Month: April 2023

LEMONT, Ill. (AP) — Authorities say an explosion and fire at a suburban Chicago petroleum refinery killed one person and injured a second Tuesday morning. The Will County Sheriff’s Office says one person was confirmed dead and a second was transported to a hospital in Joliet following the explosion at Seneca Petroleum in Lemont, Illinois.

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department says a British tobacco company has agreed to a $629 million settlement to resolve allegations that it did illegal business with North Korea in violation of U.S. sanctions. British American Tobacco has entered into a deferred prosecution agreement with the Justice Department while the

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A man who escaped from a Mississippi jail over the weekend is suspected of killing a man and stealing his pickup truck in Jackson, authorities said Tuesday. Anthony Watts, 61, was shot and killed Monday night around 7 p.m. on Interstate 55 after he pulled over to help a man who

By CHEYANNE MUMPHREY Associated Press The College Board is revamping its Advanced Placement African American studies course again, vowing to give students an “unflinching encounter with the facts” following criticism that it watered down curriculum on slavery reparations and the Black Lives Matter movement after pressure from conservative lawmakers. The company did not say what

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — A prosecutor has requested a special grand jury investigate the fatal police shooting of an unarmed shoplifting suspect outside a northern Virginia shopping mall after an earlier grand jury refused to issue an indictment. Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney Steve Descano confirmed Tuesday that he requested

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press DADEVILLE, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama state investigator described a bloody and chaotic crime scene filled with 89 bullet casings and other evidence after a shooting that killed four young people and injured dozens at a Sweet Sixteen birthday party. Six people have been charged with murder. Tuesday’s court hearing

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization says it has fired one of its doctors who faced allegations that he had repeatedly engaged in sexual misconduct. The U.N. health agency had come under pressure from the United States over the claims against the doctor, Fijian national Temo Waqanivalu. In January,

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Preliminary autopsy reports show eight members of an Oklahoma family found dead inside their burning home were each shot. The bodies of Brian Nelson, 34, his wife Brittney Nelson, 32, and their six children were found in October inside the flaming home in Broken Arrow, a Tulsa suburb. Police at the

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Over the course of a year, the U.S. Treasury Department has used the hammer of its sanctions powers to impose wide-ranging financial restrictions on Russia in response to its invasion of Ukraine, turning Russia into the most sanctioned country in the world. Now, the federal agency is

By GIADA ZAMPANO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni has called for unity among political forces in celebrating the anniversary of the liberation from the Nazis and their fascist allies on April 25, 1945. She rejected accusations of fascism nostalgia within her far-right party. Meloni wrote in an open letter published on

By DEEPTI HAJELA Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A lawyer for the heirs of Marvin Gaye’s co-writer of the song “Let’s Get It On” says he has “smoking gun” proof that Ed Sheeran’s “Thinking Out Loud” violates the copyright of the soul classic. Attorney Benjamin Crump told jurors Tuesday in his opening statement at

By JAMEY KEATEN and FRANK JORDANS Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — Swiss prosecutors say they have indicted two managers of a Saudi oil exploration company as part of a yearslong international investigation of a Malaysian sovereign wealth fund. The office of Switzerland’s attorney general said Tuesday that the PetroSaudi managers were accused of trying to

By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press Money earmarked for thousands of new IRS employees would be transferred to a grant program allowing schools nationwide to hire armed law enforcement personnel under legislation outlined Tuesday by U.S. Sen. Rick Scott of Florida. The School Guardian Act would take about $80 billion that Congress previously approved to expand

By AMY BETH HANSON and SAM METZ Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — The standoff over whether Montana Republicans will let a transgender Democrat in the state House participate will likely continue on Tuesday, a day after protests and arrests galvanized both those demanding she be allowed to speak and those saying her actions constitute