Month: April 2023

By ISABELLA O’MALLEY Associated Press A startup business that places small turbines in irrigation canals to generate electricity has raised $18.4 million to scale up its technology for carbon-free hydropower. Emily Morris, CEO and founder of Emrgy, said her inspiration for making electricity in places that some people might find unlikely was seeing water swiftly

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — The mother of a 6-year-old boy who shot and wounded his teacher in Virginia has been formally arrested on charges of child neglect and failing to secure her handgun, police announced Thursday. The Newport News Police Department released a booking photo of the woman, 25, and a brief statement that

By TERESA M. WALKER AP Sports Writer Grizzlies point guard Ja Morant has filed a countersuit against the Memphis teenager suing the two-time All-Star, accusing the teen of slander, battery and assault over a pickup basketball game at Morant’s home last July. The lawsuit filed Wednesday night in Shelby County Circuit Court accuses the teenager

TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tunisian authorities say at least 25 African migrants died and 15 are missing after a boat carrying them toward Europe sank in the Mediterranean Sea. Local prosecutors say the Tunisian coast guard on Thursday recovered the bodies of 15 people near the coast of Sfax, and recovered 10 other bodies and

BROWNSTOWN, Ind. (AP) — A federal lawsuit alleges that a man with a history of mental illness died after 20 days locked away, naked, in a windowless isolation cell at a southern Indiana jail, where he lost nearly 45 pounds. The lawsuit was filed Wednesday by the estate of Joshua McLemore, a 29-year-old who died

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer Federal officials say they have asked the FBI to consider criminal charges against more than 250 unruly airline passengers since late 2021. The Federal Aviation Administration said Thursday that 17 of those cases have been referred to the FBI in the first three months of this year. That’s a

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge says a civil rape trial for former President Donald Trump will begin as scheduled later this month but has granted a request by Trump’s lawyers to gather more evidence. Judge Lewis A. Kaplan refused on Thursday to delay the start of the New

By SUMMER BALLENTINE and HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press COLUMBIA. Mo. (AP) — Missouri’s attorney general has announced new restrictions on gender-affirming care for adults in addition to minors in a move that is believed to be a first nationally and has advocacy groups threatening to sue. Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced plans to restrict transgender

By LAURA UNGAR and AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press Doctors, clinics and telehealth providers across the country are scrambling to figure out how they will continue to provide the most common type of abortion after a federal appeals court imposed new restrictions on a key abortion medication. One telehealth provider would have to shut down for

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s monthslong absence from the Senate to recover in California from shingles has become a vexing problem for Democrats who want to confirm President Joe Biden’s nominees to the federal courts. Now there is some pressure from within her party, and her state, to

By JIM SALTER Associated Press The city of Minneapolis agreed Thursday to pay nearly $9 million to settle lawsuits filed by two people who said former police officer Derek Chauvin pressed his knee into their necks years before he used the same move to kill George Floyd. John Pope Jr. will receive $7.5 million and

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Martin Scorsese was knee-deep in preparation for “Killers of the Flower Moon” when Mara Hennessey reached out to invite him to see David Johansen. The former frontman for the trailblazing 1970s proto-punk band the New York Dolls — and Hennessey’s husband — was performing a

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus’ government says it’s looking into how a number of Cypriot nationals were included in new round of U.S. and U.K. sanctions targeting the financial networks of Russian oligarchs Alisher Usmanov and Roman Abramovich who are close allies of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides on Thursday called an

By TRÂN NGUYỄN Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say they’ve arrested a suspect who made threats against California’s Capitol on Thursday shot a gun from his vehicle while driving through two Sacramento suburbs the night before. The California Highway Patrol says no one was injured in either of those shootings. The threat forced

DIMMITT, Texas (AP) — An explosion at a dairy farm in the Texas Panhandle that critically injured one person and killed an estimated 18,000 head of cattle was the deadliest barn fire recorded since the Animal Welfare Institute began tracking the fires. Castro County Sheriff Salvador Rivera said the Monday fire and explosion at the

By ADAM PEMBLE Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s foreign minister says his country won’t budge from its demand that Russia withdraw its forces from Crimea, as well as from other parts of Ukraine that Moscow illegally annexed more recently. Calling the war in Ukraine “a bleeding wound in the middle of Europe,” Foreign

By ARLEIGH RODGERS and MICHAEL CONROY Associated Press RICHMOND, Ind. (AP) — Schools in an Indiana city are closed for a second day while crews pour water and dig for hot spots at a major industrial fire fueled by tons of scrap plastics. The smoke in Richmond was not as dark or dense as earlier

CINCINNATI (AP) — A pitcher with the Philadelphia Phillies is criticizing some Major League Baseball teams for extending alcohol sales with games running around 30 minutes shorter due to the sport’s new pitch clock. Matt Strahm said Thursday on the Baseball Isn’t Boring podcast that teams should be moving the cutoff for beer sales up

BY DREW COSTLEY AP Science Writer The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Thursday that it’s investing $177 million to create 17 technical assistance centers around the country to help environmental justice organizations successfully apply for federal funds. Better training on how to navigate the complex federal grant making process is something environmental justice organizations have

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Jared “Drake” Bell, an actor best known as a star of the Nickelodeon television show “Drake & Josh,” was found safe on Thursday, hours after authorities in Florida said he was “missing and endangered.” Bell was in touch with police officers and wasn’t in danger, Daytona Beach Police Department spokesperson

By ROB MAADDI and STEPHEN WHYNO AP Sports Writers A person with knowledge of the situation tells The Associated Press that a group led by Josh Harris and Mitchell Rales and including Magic Johnson has an agreement in principle to buy the Washington Commanders from longtime owner Dan Snyder. Harris and Rales are set to