Year: 2024

CHICAGO (AP) — A teenager who pleaded guilty to a 2022 shooting near a Chicago high school that killed two teens and wounded two others has been sentenced to more than four decades in prison. A Cook County judge sentenced 18-year-old Christian Acevedo after he pleaded guilty Monday to two counts of murder and one

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida public school employee who faces firing because she allowed her transgender daughter to play girls high school volleyball is assailing those who outed her child. Jessica Norton said Tuesday that her daughter was thriving at Monarch High School before an anonymous tipster notified

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — The 911 system across Massachusetts has been restored after going down for several hours. The state’s Executive Office of Public Safety and Security said Tuesday it is unclear how many communities have been affected. Authorities have advised people to either pull a fire box or call a

By SCOTT McFETRIDGE Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The federal government has long had sole authority over immigration policy in the United States, but several Republican-led states have continued to push for a role in enforcing regulations out of frustration with current policy and as a way to criticize Democratic U.S. President Joe

By JONEL ALECCIA AP Health Writer Dollar Tree failed to effectively recall lead-tainted applesauce pouches linked to reports of illness in more than 500 children, leaving the products on some stores shelves for two months, the Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday. The FDA sent a warning letter to Dollar Tree this month and placed

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Justin Timberlake was arrested early Tuesday and is accused of driving while intoxicated on New York’s Long Island. The Suffolk County district attorney’s office says he was released and his next court date is scheduled for July 26. Timberlake and his representatives have not commented.

By TAMMY WEBBER Associated Press FENTON, Mich. (AP) — With much of the Midwest and the Northeast broiling — or about to broil — in extreme summer heat this week, meteorologists are talking about heat waves and heat domes. Both mean it’s really hot — and people will hear those terms a lot more as

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Two employees of the U.S. Agriculture Department were assaulted and temporarily held by assailants in the Mexican state of Michoacan, prompting the U.S. government to suspend inspections of avocado and mango shipments. U.S. Ambassador Ken Salazar said in a statement Tuesday that the assault occurred while they were inspecting avocados in

By PAUL NEWBERRY AP National Writer INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Caeleb Dressel has made his debut at the U.S. Olympic swimming trials, posting the third-fastest time in the preliminaries of the 100-meter freestyle. The winner of five gold medals at the Tokyo Olympics, Dressel walked away from the sport in the midst of the 2022 world

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — President Vladimir Putin is in North Korea for a summit with its leader, Kim Jong Un, as the two nations deepen their cooperation. The visit comes amid growing concerns about an arrangement in which Pyongyang provides Moscow with badly needed munitions to fuel Russia’s war in Ukraine in

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Since the beginning of time or, at least, pop music, only a few have earned the designation of “song of the summer.” These are the earworms that lodge deep into the brain, pushing past genre preferences and reminding listeners: A hit is a hit. With

EAST HAMPTON, N.Y. (AP) — Justin Timberlake is not the first celebrity to get arrested in the Hamptons. The beach communities on the eastern end of Long Island are popular with the rich and famous, and some have gotten into trouble there, much of it vehicular. Here are a few examples: BILLY JOEL Singer Billy

LOWELL, Mass. (AP) — Authorities say a 21-year-old man has been arrested and charged with fatally shooting a 15-year-old girl hours before she was scheduled to attend her middle school graduation in Massachusetts. Not guilty pleas were entered in court Tuesday for Trevor Bady, who was arraigned on charges of murder, armed home invasion, unlawful

By AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press Two century-old steel pipes that help convey water from a river on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation to a river that helps irrigate northern Montana cropland have failed. It has caused local flooding and raised concerns about the availability of drinking water for at least 14,000 residents, including in the

PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) — A plastic surgeon in the Florida Panhandle was charged with his wife’s death after she suffered a cardiac arrest and died days after he performed after-hours procedures on her in his clinic last year, authorities said. Benjamin Brown was arrested Monday on a charge of manslaughter by culpable negligence, which is

By RIO YAMAT Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — The strange monolith looks like it could have come from another world. Jutting out of the rocks in a remote mountain range near Las Vegas, the glimmering rectangular prism’s reflective surface imitates the vast desert landscape surrounding the mountain peak where it has been erected. But

HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas doctor who calls himself a whistleblower on transgender care for minors is accused of illegally obtaining private information on patients from the nation’s largest pediatric hospital who were not under his care. Federal prosecutors said Dr. Eithan Haim, a 34-year-old surgeon, snatched the information and shared it with a conservative

By TERRY TANG Associated Press For more than one-and-a-half centuries, the Juneteenth holiday has been sacred to many Black communities. It marks the day in 1865 enslaved people in Galveston, Texas found out they had been freed — after the end of the Civil War, and two years after President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. Since

By JACQUES BILLEAUD Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Lawyers Boris Epshteyn and Jenna Ellis and former U.S. Senate candidate James Lamon have pleaded not guilty to nine felony charges in a case about trying to overturn former President Donald Trump’s Arizona election loss to Joe Biden. The hearing Tuesday in a Phoenix courtroom marked the

By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Voters who don’t expect to be able to cast ballots themselves are scrambling to make their voices heard in France’s high-stakes legislative election. They’re signing up in their hundreds of thousands to hand their voting rights to loved ones and friends. The Interior Ministry said Tuesday that

By GONZALO SOLANO and DIDI TANG Associated Press QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Ecuador has announced the suspension of an agreement with China that had waived visas for Chinese citizens traveling to the South American country. The government on Tuesday cited a “worrying” increase in irregular migration. Ecuador’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement that the

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A network of people and firms that support the sanctioned president of Bosnia’s Serb-run part, Milorad Dodik, has been hit with new sanctions. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control has designated two people and seven companies that provide revenue for Dodik and his family. Dodik, who has

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Hungary has lifted its veto on Mark Rutte becoming the next head of NATO. The move came after the Dutch prime minister gave written guarantees that he would not force Hungary to take part NATO’s new plans to provide support to Ukraine. Rutte’s assurances remove a major

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ and MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump plans to keep fighting a gag order in his New York hush money case even though the state’s top court has declined to hear his appeal of it. The gag order prevents the Republican ex-president from commenting on witnesses, jurors

RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — Three of six South Dakota players from a baseball team made up of high school-aged players who were charged as adults last summer with rape have pleaded guilty to a lesser felony charge. KELO-TV reports that two former members of the American Legion team from Mitchell pleaded guilty Monday to

BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — A Vermont man has been sentenced to 25 years in prison after he was convicted of kidnapping a woman and her 4-year-old son by forcing them into her car outside a New Hampshire mall and bringing them to Vermont while he was searching for his estranged wife. Forty-six-year-old Everett Simpson was