MINNEAPOLIS — Authorities arrested a 34-year-old man Thursday in connection with the fatal shootings of three people in Minneapolis, and the city’s police chief said it’s likely another person was […]
Execution date set for man who’s been on death row since 1976
JACKSON, Miss. — Mississippi’s longest-serving death row inmate is set to be executed on June 25, the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday. Richard Gerald Jordan, 78, who was sentenced to […]
Bill overhauling Alabama’s largest water utility heads to governor’s desk despite local outcry
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama legislators passed a bill on Thursday that would strip Birmingham of control over the state’s largest water board and transfer power to the governor and surrounding […]
Millions of dimes spill onto Texas highway after truck rolls
ALVORD, Texas — Talk about some serious coin. Millions of coins spilled onto a Texas highway this week after a tractor-trailer hauling $800,000 in dimes rolled over in an accident, […]
Driver who killed 4 in Illinois after-school camp crash may have had health emergency
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The driver of a car that barreled through a building used for a popular after-school camp in central Illinois, killing three children and a teenager, was not […]
Heavy rainfall sets records and washes out roadway in rural Oklahoma
OKLAHOMA CITY — A steady line of slow-moving thunderstorms that battered Oklahoma in recent weeks set multiple rainfall records across the state and helped ease drought conditions. But the saturated […]
Republican county leader Josh Schoemann enters Wisconsin governor’s race
MADISON, Wis. — Republican Josh Schoemann, the top elected official in a suburban Milwaukee county, this week created a committee to run for governor in 2026, making him the first […]
US inflation cools and Americans step up spending as they brace for tariff impact
WASHINGTON — A closely watched inflation gauge cooled last month in a sign that prices were steadily easing before most of President Donald Trump’s tariffs were implemented. At the same […]
Harvey Weinstein’s lawyers get their turn to question accuser Miriam Haley at #MeToo retrial
NEW YORK — NEW YORK (AP) — Harvey Weinstein ’s lawyers got their turn Thursday to question a woman who alleges the one-time Hollywood heavyweight held her down on a […]
Mother of dead inmate sues troubled Wisconsin prison where 7 have died since 2023
MADISON, Wis. — The mother of an inmate who died of dehydration and malnutrition at Wisconsin’s oldest maximum security prison last year has filed a federal lawsuit, marking the fourth […]