Investigator: 3 killed in helicopter crash in Georgia forest
MONTICELLO, Ga. (AP) — A federal investigator says three people were killed when a helicopter crashed in a densely forested area in central…
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Judge lifts race, gender hiring quotas for Cincinnati police
By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A federal judge has lifted race- and sex-based hiring quotas imposed on the…
Continue ReadingFormer Liberian military leader liable for church massacre
By MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A former Liberian military commander who supervised the slaughter of hundreds of unarmed…
Continue ReadingJudge: Gov. Lee’s mask opt-out can endanger disabled kids
By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A federal judge has again blocked Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee from allowing parents to opt out…
Continue ReadingAccess, travel rules influence missionary vaccine policies
By HOLLY MEYER Associated Press The International Mission Board is requiring its missionaries get the COVID-19 vaccine. The board is a Southern…
Continue ReadingLawyer files intent to sue again over governor’s residency
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A lawyer and former lawmaker in West Virginia has filed notice that he again intends to sue Gov. Jim Justice over his…
Continue ReadingNorth Macedonia: Protest in Tetovo for deadly hospital fire
SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — Hundreds of protesters in Tetovo, a city in the west of North Macedonia are calling for the resignation of officials…
Continue ReadingUN Security Council: Taliban must form inclusive Afghan govt
By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council has unanimously approved a resolution saying that…
Continue ReadingDetroit-area woman charged in assault on airline flight
ROMULUS, Mich. (AP) — A woman accused of assaulting a woman and calling her a racial slur on a Spirit Airlines flight to Detroit has been…
Continue ReadingJury selected for Georgia prisoner accused of killing guards
CAIRO, Ga. (AP) — Jury selection has wrapped up in the trial of one of two Georgia prisoners accused of killing two guards more than four years…
Continue ReadingChicago woman charged with fraud in death certificate scheme
CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago woman has been charged with obtaining dozens of young homicide victims’ death certificates and using them to defraud the…
Continue ReadingOctober trial postponed for 5 men in Michigan governor plot
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — A judge says he would postpone the Oct. 12 trial of five men accused of planning to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen…
Continue ReadingProtest for jailed Capitol rioters: Police ready this time
By COLLEEN LONG, MICHAEL BALSAMO and MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Allies of Donald Trump are mounting a Saturday rally at…
Continue ReadingNew York tosses jail time for most minor parole violations
By MARINA VILLENEUVE Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New Yorkers will be able to avoid jail time for most nonviolent parole violations under a…
Continue ReadingCambodian leader boasts he barged into opposition video call
By SOPHENG CHEANG Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodia’s prime minister has boasted of barging uninvited into a video conference…
Continue ReadingBiden faces limits of $1.9T COVID aid as some states resist
By JOSH BOAK and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden entered the White House promising to stop the twin health and…
Continue ReadingEx-officer behind infamous 1970 slayings ends release appeal
By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A former Army doctor convicted for the 1970 slayings of his wife and two young daughters…
Continue ReadingEx-teammate pleads not guilty to killing Miami football star
MIAMI (AP) — A former University of Miami football player has pleaded not guilty to charges of killing a teammate outside a South Florida apartment…
Continue ReadingSupreme Court urged to review ban on drug injection sites
By MARYCLAIRE DALE Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Supporters of a plan to open supervised injection sites to try to reduce overdose deaths…
Continue ReadingInquest: Conflicting accounts of how young Black man died
By JIM SALTER Associated Press Audio from an inquest into the shooting death of Derontae Martin offers widely conflicting accounts of how the young…
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