Month: July 2023

By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A state agency’s lawyer contends that Kansas legislators botched the drafting of a new…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — EDITOR’S NOTE — On Jan. 26, 1971, Charles Manson and three members of his California cult were convicted for the murders of…

By CHRISTINA LARSON AP Science Writer New research suggests humans lived in South America at the same time as now extinct giant sloths, bolstering…

CLEVELAND (AP) — Authorities say a suspect has been arrested in an early morning shooting in a nightclub area of downtown Cleveland that sent nine…

By BRENDAN FARRINGTON Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Farmers Insurance is the latest property insurance company to pull out of Florida.…

PARRISH, Ala. (AP) — Police say an SUV that was reported stolen with an infant inside in Alabama may have instead rolled into thick brush where it…

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press A man has been charged with rape and other crimes in a series of sexual assaults on patients in a Kansas…

By JIMMY GOLEN AP Sports Writer BOSTON (AP) — The pickleball craze is hitting the big leagues. Courts for the tennis/badminton/ping pong hybrid…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia state legislator from Atlanta says she’s leaving the Democratic Party to become a…

FORT STEWART, Ga. (AP) — The Army says a former soldier has been charged with stealing a military Humvee and crashing it into the office building…

By KEN RITTER and MARK ANDERSON Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — New Orleans Saints running back Alvin Kamara pleaded no contest Tuesday to a…

By CHRIS MEGERIAN, ERIC TUCKER and BRIAN SLODYSKO Associated Press The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee says it’s time for Supreme…

By SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia Republicans are launching a coordinated early voting initiative ahead of this…

FRANKLIN PARK, Ill. (AP) — Police say a man has been charged with first-degree murder in the fatal drive-by shooting of a 9-year-old boy attending…

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A Romanian man who was part of an international human smuggling ring was sentenced Tuesday to more…

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Early voting has begun in Ohio in a high-stakes Aug. 8 election on whether to make it…

By CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten, a former homecoming princess who at 19 helped…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — U.S. authorities have arrested a California man accused of killing three women in the Mexican border city of Tijuana and…

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Officials say a jail inmate accused of killing a sheriff’s deputy who was transporting him in a van in Indianapolis used the…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican security officials have acknowledged that a large demonstration that blocked the main highway to the resort of Acapulco…

By SAM METZ Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Utah Supreme Court is weighing arguments on whether a lower court can evaluate if the…

By HARM VENHUIZEN Associated Press/Report for America MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A 16-year-old boy killed by an accident at a Wisconsin sawmill appears…

By KEN RITTER and BEATRICE DUPUY Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A man was arrested and a woman described as his hostage was released unharmed…

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Boxing heavyweight champion Tyson Fury and ex-UFC heavyweight champion Francis Ngannou will fight Oct. 28 in Saudi…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s pick to serve as America’s top military officer is warning…

By DAVID SHARP Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine Gov. Janet Mills has signed into law a supplemental budget that includes establishment…

By ED WHITE Associated Press PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — A document handwritten by singer Aretha Franklin and found in her couch after her 2018 death is…