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By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Imprisoned ex-Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder has been indicted on 10 new felony counts, including one that would ban him from ever holding public office in the state again. The indictments extend action in what was already the largest corruption case in Ohio’s history. The

By MICHAEL BALSAMO and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Two properties belonging to music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs in Los Angeles and Miami were searched Monday by federal Homeland Security Investigations agents and other law enforcement as part of an ongoing sex trafficking investigation by federal authorities in New York, two law

SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — A New York woman has been charged with beating her 5-year-old daughter to death nearly three months ago and hiding the body. Twenty-nine-year-old Latasha Mott of Syracuse was arraigned Monday on charges of manslaughter and disposal of a corpse in the death of her daughter, Nefertiti Harris. Prosecutors said Mott hit

By JOHN ANTCZAK Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Thousands of Southern California hospitality workers have ratified a new contract with 34 hotels after repeated strikes since the summer. Their union says they will keep fighting for deals with more than two dozen others. Unite Here Local 11 announced Monday that workers won higher pay

By JIM HEINTZ Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Flames were still leaping from the Moscow concert hall besieged by gunmen when Russian officials began suggesting who was really to blame. They presented no evidence, only aspersions and suspicion and counterfactual speculation, but in Russia’s eyes the culprit was clear: Ukraine. The allegations that Ukraine,

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans threatened to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress if he did not turn over unredacted materials related to the special counsel probe into President Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents. In a letter Monday — obtained by The Associated Press — Reps.

BERLIN (AP) — A union representing many of Germany’s train drivers says it and the country’s main railway operator have reached a deal in a long dispute over working hours and pay that was marked by a string of strikes. Neither the GDL union nor state-owned railway operator Deutsche Bahn gave details of their agreement

By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON Associated Press Former President Donald Trump says he would have responded the same way as Israel did after the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas but urged the country to “finish up” its offensive and “get this over with,” warning about international support fading. The comments were made during an interview with

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press Former NBA guard Ben Gordon could see criminal charges against him in Connecticut erased from his record next year if he completes a probation program. Gordon was arrested on weapons and threatening charges last year after a disturbance at a Stamford juice shop. He appeared in court Monday in Stamford,

MIAMI (AP) — Two graduate students from China whose studies were put on hold, and a professor who says he is unable to recruit research assistants, are suing Florida education officials. They are trying to stop enforcement of a new state law which limits research exchanges between state universities and academics from seven prohibited countries.

FRANKLINVILLE, N.J. (AP) — Firefighters in southern New Jersey came to the rescue of a dog who got stuck in a spare tire. The Franklinville Volunteer Fire Company crew found Daisy, an 11-month-old yellow Labrador, when they responded to a Franklin Township home last Thursday. Her neck was deep in the middle of the tire

By ABDUL SATTAR Associated Press QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Officials say Pakistani security forces have killed four insurgents as they foiled an attack on a naval facility in the volatile southwestern Baluchistan province. No damage was caused to the Siddiqui air station in the attack that was claimed by the outlawed Baluchistan Liberation Army. The

By JACQUES BILLEAUD Associated Press An Ohio man who acknowledged making death threats in voicemails left for then-Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs during the 2022 election season has been sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison. Joshua Russell of Bucyrus, Ohio, had previously pleaded guilty in Phoenix to a federal charge of making an

By JOHN O’CONNOR AP Political Writer SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — A state parole board member has resigned after recommending the release of a man who authorities said then attacked a pregnant Chicago woman with a knife and fatally stabbed her 11-year-old son. The Illinois Prisoner Review Board’s handling of the case has prompted Gov. J.B.

WALTERBORO, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina court official under investigation amid allegations of tampering with the jury in the Alex Murdaugh trial is resigning. Colleton County Clerk of Court Becky Hill said Monday that her resignation was effective immediately. She said serving as clerk was an honor, citing the office’s management of the high-profile

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — The Colorado university where a student is charged with killing his suitemate and another person in a dorm room last month has hired two former U.S. attorneys to review of what led to the shooting and whether any campus policies and procedures can be improved. The University

By KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The daughter of MLB Hall of Fame pitcher Dennis Eckersley has been reunited with her son as she awaits trial on reckless conduct and other charges after giving birth more than a year ago in a tent in subfreezing temperatures, her attorney said Monday. Alexandra Eckersley,

JOSHUA GOODMAN CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Throng of supporters of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro have rallied at an electoral council headquarters where he made official his candidacy for a third term. Meanwhile, his would-be rival Corina Yonis struggled against a ticking deadline to register her candidacy — and found she was unable to — in

By MELANIE LIDMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Tens of thousands of people have celebrated the Jewish holiday of Purim in Jerusalem, though the traditionally boisterous celebrations have been muted this year by the Israel-Hamas war. Although many cities across Israel decided to cancel their Purim celebrations due to the ongoing conflict, Jerusalem held a