Year: 2024

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi is one step closer to what would be a landmark shift in health care policy. The Republican-led House is preparing to debate expanding Medicaid benefits to hundreds of thousands more residents in one of the poorest states in the U.S. The House Medicaid

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The estate of Donna Summer is suing rappers Ye and Ty Dolla $ign alleging they illegally used her 1977 song “I Feel Love” in their most recent collaboration. The lawsuit filed Tuesday in federal court says that when representatives of Ye, formerly Kanye West, asked

By LEA SKENE Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — Trial began Tuesday for a man accused in the deadly shooting ambush of Baltimore police officer Keona Holley who was sitting in her patrol car when she was killed in 2021. But the case remains shrouded in mystery more than two years later as prosecutors have said

By BABA AHMED Associated Press BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Mali’s Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure says at least 31 people were killed and 10 others injured when a driver lost control of a passenger bus in southern Mali.  The bus carrying Malians and nationals from the West African subregion was en route to Burkina Faso

By HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A federal court has dismissed a legal challenge to Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds’ policy prohibiting schools from instituting mask requirements. Families of students with disabilities during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic brought the legal challenge. The ruling Tuesday marks the conclusion of the yearslong

By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii Gov. Josh Green says a $175 million fund to compensate families of people killed in the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century will begin accepting applications at the end of the week. The fund for Lahaina wildfire victims will also pay those who were

WEST OLIVE, Mich. (AP) — An embattled public health officer in Michigan will get to keep her job. Adeline Hambley’s lengthy legal fight with county commissioners over pandemic-era mask mandates concluded Tuesday with the board bowing to the will of a court-ordered arbitrator. The Ottawa County Board of Commissioners voted 11-0 Monday to retain Hambley

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press First year student Samuel Woo had been considering a career in cardiology so he would be able to pay off his medical school debt until the announcement this week of a generous donation that will remove tuition fees at his New York City school. Now, without the fear of crippling

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — A judge says Kristina Karamo was properly removed as chair of the Michigan Republican Party back in January. It’s a major decision that came on the same day as Michigan’s presidential primary election. The state GOP has been in turmoil over its finances and other issues. Members of the party

MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) — The first lawsuit brought amid reports that a nurse at a southern Oregon hospital replaced intravenous fentanyl drips with tap water seeks up to $11.5 million on behalf of the estate of a 65-year-old man who died. The wrongful death suit was filed Monday against Asante Rogue Regional Medical Center in

DENVER (AP) — Three bronze artworks stolen from a Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. memorial in City Park in Denver, along with seven bronze pieces taken from a nearby fountain, were recovered after being sold to a scrap metal business, Denver Police said Tuesday. Police said because the items were taken from two memorials and

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — A law to establish 18 as the minimum marriage age in Washington state is headed to the governor’s desk for his signature. State lawmakers in the House and Senate passed House Bill 1455 this session after the measure stalled in the Senate last year and other bills failed to gain traction

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A police raid in several Rio de Janeiro’s low-income neighborhoods has left at least nine people dead and six injured, police said in a statement. The raids Tuesday targeted areas controlled by the Red Command drug trafficking group and took place in several communities in the city’s north, including Cidade

By JACK DURA Associated Press South Dakota’s voters will be asked this fall to say whether the state can require certain people who receive Medicaid to work. The House of Representatives on Tuesday voted to put the question on the November ballot. Two years ago, voters approved a constitutional amendment expanding eligibility for the government

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Cherry Starr, the philanthropist wife of former Green Bay Packers quarterback and coach Bart Starr, has died. She was 89. Rawhide Youth Services, an organization that helps at-risk youth that the couple worked closely with, announced that Cherry Starr died on Tuesday. The Starr Children’s Fund, which the Starrs created to

DETROIT (AP) — An Indiana man accused of making a violent threat against a Michigan election official in 2020 has pleaded guilty. Andrew Nickels of Carmel appeared in federal court Tuesday, the day of Michigan’s presidential primary. A voicemail was left a week after the 2020 presidential election, threatening to kill a suburban Detroit clerk

By The Associated Press Outgoing New York Philharmonic music director Jaap van Zweden will assume the same role with Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France starting with the 2026-27 season. The French orchestra says van Zweden will work with the orchestra for four weeks during the 2025-26 season, when he  will be music director designate. The

By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A federal lawsuit alleges staff at Wyoming’s state youth detention facility locked juveniles in solitary confinement for weeks at a time, even as other states are getting away from the practice for both adult and adolescent inmates. Three former Wyoming Boys School inmates filed the lawsuit

By SEAN MURPHY and JIM VERTUNO Associated Press CANADIAN, Texas (AP) — A cluster of wildfires scorched the Texas Panhandle on Wednesday, including a blaze that grew into one of the largest in state history, as flames moved with alarming speed and blackened the landscape across a vast stretch of small towns and cattle ranches.