Month: May 2023

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press Golf superstar Tiger Woods wants a judge to halt his ex-girlfriend’s lawsuits seeking $30 million. Woods’ attorneys are expected to argue at a Tuesday court hearing near his Florida mansion. They say Erica Herman signed a nondisclosure agreement that requires their disputes be heard privately by an arbitrator. Herman once

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — A U.S. agency is agreeing to participate in an in-depth study on whether dredging a Georgia shipping channel in the spring and summer would pose threats to rare sea turtles. The Army Corps of Engineers’ announcement prompted a conservation group to dismiss a federal lawsuit that

By The Associated Press The Pulitzer Prizes recognizing the best of journalism and the arts in 2022 were announced Monday. The Associated Press compiled a list of winners in journalism, arts and letters, along with hyperlinks to their awarded works. ___ PUBLIC SERVICE: Mstyslav Chernov, Lori Hinnant, Evgeniy Maloletka, Vasilisa Stepanenko, The Associated Press The

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press A Colorado woman was found guilty of murder in the death of her 11-year-old stepson Monday. Prosecutors said Letecia Stauch stabbed Gannon Stauch 18 times before hitting him in the head and then shooting him once in January 2020. Prosecutors claimed Stauch killed the boy because she hated him and

MADRID (AP) — The organizers of a women’s running race in Spain have apologized after the winner was offered a food processor to take home. It has sparked accusations of sexism. The 10-kilometer (more than four-mile) Carrera de la Mujer (Women’s Race in Spanish) issued a statement on Twitter on Monday saying organziers hadn’t considered

By JOVANA GEC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Thousands have marched in silence in Serbia in a major outpouring of discontent triggered by two mass shootings last week that left 17 people dead and 21 wounded. The shootings on Wednesday in Belgrade at a school and a day later in a rural area south

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The Pulitzer Prize for fiction was awarded Monday to two class-conscious novels: “Demon Copperhead,” Barbara Kingsolver’s modern recasting of the Dickens classic “David Copperfield,” and Hernan Diaz’s “Trust,” an innovative narrative of wealth and deceit set in 1920s New York. Beverly Gage’s “G-Man,” her widely

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer Daily tides stoked with increasingly warmer water ate a hole taller than the Washington Monument at the bottom of one of Greenland’s major glaciers in the last couple years, accelerating the retreat of a crucial part of the glacier, a new study found. And scientists worry that the phenomenon

By KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Officials representing a suburban New York county where New York City’s mayor wants to send asylum seekers are vowing to fight the plan by enforcing a state of emergency. Rockland County Executive Ed Day, a Republican, aid Monday that his county is not equipped to house

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi sheriff’s deputies already under investigation for possible civil rights violations after allegedly placing a gun in a Black man’s mouth and firing it are now also being accused of attempting to assault him and a second Black man with a sex toy during

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House and Congress could strike a deal to raise the debt ceiling in exchange for budget cuts. Or they could agree to a stopgap measure to keep paying the nation’s bills while negotiations continue. They also could let the negotiations unravel, sending the economy

By BEN FINLEY Associated Press NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — Authorities are investigating the death of a teenager who became trapped in a hole that was dug in the sand on North Carolina’s Outer Banks. The 17-year-old male died Saturday in the small resort town of Frisco along the Cape Hatteras National Seashore. The National Park

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB and ABBY SEWELL Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The Arab League’s decision to re-admit Syria after shunning it for 12 years was a significant symbolic victory for Damascus, part of a larger regional realignment and an indication of the United States’ waning role, analysts say. But it may not immediately bring the