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CLEVELAND (AP) — Cleveland will pay $4.8 million to the family of a 13-year-old girl was struck and killed by a stolen car during a police pursuit. The settlement announced Monday is one of the largest in Ohio involving a police chase. Tamia Chappman was killed in December 2019 when a car driven by a

By MIKE HOUSEHOLDER Associated Press ST. CLAIR SHORES, Mich. (AP) — Employees of the company tasked with rapidly personalizing jerseys for each first-round NFL draft pick as they are announced don’t need to travel very far for this year’s player selections in Detroit. STAHLS’ headquarters in St. Clair Shores, Michigan, is just 17 miles from

NEW YORK (AP) — The Asian American Foundation will hold a Heritage Month Summit next month in New York City for AAPI Heritage Month. Oscar-nominated actor Steven Yeun, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu and actor Maulik Pancholy are among those set to attend. The summit will include various panels on issues like civil rights, extremism and

By LEA SKENE Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — A lawsuit has been filed accusing a property owner and management company of negligent hiring practices after a maintenance worker for a Baltimore apartment building allegedly raped and tortured one of the residents. Plaintiff April Hurley said Monday she believes the man never should have been hired

By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press GALLATIN, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee Republican Gov. Bill Lee says he thinks workers at a Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga made a mistake by voting to unionize under the United Auto Workers in a landslide election. Before the vote, Lee and five other Southern Republican governors spoke out publicly against the

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s Vice President Henry Van Thio is stepping down. He served in the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi and then continued in the position after the military ousted her to seize power in 2021. State television MRTV announced on Monday night that 65-year-old Van Thio

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A new report finds that the Mexican government has largely abandoned protection and enforcement measures for loggerhead sea turtles. That has led to a spike in the number of turtles being caught up and killed in fishing nets. The findings were announced by the Commission for Environmental Cooperation, which functions as

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Facing widespread unhappiness over its response to the Israel-Hamas war, the writers’ group PEN America has called off its annual awards ceremony. Dozens of nominees had dropped out of the event, which was to have taken place next week. PEN, a literary and free expression

By AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The medical records of women will be shielded from criminal investigations if they cross state lines to seek an abortion where it is legal. That’s according to a new rule the Biden administration finalized Monday. The regulation is intended to protect women who live in states where

LONDON (AP) — A London judge says a climate protester who could have faced up to two years in prison for holding a sign outside a courthouse reminding jurors of their right to acquit defendants should not be charged with contempt of court. High Court Justice Pushpinder Saini said Monday that Trudi Warner’s act was

GOOSE CREEK, S.C. (AP) — Out of air and pinned by an alligator to the bottom of the Cooper River in South Carolina, Will Georgitis decided his only chance to survive might be to lose his arm.  Georgitis told The Post and Courier of Charleston he put his feet on the gator and pushed as

By HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — After a marathon day that stretched into Saturday’s early hours, Iowa lawmakers wrapped up a four-month legislative session that focused on reforming the way special education is managed and speeding up tax cuts. The Republican-led General Assembly also waded into issues like immigration and religious

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Satellite photos taken Monday suggest an apparent Israeli retaliatory strike targeting Iran’s central city of Isfahan hit a radar system for a Russian-made air defense battery, contradicting repeated denials by officials in Tehran of any damage in the assault. The strike on an S-300 radar in what

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy the U.S. will send badly needed air defense weaponry once the Senate approves a massive national security aid package that includes $60 billion for Ukraine. Zelensky said in a posting on X on Monday that Biden also assured

BY MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A lawyer for a military contractor being sued by three survivors of the notorious Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq says the plaintiffs are suing the wrong people. Lawyers for Virginia-based CACI told jurors Monday that the Army is responsible for any abuse. The lawsuit by the

By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer In the two years before the World Anti-Doping Agency cleared 23 Chinese swimmers of doping allegations, that country’s government contributed nearly $2 million in additional funding to WADA programs, including one designed to strengthen the agency’s investigations and intelligence unit. The Associated Press obtained confidential minutes from meetings of

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The fatal shooting of an Ohio officer during a training exercise at a state corrections department facility this month is being investigated as a possible reckless homicide. That’s according to The Columbus Dispatch. The newspaper reported Monday that the information is included in a heavily redacted 18-page report it received from

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York state lawyers and an attorney for former President Donald Trump have settled their differences over a $175 million bond that Trump posted to block the collection of a large civil fraud judgment while he pursues appeals. The agreement reached Monday cut short a potential

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH and JIM SALTER Associated Press A Kansas judge has denied a request for a resentencing hearing for two brothers awaiting execution for a quadruple killing known as the “Wichita massacre,” ruling that he lacks jurisdiction to approve a reexamination of the sentences. Monday’s legal setback was the latest for Jonathan Carr and

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — An independent review of the neutrality of the U.N. agency helping Palestinian refugees found that Israel never expressed concern about anyone on the staff lists it has received annually since 2011. The review was carried out after Israel alleged that a dozen employees of the