Year: 2024

Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan officials say two clerks in the Upper Peninsula have been removed from their election duties after expressing plans to conduct a hand count of votes in Tuesday’s election. In a letter Monday, the state’s Bureau of Elections director said that Rock River Clerk Tom Schierkolk and Deputy Clerk

Associated Press NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — A senior official with Europe’s top human rights watchdog is urging the government of ethnically divided Cyprus to allow passage to nearly three dozen asylum seekers who have for months been stranded in tents inside a U.N.-controlled buffer zone. Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Michael O’Flaherty, said

AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal officials on Wednesday reported more cases of E. coli poisoning among people who ate at McDonald’s, as government investigators seeking the outbreak’s source identified an “onion grower of interest” in Washington state. The Food and Drug Administration said 90 people across 13 states have fallen ill in the

Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A federal grand jury has indicted 11 alleged members of a Minneapolis street gang on charges that include murder, conspiracy and drug trafficking. Federal prosecutors say some of the alleged gang members have been charged for their role in seven shootings that killed five people. The alleged members of the

ATLANTA (AP) — Two more people standing trial along with rapper Young Thug have pleaded guilty to reduced charges after reaching deals with prosecutors. Pleas from Rodalius Ryan and Marquavius Huey came Wednesday, just a day after another co-defendant, Quamarvious Nichols, took a plea deal. Ryan pleaded guilty to a single count of conspiring to

Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — A Palestinian ambulance worker made a horrific discovery when the bloody sheet was lifted: The corpse on the stretcher was his own mother, killed by an Israeli airstrike Wednesday in central Gaza. “Oh God, I swear — she’s my mother! I didn’t know it was her!” Abed

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Twelve people have died in a fire at a steel plant in central Mexico. Tlaxcala state Civil Protection said Wednesday the fire call in Xaloztoc, about 87 miles east of Mexico City, started shortly after 3 a.m. Another person was injured, but that person’s condition was unknown. Based on preliminary information

NEW YORK (AP) — A Pennsylvania man has pleaded guilty in a sports betting scheme that ended Toronto Raptors forward Jontay Porter’s NBA career. Mahmud Mollah pleaded guilty Wednesday to wire fraud conspiracy. So far, three people — including Porter — have publicly admitted their roles in the scandal. Two other men also have been

Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Police say it was an accident when a reporter was hit by flyaway metal as Missouri’s Democratic U.S. Senate candidate fired an AR-15-style rifle at a shooting range. Prosecutors declined to charge U.S. Senate hopeful Lucas Kunce. The reporter told the sheriff that he felt a pinch at

Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Archaeologists using laser-sensing technology have detected what may be an ancient Mayan city cloaked by jungle in southern Mexico, authorities said Wednesday. The lost city, dubbed Valeriana by researchers after the name of a nearby lagoon, may have been as densely settled as the better-known pre-Hispanic metropolis of Calakmul,

Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Ohio Supreme Court has found that Republican Attorney General Dave Yost lacked the authority to reject a voting-related amendment’s ballot petition solely because he objected to the title. In a unanimous ruling Wednesday, justices sided with a coalition of civil rights organizations, including the NAACP, behind the “Ohio

Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A divided Pennsylvania appeals court says the envelopes voters use to send in mail ballots don’t need to have been accurately hand-dated. The Commonwealth Court’s 3-2 decision Wednesday comes after the state Supreme Court sidestepped the issue and six days before the end of voting in the presidential election.

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine’s adult mental care facilities are ready to emerge from court oversight after an appointed specialist concluded the state is now in “substantial compliance” with the latest standards set by a court legal decree. An agreement called the “AMHI Consent Decree” was drafted in 1990 when conditions were so bad at