Month: June 2023

By JIM MUSTIAN Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana legislators who last year demanded answers from Gov. John Bel Edwards on whether he was complicit in a cover-up of state troopers’ deadly arrest of a Black motorist have quietly abandoned their work without hearing from the governor or issuing any findings. Lawmakers involved

By CLAIRE SAVAGE Associated Press/Report for America LINCOLN, Ill. (AP) — Dressed in her Sunday best — pink ruffled sleeves and a rainbow tulle tutu — Crystal Martinez’s 4-year-old daughter proudly presented her with a multicolored bouquet of carefully crafted tissue paper flowers. With her 5-year-old son nestled on her lap, laughing in delight, Martinez

By JIM MUSTIAN Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana lawmakers who last year demanded Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards testify about whether he was complicit in a cover-up over state troopers’ deadly 2019 arrest of Black motorist Ronald Greene have quietly abandoned their work without hearing from the governor or issuing any findings.

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Rescue workers in Japan are searching for three people who went missing in or near rivers swollen by heavy rains last week that left one person dead and dozens injured. A man who was pulled from a flooded car Friday in central Japan was pronounced dead over

By DEE-ANN DURBIN and ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Business Writers Many big companies, including Target and Bud Light’s parent, are still backing Pride events in June despite the minefield that the monthlong celebration has become for some of them. Target and Bud Light recently came under fire for their efforts to appeal to the LGBTQ+ community,

By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The federal trial over Oregon’s voter-approved gun control measure is set to start Monday in Portland. The trial will determine whether the law violates the U.S. Constitution. The trial expected to last five days will be held before a judge and not a jury. The Oregon

By JAMES ROBSON and JEROME PUGMIRE AP Sports Writers MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Black players were only just beginning to integrate into some of England’s biggest soccer teams in the 1980s when racism was rife and hooliganism was on the rise. British-born Paul Canoville tells The Associated Press how he was regularly called “the N-word,”

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — An Australian woman who spent 20 years in prison was pardoned and released based on new scientific evidence that her four children died by natural causes as she had insisted. The pardon was seen as the quickest way of getting Kathleen Folbigg out of prison, and

By LISSETTE ROMERO Associated Press NAUCALPAN, Mexico (AP) — A quick-count sampling of votes for governor of Mexico’s most populous state suggested a victory late Sunday for the candidate from the governing party of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, which would end nearly a century of uninterrupted rule by the Institutional Revolutionary Party. Preliminary results

By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer DENVER (AP) — Gabe Vincent scored 23 points, Jimmy Butler and Bam Adebayo each scored 21 and the Miami Heat evened up the NBA Finals by overcoming a monster effort from Nikola Jokic to beat the Denver Nuggets 111-108 in Game 2 on Sunday night. Max Strus scored 14

By MICHAEL BALSAMO and ASHLEY THOMAS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A wayward and unresponsive business plane that flew over the nation’s capital Sunday afternoon caused the military to scramble a fighter jet before the plane crashed in Virginia, officials said. The fighter jet caused a loud sonic boom that was heard across the capital