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WEST BATH, Maine (AP) — Defense attorneys in Maine may mount an insanity defense for a man who police say confessed to killing his parents and their friends before firing at people on a busy interstate highway.  Joseph Eaton entered pleas of both not guilty and not criminally responsible to multiple charges including four counts

MONTREAL (AP) — Canadian authorities say a body found this month in the St. Lawrence River belonged to a man connected to an investigation into the deaths of eight migrants. Akwesasne police said Friday that the coroner’s office identified the man as a 30-year-old local resident who had been missing since March. Casey Oakes’ boat

By SUDHIN THANAWALA Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Authorities in Alabama said Friday they filed criminal charges against a woman who confessed to fabricating a story that she was kidnapped after stopping to check on a toddler she saw walking on the side of an interstate highway. Carlee Russell was charged with false reporting to

By ALICIA RANCILIO Associated Press The 75th Emmy Awards are the latest production to be put on pause due to the Hollywood strikes and will not air as planned in September. A person familiar with the postponement plans but not authorized to speak publicly pending an official announcement confirmed the delay Friday. No information about

By DENNIS WASZAK Jr. AP Pro Football Writer NFL players compete all offseason and through training camp to make the active roster of their current team or perhaps elsewhere. Staying there isn’t easy. Especially with injuries a constant factor in such a physical sport. When the regular season begins, each team can have up to

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s government statistics agency says it had to pay gangs to enter some towns to do census work last year. The assistant director of the National Statistics Institute told a congressional committee that workers also were forced to hire criminals in order to carry out census interviews. Susana Pérez Cadena said

By JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — The combat boots and dog tags Alan Alda wore while playing the wisecracking surgeon Hawkeye on the beloved television series “M-A-S-H” sold at auction Friday for $125,000. Alda held onto the boots and dog tags for more than 40 years after the show ended but decided to

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell has repeatedly said he is “fine” since he froze up midsentence during a press conference on Wednesday. And now his office is trying to tamp down speculation that he might not fill out his term as leader because of his health.

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press OCEAN CITY, N.J. (AP) — Opponents of offshore wind projects are suing New Jersey and the Danish wind energy developer Orsted over a lucrative tax break the state approved for the company. They say the law is illegal because it was written to benefit only one entity. Protect Our Coast

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The European Central Bank says the banking sector could withstand a severe economic downturn without depleting their financial buffers against losses. A survey of 98 large and medium-sized banks showed Friday that even in the most adverse scenario, banks would still have enough capital to cover losses and then some. Banks

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Rapper Travis Scott released his first album in five years on Friday, the 19 track “Utopia.” The LP was originally announced back in 2020. The full-length follows 2018’s “Astroworld,” and the Astroworld tragedy Music Festival that resulted in 10 deaths due to a crowd surge.

By GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer GENEVA (AP) — The IOC has assured Ukrainian fencer Olga Kharlan that she will have a place at the Paris Olympics next year after she was disqualified from a key ranking event for refusing to shake hands with a Russian she had beaten. International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A police officer who was critically wounded while responding to a mass shooting at a Louisville bank has been discharged from a rehabilitation center. Louisville Metro Police Officer Nickolas Wilt was shot in the head during the deadly April 10 shooting at Old National Bank. He

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — In an effort to cut down on food waste and help eco-conscious consumers, a Geneva nonprofit is ramping up its rollout of street-side, free-access public refrigerators that restaurateurs, at-home cooks and others can use to give away food that’s about to go bad.It’s part of a bigger

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Nine senior Senate Democrats and independent Sen. Bernie Sanders are urging the Biden administration to withhold about a quarter of the United States’ more than $1 billion in annual military aid to Egypt for a third year. Friday’s joint letter from lawmakers calls the step important to

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — The board of North Carolina’s flagship public university has voted to strictly bar the use of “race, sex, color or ethnicity” in admissions and hiring decisions following recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings striking down affirmative action in forming student bodies. The Board of Trustees at the University of North Carolina