Month: November 2021

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A young South Florida man has been convicted of fatally stabbing a 13-year-old boy during a sleepover. The Palm Beach Post reports that a Palm Beach County jury found 21-year-old Corey Johnson guilty Friday of first-degree murder, along with two counts of attempted murder. Johnson was 17 at the

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Alaska State Troopers say a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter has rescued seven people who had been iced in since last week at a western Alaska cabin. The troopers on Thursday said the group was adequately supplied at the time and that U.S. Army helicopters were expected to “extract” the individuals Friday.

By SARAH RANKIN and DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press RICHMOND, Va (AP) — Republican Glenn Youngkin spent months talking to voters about his plans to roll back Democrats’ “left, liberal, progressive agenda.” When he takes office in January as Virginia’s next governor, he’ll have to talk to Senate Democrats about that. Youngkin’s victory was part of

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The astronauts who will depart the International Space Station on Sunday will be stuck using diapers on the way home. That’s because the toilet in their SpaceX capsule is broken. NASA astronaut Megan McArthur says it’s just one of many challenges she and the

By ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Top Democrats have abruptly postponed an expected House vote on their 10-year, $1.85 trillion social and environment measure. The decision Friday came as infighting between progressives and moderates once again sidetracked the pillar of President Joe Biden’s domestic agenda. In a bid to hand him a needed victory,

By SCOTT BAUER, MICHAEL TARM and AMY FORLITI Associated Press KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — A witness at Kyle Rittenhouse’s murder trial says the first man shot on the streets of Kenosha was acting “belligerently” but did not appear to pose a serious threat to anyone. Jason Lackowski is a former Marine who said he was

Associated Press The spiritual leader of Eastern Orthodox Christians has been released from a New York hospital and is expected to fly home to Turkey on Sunday after completing a U.S. visit that was extended for a medical procedure. Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople left Mount Sinai Medical Center on Friday after spending two nights

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) — Jonathan Johnson spent weeks on a ventilator battling COVID-19, then decided to get married — in the hospital. The Omaha World-Herald reports that the 28-year-old man surprised his fiancée with the help of hospital staff and arranged a wedding in the intensive care unit of the hospital in Council Bluffs,