Month: August 2022

MIAMI (AP) — Florida prosecutors have announced a second-degree murder charge against social media model Courtney Clenney in the fatal stabbing last April of her live-in boyfriend. Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle announced the charge Thursday against Clenney, a 26-year-old model who goes by the name Courtney Tailor on online platforms. She was arrested

Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Thursday: Walt Disney Co., up $5.34 to $117.77. The media and entertainment giant added 14.4 million Disney+ subscribers last quarter and will raise prices for the streaming service. Six Flags Entertainment Corp., down $4.69 to $21.12. The amusement park reported quarterly results that fell short of

The Associated Press Benchmark U.S. crude oil for September delivery rose $2.41 to $94.34 a barrel Thursday. Brent crude for October delivery rose $2.20 to $99.60 a barrel. Wholesale gasoline for September delivery was unchanged at $3.07 a gallon. September heating oil rose 7 cents to $3.48 a gallon. September natural gas rose 67 cents

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A San Diego woman who alleges Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer sexually abused her has filed a countersuit to his defamation claim, alleging the baseball star beat her and left her bruised. Bauer has denied abusing the woman he met through social media. He sued her for defamation in April,

By BECKY BOHRER Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Drag performers shimmied up and down a walkway between café tables, as enthusiastic patrons took photos, waved cash and filled out ballots ranking the shows. The mock election, fueled by performances that brought the din of an Anchorage, Alaska, café to a roar, was aimed at

By DAVID PITT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds has asked the state courts to allow her to implement a 2018 law banning most abortions. The law was permanently blocked by a judge in 2019 as unconstitutional. Reynolds previously said she planned to take the matter to court instead of

By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press BUCHA, UKRAINE (AP) — With graves marked only with numbers, not names, burial services were held Thursday for 11 more unidentified bodies found in Bucha, the town outside the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv that saw hundreds of people slaughtered under Russian occupation early in the war. Under a grim gray

Congress is expected on Friday to pass a major bill that includes close to $375 billion in spending related to fighting climate change. The bill, called the Inflation Reduction Act, will infuse cash, subsidies and tax breaks into various sectors of the economy, all aimed at making green energy much cheaper.

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A military statement says nine Indian crew members whose vessel sank off the Pakistani port of Gwadar in the Arabian Sea have been rescued by a tanker and Pakistan’s navy. Thursday’s statement says the sailing vessel Jamna Sagar sunk on Tuesday off Gwadar after sending a distress signal. Pakistan’s navy asked Belgium-flagged

By MADDIE BURAKOFF AP Science Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists in Germany attached tiny trackers to giant moths looking for clues about insect migration. In a study published Thursday, researchers followed moths around in a small airplane to map out their journeys. They found that the moths flew in straight paths and used different

By KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California’s governor wants the state to invest tens of billions of dollars in water recycling, storage and desalination to shore up its supply over the next two decades. Gov. Gavin Newsom was set to announce the plan Thursday at a desalination plant. The state predicts its

By HOLLY RAMER Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Authorities say the search for a New Hampshire girl who disappeared at age 5 in 2019 but was not reported missing until late last year is now considered a homicide investigation. New Hampshire Attorney General John Formella said Thursday that authorities have concluded that Harmony was

By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS and PATRICK ORSAGOS Associated Press WILMINGTON, Ohio (AP) — An armed man clad in body armor who tried to breach the FBI’s Cincinnati office on Thursday was shot and killed by police after he fled the scene and engaged in an hourslong standoff in a rural part of the state, the Ohio

By COSTAS KANTOURIS Associated Press THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — Greek police say neighboring Turkey has been asked to help about 40 migrants, some urgently requiring medical aid, reported by aid groups to have been stranded for days on a river islet inside a restricted military zone at their border. The request was made Thursday after

FOND DU LAC, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin judge has committed a man accused of targeting a motorcyclist in a fatal crash because of the victim’s race to life in a mental institution. Daniel Navarro, a 27-year-old Mexican American from Fond du Lac, was convicted Wednesday of first-degree intentional homicide as a hate crime in

ISLAMABAD (AP) — An international media watchdog has urged Pakistan to free a TV news director arrested the previous day over an alleged anti-army broadcast and return the station on air. Thursday’s appeal by Paris-based Reporters Without Borders came a day after Pakistani police arrested Ammad Yousaf, a senior executive at the private ARY Television

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. nuclear chief is warning that “very alarming” military activity at Europe’s largest nuclear plant in southeastern Ukraine could lead to dangerous consequences for the region and calls for an end to attacks at the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia facility. Rafael Grossi on Thursday urged Russia

By ANDREA RODRÍGUEZ Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — A second firefighter has died in Cuba, where crews have controlled a massive blaze that began last week at a key oil storage facility amid a deepening energy crisis. The 24-year-old firefighter identified as Elier Correa had been hospitalized in critical condition, Cubadebate reported Thursday. Another 14

By ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — A judge has declared a mistrial in a dispute over partial liability for Flint, Michigan’s lead-contaminated water. The jury couldn’t reach a unanimous verdict after hearing months of evidence against two engineering firms. Veolia North America and Lockwood, Andrews & Newman were accused of not doing enough