Month: June 2022

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A 10-year-old Florida girl has been arrested more than a week after authorities say she shot and killed a woman who had gotten into a fight with her mother. The Orlando Police Department said the girl is facing a charge of second-degree murder. She was taken into custody Tuesday and placed

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer The organization behind the Oscars has named Bill Kramer as their new CEO. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said Tuesday that Kramer, who currently presides over the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, will succeed Dawn Hudson in the role starting in July.  In his stead as

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Todd and Julie Chrisley, stars of the reality television show “Chrisley Knows Best,” have been found guilty in Atlanta on federal charges including bank fraud and tax evasion. The Chrisleys were initially indicted in August 2019, and the trial began three weeks ago. The U.S. attorney’s office

HEMET, Calif. (AP) — A small plane has crashed into the backyard of a Southern California home, and authorities say the pilot has been hospitalized with critical burn injuries. The fiery crash happened around 9:35 a.m. Tuesday in the city of Hemet, about 75 miles east of Los Angeles. The Hemet Police Department says the

By LYNN ELBER AP Television Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The U.S. split from Great Britain is history, but the monarchy still has a hold on its former colony’s heart. Two specials about Queen Elizabeth II and the celebration of her 70th year on the throne broke into last week’s top 20 highest-rated programs in

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials say a Taiwanese F-16 fighter jet made an emergency landing at Daniel K. Inouye International Airport in Hawaii on Monday afternoon and the U.S. Air Force pilot who was flying the aircraft was taken to the hospital for treatment. Officials say the aircraft appeared

AMHERST, N.Y. (AP) — Police are investigating a fire at a western New York anti-abortion center as a case of arson. CompassCare Chief Executive Jim Harden says the fire was reported at about 3 a.m. Tuesday and left the building temporarily unusable. He said someone scrawled “Jane was here” on the suburban Buffalo medical building.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Albany City Court has been closed for fumigation after hundreds of cockroaches were released during an altercation that broke out at an arraignment. Court officials say the clash broke out Tuesday during proceedings for four people. A defendant who started to film the courtroom proceedings was told to stop. In the

By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel has defended her approach to Ukraine and Russia during her 16 years as leader of Germany. She said Tuesday that a much criticized 2015 peace deal for eastern Ukraine bought Kyiv precious time and she won’t apologize for her diplomatic efforts. In

By MARCY GORDON AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — State officials across the nation have taken on Big Tech companies in the courts and state legislatures, and federal regulators have nipped at Twitter over alleged violations of users’ data privacy. Now, one state attorney general with an outsize personality and edge-skating stance nearly in the

DELRAY BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A man convicted of burning tire marks across a gay pride streetscape in South Florida while participating in a rally for former President Donald Trump last summer has been sentenced to two years of probation and 100 hours of community service. Alexander Jerich had previously pleaded guilty to felony criminal

By TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer The Federal Trade Commission is starting an inquiry into the operations of pharmacy benefit managers who control access to prescription drugs for millions of Americans. The consumer protection agency said Tuesday that that it will order the nation’s largest PBMs to provide a range of information and records detailing

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. solar manufacturers are considering legal challenges after President Joe Biden declared a two-year pause on tariffs for solar imports from Southeast Asia. Biden’s action Monday was intended to jumpstart solar installations that have slowed amid a Commerce Department inquiry into possible trade violations involving Chinese products.

By The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Jim Seals, who teamed with fellow musician “Dash” Crofts on such 1970s soft-rock hits as “Summer Breeze,” “Diamond Girl” and “We May Never Pass This Way Again,” has died at age 80. His death was announced Tuesday by several people including John Ford Coley, who had formed

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Academy Award–winning actor Matthew McConaughey has offered an emotional call on Congress to “reach a higher ground” and pass gun control legislation. In a roughly 22-minute speech at the White House on Tuesday, McConaughey, a Uvalde, Texas, native, exhorted a gridlocked Congress to pass gun reforms that

Former Illinois U.S. Rep. John E. Porter has died at the age of 87. In a statement, Porter’s family say he died Friday after a recent hospitalization. Porter was a Republican who represented the 10th District in northern Illinois from 1980 until 2001. Porter was a staunch fiscal conservative, a leader on international human rights

By KEN SWEET and FATIMA HUSSEIN The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Meltdowns in the cryptocurrency space are common, but the latest one really touched some nerves. Novice investors took to online forums to share tales of decimated fortunes and even suicidal despair. Experienced crypto supporters, including one prominent billionaire, were left feeling humbled.

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards has called a special legislative session to draw new congressional district boundaries after a federal judge threw out a map adopted earlier this year. Meanwhile, the state’s top election official and legislative leaders have asked the judge to put her ruling

By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer American adults who haven’t yet gotten vaccinated against COVID-19 may soon get another choice, as advisers to the Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday backed a more traditional type of shot. Next, the FDA must decide whether to authorize the protein vaccine made by latecomer Novavax as the nation’s

By JACQUES BILLEAUD Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona prisoner has made a last-minute request to the U.S. Supreme Court to delay his execution scheduled Wednesday for his murder conviction in the 1984 killing of an 8-year-old girl. Frank Atwood made the request Tuesday after a lower court rejected his arguments that the execution

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The mayor of the Mexican city of Cuernavaca was proudly inaugurating a footbridge over a scenic stream when the span collapsed, sending him and about two dozen people plunging into a gully. The hanging bridge was made of wooden boards and metal chains, and had recently been remodeled. City council members

By JAMES MacPHERSON Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A former North Dakota state senator who resigned following a report that he traded scores of text messages with a man jailed on child pornography charges says he was unable to return his state-owned laptop and iPad because they were seized by law enforcement. Ray Holmberg,

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Texas’ prison system has temporarily stopped transporting inmates as it investigates how a convicted murderer escaped from a bus last month and later killed a man and his four grandsons. “The agency is conducting an internal Serious Incident Review and also intends to bring in an

TORONTO (AP) — The head of Toronto’s homicide squad says they have released sketches of a little girl whose body was found in a dumpster in an effort to identify her. Insp. Hank Idsinga says police contacted the lead detectives for 58 missing children cases across Canada but there is no evidence linking the girl

CONYERS, Ga. (AP) — A man accused of fatally shooting Atlanta rapper Trouble has been denied bond after a confrontation that investigators allege stemmed from jealousy over a woman. A judge on Tuesday denied bail to 33-year-old Jamichael Jones of Jonesboro after Jones turned himself in to Rockdale County deputies early Tuesday. Jones is charged