Month: November 2023

DETROIT (AP) — Unions and Detroit’s three casinos have announced a tentative five-year contract that could end a weekslong strike. A labor coalition represents 3,700 people, including dealers, cleaning staff, valets and food staff. They work at MGM Grand Detroit, MotorCity Casino and Hollywood Casino at Greektown. The Detroit Casino Council says the deal includes

CHICAGO (AP) — The Chicago Police Board has voted to fire an officer accused of dragging a Black woman out of a car by her hair during unrest at a mall in 2020. The Chicago Tribune reports the board voted unanimously Thursday to fire Officer David Laskus. The board found that he used excessive force

By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press LE PECQ, France (AP) — Organizers of next year’s Paris Olympics are scaling back the metal tower they plan to build for judges and television cameras at the picture-perfect surfing venue in Tahiti. They’re bowing to concerns on the French Polynesian island about damage to sea life and its majestic

By ISABELLA VOLMERT Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A federal judge has heard arguments in a lawsuit filed by a group of Indiana residents from Haiti who say a recently passed state law unconstitutionally discriminates against immigrants of certain nationalities. The law allows people from Ukraine who are on humanitarian parole to obtain an Indiana

By MICHAEL RUBINKAM Associated Press READING, Pa. (AP) — A judge has rejected a plea agreement for a Pennsylvania woman charged with killing her two young children. The 4-year-old and 8-year-old died three days after they were found hanging in the basement of their home about 60 miles northwest of Philadelphia nearly four years ago.

By JAMES POLLARD Associated Press/Report for America BEAUFORT, S.C. (AP) — Alex Murdaugh pleaded guilty Friday to a slew of financial crimes in state court, adding to the prison time facing the longtime lawyer who was convicted of killing his wife and son. Murdaugh agreed to plead guilty to more than a dozen counts, including

PHOENIX (AP) — Police outside Phoenix say they identified a set of decomposed remains known for 31 years as “Apache Junction Jane Doe” as that of 15-year-old Melody Harrison. The Apache Junction Police Department says the teenager was reported missing in Phoenix by her family in 1992. But four years later the family removed Harrison

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Appointees of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis are seeking communications between Disney and local media, as well as documents related to the company’s position on Florida’s so-called “Don’t Say Gay” law. It’s part of a state court fight over control of the district that governs Walt Disney

NEW YORK (AP) — George Brown, the co-founder and longtime drummer of Kool & The Gang who helped write such hits as “Too Hot,” “Ladies Night,” “Joanna” and the party favorite “Celebration,” has died at age 74. A statement from Universal Music says Brown died Thursday in Los Angeles after a battle with cancer. Kool

By MARK M. MENGONFIA Associated Press MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — Election officials in Liberia have released nearly all the results from this week’s presidential election runoff vote. The figures announced late Friday show opposition candidate Joseph Boakai with 50.89% of the votes counted so far, while incumbent President George Weah has 49.11%. Still, election officials

SALEM, Ind. (AP) — A Louisiana woman accused of involvement in the death of a 5-year-old Atlanta boy whose body was found in a suitcase in Indiana last year has reached a plea deal with prosecutors. News outlets in Georgia and Indiana report that 41-year-old Dawn Coleman of Shreveport will be sentenced Tuesday. The Atlanta

By SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — University of Virginia officials are further delaying the public release of the findings of an investigation into the events surrounding a 2022 campus shooting that killed three student-athletes and wounded two other students. Citing concern about the impact the findings could have on the suspect’s pending

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — At the inaugural Formula One Las Vegas Grand Prix, music and entertainment has taken a front seat. It began with a star-studded Open Ceremony on Wednesday, featuring single-song performances from Thirty Seconds to Mars, Keith Urban, Andra Day, Bishop Briggs, Journey, Steve Aoki, J Balvin,

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey is moving forward with its offshore wind industry, despite the loss of two major offshore wind farm projects when Danish developer Orsted pulled out of the state. The state Board of Public Utilities is seeking bids for a transmission facility into which several

