Pervez Elahi is the party’s president. He was arrested in June on charges of illegally

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Human Rights Watch says China is accelerating the forced urbanization of Tibetan villagers and herders, adding to state government and independent reports of efforts to assimilate them through control over their language and traditional Buddhist culture. The human rights group cited a trove of Chinese internal reports contradicting official pronouncements that

MORELIA, Mexico (AP) — Mexico’s often violent disputes between street performers reached a new level this week when a group of guitar-toting mariachis attacked a flame-swallower. What happened next was, perhaps, predictable. According to security camera footage obtained by The Associated Press, the mariachis in their white jackets at first seemed to be winning, punching

By The Associated Press Russia’s Defense Ministry says it has begun a round of drills involving tactical nuclear weapons. It was the first time Russia has publicly announced drills involving tactical nuclear weapons, although its strategic nuclear forces regularly hold exercises. Russian officials said the drills were a response to remarks by senior Western officials

LONDON (AP) — A prosecutor says a man accused of assisting Hong Kong authorities gather intelligence in the United Kingdom who was found dead in a park had previously attempted suicide. British police say the death of Matthew Trickett was unexplained and they are investigating. Trickett was one of three men charged with agreeing to

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a story published May 14, 2024, about an ejection seat malfunction, The Associated Press erroneously described the T-6A Texan II as a jet. It is a turboprop aircraft.

By SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Vince Gilmer, the former North Carolina doctor whose murder conviction and medical mystery captured widespread attention after being documented in a popular radio show and a book, is set to be released from a Virginia prison. Gilmer received a conditional pardon over two years ago, but

By CHRISTINE FERNANDO Associated Press Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he was open to supporting regulations on contraception and that his campaign would release a policy on the issue “very shortly,” comments that he later said were misinterpreted. The comments, made during an interview with a Pittsburgh television station, suggested that a future

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish composer Jan A.P. Kaczmarek, who won a 2005 Oscar for the movie “Finding Neverland,” has died at age 71. Kaczmarek’s death was announced by Poland’s Music Foundation. Kaczmarek had suffered from MSA, a rare degenerative neurological disorder. He authored music for movies made in Europe and Hollywood, like the 1995

By NICOLE WINFIELD and ROB GILLIES Associated PRess ROME (AP) — A retired Canadian judge says he hasn’t been able to find any reliable evidence of alleged sexual misconduct by the archbishop of Quebec. The purported victim has refused to be interviewed, and the cardinal has strongly denied the claim. Pope Francis had tasked Quebec

MONTREAL (AP) — Canadian authorities say serial killer Robert Pickton who brought his victims to his pig farm has been hospitalized and is in a life-threatening condition after an assault at a Quebec prison. The Correctional Service Canada confirmed that 74-year-old Pickton was the inmate injured in a major assault Sunday at a Quebec prison.

By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press A team of attorneys has withdrawn from representing a Utah mother accused of killing her husband with fentanyl then publishing a children’s book about loss and grief. Why Kouri Richins’ private attorneys have withdrawn from the case is unclear. They cited only an “irreconcilable and nonwaivable situation” in their request,

By JERRY HARMER Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand’s National Museum has welcomed back two ancient statues illegally trafficked from Thailand by a British collector of antiquities that were returned from the collection of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. The objects — a tall bronze figure called the Standing Shiva or Golden Boy and

BRISTOL, Conn. (AP) — ESPN will carry England’s FA Cup in the U.S. through 2028 after reaching a four-year extension with England’s Football Association. ESPN has carried the tournament since 2018. The deal includes 79 matches per season streamed exclusively on ESPN+ as well as the season-opening FA Community Shield. This season’s final will take

By MARK STEVENSON Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — It’s so hot in Mexico that howler monkeys are falling dead from the trees. At least 138 of the midsize primates, who are known for their roaring vocal calls, were found dead in the Gulf Coast state of Tabasco since May 16, according to the Biodiversity

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration says it’s releasing 1 million barrels of gasoline from a Northeast reserve established after Superstorm Sandy in a bid to lower prices at the pump this summer. The sale is from storage sites in New Jersey and Maine and will be allocated in increments