Month: May 2023

By ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Phoenix is facing dueling lawsuits as it tries to manage a homelessness crisis that has converted its…

By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press Funding for drug treatment centers in Oregon, financed by the state’s pioneering drug decriminalization…

By MARÍA VERZA Associated Press SANTIAGO XALITZINTLA, Mexico (AP) — When the Popocatepetl volcano reawakened in 1994, Mexican scientists needed…

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — Three northern Virginia prosecutors who took office four years ago as progressive reformers…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A man died while waiting over a half-hour for an ambulance after being struck by a hit-and-run driver last month, according…

By ADAM KEALOHA CAUSEY Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — When Tina Turner died at age 83, I found myself drifting back to the fourth grade, to the day…

LANTANA, Fla. (AP) — Two people are dead after a small plane crashed at a South Florida airport. Palm Beach County sheriff’s officials say…

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — An English couple who fought to get their baby son back from child services and then abused him so…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI has disclosed a potential threat to Queen Elizabeth II during her 1983 trip to the United States. The documents were…

By JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — Cindy Campos’ 5-year-old son was so excited about the Winnie the Pooh book he got at school…

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A coroner in Pennsylvania ruled that a college baseball player died accidentally when a makeshift dugout collapsed and he…

By ANDREW DeMILLO, ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE and NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Florida (AP) — As he vies for the Republican presidential…

By SCOTT McFETRIDGE and HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa teachers will be banned from raising gender identity and…

AVON, Conn. (AP) — A hungry black bear barged into the garage of a Connecticut bakery, scared several employees and helped itself to 60 cupcakes…

By KRISTIN M. HALL AP Entertainment Writer NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Singer-songwriter Tyler Hubbard was fully prepared to hang up his boots so to…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian court data shows that Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich is appealing a three-month extension of his detention on…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A Tokyo company whose lunar lander slammed into the moon says a software issue and a…

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s lawmakers are weighing two contentious draft bills. Critics say that the…

By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A judge ruled Friday that chemical retardant dropped on wildfires by the U.S. Forest…

BERLIN (AP) — Police in Berlin say they have opened an investigation of Roger Waters on suspicion of incitement over a costume the Pink Floyd…

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — A human rights group says a Uyghur student has been missing in Hong Kong for more than two weeks…