Month: May 2023

By ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Navajo leaders on Friday unveiled an operation to find and get needed services to hundreds of tribal members they predict will soon be on the streets of metro Phoenix amid a state crackdown on Medicaid fraud that affected as many as 7,000 Native Americans recruited to illegitimate

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Opposing attorneys are clashing over whether a Mississippi school district can require a transgender girl to abide by a boys’ dress code as she and her classmates graduate from high school this weekend. Court records show that attorneys for the two sides did not reach

NEW YORK (AP) — The remains of a U.S. Marine veteran who was missing in Ukraine for more than a year returned to the United States on Friday and were headed to his hometown in eastern North Carolina. A Turkish Airlines plane flying from Istanbul with the remains of retired Marine Capt. Grady Kurpasi landed

By The Associated Press Reactions to the death of Jim Brown, former NFL star, actor and activist: ___ “To the world, he was an activist, actor, and football star. To our family, he was a loving husband, father, and grandfather. Our hearts are broken.” — Brown’s wife, Monique Brown, on Instagram. ___ “We lost a

By COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Henry Fambrough had a musical homecoming of sorts Friday at “Hitsville U.S.A.” Fambrough, one of the founding members of the iconic R&B group The Spinners, took a tour of Motown’s Studio A in Detroit as part of a ceremony that included the donation to the Motown Museum

LAYTON, Utah. (AP) — A Utah man killed his wife and her parents and then called police Friday to report and admit to the crime, authorities said. Jeremy Bailey, 34, surrendered without incident at the family home in Layton, just north of Salt Lake City, police said. The bodies of Bailey’s wife, Anastasia Stevens, 36;

By LOLITA C. BALDOR and TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. has once again buckled under pressure from European allies and Ukraine’s leaders and agreed to provide more sophisticated weapons to the war effort. This time it’s all about F-16 fighter jets. Ukraine has long begged for the sophisticated fighter to give

By ADAM BEAM and TRÂN NGUYỄN Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom has pledged to fast-track hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of construction projects throughout the state. That includes two water projects that have languished for years amid permitting delays and opposition from environmental groups. One project would build a

WASHINGTON (AP) — ABC’s “This Week” — Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md.; Rep. Jodey Arrington, R-Texas. __ NBC’s “Meet the Press” — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen; Gov. Roy Cooper, D-N.C.; Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla. __ CBS’ “Face the Nation” — Mayors Eric Adams of New York and Francis Suarez of Miami; Reps. Josh Gottheimer, D-N.J.,

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Court records say a 42-year-old man who is accused of arson at a St. Paul, Minnesota, mosque told investigators he set the fire to protest homelessness. Said Murekezi is charged with second-degree arson, second-degree burglary of a religious building and fifth-degree drug possession. He is accused of setting fire at

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press A Texas militia member was sentenced Friday to nearly five years in prison for attacking police officers at the U.S. Capitol, seriously injuring one of them during a mob’s attack on Jan. 6, 2021. U.S. District Judge Randolph Moss sentenced Donald Hazard to four years and nine months in prison

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer American Airlines and JetBlue must give up their partnership in the northeast U.S. That’s what a federal judge in Boston ruled on Friday. The Justice Department and several states sued to break up the airline alliance. Judge Leo Sorokin accepted the government’s argument that the deal reduces competition. The

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The founder of a nonprofit group has been accused of fabricating a story about homeless military veterans being evicted from a New York hotel to make room for migrants, a tale that stoked days of outrage on cable news networks. One Republican lawmaker in New

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and ERIC TUCKER WASHINGTON (AP) — Massachusetts U.S. Attorney Rachael Rollins formally resigned Friday after wide-ranging investigations by two federal watchdog agencies found she sought to use her position to influence a local election and lied to investigators. In a letter to President Joe Biden obtained by The Associated Press, Rollins

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin man is charged in a plot to hack and steal from thousands of sports betting accounts. Court documents allege that 18-year-old Joseph Garrison and others stole roughly $600,000 from 1,600 accounts on an unnamed sports betting website. The U.S. Attorneys office says Garrison turned himself in to authorities in

SALEM, Ind. (AP) — A Louisiana woman is seeking a venue change as she face charges in the death of a boy whose body was found last year inside a suitcase in rural southern Indiana. WTHR-TV reports Dawn Coleman’s attorney filed the venue change request on her behalf Monday, arguing that public outrage over the

DETROIT (AP) — A lawyer says Friday that a Detroit gas station clerk may have panicked but didn’t commit a crime when three customers were shot on May 6. The suspected shoplifter pulled out a gun and shot three bystanders, killing one. Prosecutors say Al-Hassan Aiyash is charged with involuntary manslaughter for gross negligence when

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. health officials are reporting another death and several more cases of vision loss linked to eyedrops tainted with a drug-resistant bacteria. The government says 81 people have now been diagnosed with infections from the bacteria. There have been four deaths and 14 cases of

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. envoy charged with trying to protect children caught in conflicts is in Moscow, where she is reported to be meeting Russia’s children’s rights commissioner, who is charged with war crimes for deporting children from Ukraine. Human Rights Watch strongly criticized Virginia Gamba’s reported

By TIFFANY STANLEY Associated Press Timothy Keller, a pastor and best-selling author who founded the influential Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City, died this morning at home after three-year bout with pancreatic cancer. He was 72. His family announced that he had been in hospice care, and that he died with his wife of

ALBANY, Ore. (AP) — The driver of a semitruck that slammed into a passenger van on Interstate 5 in western Oregon, killing 7 people in one of the state’s deadliest crashes in recent years, was arrested Friday on suspicion of manslaughter, DUI and other charges, police said. Eleven people were in the van when it

By HOLLY RAMER Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has met with Republican lawmakers in New Hampshire and stopped by a local diner, where he chatted with a mom whose young son was wearing a Mickey Mouse shirt. DeSantis made the trip to the early voting state on Friday as he

Associated Press Hyundai Motor America and Kia America will resolve class-action lawsuit prompted by a surge in vehicle thefts with a settlement agreement that could be valued at $200 million. The settlement covers about 9 million 2011-2022 model year Hyundai and Kia vehicles in the U.S. today, according to the companies. The cars are not

HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii Gov. Josh Green was one of the people who stopped to help when his security detail spotted a vehicle upside down in a lava field. The governor is also a physician and has worked as an emergency room doctor in rural parts of the Big Island. He was on his way

NEW YORK (AP) — Best-selling novelist James Patterson is teaming up with investigative journalist Vicky Ward on a book about the 2022 killing of four University of Idaho students. Little, Brown and Company announced Friday that Patterson and Ward will “draw from dozens of exclusive interviews, extensive on-the-ground reporting, copious court transcripts” and their own

WASHINGTON (AP) — Hyundai Motor America and Kia America said Friday they have reached a settlement to resolve a class-action lawsuit prompted by a surge in vehicle thefts. The settlement could be valued at $200 million and covers about 9 million 2011-2022 model year Hyundai and Kia vehicles in the U.S., the companies said. The

MOSCOW (AP) — In response to a new round of U.S. sanctions, Russia has announced that has banned 500 Americans from entering the country, including former President Barack Obama and comedian Stephen Colbert. The list released Friday by the Foreign Ministry doesn’t specify complaints against each individual. But the ministry says the offenses included spreading