Month: May 2023

By BRIAN MELLEY and SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A day after a gilded coronation ceremony watched by millions, King Charles III and Queen Camilla let others take the center stage Sunday as they took in a star-studded concert featuring Katy Perry, Lionel Richie and others at Windsor Castle. The newly crowned monarch

By RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer Vida Blue, a hard-throwing left-hander who became one of baseball’s biggest draws in the early 1970s and helped lead the brash A’s to three straight World Series titles before his career was derailed by drug problems, died Saturday, according to the team. He was 73. Blue died at a

By JAKE BLEIBERG and JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press ALLEN, Texas (AP) — The gunman who killed eight people at a Texas outlet mall was identified as a person who had been staying at a Dallas-area motel, but his motive was a mystery Sunday, a day after the attack turned an afternoon of shopping into a

By DUSAN STOJANOVIC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia’s education minister has submitted his resignation following two mass shootings, one of them at a primary school, left 17 people dead. Education Minister Branko Ruzic is the first Serbian official to resign over the shootings despite widespread calls for more senior officials to step down

By VALERIE GONZALEZ and MICHAEL GONZALEZ Associated Press BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) — An SUV slammed into a crowd of people waiting for a bus Sunday outside a migrant shelter in the border city of Brownsville, Texas, killing at least seven people and injuring at least 10, police said as they prepared to arrest the hospitalized

By DAVID RISING Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Anxiety about the safety of Europe’s largest nuclear power plant is growing after the Moscow-installed governor of the Ukrainian region where it is located ordered civilian evacuations. The Russia-backed governor of Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia province told civilians to leave 18 communities, including the city where most plant

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia’s government is urging citizens to turn in all unregistered weapons or run the risk of a prison sentence. Days after two mass shootings left 17 people dead, the European country’s Interior Ministry said Sunday that individuals who hand over illegally owned guns, grenades, ammunition and other weaponry between Monday and

BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) — Seven people are dead and at least six are injured after they were struck by a vehicle while waiting at a city bus stop, police in Brownsville, Texas, said Sunday. Brownsville police investigator Martin Sandoval said the crash happened about 8:30 a.m. Sunday at a bus stop near a shelter for

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and YASMINE MOSIMANN Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — An Iraqi police officer has been convicted and sentenced to death in the killing a prominent security analyst and frequent critic of Iran-backed militias. Sunday’s ruling came nearly three years after the Iraqi analyst was gunned down outside his Baghdad home following threats from