Month: September 2022

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — After the pomp and pageantry of a grand state funeral, Queen Elizabeth II has been laid to rest with her husband and parents in an intimate ceremony at Windsor away from media cameras. King Charles III and senior royal family members attended the private interment ceremony late

By JULIE WATSON Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — More than a half dozen former crewmembers of the USS Bonhomme Richard gave testimony in the arson case against a young sailor. Many who testified in the court martial of 21-year-old Ryan Sawyer Mays that started Monday described a harrowing, chaotic scene as they confronted an

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A U.S. judge on Monday blocked Alabama from executing an inmate who says the state lost his paperwork requesting an alternative to lethal injection. U.S. District Judge R. Austin Huffaker, Jr. issued a preliminary injunction to block the state from executing Alan Miller by any method

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A former University of Southern California dean has pleaded guilty in a bribery case involving a powerful Los Angeles politician. Marilyn Flynn entered the plea Monday in federal court. She was dean of USC’s School of Social Work for two decades. Prosecutors said that in 2018 she arranged to use USC

By JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — A federal judge in Miami has awarded $73 million in damages to the family of a prominent opponent of Venezuela’s socialist government who died while in custody in what he described as a “murder for hire” carried out by a criminal enterprise led by President Nicolás Maduro.

Developers and city officials are pushing back on family members’ expectations for a memorial for 98 people who died last year when a beachfront Florida condominium building collapsed. Surfside Mayor Shlomo Danzinger hosted a meeting Monday for representatives from DAMAC Properties and people whose loved ones died when the Champlain Towers South building fell. Danzinger

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A man who broke windows and security cameras at a Planned Parenthood clinic in southwestern Oregon because he opposed abortion has pleaded guilty to two counts of violating the federal Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports a plea agreement says 27-year-old Devin Kruse of Grants Pass, Oregon,

PECOS, Texas (AP) — A U.S. judge in West Texas has ruled unconstitutional a federal law banning those under felony indictments from buying guns. U.S. District Judge David Counts, whom then-President Donald Trump appointed to the federal bench in Pecos, Texas, dismissed a federal indictment against Jose Gomez Quiroz that had charged him under the

By MARGARET STAFFORD and JOHN HANNA Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A former Kansas City, Kansas, police detective accused of preying on poor Black females for decades will be released from custody pending his trial. U.S Magistrate Judge Rachel Schwartz said Monday that Roger Golubski has such serious medical problems that he is not

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — France’s foreign minister is urging Iran to take the last offer on the table to revive the 2015 nuclear deal, saying the window of opportunity is about to close.” But a high-ranking European Union official says he doesn’t expect any progress this week. French Foreign