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SWARTZ CREEK, Mich. (AP) — Police say about five people were struck by a vehicle while picketing in the United Auto Workers strike outside a Flint-area General Motors plant and suffered minor injuries. The chief of the Metro Police Authority of Genesee County says the picketers were blocking a driveway, and an employee was trying

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A man who spent nearly 30 years in prison for kidnapping, robbery and rape has been exonerated and freed. Los Angeles County prosecutors say a judge declared Gerardo Cabanillas factually innocent last week and reversed his conviction for two 1995 attacks on a couple in a parked car in the city

WASHINGTON (AP) — Cuba’s ambassador to the United States says an incident in which at least one incendiary device was thrown into the Cuban embassy compound was a “terrorist attack.” The Cuban embassy’s chief of mission, Lianys Torres Rivera, told The Associated Press in an interview on Tuesday that the Sunday night incident was part

VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) — A jury has convicted an Oregon man of murder in the fatal shooting of a sheriff’s deputy in Washington state. The Columbian reports the Clark County Superior Court jury found 28-year-old Guillermo Raya Leon guilty Tuesday of aggravated first-degree murder in the death of Clark County sheriff’s Sgt. Jeremy Brown. Raya

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The National Park Service has turned to the public to help decide whether the famous wild horses in North Dakota’s Theodore Roosevelt National Park should stay or go. The National Park Service launched a 30-day public comment period on Monday. The agency also released a draft environmental assessment of the wild

By MALLIKA SEN Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Nearly all the world’s on stage, and all the men and but 20 women merely players. That’s what a less inspired Shakespeare might have written about this year’s U.N. General Assembly meeting of leaders. Over six days, a cavalcade of world leaders addressed the U.N. General

TORONTO (AP) — Canadian prosecutors say former fashion mogul Peter Nygard leveraged his wealth, assets and status over several years to lure young women and girls to a top-floor bedroom suite at his company’s Toronto headquarters where he forced himself on them. Nygard invited all five complainants in the case to visit his custom-built office

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A Mexican mother bravely shielded her son after a bear leapt on a picnic table and devoured the tacos and enchiladas meant for the boy’s birthday dinner, inches from his face. Silvia Macías of Mexico City had traveled to the Chipinque Park on the outskirts of the northern city of Monterrey

OKEECHOBEE, Fla. (AP) — Prosecutors say they will seek the death penalty against a Florida man accused of murdering a Lyft driver whose car he allegedly stole in an attempt to escape another killing. Okeechobee County prosecutors recently filed a court notice saying they will seek a death sentence against 36-year-old Mathew Flores. He is

BALTIMORE (AP) — The founder of a successful Baltimore tech startup was discovered dead after being reported missing on Monday. Baltimore police said 26-year-old Pava LaPere had suffered from blunt force trauma. Authorities announced a suspect in the case Tuesday evening. They said police were searching for 32-year-old Jason Billingsley. LaPere graduated from Johns Hopkins

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s dog Commander has bitten another U.S. Secret Service employee. A uniformed division officer was bitten by the dog around 8 p.m. Monday at the White House, and was treated on-site by medical personnel. Secret Service chief of communications Anthony Guglielmi says the officer is doing just fine. The German

By SUSAN HAIGH Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut lawmakers have approved $150,000 for an election monitor for Bridgeport. The decision comes after the race for mayor in Connecticut’s largest city has been tainted by possible fraud. Surveillance cameras recorded a woman stuffing pieces of paper into an absentee ballot drop box a week

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A man with ties to the “boogaloo” extremist movement has been convicted of murder and attempted murder by a federal jury in the 2020 killing of a federal security officer in Northern California during protests against police brutality. The U.S. Attorney’s Office says Robert Alvin Justus Jr. was convicted Tuesday. He

By TED ANTHONY AP National Writer UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Togo’s foreign minister wasn’t having any of it. He talked of a resolve to “fight our own battles” and a refusal to be relegated to the children’s table. He might have been one of any number of leaders speaking at the United Nations this past

By DAVID GINSBURG Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — Hall of Fame third baseman Brooks Robinson, whose deft glovework and folksy manner made him one of the most beloved and accomplished athletes in Baltimore history, has died. He was 86. The Orioles announced his death in a joint statement with Robinson’s family Tuesday. The statement did

By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer CBS Sports Chairman Sean McManus has known for over a year when he planned to retire and who would be his successor. On Tuesday, it was made official. McManus will retire in April after 27 years in charge. His successor will be David Berson, who has been president of

BALTIMORE (AP) — Please disregard US–Baltimore-Church-Abuse, published on September 26, 2023, and datelined in BALTIMORE. . It duplicates another story on the wire.

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan Republican who is accused of taking part in a fake elector scheme filed a motion Tuesday asking for eight criminal charges to be dismissed after the state Attorney General Dana Nessel said the group had been “brainwashed” and legit believe” that former President Donald

By RANDALL CHASE Associated Press DOVER, Del. (AP) — A Delaware state trooper is facing several felony charges involving a brutal assault on a teenager who targeted the trooper’s house in a prank. An indictment issued Monday against Trooper Dempsey R. Walters includes the first use by prosecutors of a new felony deprivation of civil