Month: May 2023

YATES, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities say a New York fertility doctor who was accused of using his own sperm to impregnate several patients has died in a plane crash. The Orleans County sheriff says Dr. Morris Wortman of Rochester was killed Sunday when the hand-built airplane he was in fell apart mid-flight and crashed in

By BILL BARROW Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Former first lady Rosalynn Carter has dementia and remains at home, her family has announced. Carter, now 95, remains at home with former President Jimmy Carter, who has been at home receiving hospice care since early this year. “She continues to live happily at home with her

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — Robots are on display at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation in London, where visitors can get a glimpse of the future. The event this week is sort of the Olympics of the robot world. Student teams compete in a host of challenges like robot

By JONEL ALECCIA AP Health Writer Federal health officials say people who worked with food while sick or contagious were linked to about 40% of food poisoning outbreaks from restaurants with a known cause between 2017 and 2019. Norovirus and salmonella were the most common causes of 800 outbreaks tied to 875 restaurants reported by

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press A Pennsylvania restaurant owner who screamed death threats directed at then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi while storming the U.S. Capitol was sentenced on Tuesday to more than two years in prison. Pauline Bauer was near Pelosi’s office suite on Jan. 6, 2021, when she yelled at police officers to bring out

By ALICIA RANCILIO Associated Press If you like your summer reads to be like your summer movies — big, explosive and fast-paced, then look no further than T.J. Newman’s new novel “Drowning: The Rescue of Flight 1421.” It follows the survivors of a plane that crashed into the ocean minutes after takeoff as the aircraft

NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s top wrestlers have held off for now from throwing their medals into the country’s sacred Ganges River as part of an ongoing protest against sexual harassment. A community leader intervened Tuesday and persuaded them against doing so. The wrestlers have been demanding the resignation and arrest of the president of

By JIM VERTUNO and PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — On the way to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton becoming a rising figure in the GOP, his wife, Angela, used to entertain crowds with a guitar and a song. “I’m a pistol-packin’ mama, and my husband sues Obama,” she sang at campaign

By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press A federal court ruling cleared the way Tuesday for OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma’s settlement of thousands of legal claims over the toll of opioids. Under the plan approved by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York, members of the wealthy Sackler family would give up ownership of

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — One Supreme Court justice explained her absence from a case. One justice didn’t. The difference shows how difficult forging consensus over even small steps on ethics can be at the Supreme Court, which faces calls to adopt an ethics code following revelations about undisclosed gifts from a

By SCOTT McFETRIDGE, HANNAH FINGERHUT and ERIN HOOLEY Associated Press DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) — Five residents of a six-story apartment building that partially collapsed in eastern Iowa remained unaccounted for Tuesday, and authorities feared at least two of them might be stuck inside rubble that was too dangerous to search. The three other missing residents

MILAN (AP) — Authorities say two Italian intelligence agents and one retired Israel agent were among the four dead when a sudden storm sank a houseboat hired for a pleasure cruise this weekend on a northern Italian lake. The Israeli Foreign Ministry on Tuesday confirmed the death of one Israeli citizen saying he was a

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina gas station owner has been charged with murder in the death of a 14-year-old boy whom he allegedly chased from the store and shot in the back. Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott says station owner Rick Chow incorrectly suspected that Cyrus Carmack-Belton had

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia’s maritime agency said Tuesday a Chinese barge likely plundered two World War II British shipwrecks in the South China Sea after discovering 100 more old artillery shells on the detained vessel. Malaysian media reported that illegal salvage operators are believed to have targeted the HMS Repulse and the HMS

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli army says Palestinian gunmen shot and killed an Israeli civilian Tuesday near the entrance to a Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank. Tuesday’s incident was the latest in more than a year-long surge of violence in the West Bank. During that time, Israel has expanded near-nightly military raids throughout

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A former Florida sheriff’s deputy is about to be tried on charges he failed to confront the gunman who murdered 17 at a Parkland high school five years ago. Scot Peterson could get a nearly 100-year sentence if convicted of felony child neglect. Jury selection

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer Consumer confidence fell in May as Americans became more pessimistic about the labor market, on top of elevated anxiety over inflation. The Conference Board reported Tuesday that its consumer confidence index fell to 102.3 in May from 103.7 in April. It’s the fourth time in five months that overall

BERLIN (AP) — A central figure in a German tax evasion scandal has been convicted and sentenced to more than eight years in prison, the second verdict against him in the space of a few months. The Wiesbaden state court on Tuesday convicted German lawyer Hanno Berger of three counts of tax evasion and gave

By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer Scientists and tech industry leaders, including high-level executives at Microsoft and Google, issued a new warning Tuesday about the perils that artificial intelligence poses to humankind. “Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war,” the

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s Education Ministry says it has been targeted in a cyberattack described as the most extensive in the country’s history, aimed at disabling a centralized high school examination platform. It said the distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attacks aimed at overwhelming the platform occurred for a second consecutive day Tuesday.

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — President Joe Biden marked Tuesday’s eighth anniversary of one of the saddest days of his life, the death of his son Beau, by attending a memorial Mass and visiting his gravesite. Biden, his wife, Jill, and other family members prayed for Beau Biden during the Mass