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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee man has been found guilty of raping a woman a year before he was charged with kidnapping and killing a school teacher who was on an early morning run. A jury in Memphis convicted 40-year-old Cleotha Abston of kidnapping and raping the woman in September 2021. According to the

By LEKAN OYEKANMI and ACACIA CORONADO Associated Press BRENHAM, Texas (AP) — A Texas semitrailer driver rammed a stolen 18-wheeler through the front of a public safety building where his renewal for a commercial driver’s license had been rejected, killing one person and injuring 13 others, authorities said Friday. The intentional crash into the single-story

By DAVE BRYAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Robert MacNeil, who created the even-handed, no-frills PBS newscast “The MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour” in the 1970s and co-anchored the show with his late partner, Jim Lehrer, for two decades, died on Friday. He was 93. MacNeil died of natural causes at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, according to his

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya’s national wildlife agency says eight buffaloes walked into low-lying power lines in the country’s west and were electrocuted. The incident happened at the Lake Nakuru National Park. The Kenya Wildlife Service says Friday the power lines were lying low on the ground after a wooden support pole broke. The country’s

By The Associated Press This week’s new streaming entertainment releases include Taylor Swift’s eagerly anticipated album “The Tortured Poets Department,” a family of ducks is coaxed into flying south for the winter in the kid-friendly animated movie “Migration” and Conan O’Brien makes himself the brunt of jokes in his new travel show “Conan O’Brien Must

By MARYCLAIRE DALE Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Thirty years ago, women’s rights advocates working to pass the 1994 Violence Against Women Act found domestic violence was still something of a hushed topic. Then Nicole Brown Simpson’s death forced it into the spotlight. Americans riveted to the murder investigation of superstar ex-husband O.J. Simpson heard

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The return of horse-drawn caissons at Arlington National Cemetery is being delayed for months and maybe longer, the Army said Friday, as it struggles to improve the care of the horses, after two died in 2022 as a result of poor feed and living conditions. Nearly

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Federal prosecutors say a supervisor who managed security at a South Carolina prison accepted more than $219,000 in bribes over three years and got 173 contraband cellphones for inmates. Officials say 46-year-old Christine Mary Livingston was indicted earlier this month on 15 charges including bribery, conspiracy,

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Oil and gas companies will have to pay more to drill on federal lands and satisfy stronger requirements to clean up old or abandoned wells under a final rule from the Biden administration. The Interior Department rule finalized Friday raises royalty rates for oil drilling by more

By ZEKE MILLER AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic donors covered more than $1 million in legal fees racked up by attorneys representing President Joe Biden in a yearlong special counsel probe into his handling of classified documents. The use of party funds to cover Biden’s legal bills is not without precedent and

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — A local court in Nigeria has handed a six-month sentence to a popular transgender woman after convicting her of throwing money into the air at a social event. Okuneye Idris Olanrewaju, better known as Bobrisky, was sentenced on Friday without the option of a fine in

By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press Developments this week in Arizona underscored something that was already apparent about the 2024 elections in the United States: Abortion is going to loom large as an issue in state and federal elections — including the presidential race — and directly in the form of referendums in some states. An

By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has signed a bill that would require law enforcement agencies to communicate with federal immigration authorities if they discover people are in the the country illegally. The bill signed by the Republican would also broadly mandate cooperation in the process of identifying,

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A video released by Ukraine’s state emergency services show that rescue workers have pulled five puppies from underneath the rubble of a destroyed building. Officials said the puppies were rescued from a non-residential building that was on fire in the northeastern city of Sumy, close to the border with Russia.  The

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press LONG BEACH TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) — A post-mortem examination of a whale that washed ashore on New Jersey’s Long Beach Island found that the animal had sustained numerous blunt force injuries including a fractured skull and vertebrae. The Marine Mammal Stranding Center on Friday released observations from a necropsy done

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is again reassuring the Philippines the U.S. commitment to the islands’ defense is steadfast amid increasing concerns about provocative Chinese actions in disputed areas of the South China Sea. The U.S. and Filipino foreign and defense ministers and national security advisers met to

By GRAHAM LEE BREWER and AARON MORRISON Associated Press For many people old enough to remember O.J. Simpson’s murder trial, his 1995 exoneration was a defining moment in their understanding of race, policing and justice. Nearly three decades later, it still reflects the different realities of white and Black Americans. Some people recall watching their

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Flash flooding caused by relentless heavy rains that soaked western Pennsylvania has spurred numerous rescues and evacuations in the region. The National Weather Service said nearly 3 inches of rain fell in a short time late Thursday in parts of Allegheny County. Rescue crews in the Pittsburgh suburb of Oakdale used water

By JERRY HARMER and JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI Associated Press MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) — Thailand’s foreign minister says he has urged Myanmar’s military authorities not to violently respond to its army’s loss of an important border trading town to its opponents. He says that so far they seem to be exercising restraint. Parnpree Bahiddha-Nukara spoke during

NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors say a New York City man has been charged with stabbing to death and dismembering a man after a drug dispute and keeping the remains in his Brooklyn apartment refrigerator for two years. The district attorney’s office says Nicholas McGee was arraigned Friday on charges including murder, robbery, concealment of