Month: June 2023

By JOHN RABY Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A program offering cash and free outdoor adventures to remote workers to move to West Virginia with the hope of offsetting population losses has added a fifth destination where out-of-state workers can apply to live. The public-private program Ascend West Virginia announced Tuesday the addition of

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — New Broadway musicals “Kimberly Akimbo,” “Shucked,” “Some Like It Hot” and “& Juliet” — as well as the play “Leopoldstadt” — all saw nice bumps at their box offices after the Tony Award telecast. Data from The Broadway League released Tuesday shows many of the

By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press RAWLINS, Wyo. (AP) — Wyoming and federal officials formally kicked off construction Tuesday of a massive transmission line project to export wind power from Wyoming to southern California. The $3 billion TransWest Express project and the $5 billion Chokecherry and Sierra Madre wind farm have been in the works for

By The Associated Press Oklahoma has announced that former pitcher George Frazier, a World Series champion who had a nearly three-decade run as a television broadcaster, has died at age 68. The Denver Post reported he died Monday in Tulsa after a recent illness. Frazier played on College World Series teams in 1975 and 1976

By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are pulling back Tuesday in their first trading after a five-week rally carried Wall Street to its highest level since the spring of last year. The S&P 500 was 0.4% lower. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 201 points, or 0.6%, at 34,097

KELLOGG, Idaho (AP) — A northern Idaho man has been charged with four counts of first-degree murder and burglary after prosecutors said he broke into his neighbors’ home and shot and killed the people there, including a minor. Majorjon Kaylor, 31, of Kellogg, was arrested Sunday night shortly after the shooting in the small mining

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press/Report for America RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Transgender rights are taking center stage in North Carolina as the GOP-controlled General Assembly considers legislation restricting gender-affirming health care and trans participation in sports. The legislative push comes in the waning weeks of the North Carolina session and as many Republican-led state legislatures

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Police in Milwaukee have arrested a second person in a shooting in which six people, including the two alleged shooters, were wounded right after a Juneteenth celebration wrapped up. Police say in a news release that the two defendants, males ages 17 and 19, were arrested after Monday’s shooting outside the

By STEFANIE DAZIO, MICHAEL R. BLOOD and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Attorney John Eastman, the architect of a legal strategy aimed at keeping former President Donald Trump in power, concocted a baseless theory and made false claims of fraud in an attempt to overturn the 2020 election, a prosecutor said

By STEVE KARNOWSKI and TRISHA AHMED Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A man seving a hit-and-run sentence in a California prison until his release earlier this year remains jailed pending charges after a crash in Minneapolis that killed five young women. Police say a speeding driver blew past a state trooper on Friday night, ran

NEW YORK (AP) — A fire at a New York City e-bike shop quickly spread to upper-floor apartments and killed four people early Tuesday in the latest deadly blaze linked to exploding lithium ion batteries. The fire, reported shortly after midnight, happened at a shop that was cited last summer for safety violations related to

By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press LE BOURGET, France (AP) — The Canadian manufacturer of a new workhorse firefighting plane that is badly needed in Europe — and elsewhere — to combat worsening wildfires fueled by climate change says it’s running “a little bit” behind in its delivery plans. De Havilland Canada says that the first

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A 70-year-old man convicted of kidnapping, raping and killing a North Dakota student in 2003 has been moved from death row to a Florida prison. Federal Bureau of Prison records show Alfonso Rodriguez was transferred from death row in Indiana to a high-security prison. He was sentenced to death in 2007