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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Haiti is cracking down on a state environmental department whose heavily armed agents have grown more powerful in recent months and were blamed for violent clashes with police last week. The government on Monday ordered all workers with the National Agency for Protected Areas to report themselves to authorities

By MARK VANCLEAVE Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minnesota state trooper accused in the fatal shooting of motorist Ricky Cobb II can remain free without bail while awaiting trial, a judge ruled Monday during a brief court hearing. Trooper Ryan Londregan must surrender his passport and avoid contact with witnesses and Cobb’s relatives, the

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina has joined an emerging nationwide effort to improve outcomes for more prisoners who return to society through an approach focused on education, health care and housing. Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper signed an executive order Monday that seeks to reduce recidivism through formal training

By JOSH FUNK Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — About 1,000 Norfolk Southern engineers and conductors will soon be able to report safety concerns anonymously through a federal system without any fear of discipline. Norfolk Southern is the first major freight railroad to follow through on promises made in the wake of the fiery eastern

BERLIN (AP) — A group of climate activists who infuriated many in Germany by gluing themselves to streets to block traffic says it will abandon the tactic and move on to holding what it calls “disobedient assemblies.” The Last Generation group has frequently blocked roads in Berlin and other cities over the past two years,

By ISABELLA VOLMERT Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana senators have voted to advance a measure that would allow some statewide officials and their staff members to carry handguns inside the state Capitol. Indiana lawmakers and their staff already have the right to carry inside the complex. The new bill would allow the state attorney

DETROIT (AP) — Toyota and General Motors are telling the owners of about 61,000 older Corolla, Matrix, RAV4 and Pontiac Vibe models to stop driving them because their Takata air bag inflators are at risk of exploding and hurling shrapnel. The urgent warning Monday covers certain Corolla compact cars and Matrix hatchbacks from the 2003

NEW YORK (AP) — Two New York City brothers are accused of stockpiling an arsenal of explosive devices and ghost guns in their family’s home. Prosecutors said Monday that Andrew and Angelo Hatziagelis were indicted on 130 counts of an array of crimes, including criminal possession and sale of weapons, and detained. Authorities say they

PRINCETON, Ky. (AP) — A 5-year-old western Kentucky girl reported missing after her mother was killed was found unharmed Monday with her father, who was taken into custody, police said. The afternoon update came hours after Kentucky State Police issued an Amber Alert for Lela Black. Troopers were called to the child’s home in Princeton

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Shock and grief are rippling across Georgia after the U.S. Defense Department announced three Army Reserve soldiers from the state were killed in a weekend drone strike in Jordan. Those killed were identified Monday as Sgt. William Jerome Rivers of Carrollton, Spc. Kennedy Sanders of Waycross

By DAVID SHARP Associated Press SOUTH PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The diversity, equity and inclusion coordinator of public schools in South Portland, Maine, has resigned and left the state, saying he fears for his family’s safety after receiving a threatening letter from a white supremacist. The attack on Mohammed Albehadli, who came to the U.S.

By BILL BARROW Associated Press CONWAY, S.C. (AP) — For South Carolina’s conservatives, deciding whether Nikki Haley ’s record warrants a promotion to the Oval Office seems less about her experience and abilities and more about the man standing in her way: Donald Trump. “Ms. Haley did some fine things as governor — but Donald

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) — The six men found dead at a remote dirt crossroads in the Southern California desert last week were likely shot to death in a dispute over marijuana, sheriff’s officials said Monday as they announced the arrests of five men suspected in the violence. Authorities discovered the bodies Tuesday in the

By ERIC OLSON AP Sports Writer Iowa State athletes caught in a gambling sting last year were criminally charged and lost NCAA eligibility as a result of improper searches into their online wagering activities, according to defense attorneys’ court filings. Attorneys for former Iowa State football players Isaiah Lee and Jirehl Brock and wrestler Paniro

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A judge is recommending 30-day suspensions for a pair of Florida lawyers who criticized a ruling in a discrimination case. An attorney for Orlando attorney Jerry Girley and his daughter, Brooke Girley, says Monday that his clients planned to ask the judge for a rehearing. The

NEW YORK (AP) — Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Atkinson has a multi-book deal that reunites him with his longtime editor and brings him to a new publisher. Atkinson has signed with Crown Publishing Group to complete the final two volumes of his highly anticipated Revolutionary War trilogy. The second volume, “The Fate of the Day,”

By RONALD BLUM Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The Los Angeles Opera scrapped plans for the world premiere of Mason Bates’ “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay” this fall because of finances, and the work will instead open with a student cast at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music. Bates’ composition, based on

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A federal judge is ordering an Oregon newspaper not to publish documents linked to a sex discrimination lawsuit against Nike. The Oregonian is reporting that an attorney for plaintiffs in the case sent documents to one of its reporters and then asked for them back. When the news outlet declined, the

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — An Iranian man who federal prosecutors say operates a criminal network that targets dissidents and activists abroad has been charged alongside a pair of Canadians with plotting to kill two people who had fled to the United States. Prosecutors say both of the intended victims lived in

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) — Authorities say two Tennessee deputies were wounded and a kidnapping suspect was killed in an exchange of gunfire on Interstate 75 after a pursuit. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation says the pursuit began Sunday in Catoosa County, Georgia, when deputies tried to stop 31-year-old Tyler L. Roberts. The TBI says Roberts