Month: October 2022

INMAN, S.C. (AP) — Authorities say five people have died in a shooting in northern South Carolina. Investigators say Spartanburg County deputies and emergency workers found the five people suffering from gunshot wounds Sunday evening at a house in Inman. Spartanburg County Coroner Rusty Clevenger says four of them died at the scene and a

By LOLITA C. BALDOR and TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Army plans to increase its investment in marketing and is expected to expand a new program for struggling recruits. But leaders are offering few new details on how they’ll fill the ranks after falling far short of recruiting goals this year.  Army

UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Uvalde’s school district superintendent announced Monday he plans to resign by the end of the academic year, following months of community outrage over the handling of the United States’ deadliest school shooting in nearly a decade. “My heart was broken on May 24th,” Hal Harrell said in a statement. The Uvalde

By NICOLAS VAUX-MONTAGNY and BARBARA SURK Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Former French President François Hollande has told a special terrorism court in Paris that the man who drove a truck into a crowded boardwalk in Nice on Bastille Day six years ago was responsible for “a terrorist act.” The attack in 2016 killed 86

LONDON (AP) — Books about Britain’s imperial past and the human face of the present-day refugee crisis are among the finalists for Britain’s leading nonfiction book award, the Baillie Gifford Prize. The shortlist announced Monday includes Harvard professor Caroline Elkins’ hard-hitting “Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire” and Irish journalist Sally Hayden’s