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 downtown into a tent city. The city is required to comply with a court order to clear out the downtown encampment because it is considered a “public nuisance.” But the

By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press Funding for drug treatment centers in Oregon, financed by the state’s pioneering drug decriminalization policy, stood at over a quarter-billion dollars Friday as officials called for closer monitoring of where the money goes. That need for oversight was demonstrated Wednesday when state officials terminated a $1.5 million grant agreement with

By MARÍA VERZA Associated Press SANTIAGO XALITZINTLA, Mexico (AP) — When the Popocatepetl volcano reawakened in 1994, Mexican scientists needed people in the area who could be their eyes and ears. State police helped them find one, Nefi de Aquino, a farmer then in his 40s who lived beside the volcano. From that moment on,

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — Three northern Virginia prosecutors who took office four years ago as progressive reformers are facing primary challenges in next month’s elections. Virginia’s June 20 Democratic primary could shed light on whether suburban voters still embrace the criminal justice reforms that carried them into office. The challengers

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 to emergency dispatch logs, an incident that Portland firefighters say highlights their frustration at a lack of available ambulances to respond to emergency calls. The Bureau of Emergency Communications 911

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 I truly discovered her voice. I was on Thanksgiving break — bored — when I decided to rummage through my parents’ old cassette tapes in search of

LANTANA, Fla. (AP) — Two people are dead after a small plane crashed at a South Florida airport. Palm Beach County sheriff’s officials say the Cessna Skyhawk crashed late Friday morning at the Palm Beach County Park Airport in Lantana. Flight records show that the plane was taking off or had just taken off when

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 severely the 10-month-old was dead just over a month later were sentenced to life in prison for murder Friday in what a judge described as a case of

WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI has disclosed a potential threat to Queen Elizabeth II during her 1983 trip to the United States. The documents were released this week on the FBI’s records website. Queen Elizabeth II died last September after a 70-year reign. The queen’s West Coast visit with her husband, Prince Philip, included a

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 that he asked her to read it with him as soon as he got home. But her heart sank when she realized it was a tutorial about what to do

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A coroner in Pennsylvania ruled that a college baseball player died accidentally when a makeshift dugout collapsed and he was struck in the face. Nineteen-year-old Angel Mercado was a middle infielder who had just completed his freshman season at Division II Central Penn College. He had been playing in a summer

By ANDREW DeMILLO, ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE and NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Florida (AP) — As he vies for the Republican presidential nomination, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is touting a series of measures he has pushed that have led to an upswing in banned or restricted books — not just in Florida schools but in an

By SCOTT McFETRIDGE and HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa teachers will be banned from raising gender identity and sexual orientation issues with students through grade six, and all books depicting sex acts will be removed from school libraries, under a bill Republican Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds signed Friday. The new

AVON, Conn. (AP) — A hungry black bear barged into the garage of a Connecticut bakery, scared several employees and helped itself to 60 cupcakes before ambling away. Workers at Taste by Spellbound in the town of Avon were loading cakes into a van for delivery on Wednesday when the bear showed up. There are

By KRISTIN M. HALL AP Entertainment Writer NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Singer-songwriter Tyler Hubbard was fully prepared to hang up his boots so to speak when his duo partner in Florida Georgia Line, Brian Kelley, said he wanted to go solo. The pair had been together more than a decade, and whether you were a

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian court data shows that Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich is appealing a three-month extension of his detention on espionage charges. Gershkovich, a 31-year-old U.S. citizen, was arrested in March on a reporting trip in Russia. He, his employer and the U.S. government have denied the charges. A Moscow court system

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 last-minute switch in the touchdown location led to the crash. Officials for the company ispace said Friday that its spacecraft was originally supposed to land in a flat

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s lawmakers are weighing two contentious draft bills. Critics say that the proposed laws on the agenda on Friday violate Poland’s constitution and are clear examples of how the right-wing ruling party is using the law to its own ends. The lower chamber was debating a

By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A judge ruled Friday that chemical retardant dropped on wildfires by the U.S. Forest Service is polluting streams in western states in violation of federal law, but said that it can keep being used to fight fires. The ruling from U.S. District Judge Dana Christensen in

BERLIN (AP) — Police in Berlin say they have opened an investigation of Roger Waters on suspicion of incitement over a costume the Pink Floyd co-founder wore when he performed in the German capital last week. Images on social media showed Waters firing an imitation machine gun while dressed in a long black coat with

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 since he sent a message saying he was being interrogated by Chinese police at the city’s airport. Amnesty International says Abuduwaili Abudureheman, who was born in Xinjiang