Month: June 2022

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) — An Indiana man accused of abusing his 12-year-old son and starving the child to death has pleaded guilty to murder. Luis Eduardo Posso Jr. entered the plea Wednesday under an agreement with prosecutors that calls for the dismissal of other charges, including neglect of a dependent resulting in death and battery

ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia officials have arrested an 18-year-old who they say threatened to kill a sheriff and his wife over the arrest of rappers Young Thug and Gunna. Fulton County Sheriff Patrick Labat, alleged to be the target of the threats, announced the arrest Friday. Records show Quartavius Mender was booked into the Fulton

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press As investigators dig deeper into the law enforcement response to the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, a host of disturbing questions remain about what officers on the scene knew as the deadly attack was unfolding. Did any of them know children were trapped in a classroom with the gunman? Was

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Slovakian police say a train engine has hit a stopped passenger train in Slovakia, injuring dozens of people, four of them seriously. There were around 100 people on the train at the time of the crash, which occurred Friday near the town of Vrutky in the northwestern part of the country.

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER and JOSH BOAK Associated Press Writers REHOBOTH BEACH, Delaware (AP) — President Joe Biden came before the television cameras Friday to celebrate yet another month of healthy job growth and low unemployment and the fastest pace of hiring in four decades under his watch. Yet just as it often does, the subject

By MARC LEVY and MICHAEL RUBINKAM Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — John Fetterman, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania, who is recovering from a stroke, said Friday that he almost died from the episode after ignoring warning signs for years and a doctor’s advice to take blood thinners. Fetterman spoke in a

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — San Antonio police say officers fatally shot a 13-year-old suspected of stealing a car and ramming it into a marked patrol car. In a statement, police say officers were answering a report of multiple gunshots fired early Friday when they found and tried to stop a vehicle that had been reported

ROCKY MOUNT, N.C. (AP) — An historical marker alerting motorists that 1912 two-time Olympic gold medalist Jim Thorpe once played pro baseball in eastern North Carolina is back up more than two years after it was accidentally torn down. The state Transportation Department says the replacement marker was installed two weeks ago in downtown Rocky

By TOM DAVIES and RICK CALLAHAN Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Indiana Supreme Court has thrown out a law that gave state lawmakers increased power to intervene during public health emergencies. The court on Friday agreed with arguments from Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb that the law adopted by state legislators violates the Indiana Constitution.

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Two U.N. peacekeepers were killed when their armored personnel carrier hit an improvised explosive device in central Mali in the sixth incident in less than two weeks targeting the U.N. mission in the West African nation that has faced a decade-long Islamic insurgency. U.N. spokesman

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A town in Mexico has fired a police chief who the U.S. government publicly accused of aiding a drug cartel. The mayor of the small town of Ameca, Jalisco, said he had removed local police coordinator Severo Flores Mendoza. Mayor Juan Valentín Serrano said he removed Flores Mendoza to remove any

By LYNN BERRY Associated Press As Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy tells it, when Russia invaded 100 days ago, no one expected his country to survive. World leaders advised him to flee. “But they didn’t know us,” he said in a late-night video address in April when the war hit its 50th day. “And they didn’t

By MARYCLAIRE DALE and JOCELYN NOVECK Associated Press The call came Thursday, only a day after the Johnny Depp-Amber Heard verdict, to a free legal clinic for domestic violence victims in Athens, Georgia. The woman wanted to pursue her abuse claims, but she was worried. “The fear was that she’d be seen to be a

By AAMER MADHANI and JOSH BOAK Associated Press REHOBOTH BEACH, Del. (AP) — President Joe Biden says he’s not changed his views on human rights despite his administration offering praise of Saudi Arabia for getting OPEC+ to step up oil production. Biden said Friday he has “no direct plans at the moment” to visit a

RACINE, Wis. (AP) — Police are still searching for whoever opened fire during a funeral at a Wisconsin cemetery. Someone began shooting during Da’Shontay King’s funeral Thursday afternoon in Racine. King was fatally shot by Racine police last month. A 19-year-old woman and a 35-year-old woman were hit in Thursday’s cemetery shooting. No one else

By MATT O’BRIEN and MICHAEL BALSAMO Taser developer Axon said this week it is working to build drones armed with the electric stunning weapons that could fly in schools and “help prevent the next Uvalde, Sandy Hook, or Columbine.” But its own technology advisers quickly panned the idea as a dangerous fantasy. The publicly traded

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The Special Olympics has dropped a coronavirus vaccine mandate for its games in Orlando after Florida moved to fine the organization $27.5 million for violating a state law against such rules. Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday announced the organization had removed the requirement for its

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer The amount of heat-trapping carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has shot past a key milestone — more than 50% higher than pre-industrial times — and is at levels not seen since millions of years ago when Earth was a hothouse ocean-inundated planet, federal scientists announced Friday. The National Oceanic

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistani health authorities have confirmed the seventh case of polio so far this year, saying it was registered in the country’s former Taliban stronghold in the northwest, a region bordering Afghanistan. The outbreak, after the first polio case of 2022 was registered in the same region in

By JAKE BLEIBERG and JIM MUSTIAN Associated Press Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards said there was “no excuse” for a video he watched of the deadly arrest of Black motorist Ronald Greene failing to reach prosecutors for another six months. But the Democrat maintained at a Thursday news conference that he could not have known

UVALDE, Texas (AP) — The cousins were together in life and in death. Jailah Silguero and Jayce Luevanos were remembered Friday at a funeral Mass at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Uvalde, Texas. Later Friday, the same church will hold another Mass for their classmate, Jacklyn Cazares. The three fourth-graders were among 19 children who,

By The Associated Press This week’s new entertainment releases include an album from Carrie Underwood and an anthology set from BTS, while Adam Sandler channels his affection for basketball into Jeremiah Zagar’s “Hustle” and “All Rise” gets a new lease on life thanks to the OWN channel. The timely documentary Tia Lessin and Emma Pildes’