Month: December 2023

By JERRY HARMER and JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Naphat Krutthai and Rasithaya Jindasri have been in a committed relationship for eight years, but only now can they consider getting married. In a clothing shop in Siam Square, a commercial hub in Thailand’s capital, the happy couple excitedly eyed multi-colored garments as they

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Former New York Giants running back Derrick Ward has been arrested in Los Angeles on suspicion of robbery. Police say the 43-year-old was arrested Monday in the North Hollywood area. He’s jailed on $250,000 bail. Police haven’t released other details. Ward had an eight-year NFL career. It started with his 2004

By RIO YAMAT Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A body found in an open field in 1979 near what is today a busy intersection of the Las Vegas Strip has been identified as a teenager from Ohio. Las Vegas police announced Tuesday that she was 19-year-old Gwenn Marie Story. She was known only as

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California’s attorney general will not seek criminal charges against a Vallejo police officer who fatally shot a man outside a San Francisco Bay Area pharmacy. A Vallejo police officer fatally shot 22-year-old Sean Monterrosa on Jun 2, 2020, after responding to reports of suspects stealing

By HANNAH FINGERHUT and ALI SWENSON Associated Press WATERLOO, Iowa (AP) — Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday defended his comments about migrants crossing the southern border “poisoning the blood” of America, and he reinforced the message while denying any similarities to fascist writings others had noted. “I never read ‘Mein Kampf,’” Trump said at

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A federal judge has lifted an injunction that briefly blocked Arlington National Cemetery from removing a century-old memorial there to Confederate soldiers. Judge Rossie Alston said at a hearing in federal court Tuesday in Alexandria, Virginia, that he issued the temporary injunction Monday only after receiving

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — Federal prosecutors say two Southern California brothers who ran a heroin-delivery operation that took telephone orders from customers using code words like “taco” have been sentenced to 24 years each in federal prison. Julio and Victor Martinez were sentenced Monday for conspiracy to distribute heroin. They pleaded guilty in August

NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge has ordered the public disclosure of the identities of more than 150 people mentioned in a mountain of court documents related to the late-financier Jeffrey Epstein, saying that most of the names were already public and that many had not objected to the release. The people whose names

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — A New York man who served 37 years in prison for the shooting deaths of two people in the 1980s has been released from prison after his conviction was overturned. The Democrat and Chronicle reports Michael Rhynes left the Attica Correctional Facility on Tuesday afternoon following a court appearance in Rochester.