Month: November 2021

GREELEY, Colo. (AP) — The trial of a former longshot Idaho gubernatorial candidate charged in the killing a 12-year-old Colorado girl has ended with jurors unable to reach verdicts on the most serious charges against him. Jurors on Thursday found Steve Pankey guilty of false reporting but could not reach agreement on murder and kidnapping

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Navy says it fired the two senior officers of a nuclear-powered attack submarine that was damaged in an underwater collision last month in the South China Sea. Also removed from his position was the sailor who served as a senior enlisted adviser to the commander and the executive officer. The actions

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Sudan’s state news agency says the country’s top general has ordered the release of four government ministers detained during a coup last week. A lawyer for the four now-deposed ministers say they have yet to be freed. The announcement comes as the country’s top generals and former

By MARLON GONZÁLEZ Associated Press TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Just weeks before Honduras holds presidential elections, an independent candidate who was one of the first to publicly accuse President Juan Orlando Hernández’s brother of ties to drug trafficking, has been arrested on money laundering charges. Santos Rodríguez Orellana, a former army captain, was arrested Thursday

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Attorneys for the next four Oklahoma inmates scheduled to be executed have filed an appeal of a federal judge’s ruling allowing the executions to proceed. The attorneys for Julius Jones, Wade Lay, Donald Grant and Gilbert Postelle filed their appeal Thursday with the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Three people are suing Oklahoma County jail employees who investigators found forced them to stand handcuffed for hours and listen to the children’s song “Baby Shark” on repeat. The Oklahoman reports attorneys for three former inmates filed the civil rights lawsuit Monday in Oklahoma City federal court, describing the tactics as

GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi is rescinding a policy that would have simplified the process of changing the gender listing on a driver’s license. The Sun Herald reports Thursday the Department of Public Safety reversed course after only a few days. The Driver Service Bureau director issued a memo last week saying people could change

EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. (AP) — A woman has been charged with child endangerment in the August fire deaths of her five young children, who she allegedly left in a southwest Illinois apartment without adult supervision. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that 34-year-old Sabrina Dunigan of East St. Louis is charged in St. Clair County

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — The family of a Las Vegas woman who died in a fiery crash that authorities say former Raiders player Henry Ruggs III caused after driving 156 mph with a blood-alcohol level twice the legal limit in Nevada say they are devastated. In a statement issued Thursday

By EDGAR H. CLEMENTE Associated Press TAPACHULA, Mexico (AP) — A group of migrants trying to walk across southern Mexico have pelted officers of Mexico’s National Guard with a hail of rocks, apparently injuring at least one guardsman. The guards were tailing the migrant march Thursday, when a small group of a few dozen male

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — SpaceX’s next astronaut flight is off until at least next week as more bad weather looms. Flight surgeons, meanwhile, are continuing to monitor the “minor medical issue” affecting one of the four astronauts awaiting liftoff at Florida’s Kennedy Space Center. NASA says the astronaut

By GRANT SCHULTE Associated Press LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska attorney general’s office investigation has identified 258 victims who made credible allegations of sexual abuse against 57 Catholic church officials in the state going back decades. In many cases, high-ranking church leaders knew about the abuse but didn’t report it to the authorities. Attorney

By MICHAEL PHILLIS Associated Press BENTON HARBOR, Mich. (AP) — The water system in Benton Harbor, Michigan, has tested for elevated levels of lead for three consecutive years. In response, residents have been told to drink and cook with bottled water and the state has promised to spend millions of dollars replacing lead service lines.

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — The trial hasn’t even started and yet issues of race are at the forefront of the case in which three white men are charged with murder for chasing and killing Ahmaud Arbery. The family of the slain 25-year-old Black man was rattled Wednesday when the jury

By ED WHITE Associated Press The filing of U.S. charges against a Chicago woman convicted of killed her wealthy mother during an overseas vacation is raising questions. How can someone who spent time in a prison abroad be hauled into an American court on similar charges? Heather Mack was arrested this week on her return

By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Two civil rights groups have filed a federal court challenge against a Tennessee law that bars transgender athletes from playing public high school or middle school sports aligned with their gender identity. The American Civil Liberties Union of Tennessee and Lambda Legal filed the lawsuit Thursday

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press The Senate has confirmed Robert Santos as the next U.S. Census Bureau director. As a third-generation Mexican American, he will be the first person of color to lead the nation’s largest statistical agency on a permanent basis. The bureau conducts the once-a-decade census, often described as the nation’s largest civilian

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — News agencies report that the body of a Louisiana man who wanted it donated for science was dissected before paying viewers at an event marketed as an “Oddities and Curiosities Expo” in Oregon. His wife is aghast. Elsie Saunders of Baker calls it horrible and unethical. She says the papers

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has marked the national Unity Day holiday with a trip to Crimea, declaring the region will always be a part of Russia. Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014 in the wake of the overthrow of Ukraine’s Kremlin-friendly president. Western countries regard the annexation as illegitimate. But Putin

By ANDREW MELDRUM Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa’s voters have delivered a significant rebuke to the governing African National Congress, the party of late anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela, which got less than 50% of ballots cast in local government elections. Widespread corruption, persistently high rates of unemployment, crippling power blackouts and ineffective delivery

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s powerful Orthodox Church is urging members of its congregations to attend services with vaccination or test certificates, as the country’s daily number of confirmed new infections hit a record high  for the second time in a few days. The church’s governing Holy Synod made the recommendations Thursday in a directive

SONOMA, Calif. (AP) — Pacific Gas & Electric has reached a $125 million settlement agreement with California regulators over the destructive Kincade fire, which was ignited in 2019 by the utility’s equipment in a remote area of Sonoma County. The Press Democrat reported Wednesday PG&E shareholders would pay a $40 million fine to the state

ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK, Colo. (AP) — Skeletal remains found in Colorado’s Rocky Mountain National Park are believed to be those of a 27-year-old man from West Germany who disappeared during a mountaineering trip nearly 40 years ago. Park officials said Thursday a hiker found human remains in the Skeleton Gulch area in August 2020,

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press A federal appeals court has upheld a judge’s ruling that Baltimore city officials cannot ban a conservative Roman Catholic media outlet from holding a rally at a city-owned pavilion during a U.S. bishops’ meeting. A three-judge panel from the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals didn’t explain its decision late

By JARI TANNER Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — Finland’s capital city says it will no longer serve meat at seminars, staff meetings, receptions and other events to reduce Helsinki’s carbon footprint. Instead, the city government plans to offer vegetarian dishes and sustainable local fish. Helsinki’s spokesperson said Thursday that the change takes effect in January