AP National News

By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Authorities say a New York City police officer’s skull was broken when he was shot New Year’s morning while sleeping in his personal vehicle between shifts but he is expected to fully recover. Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell said Saturday that the officer underwent surgery at

KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) — Police in Florida are searching for two people who burned a part of Key West’s famous Southernmost Point buoy early New Year’s Day after setting a fire near the tourist attraction. Authorities said two males lit a Christmas tree on fire in front of the buoy around 3:30 a.m. Saturday

By BRITTANY PETERSON, PATTY NIEBERG and COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press SUPERIOR, Colo. (AP) — Colorado authorities say two people are reported missing from a wind-whipped winter-season wildfire in Denver’s suburbs that destroyed hundreds of homes. Authorities had said earlier no one was missing in the area hit by Thursday’s blaze, but Boulder County spokeswoman Jennifer

CLEVELAND (AP) — Authorities say arrests have been made in the shooting death of an off-duty Cleveland police officer during a carjacking. Cleveland police said Saturday that 25-year-old Shane Bartek had been with the department since August 2019. Police say someone approached Bartek in the parking lot of an apartment building on Cleveland’s west side

By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York City’s new mayor has pledged to steer the nation’s largest city out of the pandemic by drawing on the resiliency of its people and promising a government that works better, even if it’s not radically different. Eric Adams was sworn in early Saturday

CHICAGO (AP) — The year 2021 ended as one of the deadliest on record in recent years in Chicago. According to statistics released by the city’s police department on Saturday, there were 797 homicides compared to 772 in 2020 and 498 in 2019. That is also the highest total since 1996 and higher than recorded

PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — A year after New Year’s Day passed without a Rose Parade due to the coronavirus pandemic, the floral spectacle celebrating the arrival of 2022 marched on despite a new surge of infections. The 133rd edition of the Pasadena, California, tradition featured actor LeVar Burton as grand marshal, 20 marching bands, 18

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Hundreds of Ukrainian nationalists held a torchlight march in the capital of Kyiv to mark the birthday of Stepan Bandera, the leader of a rebel militia that fought alongside Nazi soldiers in World War II. The Sunday march came amid persistently high concerns over Russia’s massing of troops near the Ukrainian

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer The new year is bringing more of the same old misery that air travelers in the United States have been enduring for more than a week. Airlines are blaming wintry weather and high numbers of sickouts due to the rising number of COVID-19 infections around the country. According to

GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) — Investigators say three people were killed and four others wounded after several people at a Mississippi party started shooting just minutes before the end of 2021. Gulfport Police Chief Chris Ryle says no arrests have been made and both witnesses and the victims aren’t talking to investigators. Police say a fight

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A judge has rejected Prince Andrew’s attempt to block the progression of a lawsuit by claiming that a woman who says he sexually assaulted her when she was 17 doesn’t live in the U.S. Judge Lewis A. Kaplan rejected the argument by the prince’s lawyers that

BRADLEY, Ill. (AP) — Police say a woman wanted in the fatal shooting of one police officer and the wounding of another at a northern Illinois hotel surrendered to police hours after a man also suspected in the shooting was arrested in Indiana. Illinois State Police say 26-year-old Xandria Harris of Bradley, Illinois, turned herself

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s state media say paramilitary Revolutionary Guard forces and an armed criminal gang clashed in the restive southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchistan, leaving three Guard members and “at least five bandits” dead. The state-run IRNA news agency says the fighting took place late Saturday evening in the district of Kourin,

CHICAGO (AP) — The winter that took its time getting to the Midwest is finally expected to arrive on the first day of the new year. The National Weather Service that the snow could start falling late Saturday morning in and around Chicago and that as much as 9 inches of snow could fall by

PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — A year after New Year’s Day passed without a Rose Parade due to the coronavirus pandemic, the floral spectacle celebrating the arrival of 2022 is proceeding despite a new surge of infections. The 133rd edition of the Pasadena, California, tradition features actor LeVar Burton as grand marshal, 20 marching bands, 18

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — The Holocaust survivor Gertrude Pressburger has died at age 94. She became famous during Austria’s 2016 presidential campaign, when in a video message as “Mrs. Gertrude” she warned of hatred and exclusion triggered by the far right. Pressburger died Friday after a long illness, her family told

By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New Mayor Eric Adams has ridden the New York City subway to City Hall for his first day on the job. He was sworn into office early Saturday in Times Square after the New Year’s Eve ball drop. The former New York City police captain

PARIS (AP) — Hundreds of empty, parked cars go up in flames in France each New Year’s Eve, set afire by young revelers. But that much lamented tradition appears to be in decline this year. Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said Saturday on Twitter that 874 vehicles burned overnight in France. That compared to New Year’s

By PAUL NEWBERRY AP Sports Writer ATLANTA (AP) — Former Denver Broncos and Atlanta Falcons coach Dan Reeves has died at the age of 77. His family says he died peacefully Saturday of complications from dementia. Reeves won a Super Bowl as a player with the Dallas Cowboys but was best known for a long

By CALVIN WOODWARD Associated Press LOVETTSVILLE, Va. (AP) — A year after the violent assault on the U.S. Capitol, the United States is split in nearly every way. The divisions are apparent in the small northern Virginia town of Lovettsville. There, pro-Trump banners, rainbow flags, Black Lives Matter signs and a contentious local Facebook group