Month: March 2023

By MICHAEL RUBINKAM Associated Press Investigators looking for the cause of a deadly explosion that leveled part of a Pennsylvania chocolate factory are facing an even more difficult task as they comb through wreckage that was picked apart and moved around during the weekend search for victims and survivors. Seven people were killed and several

By JONATHAN MATTISE, TRAVIS LOLLER and HOLLY MEYER Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A former student shot through the doors of a Christian elementary school Monday and killed three children and three adults after elaborately planning the massacre by drawing out a detailed map and conducting surveillance of the building, police said. The massacre

By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Chipotle Mexican Grill has agreed to pay $240,000 to former employees as part of a settlement stemming from a complaint that the company violated federal law by closing a restaurant where workers wanted to unionize. Chipotle announced it was permanently closing its Augusta, Maine, location last

By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Prosecutors will seek the death penalty if a Tennessee man is convicted of first-degree murder in a daylong shooting rampage in Memphis that left three people dead and three others wounded. The announcement by Shelby County District Attorney Steve Mulroy came during a press conference Monday

By DEEPA BHARATH Associated Press New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft faced the camera during a video call, pointing to a small, sky-blue lapel pin on his blazer. The pin is the symbol of a $25 million “Stand Up to Jewish Hate” campaign launched Monday by the 81-year-old billionaire through his Foundation to Combat Antisemitism,

By CHRISTINA MALKIA Associated Press KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Local authorities in eastern Congo say that at least 17  people have been killed by rebels. They were abducted while driving on a road and then killed by the CODECO militia group in Djugu territory in Ituri province over the weekend. Fighting between CODECO, a loose

MICHAEL R. SISAK and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The Manhattan grand jury investigating former President Donald Trump over hush money payments has returned to hear more evidence, with still no word on when it might be asked to vote on a possible indictment. David Pecker, who as the former chief executive

WASHINGTON (AP) — The remains of a U.S. airman whose plane was shot down over Germany during World War II have been accounted for. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced Monday that officials had identified the remains of U.S. Army Air Forces Staff Sgt. Edgar L. Mills of Tampa, Florida, in February. The 25-year-old Mills

By COREY WILLIAMS and JOHN O’CONNOR Associated Press SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Joe James, a Black man, was asleep under a tree when he was grabbed, beaten and then arrested for the murder of a white man in Springfield, Illinois. Before he was put on trial and later executed, a white mob seeking vengeance for

By PATRICIA OLEAS and CESAR OLMOS Associated Press ALAUSI, Ecuador (AP) — A huge landslide swept over an Andean community in central Ecuador, burying dozens of homes, killing at least seven people and sending rescuers on a frantic search for survivors, authorities said Monday. Earlier in the day, officials had reported 16 deaths, but President

By ANDRE PENNER and CARLA BRIDI Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — Officials say a 13-year-old student in Brazil’s biggest city Sao Paulo has fatally stabbed a 71-year-old teacher and wounded three teachers and two students at a public school. State officials say the five wounded victims from the Thomazia Montoro school are in hospital

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The Webb Space Telescope has found no evidence of an atmosphere at one of the seven rocky, Earth-sized planets orbiting a nearby star. Scientists said Monday that doesn’t bode well for the rest of the planets in this solar system, some of which are

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Officials from Poland and the European Union have discussed artillery munitions manufacturing as part of a new, 2 billion euro ($2.2 billion) program to supply Ukraine in its war against invading Russian forces and to replenish Europe’s dwindling stocks. EU commissioner for internal market, Thierry Breton, was visiting a munition plant

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court won’t hear a civil rights case brought by the parents of a teenager who was naked and unarmed when he was fatally shot by an Oklahoma police officer in 2019. The high court on Monday rejected without comment the lawsuit bought by Isaiah Lewis’ parents. Police say the 17-year-old

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Sheriff’s officials say a man who sped away from a traffic stop in Florida last week shot and critically wounded a sheriff’s officer before killing himself during a standoff at his home. Jacksonville Sheriff T.K. Waters says the shooting early Sunday left 25-year-old Officer Malik Daricaud “fighting for his life.” Thirty-two-year-old

By RONALD BLUM Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Renée Fleming spent decades portraying generals’ wives, a countess and a courtesan. Now she is playing the role of former first lady Pat Nixon as John Adams’ “Nixon in China” gets its Paris Opera premiere in a production starring Thomas Hampson as the president. “Nixon” premiered at

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court will decide whether a disabled activist can file disability rights lawsuits against hotels she doesn’t intend to visit. The high court said Monday it would decide a case involving Deborah Laufer. Laufer lives in Florida and has filed hundreds of federal lawsuits against hotel owners and operators. According to

BERLIN (AP) — Two horses fit for a queen, please. That’s what Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II had asked for as a gift during her state visit to Germany in 1978, weekly Der Spiegel reported Monday. The expensive present raised eyebrows among German bureaucrats at the time, who noted that the cost of the Holsteiner and

ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with U.N. atomic energy chief Rafael Mariano Grossi in southern Ukraine on Monday. The two discussed the precarious situation at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, which has lost several of its power transmission cables during the conflict and on multiple occasions has had to switch to

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Saudi Arabia’s state-owned oil giant Aramco will invest billions of dollars in China’s downstream petrochemicals industry, including in the construction of a new refinery. The announcements on Sunday and Monday came days after the company posted a record profit of more than $160 billion in 2022. Aramco will acquire a

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Whitney Houston’s brother remembers when his young sister listened to their mother during gospel rehearsals before she mimicked every tune that was sung. As Houston rose to pop superstardom, her exceptionally talented vocals were rooted in gospel music. And now, her family — led

By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A new abortion provider is opening this year in Democratic-controlled Maryland — just across from deeply conservative West Virginia, where state lawmakers recently passed a near-total abortion ban. The Women’s Health Center of Maryland in Cumberland, roughly 5 miles (8 kilometers) from West Virginia, will open

By JOSEF FEDERMAN and TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s proposed judicial overhaul unleashed the most intense social unrest in Israel in decades before he announced that he would delay the plan. Tens of thousands of people repeatedly took to the streets to protest the proposal. Business leaders, bank chiefs,

BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s caretaker prime minister has reversed an unpopular decision made by his office to delay the start of daylight saving time by a month. Najib Mikati said Monday the Cabinet has decided to implement daylight saving time at midnight Wednesday. The development comes after the government’s initial decision was widely criticized around

By JAMEY KEATEN and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — U.N.-backed human rights experts say there is evidence that crimes against humanity — including women being forced into sexual slavery — have been committed against Libyans and migrants in the North African country. The investigators commissioned by the U.N.-backed Human Rights Council also faulted