ST. LOUIS (AP) — A 72-year-old man who used a stolen identity to vote and get government benefits has been sentenced to six months in prison and six months of house arrest. Eric Nyembe Casey was also ordered Tuesday to repay $76,389. Casey, who is originally from South Africa, pleaded guilty in May to two
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Police in Mexico have located 38 people, including 22 Haitians and Cubans, who were abducted from a hotel by armed men. The chief prosecutor of the northern state of San Luis Potosi said Tuesday evening that the victims were found on a roadside, apparently abandoned by their captors. Prosecutor Federico Garza
Continue Reading By CURT ANDERSON AP Legal Affairs Writer ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Trial testimony shows a former political rival of a Republican Florida congressional candidate made repeated threats to “take her out,” even claiming he could summon a supposed Russian and Ukrainian hit squad to kill her. The testimony came Tuesday in a stalking case
Continue Reading LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Court records show a 27-year-old Kentucky man whose sentence was commuted by former Gov. Matt Bevin is scheduled to plead guilty in federal court, where he is charged with producing child pornography. Dayton R. Jones of Hopkinsville pleaded guilty in state court to sodomy and distributing material portraying a sexual performance
Continue Reading MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Mexican government says it has successfully completed a three-month push to provide coronavirus vaccines to all adult residents of communities along its border with the United States. Mexico said that when it began the effort in June, it hoped the mass vaccinations would aid in lifting pandemic restrictions on non-essential
Continue Reading KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Emails sent by Missouri State Museum employees show they tried to defend an LGBTQ history exhibit before state officials ordered it removed from the state Capitol. The Kansas City Star reports it obtained emails showing how state officials reacted after questions were raised about the exhibit. State officials have said
Continue Reading KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Emails sent by Missouri State Museum employees show they tried to defend an LGBTQ history exhibit before state officials ordered it removed from the state Capitol. The Kansas City Star reports it obtained emails showing how state officials reacted after questions were raised about the exhibit. State officials have said
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By MARCY GORDON AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats have begun the serious work of trying to implement President Joe Biden’s expansive spending plan. But getting there will require remarkable legislative nimbleness, since Biden has said the revenue to pay for it must come only from Americans who earn more than $400,000 a
Continue Reading By CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press A woman is suing a New York fertility doctor for allegedly using his own sperm to impregnate her mother and then keeping the secret even after the woman, his biological daughter, became his patient. The 35-year-old Monroe County woman says she became suspicious of Dr. Morris Wortman of Rochester after
Continue Reading By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Federal investigators say an officer’s errors in calculating the stability of a cargo ship carrying more than 4,000 new cars likely caused the giant vessel to capsize on the Georgia seacoast. The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board issued its report Tuesday on the 2019 capsizing of
Continue Reading By SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Missouri grade-school students did worse on statewide tests during the coronavirus pandemic. Data released Tuesday show scores dropped across the board last school year. About 45% of tested public school students scored at least proficient in English. Only 35% of students tested proficient in math, and
Continue Reading By KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Eric Adams won New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary by striking a personal balance on policing and racial injustice. As a former NYPD police captain, he could talk tough on crime. But he also cited his record as a leading voice for reform within the department.
Continue Reading By ERIC TUCKER and ALAN SUDERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Three former U.S. intelligence and military operatives have admitted providing sophisticated hacking technology to the United Arab Emirates and agreed to pay nearly $1.7 million to resolve criminal charges. It is an agreement that the Justice Department describes as the first of its kind.
Continue Reading By ERIC TUCKER and ALAN SUDERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Three former U.S. intelligence and military operatives have admitted providing sophisticated hacking technology to the United Arab Emirates and agreed to pay nearly $1.7 million to resolve criminal charges. It is an agreement that the Justice Department describes as the first of its kind.
Continue Reading By MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press CARLISLE, Pa. (AP) — More than $104 million in Pennsylvania Turnpike tolls went uncollected last year as the agency fully converted to all-electronic tolling. Turnpike records show the millions of motorists who don’t use E-ZPass have a nearly 1 in 2 chance of riding without paying under the “toll-by-plate” license
Continue Reading By HOLLY RAMER Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — An attorney for Marilyn Manson says a videographer who accuses the musical artist of spitting and blowing his nose on her during a concert in New Hampshire consented to being exposed to bodily fluids. Manson, whose legal name is Brian Hugh Warner, is charged with two
Continue Reading The Associated Press Stocks went back to falling on Wall Street Tuesday after a blip higher the day before, giving the S&P 500 its sixth loss in the last seven trading days. The benchmark index had started higher after the latest data on inflation came in better than economists had expected, but those gains faded
Continue Reading By STEPHEN HAWKINS AP Sports Writer There has already been some quarterback shuffling in the Big 12 after only two games. Skylar Thompson’s sixth year in Kansas State’s program is on hold because of a knee injury that will keep him out indefinitely. Fourth-year Iowa State starter Brock Purdy was benched in the fourth quarter
Continue Reading By STEPHEN HAWKINS AP Sports Writer There has already been some quarterback shuffling in the Big 12 after only two games. Skylar Thompson’s sixth year in Kansas State’s program is on hold because of a knee injury that will keep him out indefinitely. Fourth-year Iowa State starter Brock Purdy was benched in the fourth quarter
Continue Reading By STEPHEN HAWKINS AP Sports Writer There has already been some quarterback shuffling in the Big 12 after only two games. Skylar Thompson’s sixth year in Kansas State’s program is on hold because of a knee injury that will keep him out indefinitely. Fourth-year Iowa State starter Brock Purdy was benched in the fourth quarter
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