Month: April 2023

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — A businessman pleaded guilty Friday to bribing the head of a Michigan marijuana licensing board, the first conviction in a federal investigation into payoffs and other benefits before the panel was disbanded in 2019. John Dalaly appeared in federal court in Grand Rapids, two weeks after his plea deal was

PARIS (AP) — A Paris court has convicted a Lebanese-Canadian academic in absentia on terrorism charges over a bombing outside a Paris synagogue in 1980 that killed four and wounded 46. The court also sentenced Hassan Diab to life in prison on Friday, and issued an arrest warrant for him after a trial that marked

By STEVE DOUGLAS AP Sports Writer The champagne is on ice for Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney. Soccer is the new love of the Hollywood celebrities and there’s a big day in store for the Welsh club they bought unexpectedly in 2021. Wrexham could seal promotion from the fifth tier of the English game on

By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A North Carolina man accused of shooting and wounding a 6-year-old girl and her parents after children went to retrieve a basketball that had rolled into his yard waived extradition during a brief court appearance Friday morning in Florida. Robert Louis Singletary, 24, was arrested Thursday

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Directing a project focused on Tupac’s life was a farfetched idea for filmmaker Allen Hughes — especially after the two had a brutal altercation 30 years ago. But shortly after Shakur’s family approached Hughes to lead a project about the rap legend, he ultimately

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Chilean President Gabriel Boric has announced a plan to require private companies take Chile’s government on as a partner in the extraction of lithium, which is in high demand around the world for use in electric batteries. Boric said Thursday that the state will participate in the entire lithium production cycle

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A Polish volunteer who died of wounds sustained during a humanitarian mission in eastern Ukraine has been buried in his home city in western Poland. Marek Mastalerz is the first Polish volunteer known to have been killed in neighboring Ukraine since Russia started the war there 14 months ago. A number

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Bullets sprayed out from a speeding car in Connecticut’s capital, killing an innocent 12-year-old bystander and wounding three other people who have have rap sheets that include gun crimes, authorities said Friday. The suspects in the drive-by shooting appeared to target three males who were standing

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) — An Indiana woman now faces a federal hate crime in the stabbing of an Indiana University student of Chinese descent on a public bus. Fifty-six year-old Billie R. Davis of Bloomington was indicted Thursday on a charge of willfully causing injuries to the victim due to her race and national origin.

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese LGBTQ activist groups are urging the government to enact an anti-discrimination law and legalize same-sex marriages ahead of a summit of the Group of Seven leading industrialized nations being hosted by Japan in May. Japan is the only G-7 country that does not recognize same-sex marriage

By JAMES ROBSON AP Soccer Writer WREXHAM, Wales (AP) — Spoiler alert! Season 2 of “Welcome to Wrexham” is set to get the Hollywood ending the first one failed to deliver. This being Wrexham, however, a last-minute plot twist isn’t out of the question. It’s hard to imagine that even the Welsh soccer team’s A-list

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Chef Edward Lee says food, at its best, tells a story. And the story he wants told with the meal he’s whipping up for next week’s White House state dinner is of the deep connection between the United States and its ally South Korea. President Joe Biden

By SUSAN HAIGH Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A historic amount of money is being spent on urban tree planting and maintenance in underserved, often concrete-covered neighborhoods across the country. Urban forestry advocates, who’ve argued for years about the benefits of more trees in cities, see this moment as a huge opportunity to permanently

By STEFANIE DAZIO, LARRY FENN and COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Four people found shot to death in an RV in a small Mojave Desert community in California. Four partygoers slain and 32 injured in small-town Alabama during a Sweet 16 birthday that ended with a girl kneeling beside her fatally wounded

By JEROME PUGMIRE AP Sports Writer PARIS (AP) — Four million applications were received for an online lottery where winners get to buy tickets for next year’s Paris Olympics, the local organizing committee said Friday. They hope to sell 1.3 million tickets for the 2024 Games as a result of the latest draw. Applications ended

BERLIN (AP) — Daniel Barenboim has been made a citizen of honor of Berlin, months after he ended his three-decade tenure as the general musical director of the Berlin State Opera for health reasons. The German capital’s mayor paid tribute to Barenboim’s musical talent and his commitment to communication between Israelis and Palestinians in a

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer Looking back at 2022’s weather with months of analysis, the World Meteorological Organization said last year really was as bad as it seemed when people were muddling through it. And about as bad as it gets — until more warming kicks in. Killer floods, droughts and heat waves hit

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Police say 10 members of the same family were killed in a mass shooting at a house in South Africa. Police say seven of the victims were females, while one was a 13-year-old boy. Police Minister Bheki Cele said a male suspect was killed in a shootout

By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Burkina Faso’s government has opened investigations into allegations of human rights abuses by its security forces after a video surfaced that appeared to show the extrajudicial killing of seven children in the country’s north. A government spokesman said Thursday that “the conclusions of the said investigations

By SETH BORENSTEIN, WANJOHI KABUKURU, FABIANO MAISONNAVE and SIBI ARASU Associated Press They fight for Earth. Young and old, famous and not so well known, there are many people from around the globe who make it their mission to try to save the planet, especially from the ravages of climate change. They find themselves often

By JEFFREY SCHAEFFER Associated Press PARIS (AP) — The immense success of the Netflix series “Emily in Paris” has transformed a quiet, untouched square in the French capital into a tourist magnet. In the historic Latin Quarter and just a short walk from the magnificent, domed Pantheon, tucked so deeply away that you could easily

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgian customs have destroyed more than 2,000 cans of Miller High Life, advertised as the ″Champagne of Beers,” at the request of houses and growers of the bubbly beverage. The Comité Champagne — the body protecting the Champagne designation — asked for the destruction of a shipment

By COURTNEY BONNELL Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A group of Credit Suisse investors have sued Swiss financial regulators after a government-engineered takeover of the struggling bank by rival UBS left them with billions in losses. Lawyers said Friday that the investors are contesting an order by the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority that wiped

By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA Associated Press KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — An Indian climber who was rescued after spending three days trapped in a 300-meter (980-foot) -deep crevasse on Mount Annapurna, the world’s 10th-highest mountain, was joined by his family at a hospital in Nepal where he is receiving treatment. Anurag Maloo fell into the crevasse on

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Toyota’s new president Koji Sato has promised what he called an aggressive shift on “electrification,” while acknowledging criticism that Japan’s top automaker has fallen behind in actual volumes of electric vehicles sold compared to its rivals. “We like to see that as people cheering Toyota on,”

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Rail unions want railroads to take some of the billions they’re using every year to buy back their stock and use it to improve safety in the wake of several high-profile derailments and hire more workers. The 12 unions said Friday that collectively the six

By HELENA ALVES Associated Press LISBON (AP) — Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has arrived in Portugal amid heightened tensions with the European Union over his position on the war in Ukraine. Lula said last weekend while traveling in the United Arab Emirates and China that both Ukraine and Russia had decided to