Month: February 2023

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — The person who killed five people at a gay nightclub in Colorado Springs last year had half a dozen high capacity magazines and tried to blame someone else for the shooting when police arrived at the scene, officers testified Wednesday at the start of a

By ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The prosecutor in the first-degree murder case against an Arizona rancher suspected of killing a Mexican man on his land last month has alleged the rancher that day opened fire on a group of about eight unarmed people outside his home. The chief deputy attorney for Santa

LAGRANGE, Ga. (AP) — Human bones found inside a submerged car near the Georgia-Alabama state line in 2021 have been matched to a college student who had been missing for 47 years, according to a Georgia sheriff. Kyle Clinkscales, 22, of LaGrange, vanished in January 1976 after leaving the Georgia club where he worked as

By AMANCAI BIRABEN and JIM SALTER Associated Press PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — A brutal winter storm knocked out power in California, closed interstate highways from Arizona to Wyoming and prompted more than 1,200 flight cancellations Wednesday — and the worst won’t be over for several days. Few places were untouched by the wild weather, some

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia’s governor has signed a bill setting Nov. 14 each year as a day to remember the worst sports disaster in U.S. history. Seventy-five people were killed in a plane crash carrying Marshall University’s football team back from a game at East Carolina on Nov. 14, 1970. Gov. Jim Justice

By RONALD BLUM Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The financially challenged Metropolitan Opera is cutting its schedule to 18 productions next season, matching pandemic-curtailed 2019-20 for the fewest since 14 in the strike-shortened 1980-81 season. The Met will have six new productions and 12 revivals, down from seven new stagings and 16 revivals this