Month: February 2024

MEREDITH, N.H. (AP) — A New Hampshire man has been charged with assaulting two 7-year-old children at an elementary school, two weeks after similar…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has reiterated his focus on strengthening his naval…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The money that Mexican migrants send home to their relatives has grown by 7.6% in 2023, to reach a record $63.3 billion for the…

By BRENDAN FARRINGTON Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The Florida House has passed a bill to let 16- and 17-year-olds work longer and…

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Ellen Gilchrist, a National Book Award winner whose short stories and novels drew on…

By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — One of the nation’s largest real estate brokerages has agreed to pay $70 million as part of a…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — An American founder of a Haitian orphanage who is accused of forcing four boys to engage in sexual…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia, once a self-proclaimed leader in criminal justice reform, is sliding a little further toward…

By ISABELLA VOLMERT Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana’s Republican leaders in the statehouse have promised to address declining…

By STEPHEN GROVES, MARY CLARE JALONICK and LISA MASCARO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate leaders are attempting to push forward a deal to…

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kris Jenner has a new term: “Twist on it.” The driven matriarch of the…

By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press A Nebraska state lawmaker has introduced a bill to require the state to accept $18 million in federal funding to…

By ASHRAF KHALIL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — One of the great interspecies love stories of our time has come to an end. Walnut, a…

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The South Carolina Senate has approved a bill that would allow anyone who can legally own…

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — After begrudgingly agreeing to tweak Tennessee’s strict abortion ban last year,…

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A new report says inaccurate racial profiling data on traffic stops made by the Connecticut…

NEEDLES, Calif. (AP) — Federal authorities say they might have a break in a long-running investigation into the killing of wild burros in…

By ACACIA CORONADO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — As tensions grow between Texas officials and the federal government over who can enforce…

By JOSH FUNK and TOM KRISHER Associated Press Residents of eastern Ohio can now get an up-close view in newly released videos of the toxic towers of…

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Providence health care system is refunding nearly $21 million in medical bills paid by low-income…

By JANIE HAR Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Black lawmakers in California are proposing ways to remedy the long-lasting effects of slavery.…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Disney is appealing a federal judge’s dismissal of its free speech lawsuit over Gov. Ron…

By KILEY ARMSTRONG and ANDREW DALTON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Bruce Springsteen’s mother, Adele Zerilli Springsteen, has died at age…

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Yarrah Concepcion was a teenaged aspiring R&B singer and rapper when she got an appointment…

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A pair of childhood friends who were convicted in the killing of a French tourist in Times…

By CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — An apparent cyberattack that affected government operations in Georgia’s most populous…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A former CIA software engineer has been sentenced to 40 years in prison for what the…

WEST CALN, Pa. (AP) — Authorities say a small plane has crashed in a central Pennsylvania neighborhood. But it’s not yet known if there were…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Satellite photos show new demolition along a 1-kilometer-deep path on the Gaza Strip’s border…

By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A 16-year-old boy has pleaded guilty to charges of second-degree murder and carjacking in…

By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer Meta Platforms Inc. tripled its profit and posted sharply higher revenue in the final quarter of 2023,…

Associated Press The storm that pummeled California this week was fueled by an atmospheric river, a plume of moisture that extended over the Pacific…

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press Warm weather has forced the federal officials to suspend the annual wolf-moose count in Isle Royale National Park…

By JOHN ZENOR AP Sports Writer MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — UCLA defensive end Laiatu Latu is a hot NFL draft prospect two years after resuming his football…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly $4 billion in drones and military equipment have been approved for sale to India by the Biden administration. Meant to…

By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — The National Hurricane Center will add inland predictions to its forecast of the…

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Ricky Ian Gordon’s ”This House,” with a libretto by Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage and daughter Ruby Aiyo Gerber, will…