Month: May 2023

Associated Press SPANISH FORK, Utah (AP) — A 2-year-old was shot in the head by a stray bullet while playing outside at day care in Utah, authorities said Tuesday. The Spanish Fork Police Department said day care workers brought a toddler to a nearby hospital on Monday after they noticed the child stumbling and bleeding

By KAT STAFFORD Associated Press FREDERICKSBURG, Va. (AP) — Constance Guthrie is not yet dead, but her daughter has begun to plan her funeral. It will be, Jessica Guthrie says, in a Black-owned funeral home, with the songs of her ancestors. She envisions a celebration of her mother’s life, not a tragic recitation of her

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The script for the play “Prima Facie” didn’t languish after landing in Jodie Comer’s inbox. Fitting for an urgent call for change, the script demanded action. It would not be denied. The script was from Suzie Miller, a former criminal defense and human rights lawyer

By EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A multinational tea company based in Kenya has suspended operations after tea plucking and harvesting machines were burned by protesters, citing massive job losses due to mechanization. The suspension of operations at the Ekaterra tea company’s South Rift region farms will affect thousands of employees. The

By KATHLEEN FOODY and MICHAEL TARM Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois’ attorney general released the results of a sweeping investigation into allegations of sexual abuse by Catholic clergy on Tuesday, saying investigators found that 451 clergy sexually abused nearly 2,000 children since 1950 — far more than the 103 individuals the church had named

By KAT STAFFORD Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Amid the balloons, cake and games at his best friend’s birthday party on a farm, 5-year-old Carter Manson clutched his small chest. “He just kept saying ‘I can’t breathe, I can’t breathe,’’’ his mother, Catherine, recalled tearfully. “I picked him up and told him it was

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A team of South Korean government experts has begun a two-day tour of Japan’s tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant to examine a contentious plan to release treated but still slightly radioactive wastewater into the sea. The plan has faced fierce protests from local fishing communities concerned about

By PETER SMITH and HOLLY MEYER Associated Press The Rev. Bill Farmer reached the point where he couldn’t stay in the United Methodist Church anymore — but the congregation he attended was staying. Michael Hahn always wanted to stay in the UMC — but his congregation was leaving it. Each has found new church homes,