Month: May 2023

By AARON BRACY Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A spectator was taken to a trauma center after falling over a protective railing and into the Red Sox bullpen while reaching for a baseball in the first inning of Boston’s game against Philadelphia at Citizens Bank Park on Friday night. The fan was taken to Thomas

MOULTRIE, Ga. (AP) — A man in Georgia who, police said, killed his workplace manager, mother and grandmother before taking his own life, had been involved in a gunfight less than 48 hours earlier, law enforcement said Friday. Security video from a McDonald’s in the south Georgia town of Moultrie showed Kentavious White, 26, shoot

By JUAN LOZANO and ACACIA CORONADO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Fire erupted at a petrochemical plant in the Houston area Friday, leaving five workers hospitalized and sending up a huge plume of smoke visible for miles. Emergency responders were called to help around 3 p.m. at the Shell facility in Deer Park, a suburb

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The potential criminal charges against a U.S. Marine veteran who put Jordan Neely in a fatal chokehold aboard a New York City subway train might depend on whether a “reasonable” New Yorker would have acted similarly. Neely, a locally-known Michael Jackson impersonator who friends say suffered

By DANIEL POLITI Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Paraguayan police on Friday detained Paraguayo Cubas, a far-right populist who came in third in Sunday’s presidential election and encouraged his supporters to protest over his unsubstantiated claims that the vote was marred by fraud. Cubas was being held in preventive detention under an order

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A video recording of former President Donald Trump being questioned about the rape allegations against him was made public for the first time Friday, providing a glimpse of the Republican’s emphatic, often colorful denials. Jurors got to see the video of Trump’s October 2022 deposition

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Three Colombian nationals are facing U.S. charges accusing them of drugging two American soldiers in a Bogota bar to steal from them. The three are charged with kidnapping, assault and conspiracy in Miami federal court. Court documents say the three drugged the soldiers in March

By BECKY BOHRER and BEATRICE DUPUY Associated Press Several scaleless fish with fanged jaws and huge eyes that can be found more than a mile deep in the ocean have washed up along a roughly 200-mile (322-kilometer) stretch of Oregon coastline, and it’s unclear why, scientists and experts said. Within the last few weeks, several

By BERENICE BAUTISTA Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Years ago, Mexican chef Elena Reygadas of the restaurant Rosetta wondered why Mexican cuisine was not more popular internationally and concluded it was due to the ingredients. Now a proud defender of those same ingredients, she has been recognized as the World’s Best Female Chef 2023.

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A lawyer for a Colorado woman who repeatedly stabbed and then shot her 11-year-old stepson before driving his body across the country says the brutality of the attack is the strongest evidence that the killing was the result of a “psychotic break.” The claim came during closing