Month: August 2022

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Bert Fields, an A-list Hollywood attorney whose clients included Tom Cruise, Michael Jackson, George Lucas and the Beatles, has died at age 93. Fields’ law firm announced that he died Sunday at his home in Malibu, California. Fields’ famous cases include a $250 million settlement

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Police have identified a fugitive accused of firing shots inside the Mall of America last week before fleeing the suburban Minneapolis shopping complex with the help of several accomplices. Bloomington police say 21-year-old Shamar Alon Lark, of Minneapolis, fired three rounds in front of a Nike store following a fight involving a

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer Actor Ezra Miller has been charged with felony burglary in Stamford, Vermont, the latest in a string of incidents involving the embattled star of “The Flash.” In a report Monday, Vermont State Police said they responded to a burglary complaint in Stamford on May 1 and found several bottles

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The head of Oklahoma’s prison system who oversaw the agency’s return to carrying out executions after a seven-year hiatus is stepping down. Oklahoma Department of Corrections Director Scott Crow announced his resignation in a statement on Monday. He did not cite a reason for stepping down. His last day as director

DALLAS (AP) — A man accused of fatally shooting his two teenage daughters in a taxi in the Dallas area in 2008 told jurors in his capital murder trial on Monday that he fled the vehicle before they were killed because he thought someone wanted to kill him. Yaser Said told jurors on Monday: “Definitely

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss (AP) — An incident involving a white Mississippi Highway Patrol officer and three Black men is under investigation after a viral video showed the officer putting a handcuffed man into a chokehold and wrestling him into a ditch. The video shows the officer wrestling a handcuffed

By HOLLY RAMER Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Testimony has ended in the trial of a truck driver charged in a crash that killed seven members of a Marine motorcycle club in New Hampshire. The final witness for the defense Monday was an accident reconstruction expert who testified that the 2019 crash would’ve happened

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI and KATHLEEN FOODY The Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Matthew DePerno made his political reputation on loudly and repeatedly questioning the 2020 presidential election results. But now the political novice is accused of helping obtain improper access to voting machines and intending to use them to further the false claims, just

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — Shoes off, an almost-empty container of leftovers, an unfinished glass of wine — this was the exhausted portrait of one of the most powerful Democrats in Washington after Senate passage of President Joe Biden’s sweeping health, climate and economic package. New York’s Chuck Schumer effectively moved

By LAURAN NEERGAARD and SHELBY LUM Associated Press DUNCANSVILLE, Pa. (AP) — Researchers are seeking thousands of volunteers in the U.S. and Europe to test the first potential vaccine against Lyme disease in 20 years — in hopes of better fighting the tick-borne threat. Lyme is a growing problem, with cases rising and warming weather

BUSHTON, Kan. (AP) — Authorities say a buffalo charged and seriously injured a Kansas sheriff’s deputy one day before the animal’s owner was found gored to death. Ellsworth County Sheriff Murray Marston said in a news release that the buffalo had wandered onto a state highway and the deputy was trying to get the animal

Oklahoma City police say a man who shot and killed his three children before turning the gun on himself livestreamed threatening messages shortly before the killings. Police on Monday identified the man as 30-year-old Francoise Littlejohn. They say a relative saw Littlejohn threatening to harm his children on a social media livestream early Saturday and

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Olivia Newton-John, the Grammy-winning superstar who reigned on pop, country, adult contemporary and dance charts with such hits as “Physical” and “You’re the One That I Want” and won countless hearts as everyone’s favorite Sandy in the blockbuster film version of “Grease,” has died. She

By The Associated Press Danish filmmaker Lars von Trier, known for films like “Melancholia” and “Dancer in the Dark,” has been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, his production company Zentropa said Monday. The company said it released the information in order to avoid speculation about his health leading up to the premiere of his series “The

By TIA GOLDENBERG and JOSEPH KRAUSS Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Close to one-third of the Palestinians who died in the latest outbreak of violence between Israel and Gaza militants may have been killed by errant rockets fired by the Palestinian side, according to an Israeli military assessment that appears consistent with independent

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A man convicted and imprisoned for more than 20 years in the 1997 shooting death of another man outside a New Orleans supermarket has been freed after prosecutors agreed that his conviction should be vacated. Court records show a motion to vacate the conviction of 47-year-old

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russia has announced a freeze on U.S. inspections of its nuclear arsenals under a pivotal arms control treaty. It cited Western sanctions that hampered similar tours of U.S. facilities by Russian monitors. Moscow’s move reflects soaring tensions with Washington over Russia’s military action in Ukraine. It’s the

By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press A judge says money from the sale of Florida beachfront property where a collapsed condominium tower once stood will be used to pay property taxes of the destroyed units. Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Michael Hanzman said in a brief ruling Monday that the 2022 tax payments should not come from the

The Associated Press Benchmark U.S. crude oil for September delivery rose $1.75 to $90.76 a barrel Monday. Brent crude for October delivery rose $1.73 to $96.65 a barrel. Wholesale gasoline for September delivery rose 3 cents to $2.89 a gallon. September heating oil fell 4 cents to $3.18 a gallon. September natural gas fell 47

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge in New York has authorized the United States to seize a $90 million jet belonging to a Russian oligarch in a continuing effort to diminish the financial pillars of the Russian government after its invasion of Ukraine. Federal prosecutors announced Monday that the

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — More than 60 Oklahoma lawmakers are urging the state attorney general to join their request for a new evidentiary hearing in the case of death row inmate Richard Glossip. The group of 61 state legislators includes many Republicans who support the death penalty but question whether

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press Relatives of a 19-year-old Black man who died during a struggle with police officers on Maryland’s Eastern Shore have reached a $5 million partial settlement of their wrongful death lawsuit. Lawyers for Anton Black’s family announced the settlement terms at a news conference on Monday. They said the deal also

By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press A judge has set bail at $5 million for a man suspected of killing four people in the small northeast Nebraska town of Laurel last week. Court records show 42-year-old Jason Jones would have to put up 10% — or $500,000 — to be released from jail while he

By ERIC TUCKER and KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A lawyer for Rudy Giuliani says the former New York mayor will not appear as scheduled Tuesday before a special grand jury in Atlanta that’s investigating whether former President Donald Trump and others illegally tried to interfere in the 2020 general election in Georgia.