Month: October 2024

WEST POINT, Va. (AP) — An advocacy group says a Virginia school board has agreed to pay $575,000 in a settlement to a former high school teacher…

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Indiana Court of Appeals has reinstated a lawsuit filed by the state accusing TikTok of deceiving its users about the…

Associated Press ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina election officials say they will do everything in their power to ensure that voters in the…

AP Auto Racing Writer Paralyzed in a racing accident nearly 25 years ago, Sam Schmidt has spent much of the last quarter century trying to prove to…

Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry says that he plans to call the Legislature into a special session in November,…

Associated Press Frank Fritz of the reality TV show “American Pickers” has died. On the History Channel program, Fritz drove around the U.S.…

Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Hezbollah has warned that the rockets that struck central Israel were only the beginning and that the militant group…

Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — It doesn’t feel like Christmas in Venezuela. At least not yet. Even if the president wants it to be.…

AP Sports Writer MILWAUKEE (AP) — Sal Frelick returned to the Milwaukee Brewers’ lineup for the start of the playoffs without needing to worry…

AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Ken Page, a stage and screen actor who starred alongside Beyoncé in “Dreamgirls,” introduced Broadway…

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Private, nonprofit colleges in California will be banned from giving preference in the admissions process to applicants…

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Democrats and Republicans in Wisconsin have selected their 2024 presidential electors. Each party’s legislative caucus…

Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — John Amos, who starred as the family patriarch on the hit 1970s sitcom “Good Times” and earned an Emmy…

Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — A federal government watchdog is blasting the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration for failing to timely report human…

Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — A judge rolled back Georgia’s abortion ban this week, but it’s not expected to be the final word.…

Technology reporter Taylor Lorenz says she’s leaving The Washington Post, less than two months after the newspaper began a review of a social…

Associated Press SEA GIRT, N.J. (AP) — The federal government has given a key approval to an offshore wind farm in New Jersey. The decision comes…

GENEVA (AP) — Experts say the volume of Switzerland’s glaciers shrank again this summer and compounded the negative impact of climate change…

AP National Writer What used to be one of baseball’s most magical numbers — 61 home runs — now sits buried, eight lines deep, in the Major…

Associated Press ALMA, Ark. (AP) — An Arkansas man who died in prison decades ago has been identified as a suspect in the disappearance of a…

TAYLOR, Mich. (AP) — A 13-year-old girl has been charged with first-degree premeditated murder in the stabbing death of her 7-year-old sister she…

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The two major-party nominees for West Virginia governor have agreed to participate in a debate. The debate between…

Associated Press The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation announced Tuesday its 2024 class of fellows, often known as recipients of the…

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The 2024 class of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation fellows includes more writers, artists and…

Associated Press Police have released the name of the driver of a vehicle that crashed into a pipeline valve and sparked a four-day fire in a Houston…

Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — A dog clings to Hussein Hamza inside a car as he pans his camera around to show the aftermath of an Israeli…

CHICAGO (AP) — Police have arrested a 15-year-old in Iowa in connection with the fatal shooting of a mail carrier in Chicago over the summer.…

Associated Press BATH, Maine (AP) — A woman who lost her husband and son in Maine’s deadliest shooting is seeking the gunman’s health and…

Associated Press PARAMARIBO, Suriname (AP) — Officials say that France’s TotalEnergies and U.S. hydrocarbon company APA Corp. plan to invest $10…

Associated Press NICE, France (AP) — French Prime Minister Michel Barnier says he has postponed a provincial election in the restive Pacific…

AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The holidays are the busiest time of year for many small retailers and other businesses. But the holidays this…