Month: March 2024

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky Senate Republicans revealed their version of the state’s next two-year budget Wednesday, proposing more funding for the main K-12 school funding formula and doubling the amount of performance-based funding that goes to public universities. The spending blueprint won Senate passage later in the day, hours

By The Associated Press Olivia Munn has revealed that she was diagnosed with breast cancer and underwent a double mastectomy, thanking her doctors and urging fans to calculate their own risk assessment. “I’m lucky. We caught it with enough time that I had options. I want the same for any woman who might have to

By KATHLEEN FOODY Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Eight people living at a Chicago shelter for migrants have tested positive for measles since last week, prompting the arrival of a team with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to guide city and state officials’ response to the infections, including vaccination efforts. Ten infections total

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A Massachusetts beach community is scrambling after a weekend storm washed away $600,000 in sand that was trucked in to protect homes, roads and other infrastructure. The project, which brought 14,000 tons (12,701 metric tons) of sand into Salisbury over several weeks, was completed just three days

By TOM ODULA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya’s President William Ruto says the country will still lead a U.N.-backed multi-national police force to help quell gang violence in Haiti once a transitional presidential council is formed in the Caribbean country. Ruto said in a post on X, formerly Twitter, that U.S. Secretary of

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rose Glass’ first film “Saint Maud,” was a chilling picture of faith and madness. Her second, “Love Lies Bleeding” is also kind of about madness but of different sorts — that of love, of power and of strength (the literal kind). She said she wanted

By COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Author and Detroit Free Press columnist Mitch Albom and nine others have been rescued by helicopter from Haiti after becoming stranded in the Caribbean nation while visiting an orphanage. Albom says in a statement on X, formerly known as Twitter, that the group was forced to shelter

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — UFC Hall of Famer and former champion Mark Coleman was airlifted to a hospital and was “battling for his life” after saving his parents from a house fire in Ohio this week, his daughter said on Instagram. Morgan Coleman posted that her father went into the burning house several times and

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Authorities want the final suspect to turn himself in after a shooting wounded eight Philadelphia high school students at a bus stop last week. Federal authorities said Tuesday night that the third suspect, 19-year-old Jermahd Carter, had been arrested that afternoon at a relative’s home. He faces charges including attempted murder and

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — NCAA chief medical officer Brian Hainline is retiring after more than a decade in the position. Hainline’s retirement will be effective on May 31. He was named the NCAA’s first chief medical officer in 2013, forming and overseeing the NCAA Sport Science Institute that sought to provide college athletes with the best

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The New Orleans police chief says conditions at the department’s aging headquarters are so deplorable that rats have munched on marijuana contraband in the evidence locker. Police Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick told city council members that the rats are all high. Kirkpatrick has made moving out of the police department’s 1968 headquarters