LAPD ends investigation into Anne Heche car crash
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles Police Department has ended its investigation into Anne Heche’s car accident, when the actor crashed into…
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What takes years and costs $20K? A San Francisco trash can
By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — What takes four years to make and costs more than $20,000? A trash can in San Francisco.…
Continue ReadingPhysician Green wins Hawaii Democratic primary for governor
By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — For their 16th wedding anniversary, Democrats in Hawaii gifted Josh Green and his wife, Jaime, a…
Continue ReadingGermans urged to cap heat in offices this winter to save gas
BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s economy minister says German businesses and public institutions should heat their offices no higher than 19 degrees…
Continue ReadingPolice: Officers in Texas fatally shoot man with rifle
RICHLAND HILLS, Texas (AP) — Authorities say police in suburban Fort Worth, Texas, fatally shot a man who pointed a rifle at them. The shooting…
Continue ReadingMontenegro mourns after 10 are killed in street attack
By PREDRAG MILIC Associated Press CETINJE, Montenegro (AP) — Montenegro declared three days of national mourning Saturday, a day after 10 people,…
Continue ReadingAfghan rights leader heartbroken after year of Taliban rule
By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A year after the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, prominent Afghan rights activist Sima…
Continue ReadingTroubling questions unresolved in latest end to Till case
By JAY REEVES Associated Press By her own telling, Mississippi authorities provided Carolyn Bryant Donham with preferential treatment rather than…
Continue ReadingPolice shoot and kill Wisconsin man after domestic dispute
APPLETON, Wis. (AP) — Law enforcement authorities say police shot and killed a man in Appleton, Wisconsin, while investigating a domestic…
Continue ReadingSinema took Wall Street money while killing tax on investors
By BRIAN SLODYSKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, the Arizona Democrat who single-handedly thwarted her party’s longtime…
Continue ReadingLibya officials: 15 migrants found dead on border with Sudan
By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Libyan authorities say they found at least 15 migrants dead in the desert on the borders with Sudan.…
Continue ReadingShippers prepare for worst as Rhine levels near critical low
Shipping companies are preparing to halt the transport of goods on the Rhine as water levels in Germany’s biggest river near a critically low…
Continue ReadingRussian shelling heavy in east; Ukraine strikes key bridge
By SUSIE BLANN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia’s military pounded residential areas across Ukraine overnight, claiming gains, as…
Continue ReadingMonkeypox? Climate? Deciding what’s a national emergency
By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In November 1979, a little over a week after student militants seized control of the U.S.…
Continue ReadingR Kelly accuser to give key testimony on trial-fixing charge
By MICHAEL TARM AP Legal Affairs Writer CHICAGO (AP) — R. Kelly’s federal trial in Chicago that starts Monday is in many ways a do-over of his…
Continue ReadingItaly’s Letta: Italian right-wing threatens Europe democracy
By COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press MILAN (AP) — The leader of Italy’s Democratic Party is warning of the threats to European democracy posed…
Continue ReadingConspiracies complicate voting machine debate in Louisiana
By SARA CLINE AND CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The need for Louisiana to replace its voting machines is not in…
Continue ReadingClimate bill: Could coal communities shift to nuclear?
By JENNIFER McDERMOTT and MARY KATHERINE WILDEMAN Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A major economic bill headed to the president has…
Continue ReadingEgypt appoints 13 new ministers in Cabinet reshuffle
CAIRO (AP) — President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi of Egypt has announced a Cabinet reshuffle to improve his administration’s performance as it…
Continue ReadingSpain: 1 killed when wind collapses parts of festival stage
MADRID (AP) — Part of a temporary concert stage collapsed in strong wind Saturday at an outdoor music festival in eastern Spain, killing one person…
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