Month: November 2022

By SAM METZ and KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A group of 30 agencies that supply water to homes and businesses throughout the western United States has pledged to rip up lots of decorative grass to help keep water in the over-tapped Colorado River. The agreement signed Tuesday by water agencies

By BRIAN WITTE Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — An investigation by Maryland’s attorney general identified 158 Roman Catholic priests in the Archdiocese of Baltimore who have been accused of sexually and physically abusing more than 600 victims over the past 80 years, according to court records filed Thursday. Attorney General Brian Frosh announced that

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — An appellate court has ordered a halt to the scheduled execution of an Alabama inmate convicted in the 1988 murder-for-hire slaying of a preacher’s wife, but the state is appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court to proceed with the lethal injection. The 11th U.S Circuit Court

By HYUNG-JIN KIM and MARI YAMAGUGHI Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea and Japan say North Korea fired a suspected long-range missile designed to strike the mainland. The launch Friday morning comes a day after the North resumed its testing activities in an apparent protest over U.S. moves to solidify its alliances

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Carol Leigh, a San Francisco activist who is credited with coining the term “sex work” and who sought for decades to improve conditions for prostitutes and others in the adult entertainment business, has died. She was 71. Kate Marquez, the executor of her estate, said Leigh died Wednesday of cancer, the

By JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press/Report for America DENVER (AP) — Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert, a renowned conservative firebrand whose combative style helped define the new right, is likely headed to an automatic recount in her bid to fend off a surprisingly difficult challenge by a Democratic businessman from the ritzy ski town of Aspen. The

By DAVID RISING Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s military-controlled government released an Australian academic, a Japanese filmmaker, an ex-British diplomat and an American as part of a broad prisoner amnesty that also freed many local citizens held for protesting the army takeover. Australia, the U.S. and rights groups welcomed the releases while calling for