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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A man convicted of helping two other men escape prison while he was in custody for a fatal brawl among soccer fans in Philadelphia has been sentenced in both cases. Court documents indicate 36-year-old Jose Flores-Huerta was sentenced Thursday to 11 1/2 months to 23 months for aiding the May 2023 escape

BERLIN (AP) — Greenland police say they have apprehended veteran environmental activist and anti-whaling campaigner Paul Watson on an international arrest warrant issued by Japan. Watson, a 73-year-old Canadian-American citizen, is a former head of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society known for high-seas confrontations with whaling vessels. He was arrested Sunday when his ship docked

MIAMI (AP) — Police say a man stabbed a woman inside Miami International Airport. It happened outside the secure area, on the fourth floor of Terminal J. Miami-Dade Police Det. Angel Rodriguez says the man also tried to throw the woman over a railing before she was able to get away. Officers soon arrested the

AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — An owner of a consumer insights research firm couldn’t pay her employees, make Friday’s deadline to sign a contract for a new business or send key research to a key client. A psychiatrist, who runs a virtual mental health practice in Maryland, saw his business hobbled as some

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Niagara officials say the pilot who died after a group of skydivers she was flying jumped near the falls was 26-year-old Melanie Georger of Towanda, New York. She was the sole occupant of the plane when it crashed Saturday. In a statement on Facebook, Georger’s father says “She was

AP Film Writer Moviegoers ran toward the tornadoes this weekend, propelling “Twisters” to a blockbuster opening. The standalone sequel to the 1996 hit made $80.5 million in ticket sales from 4,151 theaters in North America, according to studio estimates Sunday. That’s about $30 million more than analysts expected initially. It opened last weekend in some

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Authorities say three men were killed and six other people wounded in an early morning shootout during a gathering in west Philadelphia. Police said more than 100 people were present in the Carroll Park neighborhood when gunfire broke out just after 2 a.m. Sunday. Police said their preliminary information indicated “an exchange

LOGAN, Utah (AP) — Utah State says cornerback Andre Seldon Jr. has died in an apparent drowning at Porcupine Reservoir. The Cache County Sheriff’s Office says a search began Saturday afternoon after callers reported that a young man seen diving from cliffs at the reservoir did not resurface. His body was recovered by a dive

Associated Press VINCENNES, France (AP) — A Lebanese photojournalist who was severely wounded during an Israeli strike on south Lebanon has carried the Olympic torch in Paris to honor journalists wounded and killed in the field. The torch relay is part of celebrations in which about 10,000 people from various walks of life were chosen

Associated Press Francisco Seco, based in Istanbul, enjoys making photos of daily life in cities around the world. This assignment, though, took The Associated Press photographer to Ukraine to document the toll Russia’s invasion of the country has had on the lives of athletes training for the Paris Olympics, which starts next week. Here is

BERLIN (AP) — Police said Sunday that they detained more than 50 people as they clashed with protesters trying to disrupt a march by hundreds of right-wing extremists in the Austrian capital. The demonstrations on Saturday came as Austria’s political parties gear up for September parliamentary elections expected to see the far-right make significant gains.

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The uproar over President Joe Biden’s reelection bid is showing no signs of abating. A fifth senator is now urging Biden to withdraw from the race and let Democrats hold an “open process” for a new nominee. Biden’s campaign is acknowledging “differing opinions” but says the party will unite to

Associated Press KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Nepal’s newly appointed prime minister has secured overwhelming support in parliament with more than two-thirds of members voting in his favor. Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Oli got the support from members of his Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist Leninist), his main coalition partner Nepali Congress and several smaller

AP Medical Writer BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) — Some people develop a weird allergy to red meat after being bitten by a lone star tick yet find they can still eat pork from a surprising source – certain pigs originally bred for human organ transplants. So-called GalSafe pigs lack a sugar that would trigger immediate rejection

AP Medical Writer BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) — Wide-eyed piglets rushing to check out the visitors to their unusual barn just might represent the future of organ transplantation – and there’s no rolling around in the mud here. The first gene-edited pig organs ever transplanted into people came from animals born on this special research farm