Month: August 2022

BOWLING GREEN, Ohio (AP) — Two former fraternity members in Ohio have been sentenced to six weeks in jail over the hazing death of a student. The two men were convicted of hazing-related misdemeanor counts. They had been acquitted in May of more serious charges, including involuntary manslaughter and reckless homicide. Twenty-four-year-old Troy Henricksen had

MAYVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — The man charged with stabbing Salman Rushdie on a lecture stage in western New York said in an interview that he was surprised to learn the author had survived. Speaking to the New York Post from jail, Hadi Matar said he decided to see Rushdie at the Chautauqua Institution after he

BATON ROUGE (AP) — Brad Pitt’s Make It Right Foundation and homeowners of the houses built by the program, in an area of New Orleans that was among the hardest hit by Hurricane Katrina, reached a $20.5 million settlement Tuesday evening. The settlement represents a major milestone in the long-running saga that began in the

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut judge has begun hearing testimony on whether a lawyer for conspiracy theorist Alex Jones should be disciplined for disclosing highly sensitive documents to another one of Jones’ lawyers. The hearing about attorney Norman Pattis’ conduct started Wednesday. It’s in connection with a defamation lawsuit

ROSSIE, Iowa (AP) — A northwest Iowa woman has died after being attacked by her five Great Danes. The Clay County Sheriff’s Office on Wednesday said a man found a woman in a ditch in a rural area of Clay County on Monday but couldn’t get close to her because of several large dogs. KTIV-TV

ELKHART, Ind. (AP) — Former Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill is dismissing as “old news” the question of whether allegations that he drunkenly groped four women during a 2018 party could hurt his chances of replacing Republican U.S. Rep. Jackie Walorski following her death in a highway crash. Hill is the most prominent of the

By JAMES POLLARD Associated Press/Report for America COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The South Carolina “fetal heartbeat” law banning abortion around six weeks is no longer in effect after the state Supreme Court on Wednesday temporarily blocked it. For now, South Carolinians can access abortions at 20 weeks of pregnancy. In its order granting a preliminary

By KEVIN McGILL and MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A judge’s order that forced the Biden administration to resume sales of oil and gas leases on federal land and waters was vacated Wednesday by a federal appeals court in New Orleans. It was at least a temporary victory for President Joe Biden

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia man has been indicted on homicide charges after a Memorial Day weekend boat crash that killed five people. Mark Stegall faces 10 counts of first-degree homicide by vessel, six counts of serious injury by vessel, boating under the influence, and reckless operation. Wednesday’s indictment came after a boat Stegall

LAGRANGE, Ga. (AP) — A man has been arrested in connection with three separate shootings along Interstate 85 in Alabama and Georgia that left one man seriously wounded. Sheriff’s deputies in Georgia say Jerel Raphael Brown of Montgomery, Alabama, was taken into custody after Wednesday’s shootings. Officials say he shot at vehicles in Montgomery and

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press/Report for America RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The campaign committee for North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein has asked a federal appeals court to block enforcement of a seldom-used libel law amid an investigation into one of the attorney general’s 2020 political ads. Stein’s campaign asked the 4th Circuit U.S. Court

TORONTO (AP) — A Canadian doctor accused of killing a patient last year has been charged with three more counts of first-degree murder. Ontario Provincial Police say the new charges against Dr. Brian Nadler relate to the deaths of 80-year-old Claire Briere, 79-year-old Lorraine Lalande and 93-year-old Judith Lungulescu. Police declined to provide more details.

LIBERTY, N.Y. (AP) — A fire consumed a building at the site of the long-closed Grossinger’s resort, once among the most storied and glamorous hotels in New York’s Catskills. The fire broke out Tuesday evening in a three-and-half story building on the old hotel property. The cause was under investigation. In its heyday after World

By JOCELYN GECKER and DYLAN LOVAN CECILIA, Ky. (AP) — This year’s back-to-school season will restore a degree of pre-pandemic normalcy. But many of COVID-19′s lasting impacts remain a troubling reality for schools. Among them: student mental health reached crisis levels last year. The pressure on schools to figure out solutions has never been greater.

By MARGARET STAFFORD Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas is suing the state of Missouri over a new law requiring the city to increase funding for its police department. The lawsuit filed Wednesday is the latest step in a long-running disagreement between mostly GOP state lawmakers and Kansas City

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press/Report for America RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Abortions in North Carolina are no longer legal after 20 weeks of pregnancy, a federal judge ruled Wednesday, eroding protections in one of the South’s few remaining safe havens for reproductive freedom. U.S. District Judge William Osteen reinstated an unenforced 20-week abortion ban, with

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The chairman and CEO of a New Orleans-based utility is retiring and his successor as CEO has been chosen. Entergy Corp. is one of two Louisiana companies in the Fortune 500. It announced Wednesday that 62-year-old Leo Denault has announced plans to retire, and the board of directors has elected Chief

DALLAS (AP) — The federal government is suing SkyWest Airlines on behalf of a former employee who says co-workers sexually harassed her, including asking her for sex and making explicit comments about rape in her presence. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said in a lawsuit filed Wednesday that SkyWest discriminated against the woman by

By LYNN ELBER AP Television Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Randy Rainbow has built a career on his musical parody videos, and he’s up for his fourth Emmy nomination. But his competition in the short-form variety series category includes heavyweights James Corden, Stephen Colbert and Seth Meyers. Corden’s “Carpool Karaoke: The Series” has nabbed the

By JANET McCONNAUGHEY Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The world’s smallest and most endangered sea turtle has hatched in Louisiana’s wilds for the first known time in 75 years. Louisiana agencies say crews monitoring the Chandeleur Islands to help design a restoration project found tracks of females going to and from nests, and of

MIAMI (AP) — U.S. investigators say they’ve spotted an uptick in the amount and caliber of weapons being smuggled from Florida to Haiti in recent months. The Miami Homeland Security Investigations office said agents are boosting efforts to stop the illicit weapons flow, noting rising gang violence around Haiti’s capital. Special agent in charge Anthony

By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Two Black men who challenged their criminal convictions after jurors deliberated in a Tennessee courthouse room containing Confederate symbols have received opposite rulings from different judges on the same appeals court. One was granted a new trial. The other was denied. The conflicting decisions likely mean

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A legal battle over abortion rights pitting one of the reddest states in the nation against the U.S. government has dozens of states and major medical associations seeking to weigh in. Twenty states, Washington, D.C., the American College of Emergency Physicians, the American College of Obstetricians

BOSTON (AP) — Doctors and other staffers at Boston Children’s Hospital are being threatened with violence over its surgical program for transgender youths. Other U.S. children’s hospitals are also being harassed online. Boston Children’s is home to the first U.S. pediatric and adolescent transgender health program. It became the focus of far-right social media accounts,

By GRANT PECK and EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — The U.N. special envoy for Myanmar, Noeleen Heyzer, has met with the head of its military-installed government and urged him to halt all violence and support a political path back to civilian rule and democracy, Heyzer also called on Senior Gen. Min Aung

By AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — The Montana Supreme Court has found the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs can be held responsible for damages awarded to a Montana woman who became pregnant after an on-duty BIA officer used the threat of criminal charges to coerce her into having sex. The woman

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rapper A$AP Rocky has pleaded not guilty to felony assault with a firearm charges stemming from a 2021 confrontation in Hollywood. He is accused of drawing a gun and firing it twice in the direction of a former friend during an argument in Hollywood in November 2021. He pleaded not guilty