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By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press The fight over whether the site of June’s deadly Florida condominium collapse should be sold for development or turned into a memorial boiled over during an emotional court hearing. Some victims’ relatives begged Thursday for time to find a buyer who won’t put a new luxury high-rise at the side

By JAKE BLEIBERG and JIM MUSTIAN Associated Press A former Louisiana State Police trooper has been charged with a civil rights violation for pummeling a Black motorist 18 times with a flashlight. It’s the first criminal case to emerge from federal investigations into troopers’ beatings of at least three Black men. A federal grand jury

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — A judge has ruled that a Colorado woman charged with killing her 11-year-old stepson will stand trial. Authorities allege that 38-year-old Letecia Stauch killed Gannon Stauch at their home in January 2020. His body was found in the Florida Panhandle about two months later. At a hearing earlier this month,

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Federal prosecutors say four members of an alleged California militia group have pleaded guilty to conspiring to obstruct justice in the case of a federal guard fatally shot in Oakland last year. The men were followers of the “boogaloo” movement, a concept embraced by a loose network of gun enthusiasts and

ROCKFORD, Ill. (AP) — Police arrested a man who allegedly took a Subway shop employee’s purse during an Illinois robbery attempt that was caught on surveillance video. The case garnered attention this month after video of a Subway shop employee fighting with the man was posted online. The Subway store’s owner then suspended the employee

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press Following a 2020 census in which the pandemic made access to group housing difficult, Census Bureau officials say they are going to reassess how they count people living in dorms, prisons and nursing homes during the next head count of every U.S. resident in 2030. A Census Bureau official said

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House has overwhelming passed legislation to provide funding for Israel’s missile defense system. The bill approved Thursday would provide $1 billion for the Iron Dome system, which is designed to intercept and destroy short-range rockets fired into Israel. The vote was 420-9. Democratic Rep. Rosa DeLauro

By EDITH M. LEDERER and SETH BORENSTEIN Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Three presidents and seven foreign ministers are warning that a warmer world is a more violent one. At a U.N. Security Council meeting Thursday, the high-level officials urged stepped-up action to address the security implications of climate change and make global warming

FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) — Officials say media calls to Fort Meade on Thursday were mistaken for callers portraying members of the media during an exercise, setting off false reports of a mass shooting at the base in Maryland. Public Affairs Officer Chad Jones says the installation was conducting an exercise on Thursday, when outlets

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida school district has received cash from President Joe Biden’s administration to make up for state pay cuts imposed over a board’s vote for a student anti-coronavirus mask mandate. Alachua County school Superintendent Carlee Simon said Thursday the district has received $148,000 through a U.S. Department of Education program. Simon

BY MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer NEW YORK (AP) — This week’s phone call between President Joe Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron may have soothed some the incandescent rage with which France erupted over its exclusion from a new Indo-Pacific defense initiative, but the anger and resentment remain clear. After meeting Thursday with Secretary

By COLLEEN BARRY AP Fashion Writer MILAN (AP) — Giorgio Armani has celebrated 40 years of his Emporio Armani line with a retrospective show at his Silos museum and a collection for youthful dressers that brimmed with colorful optimism. The 86-year-old designer called them 40 hard years, “but beautiful, very beautiful.” Armani took a closing

MENOMONIE, Wis. (AP) — The father of a man charged with fatally shooting four people in Minnesota and leaving their bodies in a vehicle abandoned in Wisconsin is accused of helping his son after the slayings. Darren Osborne was charged Wednesday with aiding and abetting an offender. He’s being held in Ramsey County, Minnesota, on

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Shaquille O’Neal, Tyra Banks and Kevin Hart are among the celebrities taking part in a live-streamed special intended to boost Black-owned businesses. Daymond John of “Shark Tank” will host “Black Entrepreneurs Day” from New York City’s Apollo Theater on Oct. 14. The event will be available through John’s Facebook page and

REDDING, Calif. (AP) — A woman has been arrested on suspicion of starting a Northern California wildfire that spread rapidly, burning homes and prompting evacuation orders in a rural community. Cal Fire says workers at a nearby quarry reported seeing a woman acting strangely in the area in Shasta County where the Fawn Fire started

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom has approved nearly $1 billion in new spending to prevent wildfires that are getting bigger and more destructive from climate change. Newsom approved the spending on Wednesday while visiting Sequoia National Park. The park contains some of the world’s largest and oldest

ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says the current course of U.S.-Turkey relations “does not bode well.” In a briefing to Turkish journalists on Thursday following a visit to the United Nations General Assembly, Erdogan highlighted divisions over Turkey’s purchase of a Russian-made missile defense system and its consequent removal from the U.S.-led

AHOSKIE, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina funeral home says it has reached out to apologize after two sisters who went to view their mother’s body instead found another woman wearing her clothes inside the casket. WAVY reports sisters Jennifer Taylor and Jennetta Archer went to see their mother at an Ahoskie funeral home when

ROME (AP) — An appeals court in Sicily has acquitted a close associate of former Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi of having negotiated with the Mafia during the 1990s. A lower court convicted Marcello Dell’Utri in 2018 of acting as a liaison between Italian state institutions and Cosa Nostra bosses in Sicily and gave him a

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — Court records say surveillance footage from a Virginia high school shows a student opening fire in a hallway after a teacher broke up his fight with one of the shooting victims. Citing court records, news outlets report the fight at Heritage High School in Newport News lasted only a few