Month: October 2024

TWO RIVERS, Wis. (AP) — Additional charges have been filed against a woman and her boyfriend in the death of her 3-year-old son whose skeletal remains were found by a hunter last month in a northeastern Wisconsin wooded area. Manitowoc County District Attorney Jacalyn LaBre said Thursday that Katrina Baur is charged with chronic neglect

Associated Press DENVER (AP) — State regulators have ordered a former Colorado gold mine where a tour guide was killed and a group of tourists was trapped for hours after an elevator accident to remain closed while its operations are reviewed. The move was announced Thursday. A spokesperson for the state’s mining division said it

AP Music Writer One Direction member Liam Payne was found dead this week after falling from a hotel balcony in Buenos Aires, Argentina, at just 31. In life, Payne was critical part of One Direction, a boy band unlike any other. Experts told The Associated Press that he was the grounding force of the group,

MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — A mother convicted of abandoning her newborn son in the New Hampshire woods in subfreezing temperatures on Christmas night in 2022 has been handed a suspended sentence. A judge said Thursday that Alexandra Eckersley must maintain contact with mental health providers as part of her suspended sentence. Eckersley is the daughter

Associated Press Dozens of farmers in Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin are scrambling to feed their flocks after a struggling organic broiler chicken producer abruptly closed a year after getting a $39 million federal loan. Pure Prairie Poultry shuttered its Charles City, Iowa, processing plant after filing for bankruptcy in September. The company had provided chicks

Associated Press/Report for America BRADENTON BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Residents of Florida’s Gulf Coast are digging out from mountains of sand after Hurricanes Helene and Milton clobbered them with back-to-back hits in less than two weeks. Storm surge as high as 10 feet swept sand into communities. The fine, white sand helps make Florida’s beaches

Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel’s killing of Yahya Sinwar, Hamas’ top leader and the mastermind of the group’s Oct. 7 2023, attack, is a dramatic turning point in the brutal yearlong war that it touched off. Sinwar’s killing on Wednesday decapitates the Palestinian militant group that has already been reeling from months

Associated Press A Virginia elections official who faced criminal charges that were later dropped over a botched vote count in the 2020 presidential election is accusing the state attorney general in a lawsuit of malicious prosecution. Michele White’s lawsuit was filed Thursday in federal court. She says she was wrongly vilified in the only criminal

Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A group of Oklahoma parents, teachers and ministers are suing to stop the state’s top education official from forcing schools to incorporate the Bible into their lesson plans. The lawsuit filed Thursday with the Oklahoma Supreme Court also asks the court to stop State Superintendent Ryan Walters from spending

AP Health Writer MILWAUKEE (AP) — U.S. health officials say whooping cough is at its highest level in a decade for this time of year. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday that so far this year there have been about 18,500 cases of whooping cough. That’s the most at this point in

AP Sports Writer CLEVELAND (AP) — The Browns are moving out of their lakefront home. The team officially announced plans to leave their 25-year-old stadium on the shores of Lake Erie when the lease expires in 2028 and move to a domed facility in suburban Brook Park despite the city’s efforts to keep it in

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — An art adviser who once counted actor Leonardo DiCaprio among her wealthy clients has pleaded guilty to wire fraud. Lisa Schiff admitted she defrauded clients out of $6.5 million in the sale of 55 artworks. Schiff entered the plea Thursday in Manhattan federal court. Prosecutors say Schiff diverted her

Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Internet gambling in New Jersey set a new record in September with the casinos and their partners winning over $208 million from online gamblers. It marked the first time online winnings had surpassed $200 million in a month in New Jersey. The totals also underscored how much more

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Nearly $75 million in federal grant funds over the next five years will be aimed at helping Alaska Native communities as they grapple with the impacts of climate change. The Anchorage Daily News reports the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium is receiving the grant as part of a program aimed at

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A former Olympic snowboarder for Canada has been charged with running a drug trafficking ring that authorities say shipped vast amounts of cocaine across the Americas and killed four people. The FBI said Thursday a $50,000 reward is being offered for information leading to the arrest and extradition of Ryan James

Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Florida and Texas were the two U.S. states with the largest number of new residents last year, and their biggest source was other countries. That’s according to U.S. Census Bureau data released Thursday. A little over 45% of Florida residents who said that they had lived in a different

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration has announced temporary legal status for Lebanese citizens already in the United States, likely pleasing some Arab voters, including in the battleground state of Michigan. The Homeland Security Department said that Thursday’s announcement — together with an earlier offer in July — brings to about 11,000 the number of

Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nevada Democratic U.S. Sen. Jacky Rosen and Republican challenger Sam Brown have held their only debate of the campaign. While they painted each other as extremists, there were few fireworks in Thursday’s face-off. Rosen is a first-term senator seen as a political consensus-builder. Brown is a retired Army captain

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A weather event called the diablo wind is expected to whip up across Northern California and cause humidity levels to drop and raise the risk of wildfires. Forecasters issued red flag warnings for fire danger from Thursday until Saturday from the central California coast up to nearly the Oregon border. Pacific

AP Media Writer Longtime NBC News anchor Brian Williams is returning to the screen on election night, only this time he’ll be streamed on Amazon Prime Video. The company announced Williams will anchor live election night coverage and commentary on the service. Williams has kept a low profile since ending his late-night news show on

Associated Press TURNER STATION, Md. (AP) — As the dust settled after the deadly collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge, as the initial shock wore off and the breaking news coverage subsided, residents of this tiny peninsula found themselves facing an uncertain future. Many had spent decades living in the shadow of the Key

Associated Press IDLIB, Syria (AP) — A U.N. official has said he is “alarmed” by escalating violence in Syria’s opposition-held northwest in recent days, including airstrikes that hit near a food distribution site for displaced families and others that struck a power station and disabled water stations. The U.N. deputy regional humanitarian coordinator for Syria,

NEW YORK (AP) — Nearly 90,000 tabletop fire pits are under recall after flames shooting out from them resulted in a handful of serious burn injuries. The Colsen-branded fire pits are designed to hold fires by burning liquid alcohol. A notice published Thursday by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission says they pose a “flame

AP Film Writer Michael Keaton and Mila Kunis went from strangers to father and daughter in short order for the new film “Goodrich.” Writer-director Hallie Meyers-Shyer wrote the film specifically for Keaton, an actor she’d never met. She wanted to show a complicated father-daughter relationship with a man who had a second, younger set of

BERLIN (AP) — Local reports say a brand-new fire station that burned down in a blaze that caused millions of euros in damage did not have a fire alarm system. German news agency dpa reported the fire Wednesday at the Stadtallendorf fire station in Hesse destroyed the equipment hall and almost a dozen emergency vehicles.

AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Boundaries between work and family don’t just blur in the new CBS sitcom “Poppa’s House” starring father-and-son comedy duo Damon Wayans and Damon Wayans Jr. They shatter. The Wayans are surrounded at their work with brothers, nephews, nieces and siblings. The elder Wayans plays the titular Poppa, a

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump laced into Vice President Kamala Harris and other Democrats on Thursday in a pointed and at times bitter speech as he headlined the annual Al Smith charity dinner in New York. Trump, in remarks that often felt more like a rally performance than a comedy