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By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS and FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The mayor of Columbus, Ohio, says the U.S. Justice Department will review some practices of the city’s police department after a series of police killings of Black people. Democrat Andrew Ginther on Thursday announced the review by the Justice Department’s Office of Community

By TAMMY WEBBER Associated Press MULESHOE, Texas (AP) — To avoid Dust Bowl conditions, more farmers are restoring native grasslands in areas where the nation’s largest aquifer is drying up and rainfall is often scarce. Groundwater from the Ogallala aquifer has sustained farming for generations in the Plains states, even through droughts. But it’s becoming

ELK POINT, S.D. (AP) — Sheriff’s officials say a man accused of killing four people in Missouri, including a mother and her 11-year-old daughter, has been found dead in South Dakota. According to the Union County Sheriff’s Office, 45-year-old J.T. McLean was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in a car parked at a

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Police say a third man has been arrested in the fatal shooting of an off-duty New Orleans police officer and his friend during a holdup while the two were dining at a Houston restaurant. Police announced Thursday that 19-year-old Khalil Jden Nelson has been charged with

By CURT ANDERSON AP Legal Affairs Writer ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — A Florida sheriff says a chance encounter with a former Marine beset by delusions of child sex trafficking ultimately led to the massacre of four members of a Florida family including mother holding a baby boy.  Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd says suspect

By RICHARD DREW Associated Press Twenty years on, Associated Press photographer Richard Drew still gets asked about the “Falling Man” photograph he took on 9/11. He has been invited on national talk shows, interviewed by foreign TV crews and asked to speak about it at universities across the country. Esquire magazine published a 7,000-word essay

By The Associated Press Michael Constantine, an Emmy Award-winning character actor who reached worldwide fame playing the Windex bottle-toting father of the bride in the 2002 film “My Big Fat Greek Wedding,” has died. He was 94. He made appearances on such TV shows as “My Favorite Martian,” “The Twilight Zone,” “Bonanza,” “Hogan’s Heroes,” “The

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States and Mexico have restarted high-level economic talks after a four-year pause. Top advisers to presidents Joe Biden and Andrés Manuel López Obrador are expressing eagerness to make headway on issues important to both nations, including infrastructure, trade and migration. The talks were launched by

By DAN GELSTON AP Sports Writer The number of movies, documentaries and other entertainment vehicles made about Muhammad Ali would make it seem that there’s not much left to offer. But documentary filmmaker Ken Burns knew there were more layers to reveal in Ali’s rise from his Louisville, Kentucky, roots into the source of Black

OLATHE, Kan. (AP) — A suburban Kansas City man has been sentenced to more than 30 years in prison in the killing of his 75-year-old mother, who was emaciated and riddled with infected bed sores when she died in 2019. The Kansas City Star reports that 54-year-old Raymond McManness was sentenced Wednesday to 374 months.

By SOLVEJ SCHOU Associated Press PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — His name is Kevin. And he’s a tabby cat. Writer Solvej Schou lived next door to Kevin and his owners for years in Southern California. But it was only when she was working from home during the pandemic that she got to know him. Kevin started

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press The state of Alabama has asked to dismiss its lawsuit challenging a controversial statistical method used by the U.S. Census Bureau. The method is aimed at keeping people’s data private in numbers used for redrawing congressional and legislative districts. Alabama and three Alabama politicians had sued the Commerce Department, which

DETROIT (AP) — Attorneys for Detroit and the state of Michigan are seeking $204,000 in fees for successfully defending a post-election lawsuit filed by lawyers aligned with former President Donald Trump. The tally was filed two weeks after a judge said the lawyers would pay a penalty for pursuing the case. The final figure will