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By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press Authorities say a driver has collided with a Kansas City police cruiser, killing an officer who made an arrest in a notorious quintuple homicide nearly a decade ago, the officer’s police dog and a pedestrian. Kansas City police said the crash happened Wednesday night as Officer James Muhlbauer was on

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — In a story published February 15, 2023, about Nevada and California looking to remove involuntary servitude from their constitutions, The Associated Press erroneously reported that the ACLU of Nevada was in litigation with the state regarding pay and working conditions of incarcerated women at firefighting camps. The ACLU is considering litigation.

By AYANNA ALEXANDER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Top state election and cybersecurity officials are warning about the threat posed by Russia and other foreign adversaries ahead of the 2024 elections. They say America’s decentralized system of thousands of local voting jurisdictions creates a particular vulnerability. Russia and Iran have meddled in previous elections, including

By KARL RITTER Associated Press MUNICH (AP) — U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris will join the leaders of France, Germany, the U.K. and dozens of others at an annual security conference in Germany, just before the one-year anniversary of the war in Ukraine. Harris is returning to the stage at the Munich Security Conference Friday

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — U.S. safety regulators have pressured Tesla into recalling nearly 363,000 vehicles with its “Full Self-Driving” system because it can misbehave around intersections and doesn’t always follow speed limits. The recall, part of part of a larger investigation by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration into Tesla’s

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge showed growing impatience Thursday with FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s use of the internet while on bail, suggesting that incarceration might eventually be the most effective way to prevent him from communicating on electronic devices in ways that can’t be traced. Judge Lewis A.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed a bill to allow universities to help set up endorsement deals for college athletes in the state. Florida was one of the first states to pass a law allowing college athletes to profit off their name, image or likeness, but it didn’t allow people affiliated

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI and MIKE HOUSEHOLDER Associated Press EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — The man who shot eight students at Michigan State University, killing three, was found with two handguns and a note containing a possible motive for the attack, police said Thursday. The 9 mm guns, dozens of rounds of ammunition and the two-page

By JOHN LEICESTER and HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A senior Ukrainian official says Russia is using decoy missiles to fool Ukraine’s air defenses and deploying balloons. Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Ukraine President Volydymyr Zelenskyy, told The Associated Press that Russia is changing tactics as the invasion approaches its one-year anniversary.

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Tim McCarver, the All-Star catcher and Hall of Fame broadcaster who during 60 years in baseball won two World Series titles with the St. Louis Cardinals and had a long run as the one of the country’s most recognized, incisive and talkative television commentators, died

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Several employees at a Tesla factory in Buffalo, New York have been fired after launching union organizing efforts two days ago, according to Tesla Workers United. The group said in a statement on Thursday that workers received an email around 7 p.m. on Wednesday updating them on a new

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press A crime scene expert has testified about where the shots were fired at the wife and son of Alex Murdaugh and in what order at his double murder trial. Kenny Kinsey’s testimony Thursday mostly matched evidence presented by several other witnesses about what happened that night. Kinsey did tell jurors

By SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press BUCHA, Ukraine (AP) — In the cemetery where Oleksii Zavadskyi and Yurii Stiahliuk are buried, the women they loved take drags on the men’s favorite brands of cigarettes. Clouds of smoke are exhaled in silence. Interlaced between Anastasiia Okhrimenko’s dainty fingers are Camels. Anna Korostenska lights L&M’s, her hands shaking

By PATRICK ORSAGOS Associated Press EAST PALESTINE, Ohio (AP) — The head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency got a first-hand look Thursday at a creek contaminated by a freight train derailment in Ohio that spilled toxic chemicals and burned in a huge plume over homes and businesses. The visit by EPA Administrator Michael Regan,

By CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Now that the white supremacist gunman who killed 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket was sentenced to life without parole in state prison, attention is turning toward his federal hate crime charges and the potential for the death penalty. U.S. marshals took temporary custody of

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Abortion access in Kentucky remained virtually shut off Thursday after the state’s highest court refused to halt a near-total ban that has largely been in place since Roe v. Wade was overturned. Kentucky’s Supreme Court, which was weighing challenges to the state’s near-total ban and a

By PATRICK ORSAGOS Associated Press EAST PALESTINE, Ohio (AP) — Residents of an Ohio village upended by a freight train derailment packed a gymnasium demanding reassurances after toxic chemicals spilled and burned in a huge plume over their homes and businesses. “I have three grandbabies,” said Kathy Dyke, who came with hundreds of her neighbors

By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Alaska’s largest school district repeatedly and inappropriately secluded and restrained students with disabilities. That’s according to a U.S. Department of Justice announcement following an investigation into alleged violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act. According to an agreement reached between the Justice Department and Anchorage schools,