Month: June 2024

By JOHN HANNA Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas legislators trying to lure the Kansas City Chiefs to their state argue that helping the Super Bowl champions build a new stadium could bring Kansas millions in income taxes from players and coaches that are currently going to Missouri. A debate over the merits of

COLONIE, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities say a small plane has crashed near Albany, New York, killing the pilot. The Federal Aviation Authority says the twin-engine Piper PA-31 crashed near the end of the runway at Albany International Airport on Monday morning. Police in the Albany suburb of Colonie say the pilot was headed to Montreal

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — After months of conjecture about the fate of Francis Ford Coppola’s self-financed epic, “Megalopolis” has finally found a home. Lionsgate will distribute “Megalopolis” in U.S. and Canadian theaters, the studio announced Monday, ending one of the biggest acquisition dramas of the year. Coppola’s $120-million Roman

By MIKE CATALINI Associated Press TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey’s attorney general has charged Democratic power broker George Norcross with racketeering and other crimes in connection with government issued tax credits. An indictment was unsealed Monday and Attorney General Matt Platkin announced the charges at a news conference in Trenton. Norcross has been an

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — Seven people have died in separate events in El Salvador that authorities attributed to heavy rains that have persisted since the weekend. In Tacuba, near the country’s border with Guatemala, five people died Monday after they were buried in landslides triggered by heavy rains. The chief of the country’s

By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A lieutenant colonel with the Army Reserves says a reservist who committed the deadliest mass shooting in Maine history had a low threat profile when he left a psychiatric hospital prior to the killings. Lt. Col. Ryan Vazquez testified Monday in front of a state commission

By ED WHITE Associated Press PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan sheriff says two of the nine people wounded in a weekend shooting at a splash pad remain hospitalized in critical condition. That includes an eight-year-old boy who authorities on Monday said has made “amazing progress” despite being shot in the head. The random attack

BERLIN (AP) — Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer has said that his conservative Austrian People’s Party would remain in the current government coalition with its Green party junior partner. That’s even though the environment minister, who is from the Green party, voted in a European Union vote on Monday in favor of the so-called Nature Restoration

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Scooter Braun, one of the most recognizable names in the music business known for representing artists like Justin Bieber and Ariana Grande, will no longer work as a music manager. On Monday, the executive and entrepreneur announced the news on his Instagram page. Instead, he

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece has denied a new report that accused its coast guard of brutally preventing migrants from reaching Greek shores, which also alleged that the practice had resulted in dozens of deaths. A BBC report claimed it had been ascertained that 43 migrants drowned — including nine who were thrown into the

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — The Biden administration’s effort to expand protections for LGBTQ+ students hit another roadblock Monday, when a federal judge in Kentucky temporarily blocked the new Title IX rule in six additional states. U.S. District Judge Danny C. Reeves referred to the regulation as “arbitrary in the truest

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A recently elected mayor has been shot and killed in southern Mexico, in the state of Guerrero.  The Guerrero state prosecutor’s office said Salvador Villalva Flores was on a bus was he was fatally shot in the head early on Monday in the town of San Pedro las Playas. That beach

NEWNAN, Ga. (AP) — Authorities say six people — including three children — have been killed in a fire that destroyed a home southwest of Atlanta and injured a half-dozen others. The Coweta County Coroner’s Office says the ages of the children killed in Monday’s blaze are 6, 12 and 13. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER and SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says a record 23 of NATO’s 32 member nations are hitting the Western military alliance’s defense spending target this year as Russia’s war in Ukraine has raised the threat of expanding conflict in Europe. Stoltenberg made the announcement Monday

By GREGORY GONDWE Associated Press BLANTYRE, Malawi (AP) — Malawi Vice President Saulos Chilima has been laid to rest in his village south of the capital following a funeral where President Lazarus Chakwera called for an independent probe into his death in a plane crash. Chilima and nine other people died in the plane crash

HASTINGS, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities say a man drowned in a lake in upstate New York after his keys fell into the water and he tried to retrieve them. The Oswego County Sheriff’s Office says 44-year-old Anthony Davis was fishing with two friends in Oneida Lake on Sunday morning when Davis’ keys fell in the

By MARY CONLON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Dr. Lisa Walling’s first house call of the day was with a particularly fluffy hospice patient — a 13-year-old Newfoundland named Rugby. Rugby happily licked a plate of peanut butter as Walling inserted needles along her back; acupuncture and a ketamine injection to help with pain

By CARLA K. JOHNSON AP Medical Writer People on Medicare who survived a drug overdose were much more likely to later receive opioid painkillers than any medication to treat addiction — and some went on to die of an overdose. That’s according to a study published Monday in JAMA Internal Medicine. Overdose deaths climbed during

By LISA RATHKE Associated Press The Vermont Legislature has enacted a law that allows for the creation of a pilot overdose prevention center in the state’s biggest city, Burlington. The Democratic-controlled Legislature on Monday overrode Republican Gov. Phil Scott’s veto to pass the measure. The law allows for the creation of a center, including a

By STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A group of Democratic members of Congress, led by Sen. Edward Markey of Massachusetts, is seeking reassurances that workers at hospitals owned by Steward Health Care will have their health care and retirement benefits protected. Steward last month said it plans to sell off all its hospitals

By ADITHI RAMAKRISHNAN AP Science Writer DALLAS (AP) — NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft is sending science data again. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory says the spacecraft’s four instruments are back in business after a computer problem in November. The team first received meaningful information from Voyager 1 in April and recently commanded it to start sending

PRAGUE (AP) — An ammunition explosion in a military training area in the Czech Republic has killed one service member and injured eight other people, including one civilian. The Defense Ministry says the accident took place Monday in Libava, east of Prague, as ammunition technicians were being trained. It says the injured were transported to

BERLIN (AP) — German investigators announced Monday that they seized cocaine worth 2.6 billion euros ($2.78 billion) from several container ships and arrested seven people in what they called the biggest ever cocaine find in the country. Prosecutors in the western city of Duesseldorf said they confiscated the 35.5 metric tons (39 U.S. tons) of

By JEROME PUGMIRE and TOM NOUVIAN Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Curious onlookers gathered on bridges as dozens of boats snaked along the Seine river in a rehearsal for the Paris Olympics’ unique opening ceremony next month. A total of 55 boats made Monday’s journey from Pont d’Austerlitz to Pont d’Iéna, a stone’s throw from

By COLLIN BINKLEY and ANNIE MA AP Education Writers WASHINGTON (AP) — The University of Michigan and the City University of New York didn’t adequately investigate complaints about antisemitic or anti-Palestinian harassment linked to campus protests over the Israel-Hamas war and other incidents. That’s according to results of U.S. Education Department investigations announced Monday. The