By MICHAEL RUBINKAM Associated Press A career fraudster who escaped from a federal prison in Colorado nearly five years ago has been captured on Florida’s Gold Coast while moving into a $1.5 million house near the ocean. The U.S. Marshals Service caught up with 58-year-old Alan Todd May in Fort Lauderdale on Tuesday. Investigators say
Continue ReadingBy JACK DURA Associated Press Fargo is suing the state of North Dakota over a new law that bans zoning ordinances related to guns and ammunition, continuing a clash over local gun control. The state’s biggest city has an ordinance that bans people from selling guns and ammunition out of their homes. The Republican-controlled Legislature
Continue ReadingPHOENIX (AP) — A Taiwanese microchip manufacturer building its first U.S. plant in Arizona has agreed to more scrutiny from the state when it comes to the safety of construction workers. Gov. Katie Hobbs announced at a news conference Friday that Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. and the state have signed a voluntary protection program. TSMC
Continue ReadingBy ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Authorities say a Tennessee man who attempted to enter a Jewish school with a gun fired shots at a contractor there and later pointed his weapon at an officer before police wounded him on a residential street. Police say 33-year-old Joel Bowman went to Margolin Hebrew
Continue ReadingBy FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Witnesses say a deadly attack on a Zimbabwean opposition supporter was the work of ruling party followers, underlining fears of a violent buildup to this month’s general election. At least 15 people were also injured in the attack on Thursday in a suburb of the capital,
Continue ReadingBy JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Efforts by the Biden administration have been helping create new factory jobs as part of a push to bring high-speed internet to the whole country. Those jobs coincidentally help to back up President Joe Biden’s messaging for the 2024 elections. Vice President Kamala Harris announced on Thursday
Continue ReadingBy BRETT MARTEL AP Sports Writer METAIRIE, La. (AP) — New Orleans Saints star running back Alvin Kamara and Indianapolis Colts defensive back Chris Lammons each have been suspended for three regular-season games by the NFL because of their involvement in a February 2022 fight in Las Vegas. The NFL released its decision on Friday,
Continue ReadingBy JACK DURA Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota regulators denied a siting permit Friday for a proposed carbon dioxide pipeline that would cross five states. The decision complicates an already complex process for Summit Carbon Solutions, which is seeking similar authorization in the other states and is facing opposition from landowners and
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon has ended a decades-old ban on self-serve gasoline. For the first time in 72 years, motorists across the Pacific Northwest state can grab a nozzle and let the gas flow. Democratic Gov. Tina Kotek signed a bill Friday allowing people across the state to choose
Continue ReadingBy LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is warning that troop readiness and retention is at risk as the Army’s chief recently stepped down, leaving the military’s two ground combat forces without Senate-confirmed leaders for the first time in history. Austin said Friday that the Senate’s failure to confirm
Continue ReadingBy ANNIE MA and ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — The first time the College Board bumped up against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s efforts to inject conservative ideals into education standards, it ultimately revamped the Advanced Placement course for African American studies, watering down curriculum on slavery reparations and the Black Lives Matter
Continue ReadingLUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — Federal prosecutors say a Texas man who advocated for a mass shooting of poll workers and threatened two Arizona officials and their children has been sentenced to 3 1/2 years in federal prison. Frederick Francis Goltz pleaded guilty earlier this year to interstate threatening communications. The 52-year-old from Lubbock was sentenced
Continue ReadingBy JACK JEFFERY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — A leading human rights group has called on the United States and the United Nations to impose more sanctions on the Sudanese leaders responsible for the ongoing atrocities in Darfur. Human Rights Watch said Friday that Washington should impose targeted sanctions. The United States took over the
Continue ReadingBy JOCELYN NOVECK AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Veteran character actor Mark Margolis, who had a breakout role as a mobster in “Scarface” but became best known decades later for his indelible, fearsome portrayal of a vindictive former drug kingpin in TV’s “Breaking Bad,” has died. He was 83. The actor died on
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A Montana couple got a late-night wakeup call from a barking dog alerting them that a black bear had broken into their living room before the man shot and killed the animal with a handgun. The confrontation with the large bruin happened in the rural community
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press This week’s new entertainment releases include Gal Gadot in the international espionage thriller “Heart of Stone,” the return of the comedy “Only Murders in the Building” on Hulu and “Painkiller,” a new Netflix limited series detailing the rise of opioid use in the United States from various perspectives. CBS has the
Continue ReadingGREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina congresswoman injured in a serious automobile accident this week is recovering at home from a broken sternum and bone in her foot, her office said Friday. Democratic U.S. Rep. Kathy Manning and a staff member who was driving her Thursday morning to an event in her district in
Continue ReadingBy ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — The state of Michigan must return or destroy dried blood samples from nine newborns or get approval from parents to keep them, according to the latest scathing opinion from a federal judge who found parts of a routine testing program unconstitutional. U.S. District Judge Thomas Ludington is
Continue ReadingBy RONALD BLUM Associated Press Soprano Anna Netrebko, once among the Metropolitan Opera’s biggest box office draws, has sued the company and general manager Peter Gelb, alleging defamation, breach of contract and other violations. The suit, filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, asks for at least $360,000 in damages for lost performance and
Continue ReadingBy JOHN FLESHER AP Environmental Writer SHARON TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — Biologist Ashley Wilson carefully disentangled a bat from netting above a tree-lined river and examined the wriggling, furry mammal in her headlamp’s glow. “Another big brown,” she said. It was a common type, one of many Wilson and colleagues had snagged in the southern
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