Month: July 2023

CRANDON, Wis. (AP) — State officials are investigating how eight people became trapped upside down on a roller coaster — some of them for more…

By BRIAN WITTE Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — A Maryland board has approved $2.9 million in compensation for a man who was wrongly…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR and TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon on Wednesday announced plans to tighten protection for classified…

By SCOTT BAUER and HARM VENHUIZEN Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers has signed off on a two-year spending plan after…

By SARA HERSCHANDER of The Chronicle of Philanthropy Chronicle of Philanthropy A new poll of Americans found that nearly half of those who stopped…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump posted on his social media platform what he claimed was the home…

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi Supreme Court will hear an appeal as some Jackson residents try to…

By KARL RITTER and JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press STOCKHOLM (AP) — A Quran burning and a string of requests to approve protests involving the…

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A man who says Kevin Spacey made crude and racially offensive remarks before grabbing his genitals…

NORTH MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (AP) — Five people are dead after a single-engine plane crashed over the weekend in a South Carolina coastal resort town.…

JERUSALEM (AP) — The office of Israel’s prime minister says a dual Israeli-Russian citizen who has been missing in Iraq for months is being…

CORDELE, Ga. (AP) — Authorities say a sheriff’s deputy in Georgia has been shot and killed and the suspect tried to flee in the deputy’s patrol…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — The United Nations food agency says millions of hungry people in West Africa are left…

By JARI TANNER Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — A populist party that is part of Finland’s recently installed right-wing coalition government on…

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A member of the “Central Park Five” has won the Democratic primary for a seat on the New…

By KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former New York Mayor Bill de Blasio and his wife, Chirlane McCray, say they are separating but…

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Groups hoping to enshrine abortion rights in Ohio’s constitution have delivered nearly…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A 40-year-old accused of killing a man in a house and then gunning down four others “seemingly at random” on the streets of…

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong police have arrested four men they accused of providing financial support to people who…

WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Soccer royalty made its way into the Royal Box at Wimbledon when David Beckham took his place on Centre Court. Beckham…

By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer Years after their sport was hoisted onto the Olympic stage, the idea of riding for big money and gold medals still…

By CARA ANNA Associated Press PARIS (AP) — France’s highest court has rejected a request by three groups seeking reparations for slavery in a…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer Contract negotiations between UPS and the union representing 340,000 of the company’s workers broke down early…

By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Three environmental activists have been arrested at Wimbledon after running onto one…