Month: June 2023

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee State University announced it will become the first historically Black college and university to introduce ice hockey. The school plans to have a men’s team playing at the club level in 2024, with a goal of having Division I men’s and women’s teams eventually. The program has been created in

By OLEG CETINIC and ANGELA CHARLTON Associated Press NANTERRE, France (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron called the shooting death of a 17-year-old delivery driver by police “inexcusable” and pleaded for calm while justice takes its course. The government heightened the police presence in Paris and other big cities Wednesday after the killing triggered a

BLOOMSBURG, Pa. (AP) — A man convicted of driving into a fundraiser crowd in Pennsylvania last summer, killing one and injuring 19 others, then going home and bludgeoning his mother to death has been sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole. President Judge Gary Norton told Adrian Oswaldo Sura Reyes, 25, in Columbia

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Crews have successfully dug a containment line around a brush fire in northern Scottsdale that has burned 3.9 square miles and threatened about 100 homes. But fire officials say 1,145 people will remain evacuated from their homes until it’s determined that the containment line will hold up in expected windy conditions.

By JOSH BOAK, EMILY SWANSON and CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — President Joe Biden has a tough sell Wednesday, trying to convince voters that the U.S. economy is flourishing. The president is set to showcase “Bidenomics” in a speech in Chicago. But a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Adrian has become the first hurricane of the eastern Pacific hurricane season off Mexico’s western Pacific coast. The U.S. National Hurricane Center said Wednesday Adrian had sustained winds of 75 mph (120 kph). The storm was expected to keep heading out to sea. On Wednesday morning, the storm’s center was located

By MATTHEW BROWN and AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) — A major railroad company is trying to convince a federal jury that a Montana clinic submitted hundreds of asbestos claims for people who weren’t sick and bilked taxpayer funds. BNSF Railway was earlier found liable for spreading hazardous asbestos that officials say

By ERIK VERDUZCO and REBECCA REYNOLDS Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C.. (AP) — A Delta flight landed roughly but safely at the Charlotte Douglas International Airport on Wednesday without part of its landing gear extended, officials said. The airport said in a tweet that the runway was closed following a mechanical issue with Delta Air Lines.