Month: July 2023

CEDAR HILL, Texas (AP) — Police say a man suspected of shooting and injuring a doctor at a Dallas-area medical building was shot and injured by police after he was involved in a crash with another vehicle and could be seen with a long gun. Police in Cedar Hill, located just southwest of Dallas, said

ALBANY, Ga. (AP) — A man who has been jailed in Georgia for 10 years awaiting trial for a 2013 drive-by shooting that killed two people and injured others will have to keep waiting for a verdict. A Dougherty County jury was dismissed Monday after being unable to reach a verdict in Maurice Jimmerson’s long-delayed

By JACK DURA Associated Press Three more men charged in connection with an alleged international fentanyl ring have been sentenced this month to decades in federal prison. A federal judge in North Dakota sentenced Daniel Vivas Ceron to 27 years in prison, Jason Berry to 24 years in prison and Xuan Nguyen to 22 years

By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — In the final months of the Trump administration, a new plan to seal off the United States’ southern border started gaining steam: a floating water barrier to discourage migrants from trying to cross from Mexico. The idea never materialized. But three years later, Texas Republican

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Kevin McCarthy says Republican lawmakers may consider an impeachment inquiry of President Joe Biden over unproven claims of financial misconduct, responding to enormous GOP pressure to demonstrate support for Donald Trump ahead of the 2024 presidential election. In remarks Tuesday at the Capitol, McCarthy

In a story published July 24, 2023, about a peanut monument in Ashburn, Georgia, The Associated Press erroneously reported the name of the executive director of the Ashburn-Turner County Chamber of Commerce. She is Ashley Miller, not Rebecca Miller. The story also erroneously reported the name of a celebrity who took a selfie with the

By RICK CALLAHAN Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Authorities say human remains found buried in 1983 at an abandoned Indiana farm have been identified as those of a Chicago teenager who was a victim of the late serial killer Larry Eyler. The Newton County Coroner’s Office and the DNA Doe Project say the remains are

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The Rhode Island Ethics Commission says it has opened an investigation into whether Democratic Gov. Dan McKee broke state law when he was treated to lunch at a restaurant in January. According to a complaint filed by the state GOP, lobbyist Jeff Britt paid for the $228 lunch, which included McKee

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma’s new Republican attorney general says he’s stepping into an ongoing legal dispute over tribal gambling agreements signed by Gov. Kevin Stitt several years ago. Attorney General Gentner Drummond notified Stitt on Tuesday that he’s joining the lawsuit to represent the state’s interest at the request

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — SAG-AFTRA held its largest and most star-studded rally yet Tuesday in Times Square in a picket sign-waving show of solidarity 12 days into the actors strike. A day after a Variety report questioned the lack of A-listers that have hit picket lines thus far, the

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A proposal to legalize adult use of marijuana in Ohio has fallen just short of the signatures needed to make the November ballot. Republican Secretary of State Frank LaRose determined Tuesday that the Coalition to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol needed just 679 more voter signatures

Pete Davidson has entered a diversion program to resolve a reckless driving charge for crashing into a Beverly Hills home and will perform 50 hours community service, authorities said Tuesday. The 29-year-old “Saturday Night Live” and “King of Staten Island” actor and comedian will likely do his community service with the New York Fire Department,

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Presss COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio voters will have the opportunity this fall to decide whether to guarantee access to abortion in the state, setting up a volatile fight rife with emotional messaging and competing factual claims. State officials said Tuesday that a ballot measure to change the state constitution

The Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Hugh “Sonny” Carter Jr. has died. He’s the Carter who helped organize the “Peanut Brigade” that helped elect his cousin Jimmy to the White House and later enforced the president’s frugal ways in the West Wing. The Carter Center announced his death without saying the cause. Hugh Carter was

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The yearslong legal fight over former President Donald Trump’s decision to divert billions of dollars to build a U.S.-Mexico border wall has formally ended. Wisconsin became the last of 20 states to drop out of the two lawsuits on Tuesday. The lawsuits were rendered all but

By REBECCA SANTANA Associated Presss WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday blocked a rule that allows immigration authorities to deny asylum to migrants who arrive at the U.S.-Mexico border without first applying online or seeking protection in a country they passed through. But the judge delayed his ruling from taking effect immediately to

By ERIC TUCKER and MATTHEW LEE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A former U.S. Marine who was released from Russia in a prisoner swap last year has been injured while fighting in Ukraine, the State Department said Tuesday. Trevor Reed was injured several weeks ago, according to a person familiar with the matter, who was

By MARK PRATT Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts environmental regulators have denied a request by the company dismantling a shuttered nuclear power plant to release more than 1 million gallons of radioactive wastewater into Cape Cod Bay. The state Department of Environmental Protection’s draft decision issued Monday said it denied Holtec’s request for a