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PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) — Officials say eight people were rescued at a Florida Panhandle beach as weather forecasters predicted a high chance for rip currents in the Gulf of Mexico. Escambia County Fire Rescue responded to Johnson Beach in Perdido Key twice on Thursday. Officials say rescue workers pulled three adults and four children from

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut’s governor is taking heat for calling the city of Houston “butt ugly” after returning from the Final Four. Gov. Ned Lamont traveled to Texas and was on hand Monday night to watch the University of Connecticut men’s basketball team win its fifth NCAA Tournament championship. He made his comments on

By JOSEF FEDERMAN and FARES AKRAM Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military struck targets in the Gaza Strip while Palestinian militants fired barrages of rockets rockets into southern Israel early Friday, with the region edging closer toward war following two days of unrest at Jerusalem’s most sensitive holy site and a rare rocket

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Three men were given life sentences on Thursday for the 2018 killing of star rapper XXXTentacion, who was shot outside a South Florida motorcycle shop while being robbed of $50,000. Michael Boatwright, 28, Dedrick Williams, 26, and Trayvon Newsome, 24, were each convicted last month of first-degree murder and armed

By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — Jon Rahm and Brooks Koepka shared the lead Thursday in the Masters, and that’s about all they had in common. Not the way they started their rounds at Augusta National. Certainly not the tours they represent — Rahm a loyalist on the PGA Tour, Koepka

By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The Alaska Air National Guard this week traveled nearly 660 miles (1,062 kilometers) to rescue a pregnant woman on a small island 2 miles (3 kilometers) from Russia, reflecting the challenges patients face in the nation’s largest state where the most remote areas have no roads

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI and JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee’s GOP-dominated House declined to expel the second of three Democratic members for her role in a demonstration in favor of gun control following the Nashville school shooting. The 65-30 vote fell just one vote shy of the number needed to oust Rep.

By RICH PEDRONCELLI and STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press ROSEVILLE, Calif. (AP) — A spokesperson for a Northern California hospital says least three people have been hospitalized with unknown injuries following a possible shooting. It was not immediately clear whether they had gunshot wounds or other injuries, or if there were other victims. An officer with

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah ski resort confirmed that nobody was hurt or killed from an avalanche that gushed from the backcountry into its boundaries on Thursday. The Snowbird ski resort said on Thursday that it had completed a search of an area caught in the path of an avalanche that began on

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer A lawsuit over a salad has been tossed. Sweetgreen said Thursday it will change the name of one of its salads in response to a lawsuit filed earlier this week by Chipotle. Los Angeles-based Sweetgreen added the Chipotle Chicken Burrito Bowl to its menu last week. On Tuesday, Chipotle

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) — A former New York suburban police officer turned drug dealer has been convicted in the strangulation death of one man and the execution-style murders of three others. Nicholas Tartaglione was convicted Thursday in federal court after a three-week trial. The bodies were recovered from a mass grave in December 2016.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Coolio, the rapper best known for hits in the 1990s including “Gangsta’s Paradise” and “Fantastic Voyage,” died last year because of fentanyl. Coolio’s former longtime manager Jarez Posey told The Associated Press Thursday that Coolio’s cause of death was fentanyl and that he also had traces of heroin and methamphetamine in