Month: June 2024

By TERESA CRAWFORD Associated Press DIXON, Ill. (AP) — Authorities say three sheriff’s deputies have been shot while responding to a northern Illinois home. Ogle County Sheriff Brian VanVickle said at a Wednesday news conference that the deputies were shot while responding to a report that someone inside the home was threatening to kill themself

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press ABOARD THE USS LABOON IN THE RED SEA (AP) — Yemen’s Houthi rebels launched a boat-borne bomb attack against a commercial ship in the Red Sea on Wednesday, authorities said, the latest escalation despite a U.S.-led campaign trying to protect the vital waterway. The use of a boat loaded with

U.S. District Judge Harry Leinenweber, who presided over singer R. Kelly’s trial on child sex abuse charges, has died. He was 87. The eastern division of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois released a statement saying Leinenweber died Tuesday evening. The Chicago Sun-Times reported that Leinenweber had been diagnosed with lung

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Food authorities in Denmark have recalled three types of spicy instant noodle products imported from South Korea over possible risks for “acute poisoning.” Consumers are asked to discard them or return the noodles to the retailer. The noodles are made by Seoul-based Samyang Foods, one of South Korea’s largest companies, and

WAITSFIELD, Vt. (AP) — Noah and Kristen Dweck have seen a number of black bears around their home in Vermont but this was a first: a bear relaxing on their hammock. Noah Dweck took iPhone video of two young bears in their yard in Waitsfield on Tuesday with one sitting on the swinging hammock before

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — The University of Cambridge has repatriated more than three dozen traditional artifacts to Uganda in a major act of restitution welcomed by the local officials who sought them. Some of the objects were shown exclusively to AP journalists. The objects, selected by Ugandan curators, represent a

By KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The charity was called Modest Needs but federal prosecutors who filed charges against its founder say his weren’t. Prosecutors in Manhattan say Modest Needs founder Keith Taylor had such expensive tastes that he embezzled more than $2.5 million from the charity between 2016 and May 2024

REYNOLDS STATION, Ky. (AP) — Police say cadaver dogs have been used to search for a missing western Kentucky baby whose parents and grandfather face child abandonment and drug charges. Kentucky State Police announced last week that troopers were searching for the 8-month-old Miya Rudd. WFIE-TV reports that Trooper Corey King says Miya was to

By RIO YAMAT Associated Press A Republican incumbent on a commission that oversees elections in a major swing county in Nevada has fended off a far-right challenge and secured her party’s nomination to run for reelectio.. The race for Clara Andriola’s seat on the Washoe County Board of Commissioners could have had implications for national

By CHRIS LEHOURITES AP Sports Writer It started bad, got a little worse before it got a little better, and then finished as widely expected for the United States, losing to India in cricket at the Twenty20 World Cup. The Americans entered Wednesday’s match on a huge high after beating cricket powerhouse Pakistan in their

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Sony Pictures Entertainment is getting into the exhibition business. The studio behind recent films like “Bad Boys: Ride or Die” and “The Garfield Movie” has acquired the distinctive theater chain Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, the companies said Wednesday. Included in the deal is the genre film festival Fantastic Fest. Sony

By LAURA UNGAR AP Science Writer If you’ve been sick with COVID-19, you may have some protection against certain versions of the common cold. A new study suggests previous COVID-19 infections lower the risk of getting colds caused by milder coronavirus cousins. That could provide a key to creating broader COVID-19 vaccines. The research was

By SEAN MURPHY The Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Supreme Court has dismissed a lawsuit of the last two survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre who were seeking reparations. The nine-member court on Wednesday upheld the decision made by a district court judge in Tulsa last year. The suit was an

By LEANNE ITALIE AP Lifestyles Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Whether you go big, small or DIY, there are lots of way to please dad on Father’s Day. If store-bought is your jam, try a weighted pillow built to de-stress. Or maybe a compact smokeless electric grill perfect for balconies or parks that ban open

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — A group of New Jersey police chiefs and Republican lawmakers says parents should be held civilly or criminally responsible for the actions of their children that create disturbances or damage in public places. They spoke at a hearing following the second consecutive year of disturbances

By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press Dangerous flooding from a tropical disturbance inundated much of southern Florida on Wednesday, blocking roads, floating vehicles and delaying the Florida Panthers on their way to Stanley Cup games in Canada against the Edmonton Oilers. The disorganized storm system was pushing across Florida from the Gulf of Mexico at roughly

PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron has suspended plans for the controversial voting reforms in New Caledonia following a spate of unrest in the French Pacific territory. The reforms would have altered voting rights and Indigenous Kanaks fear they would have marginalize them further. The issue has caused the worst violence on the archipelago

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The Tony Awards are Sunday with a familiar host and a new venue, Lincoln Center’s David H. Koch Theater in Manhattan. Academy Award winner and Tony nominee Ariana DeBose, who hosted both the 2023 and 2022 ceremonies, will be back this year. The three-hour main

By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A federal court on Wednesday dismissed the appeal of a lawsuit that challenged a transgender woman’s acceptance into a sorority at the University of Wyoming, ruling it had no jurisdiction to hear the case. The lawsuit could not be appealed because a lower court judge in Wyoming

By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — The leader of South Africa’s Inkatha Freedom Party says it will join a proposed government of national unity. It’s a step toward ending the country’s political deadlock after the long-ruling African National Congress lost its parliamentary majority in last month’s election. Wednesday’s announcement means

By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — People purporting to be pro-Palestinian activists have hurled red paint at the homes of top leaders at the Brooklyn Museum, including its Jewish director. Activists also splashed paint across the front of diplomatic buildings for Germany and the Palestinian Authority. The paint attacks early Wednesday have

By KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press A high school class president in Massachusetts who gave a commencement speech wanted to recognize all of his fellow graduates. So he wrote them personal thank-you notes that were presented at the June 7 ceremony — 180, to be exact. Eighteen-year-old Mason Macuch asked each senior at Apponequet Regional High

By JOHN RABY Associated Press Classes at a small northern West Virginia school will be relocated starting this fall, two years after the town’s contaminated groundwater was added to a national cleanup priority list. Wetzel County Schools Superintendent Cassandra Porter announced the move Tuesday for students, faculty and staff at Paden City High School. They

By JIM SALTER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — Orville Allen lived a lifetime of service, and when he died at age 98 he had one last thing to give: his liver. Allen, a veteran of both World War II and the Korean War and a longtime educator in rural southeastern Missouri, is the oldest

ST. JOHN’S, Newfoundland (AP) — The wreck of the last ship belonging to Sir Ernest Shackleton, a famous Irish-born British explorer of Antarctica, has been found off the coast of Labrador in Canada, 62 years after it went missing. The wreck was found by an international team led by the Royal Canadian Geographical Society. The

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s new coalition government presented its first budget in parliament. It is promising an increase of up to 25% in the salaries of government employees and setting an ambitious tax collection target. Talks with the International Monetary Fund about a new bailout continue. Analysts say the new

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Supreme Court has kept a lower court’s ruling banning the use of mobile voting sites in the upcoming presidential election in place for now, a win for Republicans. However, in a victory for Democrats, the court also ensured late Tuesday that municipalities across the

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer The 1975’s Matty Healy and model Gabbriette Bechtel are engaged, according to Healy’s mother, the English actor Denise Welch. Welch, a regular panelist on the ITV talk show “Loose Women,” confirmed the news Wednesday on the U.K. program. “I’ve obviously known for a few weeks that Matty got engaged,”