Month: June 2023

LOCKPORT, N.Y. (AP) — Multiple people were sent to local hospitals after a boat capsized Monday during a tour of an underground cavern system built to carry water from the Erie Canal beneath the western New York city of Lockport, officials said. Police and fire crews were called to the Lockport Cave Tours, about 20

LOCKPORT, N.Y. (AP) — Police in Lockport, New York, say a tour boat with 36 people on board has capsized during a tour of a cave. Police and fire crews were called to the Lockport Cave Tours at about 11:30 a.m. Monday. The tours take visitors on an underground boat ride illuminated only by small

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin’s smallest craft brewers, large retailers and other producers, wholesalers and retailers are getting behind a rapidly moving proposal that would overhaul the state’s alcohol laws and lead to stricter enforcement efforts. The measure has been hammered out in secret the past five years largely between

By FRANCES D’EMILIO and COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press MILAN (AP) — Silvio Berlusconi, the boastful billionaire media mogul who was Italy’s longest-serving premier despite scandals over his sex-fueled parties and allegations of corruption, died Monday. He was 86. Supporters applauded as his body arrived at his villa outside Milan from the city’s San Raffaele Hospital,

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine says its troops have retaken a fourth village from Russian forces in the country’s southeast. The reported gains emerged Monday in the early stages of the nation’s counteroffensive. Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Maliar wrote on the Telegram app that the Ukrainian flag was again flying

By VALERIE GONZALEZ and JULIE WATSON Associated Press LAREDO, Texas (AP) — The Biden administration has stopped taking mobile app appointments to admit asylum-seekers at a Texas border crossing that connects to a notoriously dangerous Mexican city after advocates warned U.S. authorities that migrants were being targeted there for extortion. U.S. Customs and Border Protection

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer Washington Post publisher and chief executive Fred Ryan, who presided over explosive growth during the Trump years but couldn’t avert the effects of the industry’s downturn over the past two years, said Monday he’s leaving the publication after nearly a decade. Ryan, 68, will lead the newly formed Center

WASHINGTON (AP) — The leader of a Senate subcommittee wants the PGA Tour and Saudi Arabia’s LIV Golf to present records about negotiations that led to their new agreement and plans for what golf will look like under the arrangement. Sen. Richard Blumenthal sent letters to PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan and LIV CEO Greg