By BABACAR DIONE Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Senegal’s highest court has effectively barred detained opposition leader Ousmane Sonko from running for president early next year. The court overturned a local court’s decision to reinstate Sonko to the West African country’s voter rolls. The legal setback for the politician came on the same day

ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (AP) — A man has been found guilty in the death of a woman whose remains were found inside a duffel bag along a rural road in northwest Missouri. Ariel Starcher was killed at a Kansas City hotel. The St. Joseph News-Press reports that Marcus Brooks was convicted Thursday of first-degree murder

By JONEL ALECCIA AP Health Writer The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is screening imports of cinnamon from multiple countries for toxic lead. It comes after more reports of illness in children who ate pouches of applesauce puree. The pouches were sold in several retail and online stories and have been recalled. The FDA says

By RIO YAMAT Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Four Las Vegas high school students facing murder charges in the fatal beating of their classmate are scheduled Friday to make their first appearances in the adult court system. The students each face one count of murder but haven’t been formally charged. The Associated Press is

By TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer A New York woman who died Sunday from cancer has raised enough money to erase million of dollars in medical debt with a posthumous plea for help. Casey McIntyre told followers in a social media message posted by her husband that she had arranged to buy the medical debt

PARIS (AP) — An expert commission in France has called for removing all time limits on the prosecution of people suspected of raping or sexually assaulting children. The Independent Commission on Incest and Sexual Violence against Children also recommended defining sexual abuse of children as a separate offense when it happens within families. France’s statute

MENTOR, Ohio (AP) — Authorities say a man facing eviction from a mobile home park in Ohio fatally shot the site’s property manager and two other residents before retreating into his home. The shooter then fired shots at police and kept officers at bay before he killed himself. Another resident was wounded in the shooting

NEW YORK (AP) — Charges have been dropped against a New York City lawmaker who brought a gun to a protest because her gun was apparently inoperable. Pro-Israel City Council member Inna Vernikov was arrested on Oct. 13 at a Brooklyn College demonstration supporting Palestinians. She was charged with possessing a gun at a sensitive

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer The federal government is delaying a new rule that could make it easier for millions of workers to unionize after business groups sued. The National Labor Relations Board says the rule, which was scheduled to go into effect next month, will now be effective Feb. 26 to give it

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. health officials say at least seven states are seeing high levels of the flu and that cases are rising in other parts of the country. New flu data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows flu is steadily rising. The winter flu

MADRID (AP) — The former president of the Spanish soccer federation has been ruled unfit to work in the sport in Spain for three years after he kissed a player on the lips without her consent at the Women’s World Cup final. Luis Rubiales had already been forced to resign from his post after he

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The U.N. top court has issued an order calling on Azerbaijan to ensure that people can safely leave, return to or remain in Nagorno-Karabakh, following the Azerbaijani military’s retaking of the separatist region in September. Armenia asked the International Court of Justice to order so-called

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Six Colorado law enforcement officers have been charged with failing to intervene during a standoff that ended with the fatal shooting of a 22-year-old man suffering a mental health crisis last year. Prosecutors announced the new charges Friday, a day after a former sergeant previously charged in

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer The 1976 book “The Hite Report” was a bestseller from the beginning. Its intimate anecdotes about love, sex, orgasms and masturbation, drawn from anonymous survey responses from about 3,000 women across the U.S., challenged male assumptions about heterosexual intercourse. And it made its author, Shere Hite, a deeply polarizing

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — More than 2,400 Ukrainian children aged 6-17 have been taken to Belarus from four regions of Ukraine that are partially occupied by Russian forces, a study by Yale University has found. The study, released Thursday by the Humanitarian Research Lab of the Yale School of Public

By JACK DURA Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A federal judge in North Dakota has ruled that the state’s Republican-controlled Legislature violated the Voting Rights Act in how it reapportioned legislative districts comprising two tribal nations. The Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians and the Spirit Lake Tribe sued last year, alleging the 2021

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer Advertisers are fleeing social media platform X over concerns about their ads showing up next to pro-Nazi content and hate speech on the site in general, with billionaire owner Elon Musk inflaming tensions with his own tweets endorsing an antisemitic conspiracy theory. IBM said this week that it stopped

