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By BRIAN MELLEY and CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The last man seen with Kristin Smart was convicted Tuesday of killing the college freshman, who vanished from a California campus more than 25 years ago, but his father was acquitted of helping him conceal the crime. Jurors unanimously found Paul Flores guilty

By JIM SALTER Associated Press FLORISSANT, Mo. (AP) — Radioactive waste in a creek that meanders through part of suburban St. Louis has long been suspected of causing rare cancers and other health problems for residents who live nearby. Now, a new study funded by law firms suing on behalf of residents of the area

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press Writer OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt has set a special election for March 7 for voters to decide whether to legalize the recreational use of marijuana. Stitt issued an executive order on Tuesday setting the date. Oklahomans for Sensible Marijuana Laws gathered enough signatures to qualify the

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A jury on Tuesday acquitted a think tank analyst accused of lying to the FBI about his role in the creation of a discredited dossier about former President Donald Trump. The case against Igor Danchenko was the third and possibly final case brought by Special Counsel

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — “Time be flyin’,” it’s said in Martin McDonagh’s “The Banshees of Inisherin.” It’s a sentiment shared by McDonagh and his two stars, Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson, who have reteamed 14 years after McDonagh’s pitch-black feature debut, “In Bruges.” “It feels like not two days

CHICAGO (AP) — R. Kelly’s former business manager asked a federal judge to award him $850,000 in attorneys fees after a jury acquitted him during the same trial in Chicago at which the R&B singer was convicted of child pornography charges. Derrel McDavid’s attorney wrote that deserves to recoup the legal fees after enduring a

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Missouri Supreme Court has set a February execution date for a suburban St. Louis man who was convicted of killing his girlfriend and her three children nearly 18 years ago. The court announced Tuesday that Leonard Taylor is to be executed Feb. 7 at at the state prison in

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A federal judge has dismissed FedEx from a lawsuit filed by relatives of five of the eight people who were fatally shot last year at an Indianapolis warehouse by a former employee of the shipping giant. U.S. District Judge James Sweeney on Monday granted a FedEx Corp. motion to dismiss it and

By JAMES MacPHERSON Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A state audit says the North Dakota Health Department stored thousands of COVID-19 vaccine doses at incorrect temperatures or without temperature data over the past two years — and that some of the vaccine was administered to patients. The health department disputed the audit released Tuesday.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles police in riot gear faced off briefly with yelling protesters outside a City Hall entrance. The demonstrators were demanding the City Council stop a virtual meeting until two of its members resign for their part in a meeting involving racist remarks. Police pushed backed protesters who later retreated across

By DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers Stocks are rising again on Wall Street in afternoon trading Tuesday, adding to weekly gains for major indexes that have been mired in a broad slump amid inflation and recession concerns. The S&P 500 rose 0.7% as of 3:27 p.m. Eastern. The Dow Jones Industrial

BOSTON (AP) — A Hindu rights activist is calling on a Massachusetts museum to stop selling children’s plush toys representing three Hindu deities, which he says are “insensitive.” Universal Society of Hinduism President Rajan Zed said toys depicting Lord Krishna, Lord Ganesh and Lord Hanuman were available on the Peabody Essex Museum’s online shop last

By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press Democrats in Nevada hold both U.S. Senate seats, the governor’s mansion and three of its four U.S. House seats. The state hasn’t backed a Republican presidential candidate since 2004. But as this year’s midterm elections approach, the party’s grip on power is under threat. Catherine Cortez Masto has been

By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — A new report finds preliminary agriculture losses in Florida from Hurricane Ian’s high winds and drenching rains could reach $1.56 billion, with citrus, cattle, vegetable and melon operations hit the hardest. The University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences report Tuesday said there

PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — The Kosovar prosecutors’ office has reported that an ethnic Serb accused of killing ethnic Albanians in 1999 was arrested in Hungary. A statement Tuesday said the Serb man — identified only as S.S. — was arrested in Budapest on an international arrest warrant. He is suspected of taking part in the

MOSCOW (AP) — A court in Russia has rejected imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s second appeal of a nine-year sentence. The 46-year-old dissident is serving the sentence, handed to him in March, on the charges of fraud and contempt of court, in a high-security prison. Navalny, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s fiercest foe, was arrested in

By JOSH BOAK and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden wants to move past fossil fuels but he’s looking to increase oil supplies ahead of next month’s midterm elections. Administration officials have teased that additional oil can be released from the U.S. strategic reserve as part of a response to recent

By SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden promised Tuesday that the first bill he sends to Capitol Hill next year will be one that codifies Roe v. Wade — if Democrats control enough seats in Congress for Biden to sign abortion protections into law — in a speech designed to