Month: June 2024

Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A man who opened fire at an apartment complex near Las Vegas, killing five people and injuring a 13-year-old girl, was banned from owning a firearm because of prior felony convictions, court records show. The suspect, Eric Adams, later shot and killed himself as North Las Vegas police officers

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly 200 people have been charged in a sweeping nationwide crackdown on health care fraud schemes with false claims topping $2.7 billion, the Justice Department said on Thursday. Attorney General Merrick Garland announced the charges against doctors, nurse practitioners and others across the U.S. accused of a variety of scams,

Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The bipartisan Wisconsin Elections Commission has rejected an effort to force a recall election of the state’s top Republican after determining that not enough valid signatures were collected. The vote Thursday by three Republican commissioners and one Democratic commissioner means Assembly Speaker Robin Vos will not have to stand

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans have advanced a resolution that would hold President Joe Biden’s ghostwriter in contempt of Congress for refusing to turn over records related to the special counsel investigation into Biden’s handling of classified documents. The House Judiciary Committee voted Thursday along party lines to recommend contempt charges against Mark

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Fans of Marilyn Monroe have won a battle to preserve her mark on Los Angeles and are a step closer to seeing a towering statue of the silver screen icon remain in Palm Springs. The Los Angeles home where Monroe briefly lived and died has been declared a historic cultural monument,

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A female capybara has arrived at a Florida zoo as part of a breeding program to bolster the population of the large South American rodents. Iyari, a 10-month-old capybara, went to the Palm Beach Zoo & Conservation Society in May from the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance. She’s in

Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Patricia Kobylski remembers when there were plenty of people in her eastside Detroit neighborhood. There aren’t as many anymore. On Monday, Mayor Mike Duggan has announced Kobylski’s neighborhood as one of three that will receive solar arrays on what is now acres of vacant land. The city is looking to

Associated Press DEDHAM, Mass. (AP) — Prosecutors in Massachusetts say they plan to retry Karen Read for the death of her Boston police officer boyfriend. She’s accused of striking him with her SUV and leaving him to die in a snowstorm. The judge declared a mistrial after jurors said they were at an impasse and

Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — What would be the nation’s largest export terminal for liquefied natural gas has won approval from a federal commission. Venture Global’s Calcasieu Pass 2 project was approved with little discussion by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission during a livestreamed meeting Thursday. The project still needs Department of Energy approval.

Associated Press A Michigan woman has been ordered to stand trial in a crash that killed two siblings and injured several other people who were at a boat club to celebrate a child’s birthday. Marshella Chidester was bound over Thursday to Monroe County Circuit Court on two counts of second-degree murder and other charges in

Associated Press BADINGILO and BOMA NATIONAL PARKS, South Sudan (AP) — South Sudan’s most comprehensive aerial wildlife survey found about 6 million antelope — a figure that would make it the world’s largest land mammal migration. The government and the nonprofit African Parks teamed up to carry out the survey in spring of last year.

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court did not settle the debate over whether federal law requires hospitals to stabilize pregnant patients with emergency abortions on Wednesday, despite saying Idaho hospitals can provide abortions in medical emergencies even with the state’s restrictions. The court delivered a 6-3 procedural ruling that left key questions

Associated Press FORDYCE, Ark. (AP) — An Arkansas community is trying to fill the void left by the temporary closure of its only grocery store, the site of a mass shooting that killed four. Volunteers in Fordyce have been collecting and distributing food to residents in the days after the shooting at the Mad Butcher

Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbian police have banned a festival that promotes cultural exchange with Kosovo in a sign of growing nationalism and government pressure on liberal voices in the Balkan country. A police statement cited security concerns as the reason to ban the Mirdita, dobar dan event that was due to start

LONDON (AP) — Defending Wimbledon champion Carlos Alcaraz has beaten seven-time champion Novak Djokovic in straight sets to win a second consecutive title at the All England Club. Alcaraz’s 6-2, 6-2, 7-6 (4) victory on Sunday was much easier than his five-set win against Djokovic in the 2023 final. The 21-year-old Alcaraz earned his fourth

Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — A leading international rights group says Iraqi authorities in Baghdad and the administration in the semi-autonomous northern Iraqi Kurdish region have arbitrarily detained and deported Syrian refugees home to their country. The New York-based Human Rights Watch said on Thursday that it has documented cases in which Iraqi authorities deported

Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri Gov. Mike Parson says he expects the state to put together an aid plan by the end of the year to try to keep the Kansas City Chiefs and Royals in Missouri. Parson said Thursday that Missouri’s plan likely would require legislative approval, but he doesn’t anticipate

CINCINNATI (AP) — A teenager in Ohio accused of making a hit list and planning a mass killing at a high school near Cincinnati has pleaded guilty to reduced charges of inducing panic. Prosecutors on Thursday dropped a charge against the 14-year-old of conspiracy to commit aggravated murder. He had been charged in February. Prosecutors

Associated Press A federal bankruptcy judge on Thursday stopped an effort by the parents of a boy killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting to begin collecting on some of the $50 million they won in a lawsuit against conspiracy theorist Alex Jones over his false claims that the massacre was a hoax. Lawyers

Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Fredis Beleris, an ethnic Greek politician jailed in Albania for vote-buying, says he hopes his election this month to the European Parliament will help boost the rule of law in Albania. Beleris told The Associated Press in an interview from prison that he would have preferred to serve as

Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A private school teacher who says she was fired after driving an 18-year-old student to get an abortion is suing New Hampshire’s Department of Education and officials she says falsely suggested she circumvented state law. The commissioner of education mentioned the teacher in an essay published in April, saying