Month: June 2022

SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — A Louisiana man convicted of killing his girlfriend who was a city police officer has been sentenced to life in prison, followed by 30 years. Life is the only possible sentence for second-degree murder, one of two crimes for which a Caddo Parish jury convicted 29-year-old Tre’Veon Demarcus Anderson on April

By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Efforts to get millions of dollars in funding to treatment centers and related services as part of Oregon’s pioneering drug decriminalization have been botched even as drug addictions and overdoses increase, state officials and lawmakers said on Thursday. Oregonians passed Ballot Measure 110 in 2020 decriminalizing

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A national conservation group has acquired a sprawling ranch near a New Mexico mountain peak held sacred by Native American tribes. The Trust for Public Land announced Thursday that land managers will be able create New Mexico’s largest state-owned recreation property, near Mount Taylor. The

By AAMER MADHANI and ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has decided to travel to Saudi Arabia in the coming weeks and is expected to meet with the kingdom’s once-shunned crown prince. It’s a visit that is coming together as OPEC+ announced Thursday it will pump more oil amid skyrocketing energy

BUFFALO, Minn. (AP) — A jury has found a man guilty of murder and other counts in a shooting attack on a Minnesota medical clinic last year that killed one staff member and wounded four others. KARE-TV reports that jurors began deliberating Thursday afternoon, following testimony by the defendant, Gregory Ulrich, and short closing arguments.

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The U.S. government has announced sanctions against six people in Mexico, including a police official, for aiding the Jalisco drug cartel. The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, or OFAC, says the police official gave information to Mexico’s most violent and powerful gang. The office said Jalisco

CHICAGO (AP) — Authorities say a U.S. marshal and his police dog were shot during an exchange of gunfire between officers and two gunmen on Chicago’s Northwest Side. Elorm Blake, a spokesperson for the Marshals Service, says the officer was shot while serving a warrant with the marshals’ fugitive apprehension team. Chicago police spokesman Tom

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The United States has extradited a former Mexican border state governor to his homeland, where he is accused of embezzling millions of dollars in state funds. César Duarte is a former governor of Chihuahua state and he has been sent back to Mexico to face corruption charges stemming from his time

CHICAGO (AP) — A man with an arrest record for a gun charge that was later dropped is suspected of shooting and seriously wounding a Chicago police officer. The Chicago Sun-Times reported Thursday that the 28-year-old man was identified in a police alert as the gunman who opened fire on a marked police car on

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana lawmakers have converted a controversial bill doing away with the need for permits to carry concealed weapons into one allowing trained teachers and school administrators to carry guns on campuses. A state Senate revamped the bill Wednesday night while invoking the mass shooting last week

By BABA AHMED Associated Press BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Two Red Cross employees have been killed in an ambush attack on their vehicle in western Mali. The Malian branch of the aid group said the worker and a driver died Wednesday evening, while two other employees had survived. The Dutch Red Cross said slain worker

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Federal prosecutors say two current and one former St. Louis aldermen are facing charges accusing them of taking bribes and misusing their offices for personal gain. The U.S. attorney’s office in St. Louis announced Thursday that Board of Alderman President Lewis Reed, Alderman Jeffrey Boyd and former Alderman John Collins-Muhammad were

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — A spokesman for the Pakistani Taliban says they have indefinitely extended a cease-fire with the government in Islamabad. The announcement late on Thursday followed two days of talks in Kabul with a 50-member delegation of Pakistani tribal elders, sent as emissaries by Islamabad. A spokesman for the

By ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration said Thursday that children under 5 may be able to get their first COVID-19 vaccination doses as soon as June 21, if federal regulators authorize shots for the age group, as expected. White House COVID-19 coordinator Ashish Jha outlined the administration’s planning for the

By FATIMA HUSSEIN and TOM MURPHY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A stronger-than-expected economic recovery from the pandemic has pushed back the go-broke dates for Social Security and Medicare, but officials warn that the current economic turbulence is putting additional pressures on the bedrock retirement programs. The annual Social Security and Medicare trustees report released

By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS and TED WARREN Associated Press RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) — Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, who has recently criticized the slow pace of cleaning up the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, toured the former nuclear weapons production site on Thursday and said more federal money is needed to finish the job. Hanford created more than

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Researchers are drawing attention to a rise in poisonings in children involving the sleep aid melatonin — including a big jump during the pandemic. Last year, U.S. poison control centers received more than 52,000 calls about children consuming worrisome amounts of the dietary supplement —

By The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Gianandrea Noseda’s contract as music director of the National Symphony Orchestra has been extended by two years through the 2026–2027 season. The 58-year-old Italian conductor succeeded Christoph Eschenbach for the 2017-18 season with a four-year contract as the NSO’s seventh music director, then in September 2018 was extended

By TOM DAVIES Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A former Mike Pence aide seeking to oust Indiana’s Republican secretary of state is fending off criticism about twice leaving jobs in that office after being written up for poor job performance. Diego Morales’ work history has emerged as an issue in his campaign against Secretary of

By BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona woman accused of illegally collecting early ballots during the 2020 primary election has pleaded guilty in an agreement with state prosecutors that saw more serious forgery and conspiracy charges dismissed. Thursday’s plea means 66-year-old Guillermina Fuentes could get probation. Reports from the Arizona attorney general’s

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The CMA Fest is prohibiting Confederate flag imagery at its four-day country music festival. The Country Music Association said in a statement to The Tennessean that the decision to enact the policy this year was based on the personal safety of fans and to prevent discrimination. The festival, which began in

By LEANNE ITALIE AP Entertainment Writer After an explosive six-week libel trial followed by millions on social media and live TV, Johnny Depp and Amber Heard each face an uphill battle: trying to rebuild their images and careers. Depp already has a head start, with a jury verdict Wednesday largely favoring his narrative, that his

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is forecasting an average oxygen-depleted “dead zone” in the Gulf of Mexico this summer. But that average is still nearly triple a goal for reducing the area where there’s too little oxygen each summer for marine animals to survive. NOAA said in a news release