Month: February 2023

PLYMOUTH, Mass. (AP) — Prosecutors say a Massachusetts woman used exercise bands to strangle her three children in the family home in a well-planned assault while her husband was out for about 20 minutes picking up medicine at a pharmacy and a takeout dinner. Not guilty pleas were entered on behalf of 32-year-old Lindsay Clancy

By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks rallied on Wall Street after the Federal Reserve signaled last week’s stunningly strong jobs report won’t by itself change where interest rates are heading, as some investors had feared. The S&P 500 rose 1.3% Tuesday. The Nasdaq added 1.9% and the Dow rose 0.8%.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration has approved a $10 billion arms sale to NATO ally Poland as Russia’s war in Ukraine rages. The State Department notified Congress on Tuesday of the sale, which comprises HIMARS artillery rocket systems, associated ammunition and related equipment. The approval comes as Poland and other eastern flank NATO allies

By LISA RATHKE Associated Press RUTLAND, Vt. (AP) — A federal judge has set an October trial date for the man charged with killing his mother at sea during a 2016 fishing trip off the coast of New England in a scheme to inherit millions of dollars. Twenty-nine-year-old Nathan Carman, of Vernon, Vermont, pleaded not

BROCKTON, Mass. (AP) — More than 70 ambulances showed up Tuesday to transfer about 160 patients evacuated from a Massachusetts hospital that lost power after an electrical transformer fire. The power was shut off at Signature Healthcare Brockton Hospital for safety reasons, officials said. “We are removing some critically ill and injured patients,” Brockton Fire

SECOCHA, Peru (AP) — Residents of five small gold-mining villages in southern Peru’s Arequipa region are struggling to salvage their belongings after landslides caused by strong rains killed at least 12 people and dragged mud, water and rocks that turned precarious homes and other buildings into rubble. In the Mariano Nicolás Valcárcel municipality, on the

BY JOHN SEEWER and PATRICK ORSAGOS EAST PALESTINE, Ohio (AP) — Brittany Dailey stood outside her hotel watching black smoke darken the sky 10 miles to the east as crews burned toxic chemicals from tanker cars that derailed just down the street from her home. The faint smell of chlorine hung in the air Monday