Month: March 2024

SARASOTA, Fla. (AP) — Prosecutors say the ousted former chair of the Republican Party of Florida will not face a video voyeurism charge for recording a sexual encounter with a woman who accused him of rape, a case in which he was also not charged. Sarasota prosecutors said in memo Wednesday the woman made inconsistent

By FARNOUSH AMIRI and LINLEY SANDERS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As the U.S. navigates involvement in the wars in Ukraine and Gaza, few Americans want the country to take a more active role in solving the world’s problems, according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. While an

By RONALD BLUM Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A male bastion from its founding in 1842 until 1997, the Vienna Philharmonic has 24 female players among 145 members with three vacancies as it tours the United States this week. Based since 1870 at Vienna’s Musikverein, the self-governing ensemble elects leadership, engages conductors, chooses programs

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A newspaper in Idaho is reporting that workers had expressed concerned about bending or bowed beams and other structural issues before a steel airport hangar under construction collapsed in January, killing 3 people. The Idaho Statesman obtained police interviews and reports through a public records request. They show some employees told

By TOM GOULD and GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A surge of new attacks by an Islamic State-affiliated group in Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province has left more than 70 children missing, with fears they may have drowned in a river or been kidnapped by militants as thousands of families fled,

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish military authorities say that a soldier seriously injured during a training exercise has died. The death raises the death toll to two. A military tracked vehicle ran over two soldiers. One was killed and the other was injured during the drill at a test range in Drawsko Pomorskie in northwestern

PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona’s health department has named a physician to address ways to lessen the effects of extreme heat in the arid Southwestern state as the first statewide heat officer in the nation. Dr. Eugene Livar was appointed to the role under Gov. Katie Hobbs’ extreme heat preparedness plan, the Arizona Department of Health

By BRENDAN FARRINGTON Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida will ban thousands of homeless people from setting up camp or sleeping on public property under a bill lawmakers sent to Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, who supports the idea. Counties would be able to designate areas for the homeless to camp for up to a

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The South Carolina Supreme Court has heard arguments on whether a law passed last year allowing parents to spend taxpayer money on private schools violates part of the the state constitution banning direct aid to anything other than public schools. Opponents of the law say providing

By TIA GOLDENBERG and WAFAA SHURAFA Associated Press RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Efforts to get desperately needed humanitarian aid to war-wracked northern Gaza gained momentum Wednesday with the European Union increasing pressure for the creation of a sea route from Cyprus to Gaza and British Foreign Minister David Cameron saying that Israel’s allies were