Year: 2024

By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Moments before the deadly crash of a charter jet on a Florida highway, three warnings about oil pressure problems in its two engines sounded. The National Transportation Safety Board says in a preliminary report released Tuesday that the Bombardier aircraft with five people aboard was

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Starbucks and the union organizing its U.S. workers say they have agreed to begin talks with the aim of reaching labor agreements. The announcement was a breakthrough for the two sides, which have been at odds since Workers United first organized baristas at a Starbucks store in Buffalo, New

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams is calling for expanded cooperation between local police and federal immigration authorities. Speaking to reporters Tuesday, Adams, a Democrat, voiced sharp criticism of the city’s current sanctuary protections, which he said impeded public safety by limiting the city’s communication with

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. and U.K. sanctioned a deputy commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and a Houthi militant member, Tuesday. The U.S. additionally sanctioned firms registered in Hong Kong and the Marshall Islands, along with two ships, including one that transported $100 million in Iranian commodities to

By DAVID SHARP Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — An Army reservist responsible for the deadliest shooting in Maine history received a glowing review from his superiors even as some of his family members were growing increasingly worried about his mental health. The evaluation from April 2023 says Robert Card was “a consummate professional” who

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press MANASSAS, Va. (AP) — Federal prosecutors have taken over the case against a northern Virginia man arrested last year on suspicion he was about to embark on a mass shooting at a megachurch. Local prosecutors in Prince William County on Tuesday dropped charges against 35-year-old Rui Jiang of Falls Church,

PHOENIX (AP) — A suspect in the killing of a woman at a New York City hotel was indicted Tuesday by a grand jury in Arizona’s most populous county in the subsequent stabbing attacks of two women in the Phoenix area. The Maricopa County Attorney’s office announced Raad Almansoori, 26, was indicted on two counts

By HALLIE GOLDEN Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — A conservative-backed effort to repeal Washington state’s landmark carbon pricing program and tax on the sale of stocks and bonds is putting the budget into limbo. Billions of dollars are at stake with days remaining in this year’s Legislative session. Lawmakers are scrambling before the session ends

By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — State officials say a mower sparked a wildfire that has burned about 110 square miles of prairieland in central Nebraska. That’s about the size of the state’s largest city of Omaha. The fire was first reported Monday morning less than 10 miles northeast of North

SASKATOON, Saskatchewan (AP) — A pathologist told Saskatchewan coroner’s inquest that a man who killed 11 people and injured 17 others died from a cocaine overdose after he was taken into police custody. Myles Sanderson had been on the run for several days when police caught up to him on Sept. 7, 2022. He went

By JENNIFER PELTZ and CEDAR ATTANASIO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — More than 20 years after Run-D.M.C. star Jam Master Jay was brazenly gunned down in his recording studio, two men close to him were convicted Tuesday of murder, marking a moment authorities had long awaited in one of the hip-hop world’s most elusive

DETROIT (AP) — The United Auto Workers said Tuesday that a majority of workers at a Mercedes plant near Tuscaloosa, Alabama, have signed cards in support of joining the union. The plant in Vance, Alabama, is the second one to reach more than 50% of workers signing up, according to the union. Earlier in February,

By STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A Massachusetts man who spent nearly three decades in prison on a murder conviction that was thrown out by the courts is suing the state for $1 million, the maximum allowed by state law. James Lucien was serving a life sentence in connection with the 1994 fatal

NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City furniture store that had been illegally converted into sleeping quarters for more than 40 migrants has been shut down by city officials. The city Department of Buildings said Tuesday that it ordered Sarr’s Wholesale Furniture in Queens vacated due to “severe overcrowding and hazardous fire trap conditions.”

By JOSH FUNK Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska prosecutors have decided not to seek the death penalty in the December killing of a Catholic priest inside his home, but are pursuing execution in the brutal killing of a retiree during a break-in that happened in the same tiny town four months earlier. Kierre

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press A Connecticut jury has begun deliberating after hearing closing arguments in the murder conspiracy case against a woman charged in connection with the 2019 disappearance and presumed killing of mother-of-five Jennifer Dulos. Prosecutors told the jury Tuesday that Michelle Troconis helped her boyfriend, Dulos’ estranged husband Fotis Dulos, plan and

By KEVIN McGill Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A 99-year-old New Orleans businessman best known in the city as a proprietor of his family’s landmark hat store on St. Charles Avenue has been honored by the French government for his military service during World War II. Samuel Meyer, who still puts in a few

By DIANE JEANTET Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is under investigation for allegedly harassing a humpback whale while riding a personal watercraft off Sao Paulo’s coast last year. Bolsonaro appeared at the federal police in Sao Paulo on Tuesday to meet with officers. The investigation is just one

By GARANCE BURKE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — With presidential primaries underway across the U.S., popular chatbots are generating false and misleading information that threatens to disenfranchise voters, according to a report published Tuesday based on the findings of artificial intelligence experts and a bipartisan group of election officials. Fifteen states and one territory

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency says 25 toxic waste sites in 15 states will be cleaned up as part of a $1 billion infusion to the federal Superfund program. The money is the third and last installment in $3.5 billion allocated under the 2021 infrastructure law signed by

By JEFF AMY, ELLIOT SPAGAT and WILL WEISSERT Associated Press ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — Laken Riley was a 22-year-old nursing student out on her morning run at the University of Georgia when authorities say a stranger dragged her into a secluded area and killed her, sending shockwaves through campus as police searched for a suspect.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida bill to allow people to file wrongful death lawsuits over the death of a fetus is being shelved because of the political fallout from an Alabama Supreme Court decision that frozen embryos are legally protected children. Republican Sen. Erin Grall decided not to proceed with her bill on Monday

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Norwegian royal officials say that King Harald V of Norway has been hospitalized with an infection while on vacation in Malaysia. The news came in a statement Tuesday from the Norwegian royal house. The 87-year-old monarch has had several illnesses in recent months that have raised concerns about the head of state’s

By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A funeral home says Ole Anderson, a professional wrestler whose tough, no-nonsense style led him to become a founding member of the famed collective known as The Four Horsemen, has died at age 81. Anderson’s death also was disclosed Monday on WWE wrestling organization’s website, which

By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press A Washington state man accused of helping kill more than 3,000 birds — including eagles on a Montana Indian reservation — then illegally selling their feathers intends to plead guilty to illegal wildlife trafficking and other criminal charges, court documents show. Federal prosecutors say Travis John Branson and others killed

CHICAGO (AP) — Wild fluctuations in temperatures are being recorded in much of the United States this week, with some cities experiencing a winter weather whiplash in which they are going from record highs to severe storms to snow and freezing temperatures in a matter of days. And the whiplash does not end there. The