Month: July 2024

AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jin, the oldest member of K-pop supergroup BTS, will make a mark in the Paris Olympics as a torchbearer from South after recently returning from his mandatory military service. The 31-year-old singer is expected to participate in the torch relay in hopes of spreading the message of “harmony”

Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minnesota prosecutor says police investigating a potential sexual abuse case in a Minneapolis suburb found themselves in a gunbattle against a well-armed resident in a darkened home while trying to protect seven children inside. The February shooting left two officers and a paramedic dead. Dakota County Attorney Kathryn Keena

Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Rushing waters from the Blue Earth River have already left a trail of debris and destruction on the edges of a southern Minnesota dam that partially failed last week. Officials acknowledged Tuesday the structure most in danger may be the bridge that looms nearby. They say the County Road 9

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Authorities with Bay Area Rapid Transit say a homeless man pushed a 74-year-old woman into an arriving train at a downtown San Francisco station. The woman hit her head on the BART train and died later at a hospital. Police arrested a 49-year-old man they described as transient shortly after the

AP Business writers NEW YORK (AP) — The National Black Farmers Association is calling on Tractor Supply’s president and CEO to step down, days after the rural retailer announced that it would drop most of its corporate diversity and climate advocacy efforts. The resignation demand on Tuesday emerged as Tractor Supply faced a deepening backlash

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — An appeals court has rejected an appeal by a Tony Award-winning producer who claims that a union for actors and stage managers organized an illegal boycott that prevented him from producing live Broadway shows. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan ruled Tuesday that Garth Drabinsky could

SEATTLE (AP) — A Seattle-area plastic surgery provider accused of threatening patients over negative reviews and posting fake positive ones must pay $5 million to the state attorney general’s office and thousands of Washington patients. The Seattle Times reports that a federal consent decree filed Monday resolves a lawsuit brought by state Attorney General Bob

AP Health Writer Federal health officials say a Florida cucumber grower that used untreated water is one likely source of salmonella food poisoning that sickened nearly 450 people this spring. Officials said Tuesday that the water used by Bedner Growers Inc. of Boynton Beach, Florida, matched a strain of the bacteria that caused some but

Associated Press DOVER, Del. (AP) — A Delaware judge has refused to a dismiss a lawsuit involving the death of a mentally ill woman who was killed by a state trooper in 2021 after she fired a shotgun at him. The lawsuit alleges that state police used excessive force in shooting 51-year-old Kelly Rooks, and

Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi is revising the restrictions it set last year on absentee ballot assistance to voters who have disabilities or cannot read or write. A short list of allowable helpers was blocked by a judge who said it violated the federal Voting Rights Act. An updated state law took effect