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By BRIAN WITTE Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Baltimore prosecutors asked a judge on Wednesday to vacate Adnan Syed’s conviction for the 1999 murder of Hae Min Lee — a case that was chronicled in the hit podcast “Serial.” Baltimore’s state’s attorney filed a motion in circuit court, saying a lengthy investigation conducted with

By NICK PERRY and KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A woman was arrested in South Korea on Thursday on two murder charges from New Zealand, where the bodies of two long-dead children were found last month in abandoned suitcases, authorities said. Authorities didn’t immediately say if the 42-year-old suspect was the

By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer The NFL is set to make its debut with a streaming service on Thursday night. Amazon Prime Video will show the Los Angeles Chargers’ game against the Kansas City Chiefs. It’s the highest-profile of a series of deals between sports leagues and streaming services. NHL games will be shown

By NICK PERRY and KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Authorities say a woman has been arrested in South Korea on two murder charges from New Zealand, where the bodies of two long-dead children were found in abandoned suitcases. Authorities didn’t immediately say if the 42-year-old suspect was the victims’ mother. New

By AMY TAXIN and BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press OAK GLEN, Calif. (AP) — Rescuers are searching for a person missing in a mudslide that swept boulders down fire-scarred slopes and damaged or destroyed 30 homes in Southern California mountains. Cleanup efforts and damage assessments are ongoing Wednesday in the San Bernardino Mountains east of Los

DALLAS (AP) — A man has drawn an automatic sentence of life in prison without parole after a jury convicted him of capital murder in the shooting death of a Dallas-area police officer. The Dallas County jury deliberated a little over an hour Wednesday before finding Jaime Jaramillo guilty in the shooting death last Dec.

PHOENIX (AP) — The Republican candidates for Arizona governor and secretary of state are appealing a federal judge’s ruling dismissing their lawsuit seeking to require ballots in November’s election to be counted by hand. Lawyers representing governor candidate Kari Lake and secretary of state hopeful Mark Finchem filed a notice Wednesday saying they would ask

By ELENA BECATOROS and HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press IZIUM, Ukraine (AP) — Hand on heart, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy watched his country’s flag rise Wednesday above the recaptured city of Izium, making a rare foray outside the capital that highlights Moscow’s embarrassing retreat from a Ukrainian counteroffensive. Russian forces left the war-scarred city last week

By SOPHIE AUSTIN Associated Press/ Report for America SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California is launching an initiative to bring more tourism to native communities. It’s funded by a $1 million federal grant aimed in part at tackling the pandemic’s economic impact. Called Visit Native California, the program will market museums and cultural centers important to

By TOM HAYS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Six women who accused a neurologist of sexaully assaulting them while under his care have returned to court to speak out against him — this time after his death.  Authorities say Dr. Ricardo Cruciani killed himself behind bars in August, shortly after his conviction and before

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A spokesman for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says the  leader’s car collided with another vehicle after a battlefield visit, but he was not seriously injured. The accident happened early Thursday. The spokesman says Zelenskyy was returning to Kyiv from the Kharkiv region after visiting troops in the recaptured city of Izium

FLORENCE, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama inmate who authorities say escaped with the help of a jail supervisor who later killed herself in Indiana shared nearly 1,000 phone calls with the woman before the breakout, news outlets reported. Lauderdale County Sheriff Rick Singleton said Casey White and Vicky White, who were not related, may have

By MICHAEL TARM and JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — A federal jury in Chicago convicted R. Kelly on Wednesday of producing child pornography and enticing girls for sex after a monthlong trial in his hometown. It’s another legal blow to a singer who was once one of the world’s biggest R&B stars. Prosecutors

By DAVE COLLINS and JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press WATERBURY, Conn. (AP) — A representative for conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ Infowars empire acknowledged on the witness stand Wednesday that the show and website spread falsehoods about the Sandy Hook school shooting. “I don’t think that we disagree that there were false statements made,” Brittany Paz testified

By CALEB JONES Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Officials in Hawaii say preliminary findings from an investigation into an ambulance fire that killed a patient and injured a paramedic last month show the blaze originated in an oxygen device that is routinely used. The Aug. 24 fire killed a 91-year-old patient and severely injured a

EL PASO, Texas (AP) — A West Texas man has been sentenced to life plus 300 years in federal prison after he pleaded guilty to aggravated sexual assault of a child and 10 counts of producing child pornography, including filming himself sexually assaulting children. Prosecutors say Johnny George Gonzalez admitted to filming himself sexually abusing

By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A California mother must pay more than $9,000 in restitution and apologize to a teenage basketball player she told her daughter to hit during a youth basketball game in 2021. The woman’s daughter punched the rival player in the neck and she collapsed on the court

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A former Texas sheriff’s deputy has been sentenced to life imprisonment without parole for killing his ex-wife, teenage stepdaughter and the stepdaughter’s boyfriend. Former Travis County sheriff’s deputy Stephen Broderick was automatically sentenced after pleading guilty to capital murder Tuesday in the deaths of 35-year-old ex-wife Amanda Broderick, 17-year-old stepdaughter Alyssa

By LYNN ELBER AP Television Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Abbott Elementary” creator-star Quinta Brunson said she’d rather focus on the show than Jimmy Kimmel’s comedy bit that overshadowed her Emmy acceptance speech and prompted criticism. But Sheryl Lee Ralph, who received her own Emm y for the sitcom with a rousing song and speech,

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has cleared the way for an LGBTQ group to gain official recognition from a Jewish university in New York, though that may not last. By a 5-4 vote Wednesday, the justices lifted a temporary hold on a court order that requires Yeshiva University to