Month: February 2023

By NARDOS HAILE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A night in music brimming with shocking upsets, historic wins, tributes for artists like the late rapper Takeoff and hip-hop’s 50th anniversary, the 65th Grammys were back in full swing Sunday. Once again, Beyoncé was in the running for the top honor. Once again, the show

NEW YORK (AP) — A man charged with attacking police with a machete near New York’s Times Square on New Year’s Eve has been transferred to U.S. custody and made his initial court appearance. Trevor Thomas Bickford, handcuffed and shackled at the ankles, shuffled into a Manhattan federal courtroom Monday for an initial appearance. Charges

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla (AP) — The trial of a Florida nursing home administrator accused of causing the overheating deaths of nine patients after a 2017 hurricane is underway. Prosecutors during Monday’s opening statements accused Jorge Carballo of abandoning his patients, going home after the Rehabilitation Center at Hollywood Hills lost

By DENISE LAVOIE and BEN FINLEY Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — An attorney for a teacher who was shot and wounded by a 6-year-old Virginia boy says in a legal notice that the first-grader constantly cursed at staff and teachers, chased students around and tried to whip them with his belt and once choked

CHICAGO HEIGHTS, Ill. (AP) — Fire swept through a large commercial warehouse in suburban Chicago, producing a smoke plume that could be seen for miles. The morning fire occurred in Chicago Heights at Morgan Li, a maker of fixtures, furniture and graphics. City spokesman David Ormsby says the fire was finally put out around noon.

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations chief is warning that the world is facing a convergence of challenges “unlike any in our lifetimes.” Secretary-General Antonio Guterres expresses fear of a wider war as the first anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine approaches. He told the U.N. General Assembly

NOGALES, Ariz. (AP) — A rancher who lives near Arizona’s border with Mexico is being held on a charge of first-degree murder in last week’s fatal shooting of a man tentatively identified as a Mexican citizen. His bail was set at $1 million.  The Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s office in Nogales, Arizona, confirmed Monday that

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The Alabama attorney general argued an inmate did not suffer unconstitutionally during an aborted lethal injection last year. Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall’s office asked a judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed by Kenneth Eugene Smith seeking to prevent the state from making a second attempt to put him to death.