Month: November 2022

BERLIN (AP) — A huge horde of ancient gold coins dating back to around 100 B.C. has been stolen from a museum in southern Germany. Bavarian state police said the coins were stolen early Tuesday from the Celtic and Roman Museum in Manching, 60 kilometers (37 miles)  north of Munich. The 483 coins were discovered

By DYLAN LOVAN Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — John Y. Brown Jr., who became Kentucky’s governor after building empires in business and sports, has died. He was 88. Brown had been a leading Democratic fundraiser by the time he made his own run for public office. He also acquired an international reputation as a

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Republican groups have filed an appeal with Georgia’s highest court in an attempt to prohibit early voting this Saturday in the U.S. Senate runoff election between Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and Republican challenger Herschel Walker. The Georgia Republican Party, the National Republican Senatorial Committee and the Republican

CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago police officer has been found not guilty in the February 2020 shooting and wounding of an unarmed man during a struggle at a downtown commuter train station. Cook County Judge Joseph Claps acquitted 33-year-old Melvina Bogard Tuesday of aggravated battery and misconduct charges. Prosecutors have said Bogard and another officer,

By COLLIN BINKLEY and CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is announcing that his administration will extend the pause on federal student loan payments while the White House fights a legal battle to save his plan to cancel portions of the debt. The moratorium was slated to expire Jan. 1, a

NEW YORK (AP) — Geoff Wonfor, a Grammy winning British filmmaker who directed the Beatles’ acclaimed “Anthology” documentary and worked on the 1980s music program “The Tube” as well as several projects with Paul McCartney, has died at age 73. Released in the mid-1990s, “The Beatles Anthology” was an authorized, multimedia project that included an

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian authorities say they are investigating the conduct of Russian troops who appeared in a video that Moscow alleges showed them trying to surrender, then being shot. Video fragments circulated on Russian social media last week which Moscow alleged show that Ukrainian forces killed Russian troops who may have been trying

By KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A terminally ill man scheduled to be executed in mid-December for his role in the 1985 slayings of two gold prospectors in Idaho is asking a federal court to block the execution. Attorneys for 66-year-old Gerald Ross Pizzuto Jr. asked the court in documents filed Monday

By AARON MORRISON AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Breaking is in Victor Montalvo’s blood. He is a descendant of twin breakers — his father and uncle — who were performing in Mexico long before they taught a young Montalvo to spin on his back. Born in Kissimmee, Florida, the 28-year-old who also goes

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt and Greece have signed two bilateral deals, including a pact to improve cooperation in migrant search and rescue missions across the Mediterranean Sea. The deals were signed in Cairo on Tuesday. It was the second meeting the two countries’ foreign ministers in under two months, after Turkey signed a controversial maritime

By AMY FORLITI and STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press A man who survived a weekend shooting at a gay nightclub in Colorado Springs says he wants to be resilient and won’t be “taken out by some sick person.” Another survivor says the shooting left him feeling hopeful and surrounded by community support. They are among the

By ARLEIGH RODGERS Associated Press/Report for America DELPHI, Ind. (AP) — An Indiana judge says she will decide soon whether to unseal court records that led to a man’s arrest last month in the 2017 killings of two teenage girls. During a hearing Tuesday, Special Judge Fran Gull acknowledged that there’s great public interest in

By SIAN WATSON Associated Press While promoting his latest movie, “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery,” Daniel Craig said dancing doesn’t come naturally to him. But he couldn’t resist a pitch from “Thor: Love and Thunder” director Taika Waititi. The pair collaborated on a recent Belvedere vodka ad, which was the James Bond actor swinging

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A Wisconsin company that cleans hundreds of meatpacking plants nationwide is defending itself against allegations that it employed more than two dozen minors working overnight shifts cleaning massive saws and other dangerous equipment. Labor Department officials said in court documents that they believe Packers Sanitation

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi’s leading public health official says over half of the state’s rural hospitals are at risk of closing immediately or in the near future. State Health Officer Dr. Daniel Edney spoke to state senators at a Monday hearing about the financial pressure on Mississippi

By DANIEL POLITI Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Tears welled in the eyes of Oscar López as he washed the windows of the Buenos Aires building where he works as the superintendent. A devoted fan of Argentina, the 67-year-old was visibly upset as he reflected on the bitter 2-1 loss by the national

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Gladys Knight recalls Christmas as more than a family affair when she was growing up in Atlanta. “Because Mom and Dad were the way they were, they would just embrace all the kids in the neighborhood,” said the legendary singer. Many of the children were in the same church choir and

By STEPHEN McGRATH Associated Press Russian energy giant Gazprom has threatened to reduce natural gas supplies through the last pipeline heading to Europe via Ukraine, saying the amount it’s supplying for Moldova is not ending up in the former Soviet republic. Gazprom says the gas company of Europe’s poorest country, Moldovagaz, paid for part of

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Two people have died in a helicopter crash near a North Carolina interstate highway, authorities said. Mecklenburg County EMS service said Tuesday on Twitter that two people were pronounced dead at the scene of the helicopter crash along Interstate 77 in the Charlotte area. Police said that no vehicles were involved

By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press/Report for America PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Good news for fans of “The Goonies:” the old Victorian home featured in the film is on sale in Astoria, Oregon, and potential buyers are considering making it more accessible to the public. “We have a few interested parties right now,” said realtor Jordan