Chicago officer critically hurt when shots fired into car
CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago police officer has been hospitalized in critical condition after she was shot on the city’s South Side. In a news…
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US Transportation Dept. lifts restrictions on Cuba flights
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Transportation Department is making it easier for Americans to travel to Cuba, lifting flight restrictions that were…
Continue ReadingCalifornia Highway Patrol to pay $4M over slaying-suicide
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The California Highway Patrol has agreed to pay nearly $4 million to settle a lawsuit that said the agency was…
Continue ReadingFor Japan’s star poet Tanikawa, it’s fun, not work, at 90
By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Shuntaro Tanikawa used to think poems descended like an inspiration from the heavens. At 90, he sees…
Continue ReadingVocab questions reduce spelling bee to 3 letters: A, B or C
By BEN NUCKOLS Associated Press OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — An onstage vocabulary round introduced a new element of randomness into the Scripps National…
Continue ReadingJustice delayed leads to California judge’s retirement
By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The presiding justice of the California appeals court in Sacramento has retired as part of a…
Continue ReadingNJ residents say they’re waiting for Ida aid 9 months later
By MIKE CATALINI Associated Press TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Roughly two dozen New Jersey residents are demanding federal officials speed up and improve…
Continue ReadingWorkers picket outside Atlantic City casino, seeking raises
By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J,. (AP) — Hundreds of Atlantic City casino workers have picketed outside the Tropicana casino.…
Continue Reading$5,000 reward given for help capturing escaped inmate
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A $5,000 reward has been given to a person who provided help in capturing an inmate who sparked a nationwide manhunt after…
Continue ReadingUvalde shooting highlights role of doors in security plans
By KATHLEEN FOODY and CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press Doors – both the one the gunman entered and the one police did not open for over an hour…
Continue ReadingSettlement ends police stings in NYC bus terminal bathrooms
By DAVID PORTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The police agency that patrols New York City’s main bus terminal has agreed to stop sending…
Continue Reading4 killed in shooting at Tulsa medical building, shooter dead
By SEAN MURPHY and TERRY WALLACE Associated Press Police officials say four people have been killed in a shooting at a Tulsa medical building on a…
Continue ReadingBaltimore sues ‘ghost gun’ maker as state ban begins
BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore is suing one of the country’s largest manufacturers of “ghost gun” kits. Mayor Brandon Scott announced the…
Continue ReadingAs gas prices soar, Biden leans toward visiting Saudi Arabia
By AAMER MADHANI and ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is leaning towards making a visit to Saudi Arabia —…
Continue ReadingJudge denies woman’s challenge to conviction in son’s death
WOODSTOCK, Ill. (AP) — A judge has ruled that a suburban Chicago woman who pleaded guilty in her 5-year-old son’s beating death cannot challenge…
Continue ReadingFormer Corinthian students get federal student debt erased
By COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of students who attended the for-profit Corinthian Colleges chain…
Continue ReadingCarbon emissions dip, at least briefly, in China, study says
By CHRISTINA LARSON AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — China’s carbon emissions have dipped notably over the past three quarters — but…
Continue ReadingEXPLAINER: Each count the Depp-Heard jurors considered
By R.J. RICO Associated Press As a public figure, Johnny Depp faced a high bar to win his libel lawsuit against his ex-wife Amber Heard. According to…
Continue Reading‘Stranger Things’ return encourages weekend binging
By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — There’s no mystery about how millions of fans of Netflix’s sci-fi drama “Stranger…
Continue Reading‘Boogaloo’ member sentenced to 4 years on weapons charges
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The second of two self-described members of an anti-government extremist group accused in Minnesota of dealing firearm…
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