MIAMI — A federal judge ordered the Florida man charged with his estranged wife’s disappearance in Spain held without bond on Friday, rejecting his lawyer’s argument that the prosecution case […]
Specialty lab exec gets 10-year prison term for 11 deaths from tainted steroids in Michigan
HOWELL, Mich. — A Michigan judge sentenced the former executive of a specialty pharmacy to at least 10 years in prison Friday for the deaths of 11 people who were […]
Kansas’ governor vetoes a bill for extending child support to fetuses
TOPEKA, Kan. — Kansas’ Democratic governor on Friday vetoed a bill aimed at ensuring that child support payments cover fetuses, a measure critics saw as a move by anti-abortion groups […]
AP Indianapolis newsman Ken Kusmer dies at 65 after a short illness
Ken Kusmer, whose long award-winning career with The Associated Press included exposing flaws in efforts to privatize Indiana’s welfare system, died Thursday at his Indianapolis home after a short illness. […]
Police: Theft suspect stole police vehicles while cuffed, survived officers’ gunfire
PORTLAND, Maine — A man who crashed a stolen police vehicle, survived gunfire from 11 police officers and then drove off and crashed another police cruiser — all while wearing […]
Search crews uncover bodies of 2 skiers buried by Utah avalanche
SANDY, Utah — Search crews on Friday recovered the bodies of two backcountry skiers who were swept away and buried by an avalanche in the mountains outside Salt Lake City […]
New York’s legal weed program plagued by inexperienced leaders, report finds
ALBANY, N.Y. — New York’s legal cannabis market has been hampered by inexperienced leaders who treated the agency like a “mission-driven” startup rather than a government office, according to an […]
How West Virginia’s first transgender elected official is influencing local politics
WHEELING, W.Va. — When Rosemary Ketchum gets introduced as the first openly transgender person to win elective office in West Virginia, there’s often a shocked look that comes across people’s […]
A cyberattack forces a big US health system to divert ambulances and take records offline
TOPEKA, Kan. — A cyberattack on the Ascension health system operating in 19 states across the U.S. forced some of its 140 hospitals to divert ambulances, caused patients to postpone […]
US pledges money and other aid to help track and contain bird flu on dairy farms
U.S. health and agriculture officials pledged new spending and other efforts Friday to help track and contain an outbreak of bird flu in the nation’s dairy cows that has spread […]