The Associated Press Major indexes closed modestly higher on Wall Street Tuesday, enough to nudge the Nasdaq composite to a record high and past 15,000 for the first time. The S&P 500 also set a record. Banks, consumer-focused companies and small-company stocks outpaced the rest of the market. The price of crude oil had its
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By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Herschel Walker has filed paperwork to enter the U.S. Senate race in Georgia after months of speculation. Walker joins other Republicans seeking the GOP nomination to challenge Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock in 2022. Walker signed papers Tuesday declaring his candidacy, allowing him to raise money for a
Continue Reading By MARCOS MARTÍNEZ CHACÓN Associated Press MONTERREY, Mexico (AP) — Ten years after Zetas cartel gunmen stormed into a casino in northern Mexico and set fire to the building, killing 52 people, nobody has been convicted for murder or arson. The fire at the Casino Royale in Monterrey was one of the worst attacks on
Continue Reading The Associated Press Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Tuesday: Palo Alto Networks, Best Buy rise; Walmart, Southern fall
Continue Reading By PAUL WISEMAN and JOSEPH PISANI AP Business Writers From Walt Disney World to Goldman Sachs, a flurry of private and public employers are requiring workers to get vaccinated against COVID-19 after the federal government gave full approval to the Pfizer shot. And the number is certain to grow. For the past eight months, coronavirus
Continue Reading By PAUL WISEMAN and JOSEPH PISANI AP Business Writers From Walt Disney World to Goldman Sachs, a flurry of private and public employers are requiring workers to get vaccinated against COVID-19 after the federal government gave full approval to the Pfizer shot. And the number is certain to grow. For the past eight months, coronavirus
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The Boone County Sheriff’s Office was called Sunday night to the 7500 block of Lavender Drive, where deputies found the bodies of 43-year-old Allison Abitz and her 11-year-old daughter Jozee Abitz.
Continue Reading WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) — A woman who pleaded guilty to coughing and spitting on food at a supermarket in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic has been sentenced to at least a year in jail. Thirty-seven-year-old Margaret Ann Cirko pleaded guilty to a felony count of making bomb threats. She was sentenced Tuesday in
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By Nick Paton Walsh, Brad Lendon, Sheena McKenzie and Ivana Kottasová, CNN The Taliban said Tuesday that they were “not allowing the evacuation of Afghans anymore” and warned that the US must stick to next week’s deadline to pull out, as a frantic Western evacuation operation at Kabul airport picked up pace. The announcement came
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KIRKSVILLE, Mo. (AP) — Police and fire officials say a fire at a northeast Missouri lawyer’s office is being investigated as an arson. The fire was reported early Sunday at the Frick and Cundiff law office in Kirksville. Legal Assistant Paula Bradshaw said those responsible got into the business through a side door and set
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By Carma Hassan, CNN A Missouri man drowned in Lake Michigan Sunday trying to rescue two children in distress, according to the Racine County Sheriff’s Office. The man has been identified as Thomas J. Walker, 40, and the sheriff’s office said he died aiding his young relatives “as they struggled in the waters of Lake
Continue Reading By JILL LAWLESS and GREGORY KATZ Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts has died at the age of 80. Publicist Bernard Doherty said Tuesday that Watts “passed away peacefully in a London hospital earlier today surrounded by his family.” The self-effacing and unshakeable drummer helped anchor one of rock’s greatest rhythm
Continue Reading The Associated Press Closing prices for crude oil, gold and other commodities, and foreign exchange levels.
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN A newly discovered asteroid is sticking close to our sun — much closer than our own planet Earth. The asteroid, called 2021 PH27, completes an orbit around the sun every 113 days and comes within 12.4 million miles (20 million kilometers) of our star. That gives this space rock the distinction
Continue Reading PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — In a story published Aug. 24, 2021, about legal arguments over whether to unseal investigative materials in a potential case against South Dakota billionaire T. Denny Sanford, The Associated Press erroneously attributed a quote. It was Jeffrey Beck, for ProPublica, not Jon Arneson, for the Sioux Falls Argus Leader, who told
Continue Reading SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A California judge has declared a mistrial in the embezzlement trial of attorney Michael Avenatti, who is charged with stealing millions in settlement money from his clients. Judge James Selna ruled on technical grounds that federal prosecutors failed to turn over relevant financial evidence to Avenatti. Another hearing in the
Continue Reading SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A California judge has declared a mistrial in the embezzlement trial of attorney Michael Avenatti, who is charged with stealing millions in settlement money from his clients. Judge James Selna ruled on technical grounds that federal prosecutors failed to turn over relevant financial evidence to Avenatti. Another hearing in the
Continue Reading MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — Kansas State football fans will have to search a little harder for beer and alcohol during football games this season. A year after allowing beer and wine sales throughout Bill Snyder Family Stadium, the university says it will return to a previous practice of limiting alcohol sales to specific areas. Kansas
Continue Reading By SOPHIA TAREEN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — The Rev. Jesse Jackson says he’s “doing fairly well” and receiving good care for COVID-19 at Chicago hospital. He spoke briefly by phone Tuesday with The Associated Press. Jackson and his wife, Jacqueline, were admitted to Northwestern Memorial Hospital over the weekend after testing positive. Jesse Jackson
Continue Reading By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — The county with jurisdiction over the Las Vegas Strip has joined a legal fight to try to collect what attorneys maintain could be hundreds of millions of dollars of unpaid hotel room taxes owed by more than 20 online travel companies. A lawsuit by Clark County
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