By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A legal dispute in Montana could drastically curb the government’s use of aerial fire retardant to combat wildfires after environmentalists raised concerns about waterways that are being polluted with the potentially toxic red slurry that’s dropped from aircraft. A coalition that includes Paradise, California — where
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CAMDEN COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) A crash in Camden County early Sunday morning sent a 18-year-old to the hospital. According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, the crash happened on Seven Springs Road West of Blue Pond Drive at 8:00 a.m. The crash happened when the vehicle went off the west side of the road, hit
Continue Reading KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — Foreign governments evacuated diplomats, staff and others trapped in Sudan on Sunday as rival generals battled for a ninth day with no sign of a truce that had been declared for a major Muslim holiday. While world powers like the U.S. and Britain airlifted their diplomats from the capital of Khartoum,
Continue ReadingBy Christina Maxouris, Michelle Watson and Zoe Sottile, CNN Eleven teenagers were injured in a shooting at an after-prom party in Texas over the weekend — and a second shooting less than 20 minutes away may be connected, authorities said. Deputies from the Jasper County, Texas, Sheriff’s Office responded to a disturbance at a home
Continue ReadingBy Rebekah Riess, CNN Vermont State Police announced Friday five adults are receiving citations related to their involvement in a brawl that broke out at a middle school basketball game, leading to the death of a 60-year-old man. After reviewing multiple videos of the incident, which happened in Alburgh, Vermont in late January, Vermont State
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By Celina Tebor and Zoe Sottile, CNN An alligator rescued from a lake in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park in February has died, Bronx Zoo officials said Friday. Workers from the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation discovered and rescued the four-foot alligator “in poor condition” from 37-degree Fahrenheit temperatures in the Brooklyn park. The
Continue Reading By FRANKLIN BRICEÑO Associated Press LIMA, Peru (AP) — Former President Alejandro Toledo has arrived in Lima after being extradited from the United States to face charges he allegedly received millions of dollars in bribes in a giant corruption scandal that has ensnared four of Peru’s ex-presidents. Toledo, who was Peru’s president from 2001 to
Continue Reading ZWICKAU, Germany (AP) — A third-tier soccer game in Germany has been abandoned after the referee was doused in beer by an angry fan at halftime. Relegation-threatened Zwickau’s match against visiting Rot-Weiss Essen did not continue for the second half because referee Nicolas Winter had a cup of beer thrown in his face by a
Continue Reading ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A former Walt Disney World employee is facing a charge that he surreptitiously took a video up the skirt of a female customer, allegedly telling investigators he had done it more than 500 times over the past six years. Jorge Diaz Vega, 26, worked at the Star Wars gift shop inside
Continue Reading By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA Associated Press KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — An Indian climber who was rescued after spending three days in a 980-foot-deep Nepalese crevasse is recovering in a Kathmandu hospital but his condition is still critical. Anurag Maloo had fallen into the crevasse while descending Mount Annapurna, the world’s 10th highest, on April 17. After
Continue Reading By DAVID RISING and JOANNA KOZLOWSKA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian military forces have successfully established positions on the eastern side of the Dnieper River, according to a new analysis, giving rise to speculation Sunday that the advances could be an early sign of Kyiv’s long-awaited spring counteroffensive. The Institute for the Study
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By MARK THIESSEN and BECKY BOHRER Associated Press EAGLE RIVER, Alaska (AP) — Thousands of Alaskans who depend on government assistance have waited months for food stamp benefits, exacerbating a hunger crisis laid bare by the pandemic, inflation and the remnants of a typhoon. The backlog began last August and is especially concerning for residents
Continue ReadingBy MARK THIESSEN and BECKY BOHRER Associated Press EAGLE RIVER, Alaska (AP) — Thousands of Alaskans who depend on government assistance have waited months for food stamp benefits, exacerbating a hunger crisis laid bare by the pandemic, inflation and the remnants of a typhoon. The backlog began last August and is especially concerning for residents
Continue Reading By DAVID A. LIEB and JIM SALTER Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Ten years after gaining local control of its police for the first time since the Civil War, the city of St. Louis has more murders than ever before — and Missouri’s Republican lawmakers are again pressuring for a state takeover of
Continue Reading By DAVID A. LIEB and JIM SALTER Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Ten years after gaining local control of its police for the first time since the Civil War, the city of St. Louis has more murders than ever before — and Missouri’s Republican lawmakers are again pressuring for a state takeover of
Continue Reading By LAÍS MARTINS and COLLIN BINKLEY SAO PAULO Brazil is grappling with a wave of violence in its schools that resemble U.S.-style attacks. As the country scrambles for solutions, the U.S. has become its reference — both for what should be done, and what shouldn’t. Among measures Brazil is taking include things the U.S. has
Continue Reading By JONEL ALECCIA AP Health Writer At age 93, struggling with the effects of a stroke, heart failure and recurrent cancer, Teri Sheridan was ready to end her life using New Jersey’s law that allows medically assisted suicide — but she was bedbound, too sick to travel. So last Nov. 17, surrounded by three of
Continue Reading By JARI TANNER Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — The three Baltic states have strongly condemned comments by China’s envoy to France who appeared to say in a recent French television interview that the former Soviet republics aren’t sovereign nations. The foreign ministers of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in separate announcements late Saturday deemed statements by
Continue Reading NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Police say 21 bodies have been discovered so far on land owned by a pastor in coastal Kenya who was arrested for telling his followers to fast to death. More shallow graves are scheduled to be dug out Sunday, the Malindi sub-county police chief said. The deceased are believed to be
Continue Reading By MAE ANDERSON AP Business Writer Fox Corp.’s $787.5 million settlement with Dominion Voting Systems over defamation charges is eye-popping, but the ultimate cost to the media company is likely to be much lower. On Tuesday, Fox settled with Dominion over charges that Fox News baselessly accused the company of rigging its voting machines against
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