Month: January 2023

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — The American Film Institute Awards opened its ceremony with a moment of silence for singer-songwriter Lisa Marie Presley. The invite-only ceremony honored the Elvis Presley biopic “Elvis” among its 10 film honorees. Lisa Marie Presley, who died Thursday, had been supporting the film

BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — A human skeleton has been discovered in an unused building on a University of California, Berkeley, campus. The university’s police department says it’s unclear how many years the remains were in the shuttered building on the Clark Kerr Campus, which is a residential hall complex and event space that’s about a

CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago man has been charged with killing a teenage girl in 2016 to boost his standing in a gang. Authorities say a grand jury indicted Patrick Johnson on a charge of murder in aid of racketeering. Johnson is accused of shooting 15-year-old Veronica Lopez while the girl was riding in a

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors are seeking a life prison term for an ex-convict who extorted and forced into labor or prostitution some women he met at his daughter’s on-campus housing at Sarah Lawrence College. Manhattan federal prosecutors wrote in a court document Friday that Lawrence Ray has shown he

WASHINGTON (AP) — ABC’s “This Week” — Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga.; Reps. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., and Don Bacon, R-Neb. __ NBC’s “Meet the Press” — Sens. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., and Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich.; former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. __ CBS’ “Face the Nation” — Reps. Daniel Goldman, D-N.Y., and Chris Stewart, R-Utah. ___ CNN’s

NEW YORK (AP) — The final five defendants have been sentenced in the fatal gang stabbing of a 15-year-old whose attackers mistook him for an underworld rival. Friday’s sentencing marked an end to a slate of prosecutions in the June 2018 death of Lesandro Guzman-Feliz, who was known as “Junior.” The killing unleashed outrage in

By JOSHUA GOODMAN and ASTRID SUAREZ Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia’s president is seeking to suspend arrest orders against some of the country’s biggest criminal suspects as part of an ambitious plan to dismantle armed groups that have long dominated the countryside. The request to suspend the arrest orders against eight members of

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Ricardo Mejia has resigned as Mexico’s number two security official, and said he will continue in state politics outside of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s Morena party. Mejia said Friday he will run for governor in the northern state of Coahuila on the ticket of smaller Labor Party. That marks the

By JOHN O’CONNOR AP Political Writer SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — To the scores of sheriffs in Illinois who reportedly have sworn not to enforce the ban on semiautomatic weapons that took effect this week, the governor has a succinct answer: Yes, you will. Gov. J.B. Pritzker rebuffed statements Friday by 9 in 10 of sheriffs

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — A cloud shot up vertically like a plume of smoke in a matter of seconds before a Hawaiian Airlines flight last month hit severe turbulence and 25 people on board were injured, according to a preliminary report Friday by the National Transportation Safety Board. The captain

By JESSICA GRESKO and MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to consider what employers must do to accommodate religious employees, among eight new cases it added. The cases are expected to be argued in April. In one involving a former postal employee, the justices will consider what accommodations

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Nevada Northern Railway Museum staff is mourning the death of their resident cat who became an unlikely internet sensation. The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports Dirt — short for Dirtbag —died Wednesday in the town of Ely surrounded by railroad staff. He was 15. The semi-feral feline was a staple at

By REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Homeland Security Department is announcing measures for migrant workers who witness or are victims of workplace labor violations. The new steps help them apply for protection from deportation. The announcement Friday was applauded by labor and rights advocates who say it will protect migrant workers who

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The family of a man who died from dehydration and malnutrition while being held at an Arkansas jail has filed a lawsuit against the facility. The family of Larry Eugene Price Jr. filed the lawsuit in federal court Friday. Price died at the Sebastian County

PHOENIX (AP) — Democratic Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs wants to undo a massive expansion of a school voucher program passed last year by Republicans that lets students apply to use public money to attend private schools and other education costs. In releasing its budget proposals Friday, the governor’s office said the expansion is siphoning money

By LEA SKENE BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore’s new top prosecutor dropped all charges Friday against a Black man who stood trial four times for the same killing, freeing him from behind bars and ending a controversial case that repeatedly raised questions about police and prosecutorial conduct. Keith Davis Jr. was accused of fatally shooting Pimlico

By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer MIAMI (AP) — The home of the Miami Heat has yet another name: Miami-Dade Arena. That will be the temporary moniker for the building where the NBA team plays its home games, while the search for a more permanent naming-rights partner commences. The Heat and Miami-Dade County announced the

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Louisiana nursing home owner is facing a new lawsuit over evacuating residents to a squalid warehouse to ride out Hurricane Ida in 2021. Federal authorities accuse Bob Dean Junior of misspending millions of dollars in violation of federal regulations. The latest complaint was filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in

KISSIMMEE, Fla. (AP) — Several dozen fans scored autographs from Jair Bolsonaro in central Florida on Friday. But the controversial former Brazilian president didn’t emerge to greet them after a stint in hospital earlier this week. The right wing populist had been quietly staying with a supporter in an Orlando suburb since leaving Brazil in

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — Federal prosecutors have charged the wife of a northwestern Iowa county supervisor with 52 counts of voter fraud to help her husband’s ultimately unsuccessful race for a Republican nomination to run for Congress in 2020. The U.S. attorney’s office says 49-year-old Kim Phuong Taylor was arrested Thursday and pleaded not

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — New U.S. government data suggests holiday gatherings didn’t spark surges in respiratory diseases. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday reported that visits to doctors’ offices for the flu-like illnesses fell for the sixth straight week. Reports of RSV, a common bug, are

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press BRIGANTINE, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey’s governor says he does not think undersea preparations for offshore wind farms should be halted in response to a recent spate of whale deaths in New Jersey and New York. Democrat Phil Murphy spoke after lawmakers at the local, state and federal levels called

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut officer who opened fire on a man stealing a police cruiser, wounding him the leg minutes before he crashed the SUV into a deli, is under investigation for deadly use of force. The state inspector general’s office said Friday that it is reviewing Thursday’s

BEIRUT (AP) — Angry protesters in Syria’s rebel-held enclave have rallied against reconciliation attempts between Turkey and Syrian President Bashar Assad’s government and scuffled with a local Syrian opposition figure involved in those attempts. The crowd in the rebel-held town of Azaz on Friday first chanted slogans against the political efforts, then shouted abuse at

By MARYCLAIRE DALE Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Patty Braxton grimaced as a priest led a few dozen mourners in prayer on a gray, drizzly Friday beside the grave of a small boy found dead in 1957 and long dubbed “America’s Unknown Child” or the “Boy in the Box.” Her father, retired Philadelphia Detective Thomas

By DAVID BILLER and CARLA BRIDI Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A Brazilian Supreme Court justice has authorized adding former President Jair Bolsonaro in its investigation into who incited the Jan. 8 riot in the nation’s capital. The ruling came Friday after the prosecutor-general’s office asked the Supreme Court to include Bolsonaro. As