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — E-40 created his own lane with an unorthodox rap flow that’s worked for more than 30 years. There’s no slowing down for the 56-year-old hip-hop legend who’s release his new album “Rule of Thumb: Rule 1” on Friday. The new album — which features

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The chairman of the House Ethics Committee has filed a resolution to force a vote on expelling Republican Rep. George Santos from Congress. The resolution was announced one day after the Ethics Committee issued a withering report detailing evidence that Santos of New York converted campaign donations

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — In a story published November 14, 2023, about the arrest of Donna Adelson in the murder of her son-in-law Daniel Markel, The Associated Press erroneously reported that Katie Magbanua and Sigfredo Garcia were once married. While they sometimes identified as married, they were never officially married. Also, Garcia was not

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Author A.S. Byatt, whose books include the Booker Prize-winning novel “Possession,” has died at the age of 87. Byatt’s publisher, Chatto & Windus, says that the author died “peacefully at home surrounded by close family.”  Byatt wrote two dozen novels, starting with “The Shadow of the Sun”

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Reports from Myanmar say airstrikes by the ruling military in a western region have killed at least 11 civilians, including eight children. A leading opposition group and area residents say the Wednesday attack on Vuilu village, south of Matupi township in Chin state, also left four people

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Thousands of people are marching through central Athens to mark the 50th anniversary of a pro-democracy student uprising that was violently put down by the military dictatorship ruling Greece in 1973. The annual march started Friday from the Polytechnic campus, which was the headquarters of the uprising, and is heading towards

DETROIT (AP) — Honda is recalling nearly 250,000 vehicles in the U.S. because bearings can fail, causing the engines to stall and increasing the risk of a crash. The recall covers certain 2018 and 2019 Honda Pilot SUVs and Odyssey minivans, and some 2017 and 2019 Ridgeline pickup trucks. Also affected are certain 2015 to

By ALICIA RANCILIO Associated Press As the temperature drops (in many places), the holiday TV calendar is heating up with a variety of festive options. Old favorites like “A Charlie Brown Christmas” and “A Christmas Story” return while new family friendly films make their debut including “Dashing Through the Snow” on Disney+ and Melissa McCarthy’s

By EMMANUEL IGUNZA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — At least 130 people have died in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia following heavy rains that triggered what aid agencies describe as flooding seen only once every 100 years. Somalia has borne the brunt of the flash floods inundating the Horn of Africa region. The National Disaster

NEW YORK (AP) — The visceral documentary “20 Days in Mariupol” about Russia’s early assault on the Ukrainian city will soon reach its widest audience yet. The 94-minute film is a joint production by The Associated Press and PBS “Frontline” and has been met with critical acclaim, an audience award at the Sundance Film Festival

By MARÍA VERZA Associated Press ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) — Three weeks after Hurricane Otis smacked Acapulco, businesses of all types and sizes hum with activity as residents work with a singular purpose: restart as soon as possible the tourism engine of this city of 1 million people. Acapulco had hosted major business gatherings and sporting

By SARAH RANKIN Associated Press HENRICO, Va. (AP) — The Virginia Democrat whose legislative campaign was rocked by the disclosure that she had livestreamed sex acts with her husband lost this year’s race but isn’t giving up on politics. Susanna Gibson spoke with The Associated Press about her race, the videos and her plans. It

BERLIN (AP) — Police say a high-speed train and a regional train were involved in an accident in southern Germany that left several people slightly injured. They wrote on X, formerly Twitter, that there was a “lateral contact” between the high-speed ICE train and the regional service on Friday at Reichertshausen, between Ingolstadt and Munich.

By VESELIN TOSHKOV Associated Press SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgaria’s chief prosecutor has launched an investigation into the country’s soccer management. The focus is on the actions of federation president Borislav Mihaylov. The move follows the mass protests that gripped Bulgaria’s capital on Thursday as several thousand soccer fans took to the streets to demand

By COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal government has opened civil rights investigations into seven schools and universities over allegations of antisemitism or Islamophobia since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war. The list includes three Ivy League institutions — Columbia, Cornell and the University of Pennsylvania — along with Wellesley College