Month: November 2021

PARADISE VALLEY, Ariz. (AP) — Bob Bondurant, a former champion race car driver and founder of a high-performance driving school that taught many A-list actors, has died at age 88. According to his family and the Bondurant Racing School website, Bondurant died Friday in the Phoenix suburb of Paradise Valley. No cause of death was

BEAVER ISLAND, Mich. (AP) — The victims of a deadly plane crash on Michigan’s Beaver Island include a real estate agent and a couple who were planning to open a winery and vineyard there. The plane crashed Saturday afternoon west of Mackinaw City, killing four of five people on board. Lt. William Church of the

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s national research body says it will start clinical trials for a domestically made coronavirus vaccine. The country’s acting health minister told reporters on Sunday that researchers are starting human clinical trials for the shot, named COVI VAX, that will eventually include thousands of people. The Egyptian vaccine works by including proteins

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Las Vegas TV station reports that troopers investigating a crash that killed five bicyclists on a stretch of Nevada highway didn’t suspect the driver of the box truck that hit them was impaired, even though a blood test later found he had a potentially lethal level of methamphetamine in his

BALTIMORE (AP) — Police say an off-duty Baltimore police officer who was getting a haircut shot and killed a man who burst into a barber shop and fatally shot a barber. Police said they believe the same man was responsible for two earlier shootings, one of them fatal. One victim was in critical condition after

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — A 65-year-old man has died after he set himself on fire in central province of Markazi when a court issued a verdict against him in dispute with his employer. YJC.ir, a news website affiliated with Iran’s state TV, is reporting that the man set himself on fire in front of a

HOUSTON (AP) — Brianna Rodriguez, who was killed as the crowd pushed toward the stage at Astroworld in Houston, was remembered by friends and family for her friendliness and love of dance. At 16, she was among the youngest of the 10 people who died at the music festival Nov. 5. The Houston Chronicle reports

By SOPHIA TAREEN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Harris W. Fawell, a seven-term Illinois congressman and state senator, has died at age 92. His wife Ruth Fawell said Sunday that her husband died last week of complications from Alzheimer’s disease. The Republican from Naperville represented a Chicago-area district in Congress from 1985 to 1999 and

CLEVELAND, Ohio (AP) — Federal marshals in Ohio say a 1969 bank robbery has been closed following the death earlier this year of the man they say was responsible. Authorities say 20-year-old Theodore Conrad was a bank teller at the Society National Bank in Cleveland when he walked out with a paper bag containing $215,000.

LONDON (AP) — British police have arrested three men under terrorism laws after a car exploded outside a hospital in Liverpool, killing one man and injuring another. Counter-terrorism police say the three men detained Sunday range in age from 21 to 29. Police also cordoned off a residential street in the city in northwest England,

PARIS (AP) — France’s Justice Ministry says guards have thwarted an escape attempt from the Paris region’s second-largest prison. French media identified the would-be escapee as a suspected Islamic State sympathizer and said she dug a hole in the wall of her cell and rappelled out on knotted sheets. The Justice Ministry said the prisoner

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Disney and Marvel’s “Eternals” fell 61% in its second weekend in theaters, but it’s still hanging on to first place ahead of newcomers like “Clifford the Big Red Dog.” Studio estimates Sunday show “Eternals” added $27.5 million over the weekend, bringing its domestic total to $118.8 million. Second place

By DÉBORA REY and ALMUDENA CALATRAVA Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentine President Alberto Fernández has suffered a severe setback in  midterm elections held amid widespread anger over high inflation and rising poverty. The official count from Sunday’s voting indicates the president’s governing coalition will lose control of the Senate and is threatened

By MOHAMED IBRAHIM Associated Press/Report for America MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minneapolis activists are collecting accounts of police misconduct from community members for a federal civil rights investigation into the Minneapolis police to ensure they have a say in any potential changes. The Justice Department launched the probe in April to determine if there is a

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — U.N. climate chief Patricia Espinosa was not happy with a last-minute fight over coal that ended in a compromise at the Glasgow climate talks. Still, she’s satisfied, calling the final Glasgow Climate Pact a good compromise. When India threw a last-minute wrench into the climate

RADCLIFF, Ky. (AP) — A former captive during the Iranian hostage crisis has been laid to rest along with his wife in a veterans’ cemetery in Kentucky. Donald Hohman was among the Americans held hostage in Iran for 444 days between 1979 and 1981. The couple, both 79, lived in Elizabethtown, Kentucky. Their daughter-in-law, Jocelyn

BANGKOK (AP) — Three pro-democracy activists have been injured during a rally in Bangkok that criticized a ruling by the country’s Constitutional Court that said the protesters’ demand for reform of the monarchy were tantamount to attempts to overthrow the system of government. Hundreds of protesters had planned to march to the Democracy Monument but

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s state-run media reports that heavy rains and flooding in the country’s south have left three people dead and more than 500 others hospitalized from scorpion stings. The downpour in the province of Aswan over the weekend forced local authorities to suspend school classes on Sunday. Strong storms brought rain, hail, and

By SARA BURNETT Associated Press A jury will soon deliberate whether Kyle Rittenhouse is guilty of charges, including murder, for shooting three people in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Outside the courtroom, a debate already has played out across the country around the use of guns, particularly at protests over racial injustice and pandemic-related restrictions. Some see Rittenhouse

By MICHAEL BALSAMO and MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — An Associated Press investigation has found that more than 100 federal Bureau of Prisons employees have been arrested, convicted or sentenced in criminal cases since the start of 2019. They’ve been accused of crimes from smuggling drugs and weapons to stealing prison property,

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans is marking the 61st anniversary of the integration of its public schools by four 6-year-old girls. Weekend events began with a Friday morning news conference at New Orleans City Hall and an evening screening of a video tribute to the four. A special church

By DAVID CRARY AP National Writer Some Catholic bishops in the United States are persisting with criticism of President Joe Biden for his support of abortion rights. But the bishops’ conference, as a whole, is likely to avoid direct criticism of him at its upcoming national meeting. The highest-profile agenda item is a proposed “teaching

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Police say two people were killed and 19 injured when a van packed with migrants overturned in eastern Serbia. Police said Sunday the accident occurred late Saturday near the border with Bulgaria and that the Serb driver of the vehicle was arrested on suspicion that he illegally smuggled the migrants into