Month: January 2023

By ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Residents living in a community just outside Scottsdale, Arizona are feuding with the city they long depended on for water now that the Phoenix suburb has cut off their supply to ensure enough for its own residents. Rio Verde Foothills is located in unincorporated Maricopa County. The

By JILL COLVIN Associated Press A staffer on Herschel Walker’s Republican Senate campaign has filed a lawsuit against prominent conservative activist Matt Schlapp, accusing Schlapp of groping him during a car ride in Georgia before last year’s midterm election. Schlapp denies the allegation, and his lawyer says they are considering a countersuit. The staffer’s battery

YOAKUM, Texas (AP) — A small plane crash in Texas has left four members of a Tennessee church dead and the lead pastor injured. That’s according to authorities and the Harvest Church, located in the Memphis suburb of Germantown. The Federal Aviation Administration says the single-engine Piper PA-46 crashed Tuesday morning in an open field

By TRISHA AHMED Associated Press/Report for America Books containing “sexually explicit” content — including depictions of sexual or gender identity — would be banned from North Dakota public libraries under legislation that state lawmakers began considering Tuesday. The GOP-dominated state House Judiciary Committee heard arguments but did not take a vote on the measure, which

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press/Report for America RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina utility says that an electricity substation has been damaged by gunfire but that it caused no outages. The damage reported Tuesday comes after a December gunfire attack on multiple substations in Moore County that knocked out power to more than 45,000

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama has withdrawn from a 32-state voter registration partnership. New Secretary of State Wes Allen sent a letter Tuesday withdrawing from the Electronic Registration Information Center, a non-profit grouping of 32 states and the District of Columbia. Allen cited concerns over privacy, saying he was troubled

By MIKE HOUSEHOLDER Associated Press ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — A grocery store featuring thousands of faux food items made entirely from discarded plastic bags opens Tuesday to the public, an artist’s non-edible creation calling attention to the dangers of plastic waste. The Plastic Bag Store is a custom-built public art installation and film experience

By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A shooter stood over a 16-year-old mother clutching her 10-month-old baby and pumped bullets into their heads in a brazen attack in a central California farming community that left six dead at a home linked to drugs and guns, a sheriff said Tuesday. Tulare County Sheriff

By COLLEEN LONG and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House brushed aside criticism Tuesday of its fragmented disclosures about the discovery of classified documents and official records at President Joe Biden’s home and former office, saying it may withhold information to protect the Justice Department’s investigation. Ian Sams, a spokesperson for

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia teenager has been sentenced in adult court to life in prison in the killings of four family members. Gavin Smith of Elkview was sentenced Tuesday for his convictions last month in the December 2020 deaths of his mother, stepfather, and 12- and 3-year-old brothers. News outlets report a

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Matteo Messina Denaro’s long record as a killer — turncoat mobsters said he’d boast of enough murders to fill a cemetery — greatly burnished his credentials among his peers as a major boss in the Sicilian Mafia. After 30 years eluding capture while still running much of

By AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — The Montana legislature is considering a proposal that would interpret the state’s constitutional right to privacy to mean that it does not protect the right to an abortion, a move that would echo others in several states to severely restrict or ban abortion. Sen. Keith

By JAKE BLEIBERG and MICHAEL TARM Associated Press Federal prosecutors will not seek the death penalty for a man accused of fatally shooting nearly two dozen people in a racist attack at a West Texas Walmart in 2019. The U.S. Department of Justice disclosed the decision not to pursue capital punishment against Patrick Crusius in

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles judge has declared that porn performer Ron Jeremy is mentally incompetent to stand trial on dozens of rape and sexual assault counts. Judge Ronald Harris said Tuesday that after reviewing reports from both prosecutors and defense attorneys that Jeremy is in cognitive

WATERBURY, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut judge has ruled that a Texas lawyer for conspiracy theorist Alex Jones committed misconduct but will not be disciplined for violating a confidentiality order. The judge’s ruling involving Houston lawyer Andino Reynal came Tuesday in connection with the improper disclosure of medical records of relatives of Sandy Hook school

By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Officials say video footage of Tyre Nichols’ arrest will be released to the public after an internal investigation into the actions of Memphis Police Department officers is completed and his family can review it. The city’s mayor and police chief released a joint statement Tuesday as

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government has run up against its legal borrowing capacity of $31.381 trillion, an artificially imposed debt limit that has been increased scores of times. The Treasury Department on Thursday began implementing accounting workarounds called “extraordinary measures” to avoid a default. These workarounds shift money among

By KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The attorney general’s office in New Hampshire says a group accused of displaying “Keep New England White” banners from an overpass faces state Civil Rights Act violations. The complaints allege that on July 30, 2022, the Nationalist Social Club, also known as NSC-131, and two of

COHASSET, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts man already facing a charge of misleading investigators in the search for his missing wife has now been charged with murder in her disappearance, a top prosecutor said Tuesday. Norfolk District Attorney Michael Morrissey said in a video statement that Brian Walshe, 47, who is being held on $500,000

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A Navy reservist who is charged with storming the Capitol on Jan. 6 is going back on trial in Virginia on separate charges that he illegally bought silencers and talked about using them against Jewish people. Opening statements Tuesday marked the second trial the northern Virginia

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Randall Park made a pact with himself some years ago that he wouldn’t attend the Sundance Film Festival if he didn’t have a project there. But the “Fresh Off the Boat” star never imagined that his first time would be as a director and not as an actor. His

By DAVID SHARP Associated Press AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine Gov. Janet Mills and legislative leaders want to expand access to abortion — allowing abortions after 24 weeks with a doctor’s approval — and take steps to protect medical providers. One proposal would effectively eliminate abortion restrictions for procedures deemed medically necessary. Current state law

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Actor Jeremy Renner says he is out of the hospital after being treated for serious injuries from a snow plow accident. In response to a Twitter post Monday about his Paramount+ TV series “Mayor of Kingstown,” Renner tweeted, “Outside my brain fog in recovery, I was very excited to watch episode

By RIO YAMAT and SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A failed Republican candidate paid $500 to four men to shoot at the homes of Democratic lawmakers, but was so unsatisfied with the shooters’ work that he went along for the final drive-by, his gun jamming as bullets ripped into the bedroom

By BRUCE SCHREINER and DYLAN LOVAN Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Republican gubernatorial candidate Ryan Quarles has backed out of a campaign event in Kentucky. Quarles opted not to appear with a retired police officer who fired at Breonna Taylor after being shot during the deadly raid on Taylor’s apartment. Quarles said Tuesday that

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Randall Park made a pact with himself some years ago that he wouldn’t attend the Sundance Film Festival if he didn’t have a project there. But the “Fresh Off the Boat” star never imagined that his first time would be as a director and not as an actor. His