4 missing after record-breaking downpours along Canada’s Atlantic coast cause flooding
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia (AP) — Four people are missing after intense thunderstorms dumped record amounts of rain across a wide swath of Canada’s…
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Wisconsin woman’s killing, dismemberment trial to begin Monday after jury chosen, judge’s ruling
GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — The trial of a woman charged with killing and dismembering a Green Bay man last year is set to begin Monday after a judge…
Continue ReadingDive team deployed after helicopter crashes into Alaska lake; all 4 on board presumed dead
By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A rescue and recovery dive team was deployed Saturday after a helicopter with a pilot…
Continue ReadingMurder trial of rapper YNW Melly ends in mistrial after jury deadlocks; retrial likely
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A deadlocked jury prompted a mistrial Saturday in the South Florida trial of rapper YNW Melly on charges that he…
Continue ReadingTrain derailment in northern Montana spills freight, but hazmat car safe
HAVRE, Mont. (AP) — A train derailment in northern Montana spilled freight and left cars tangled up along a major east-west railroad corridor but…
Continue ReadingRussian special forces kill a gunman who broke into a private house near Moscow
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s National Guard says security forces killed a heavily-armed gunman who broke into a private house in Moscow’s suburbs…
Continue ReadingMississippi senator says tutu photo is misused in campaign. He’s raising money for cancer research
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi Republican state Sen. Jeremy England says he intentionally wore a…
Continue ReadingCourt strikes down limits on filming of police in Arizona
PHOENIX (AP) — A federal judge has ruled that an Arizona law limiting how close people can get to recording law enforcement is unconstitutional,…
Continue ReadingAustin Peay State freshman football player dies in single-car crash
Associated Press CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A freshman football player at Austin Peay State University has died after a single-car crash near the…
Continue ReadingIsrael’s Netanyahu goes to hospital for pacemaker. He says he will push ahead with judicial overhaul
By JULIA FRANKEL and JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was rushed to the hospital early Sunday for…
Continue ReadingMuscogee Nation renews lawsuit over Alabama casino they say desecrated a sacred site
ATLANTA (AP) — The Muscogee (Creek) Nation has asked a federal appellate court in Atlanta to reinstate its case against the Poarch Creek Band of…
Continue ReadingCrisis-hit Sri Lanka may allow Indian rupee to be used in local transactions
BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka is considering the possibility of allowing the use of the Indian rupee…
Continue ReadingFamily expresses gratitude after body believed to be missing girl found; search for boy continues
WASHINGTON CROSSING, Pa. (AP) — The family of a 2-year-old girl swept away along with another child by a flash flood that engulfed their vehicle on…
Continue ReadingCharges dismissed against white woman who spat on Black woman during protests in Connecticut
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A judge has dismissed hate crime and other charges against a white woman who spat on a Black woman during competing protests…
Continue ReadingMichigan man charged with murder and other crimes in case involving ex-girlfriend and her toddler
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A man accused of stabbing his ex-girlfriend and kidnapping and killing her 2-year-old daughter has been charged with murder…
Continue Reading2,000 people including tourists evacuated as a wildfire rages on the Greek island of Rhodes
By DEMETRIS NELLAS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A large wildfire burning on the Greek island of Rhodes for a fifth day has forced…
Continue ReadingJamie Foxx tells fans in an Instagram message that he is recovering from an illness
By KEN MILLER Associated Press Academy Award winning actor, singer and comedian Jamie Foxx said in an Instagram video that he is recovering from an…
Continue ReadingMalaysia cuts short music fest after British band slams anti-gay laws, singer kisses male bandmate
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia’s government Saturday cut short a music festival after the lead singer of British band The 1975…
Continue ReadingCLIMATE GLIMPSE: Here’s what you need to see and know today
By The Associated Press The intense heat hitting much of the globe keeps on coming. Greece is baking under yet another heat wave, farmers in Vermont…
Continue ReadingYemeni police say they’ve arrested 2 suspects in the killing of a senior World Food Program official
CAIRO (AP) — Yemeni police say they have arrested two suspects in the killing of a senior World Food Program official the previous day. They said…
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