Month: February 2023

By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer Gregg Winik refers to the last time the NBA’s All-Star Weekend was in Salt Lake City as a simpler time. In 1993, festivities occurred over only two days while the fan festival known as Jam Session made its debut. For this year’s event, there are three nights of on-court

By TODD RICHMOND and HARM VENHUIZEN Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Decisions to shoot down multiple unidentified objects over the U.S. and Canada this month have put a spotlight on amateur balloonists who insist their creations pose no threat. Over the last three weeks, U.S. President Joe Biden has ordered fighter jets to shoot

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — A building at the U.S. Naval Academy that had been named after a leader in the Confederate Navy has been renamed in honor of former President Jimmy Carter. The decision was announced Friday at a ceremony at the academy. Carter graduated from the academy in 1946. The decision to rename the

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut environmental officials were monitoring reports of sooty matter being found on parked cars throughout the state. The state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection said it was unclear what exactly was falling from the sky or why, but it had not led to unhealthy air quality. In a statement, the

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG and EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press ARKABUTLA, Miss. (AP) — A lone gunman killed six people including his ex-wife and stepfather Friday at multiple locations in a tiny rural community in northern Mississippi, the sheriff said, leaving investigators searching for clues to what motivated the rampage. Armed with a shotgun and two

By JOHN ANTCZAK Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A man who allegedly shot and wounded two Jewish men as they left synagogues in Los Angeles this week was charged Friday with federal hate crimes. Jaime Tran, 28, allegedly carried out the attacks on Wednesday and Thursday mornings, U.S. Attorney Martin Estrada said at a

By JILL COLVIN and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department has searched the office of former Vice President Mike Pence’s Washington advocacy group as part of its investigation into the discovery of sensitive documents at the homes and offices of current and former top U.S. officials. Pence adviser Devin O’Malley says

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — Police in Norfolk, Virginia, say the mother of a 6-year-old student who brought a handgun to school on Thursday has been charged in the incident. Norfolk police said in a news release Friday they responded to Little Creek Elementary School in Norfolk at about 3:30 p.m. Thursday after receiving a report

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Police say a person has been shot at an Indianapolis shopping mall in the second shooting there this year. The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department tweeted Friday that “Officers used a tourniquet on the victim for first aid.” Authorities say the suspect is no longer at the mall. The person who was shot

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — One of the two conservative candidates for an open Wisconsin Supreme Court seat was paid by state and national Republicans to advise on election issues, including voting by fake electors to cast ballots for Donald Trump even though he lost the state. Dan Kelly is a

Associated Press CINCINNATI (AP) — The racketeering trial of former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder and lobbyist Matt Borges was cancelled again Friday due to illness. That gives jurors a long holiday weekend to mull striking new details revealed this week of the $60 million bribery scheme alleged by federal prosecutors. Lobbyist Juan Cespedes has

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Department of Labor says one of the country’s largest cleaning services for food processing companies employed more than 100 children in dangerous jobs at 13 meatpacking plants across the country. The agency said Friday that Wisconsin-based Packer Sanitation Services Inc. has paid over $1.5 million in

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Former Theranos executive Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani returned to federal court Friday in a last-ditch attempt to stay out of prison while appealing a jury’s verdict convicting him of orchestrating a blood-testing hoax with his former boss and lover, Elizabeth Holmes. Besides overseeing arguments about

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Police in Bulgaria on Friday discovered an abandoned truck containing the bodies of 18 migrants, who appeared to have suffocated to death. The Interior Ministry said that according to initial information, the truck was carrying about 40 migrants and the survivors were taken to nearby hospitals for emergency treatment. Bulgarian Health

By JAMES ROBSON AP Soccer Writer MANCHESTER, England (AP) — A Qatar-based bid for Manchester United was confirmed Friday, with Sheikh Jassim bin Hamad Al Thani promising to rid the iconic soccer club of debt and return it to its former glories. Sheikh Jassim, chairman of Qatar Islamic Bank, has submitted a 100% offer to

SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — A white Louisiana police officer is free on $25,000 bond following his arrest for fatally shooting an unarmed Black man who was trying to flee police responding to a domestic disturbance call earlier this month. Attorney Dhu Thompson, who represents Shreveport Police Officer Alexander Tyler, told The Associated Press they’re disappointed

By HANK KURZ Jr. AP Sports Writer RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Richmond coach Chris Mooney is stepping away from the Spiders for the remainder of the season to undergo heart surgery. The 60-year-old Mooney said the procedure will be performed next week at the University of Virginia Medical Center to remove an aneurysm in his

By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon will require corporate employees to return to the office at least three days a week. Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said in a memo to staff Friday the new policy will go into effect May 1. The current policy allows team leaders to determine how

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Sen. Rick Scott of Florida has amended a plan to overhaul how the federal government works after Democrats repeatedly seized on it to accuse Republicans of looking to cut Medicare and Social Security. Scott original plan had called for all federal legislation to sunset in five

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Stella Stevens, a prominent leading lady in 1960s and 70s comedies perhaps best known for playing the object of Jerry Lewis’s affection in “The Nutty Professor,” has died. She was 84. Stevens’ estate said she died Friday in Los Angeles after a long illness. Born Estelle Caro Eggleston in

By TARA COPP Associated Press ABOARD A US MILITARY AIRCRAFT (AP) — The Pentagon says the first class of 635 Ukrainian fighters has finished a five-week advanced U.S. training course in Germany on sophisticated combat skills and armored vehicles that will be critical in the coming spring offensive against the Russians. Pentagon press secrertary Brig.

By SCOTT McFETRIDGE Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The founder of an educational program for at-risk teenagers in Des Moines says he hopes to reopen the school as soon as next week with enhanced security. That’s about a month after a shooting left two students dead. Will Keeps, the founder of Starts Right

By ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — A public commission says Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government met the “very high threshold” for invoking the Emergencies Act to quell the paralyzing protests by truckers and others angry over Canada’s COVID-19 restrictions last winter.  For weeks, hundreds and sometimes thousands of protesters in trucks and

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press Prosecutors have presented a detailed timeline of what they think happened the night Alex Murdaugh’s wife and son were killed in South Carolina. The timeline includes a flurry of steps just before Murdaugh drove off in his SUV. At that point, investigators believe 16 minutes had passed since his wife

By PATRICK ORSAGOS and JOHN SEEWER Associated Press EAST PALESTINE, Ohio (AP) — A plume of chemicals that spilled into the Ohio River after a fiery train derailment has broken up and is no longer a concern, Ohio’s governor said Friday, but worries remain among residents near the disaster site who’ve complained about lingering headaches