Month: March 2023

By MIKE SCHNEIDER and ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ office has asked for records from a state attorney regarding a suspect in the fatal shootings last week of a TV reporter, a 9-year-old girl and a woman. The request is leading to speculation that he is poised to

By ISABELLA O’MALLEY Associated Press Portland, Oregon received nearly a foot of snow in a single day in what proved to be its second-snowiest day in history. Mountainous areas of California experienced nearly unprecedented snowfall accumulations – more than 40 feet since the start of the season. At the airport in Flagstaff, Arizona, 11.6 feet

By ERIC TUCKER and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump can be sued by injured Capitol Police officers and Democratic lawmakers over the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, the Justice Department said Thursday in a federal court case testing Trump’s legal vulnerability for his speech before

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York is doubling the number of licenses it’s awarding for a first round of legal marijuana shops. Regulators announced Thursday that they plan to award 300 such licenses, rather than 150. Still, only a fraction of the recreational marijuana dispensaries already authorized have opened so

By MARY CLARE JALONICK and KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats are seeking to demonstrate unity with President Joe Biden’s visit to the Senate on Thursday, even as leaders are acknowledging that they cannot get much done. The Democratic-led Senate has been largely immobilized this year as the newly Republican House has shown

By JAKE COYLE and LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writers Ahead of the 95th Academy Awards on March 12, Associated Press Film Writers Lindsey Bahr and Jake Coyle share their predictions for a ceremony with some sure things and some major question marks. BEST PICTURE Nominees: “All Quiet on the Western Front”; “Avatar: The Way of

By LEA SKENE Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — A Maryland mayor is facing 56 counts of possession and distribution of child pornography. Patrick Wojahn was arrested Thursday in the city of College Park, which includes the University of Maryland campus. Prince George’s County Police said the department investigated after the National Center for Missing and

By DANIEL POLITI and ALMUDENA CALATRAVA Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Gunmen threatened Argentine soccer superstar Lionel Messi in a written message left Thursday when they opened fire at a supermarket owned by his in-laws in Argentina, police said. Nobody was injured in the early morning attack, and it was unclear why assailants

By THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former President Donald Trump are each headed to Iowa in the coming weeks, making their first trips of the year to the leadoff Republican voting state as the 2024 campaign ramps up. DeSantis has scheduled events on March 10 in

By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer A three-month investigation has exonerated a five-time Olympian of doping. Katerina Nash is a mountain biker and cross-country skier who made it to five Olympics for the Czech Republic. She avoided a four-year doping sanction after testing positive for minute traces of a banned substance. Authorities determined the substance

By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) — Of all the troubling video made public over a year of crisis at New Mexico State – from the brawl involving basketball players to the fatal shooting of a 19-year-old, allegedly by one of those players, to the police interviews with the coach afterward

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s opposition has renewed calls for the election result to be overturned a day after the country announced its new president-elect. Third-place Labour Party candidate Peter Obi said at a news conference in the capital on Thursday that “we won the election and we will prove

STROUDSBURG, Pa. (AP) — Law enforcement officials have revealed more details regarding items seized from the Pennsylvania home where they arrested a graduate student charged with stabbing four University of Idaho students to death. Additional court documents made public Thursday stated that a knife, a pocketknife, and a Glock 22 handgun with three empty magazines

SANTA ROSA, Calif. (AP) — Detectives in a Northern California community are investigating what prompted a Wednesday fight between three high school students that ended with one fatally stabbing another. A 15-year-old freshman has been booked on suspicion of homicide and other charges in connection with the stabbings at a high school in Santa Rosa,

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A painting by Wassily Kandinsky that spent decades in a Dutch museum after its Jewish owner was murdered in the Holocaust has sold at auction for 37.2 million pounds ($44.9 million). “Murnau with Church II“ set a record price for the Russian artist in a sale at

By JOHN ANTCZAK Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tremendous rains and snowfall since late last year have freed half of California from drought, but low groundwater levels remain a persistent problem, U.S. Drought Monitor data showed Thursday. The latest survey found that moderate or severe drought covers about 49% of the state, nearly 17%

By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The Norwegian government has apologized to reindeer herders after activists spent a week protesting a wind farm that they say hinders the rights of the Indigenous Sami people in Norway. The country’s oil and energy minister made the apology on Thursday after meeting with the

By GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer GENEVA (AP) — The Premier League has been urged to review a legally binding promise made by the owners of English soccer club Newcastle in 2021 that Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund was separate from the country’s government. Human rights group Amnesty International believes that pledge was contradicted by

By JOSH BOAK and KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican senators are accusing the Biden administration of using $39 billion meant to build computer chip factories to further “woke” ideas such as requiring some recipients to offer child care and encouraging the use of union labor. The administration has countered that these elements

By JOHN CARUCCI Associated Press WASHINGTON, DC (AP) — When Joni Mitchell finally took the stage near the end of an all-star tribute concert honoring her as this year’s recipient of the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, she opted to perform a cover rather than one of her own songs. The 79-year-old

DULLES, Va. (AP) — A Lufthansa flight that experienced “significant turbulence” was diverted to Washington Dulles International Airport and seven people on board were taken to area hospitals, officials said. Flight 469 from Austin, Texas, had been headed to Frankfurt, Germany, but landed safely Wednesday evening at the airport in Virginia, Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — An inquiry has found that Britain’s domestic intelligence agency didn’t act swiftly enough on key information and missed a significant opportunity to prevent the suicide bombing that killed 22 people at a 2017 Ariana Grande concert in northwest England. Retired judge John Saunders led the inquiry into

By AARON MORRISON AP National Writer CHOWCHILLA, California (AP) — Joseph Sena has spent nearly half his 27 years in prison for manslaughter. For almost as long, he’s been striving to make himself a better man than when he first arrived. He has taken courses in creative writing, addressed his addictions, and attended school in

By AARON MORRISON AP National Writer CHOWCHILLA, California (AP) — Joseph Sena has spent nearly half his 27 years in prison for manslaughter. For almost as long, he’s been striving to make himself a better man than when he first arrived. He has taken courses in creative writing, addressed his addictions, and attended school in

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee lawmakers have advanced legislation on certain drag shows on public property or at private establishments where children could attend. Republican Gov. Bill Lee is expected to sign the change into law. He has brushed off heavy opposition. In Tennessee and across the country, drag has

By TOM WITHERS AP Sports Writer YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (AP) — Antoine Davis missed his shot at making history. Detroit Mercy’s star guard finished four points shy of breaking Pete Maravich’s NCAA career scoring record, a mark that has stood since 1970.  Davis, who leads the nation with a 28.4 points per game average, entered Thursday’s