Month: February 2023

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — One of three teens accused of starting a fire that killed five immigrants from Senegal in 2020 at a Denver home has been sentenced under a deal that calls for him to get 10 years in custody — seven years in prison and three years in juvenile

By LEA SKENE Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — A weekend shooting in west Baltimore’s Upton neighborhood killed two people and left three others injured, including two young children whose mother later died. Less than two weeks earlier, a man was stabbed to death at the same busy intersection. Residents say the violence illustrates a larger

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco building inspectors have given Twitter’s construction contractor two weeks to submit a corrected building use permit to keep converted bedrooms at headquarters. The correction notice issued Monday from San Francisco’s Department of Building Inspection to Hathaway Dinwiddie Construction Company asks the contractor to correctly label conference rooms as sleeping

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — A tanker transporting liquefied natural gas broke down in the Suez Canal on Wednesday but traffic in the global waterway was unaffected, a canal spokesperson said. The Bahamas-flagged Grace Emilia suffered a malfunction of its rudder and tugboats pulled it to the side of the canal to

By STAN CHOE and DAMIAN J. TROISE AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street climbed Wednesday to its best level since the summer following the latest hike to interest rates by the Federal Reserve, which said it’s finally seeing improvements in inflation. The S&P 500 rallied back from an early 1% loss to

By SUSIE BLANN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia is mustering its military might in the Luhansk region of Ukraine, officials said Wednesday, in what Kyiv suspects is preparation for an offensive as the first anniversary of Moscow’s invasion approaches. Also Wednesday, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s government continued its crackdown on alleged corruption with the

By AARON MORRISON and ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Tyre Nichols ’ family and friends remembered him with songs of faith and heartfelt tributes Wednesday, blending a celebration of his life with outraged calls for police reform after the brutal beating he endured at the hands of Memphis police. Nichols’ mother, RowVaughn