By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A sham candidate for the Florida Legislature pleaded guilty to being part of a vote siphoning scheme in last year’s election. Alex Rodríguez agreed Tuesday to testify against former Sen. Frank Artiles after pleading guilty in Miami-Dade County to accepting illegal campaign donations and lying
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ELY, Minn. (AP) — Ely is typically teeming this time of year with visitors heading out on or returning from excursions into the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. But about the only cars in the northeastern Minnesota town with canoes strapped to their tops this week are leaving. Several fires inside and just outside the
Continue Reading Waymo, the Google self-driving vehicle spinoff, is moving to expand its autonomous ride-hailing service to San Francisco. The company says “trusted tester” customers in the city will be able to hail a ride in Jaguar I-Pace self-driving electric vehicles. For now the vehicles will have human backup drivers on board. But at some point the
Continue Reading BELFAST, Maine (AP) — A 25-foot inflatable duck named Joy has disappeared after bringing days of delight to a seaside Maine community. Belfast Harbor Master Katherine Given says the rubber ducky was removed Saturday because of weather concerns brought by Tropical Storm Henri. She says people were upset to see the duck leave the harbor.
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By Taylor Romine, CNN Outgoing New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo commuted the sentence of the San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin’s father on Monday evening as part of six people granted clemency, according to a release from his office. David Gilbert, 76, was convicted of three counts of second-degree murder and four counts of first-degree
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ST. LOUIS, Mo. (AP) — St. Louis County police are investigating the death of a 53-year-old woman who was hit by a car. Police say Norma Monsivais, of St. Louis, died at the scene after she was hit on Monday night on a city street. The driver of the car that hit her remained on
Continue Reading By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — The coronavirus is disrupting more classrooms in Florida, while lawyers for Gov. Ron DeSantis argue against school mask mandates in a Tallahassee courtroom. Three more school districts announced hearings Tuesday to discuss stricter mask policies. Orange, Pinellas and Monroe counties may join eight other districts
Continue Reading COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A noncommissioned Army officer depicted in a viral video accosting and shoving a man in a South Carolina neighborhood has been convicted of third-degree assault. A judge found Fort Jackson Army Sgt. Jonathan Pentland guilty of the misdemeanor Monday after a two-day trial. He will have to choose between 30 days
Continue Reading By DON BABWIN and GARANCE BURKE Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago’s watchdog agency has concluded in a scathing report that the gunshot detection system the police department uses rarely produces evidence of gun-related crime in the city. The Office of Inspector General’s Public Safety section says its analysis of the ShotSpotter system that has
Continue ReadingCNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the life of Apple Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook. Personal Birth date: November 1, 1960 Birth place: Robertsdale, Alabama Birth name: Timothy Donald Cook Father: Donald Cook, shipyard worker Mother: Geraldine Cook Education: Auburn University, B.S., 1982; Duke University, M.B.A., 1988 Other Facts Served on the Board of
Continue Reading ST. LOUIS (AP) — Anheuser-Busch has operated the popular Grant’s Farm attraction in St. Louis County for nearly seven decades, but five members of the Busch family will soon take over. The change in operation was announced Monday at Grant’s Farm, a tourist attraction popular for its wide array of animals. The property was once
Continue Reading INDIANOLA, Iowa (AP) — The Indianola School Board has tabled discussions about dumping the district’s Indian mascot to focus its attention on fighting the spread of coronavirus in school buildings. The board decided at a meeting Monday to postpone acting on any mascot changes until after the November election, in which at least three board
Continue Reading NEW YORK (AP) — Dorothy Parker’s headstone has been unveiled at a New York cemetery where the ashes of the author and humorist who died in 1967 are interred. The New York Post reports that a jazz band played at the ceremony Monday at Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx. It was supposed to take place
Continue Reading By PAOLO SANTALUCIA Associated Press ROME (AP) — To get their Afghan workers and their families into Kabul’s chaotic airport for evacuation, Western charities are inventing simple, one-off passwords. In one case, women wore red handkerchiefs around their wrists. In another, they scrawled a P on their palms. Thanks to the makeshift signals, 150 people
Continue Reading By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Authorities in northwestern Nigeria say two military personnel have been killed after gunmen raided a military school. A spokesman said one person was abducted from the Nigerian Defense Academy. The attack is the second in the Afaka area, where nearly 30 students were abducted in March
Continue Reading RACINE, Wis. (AP) — A Missouri man who died after rescuing two young relatives from the choppy waters of Lake Michigan is the fourth person to drown in the lake this summer in the southeastern Wisconsin city of Racine. Racine County sheriff’s officials on Monday identified the man who drowned Sunday as 40-year-old Thomas Walker,
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By Livia Borghese and Jack Guy, CNN A US veteran has traveled to Italy to be reunited with three siblings who he almost shot dead during World War II. On Monday Martin Adler, 97, returned to the European country and was able to hug the three Italian siblings that he nearly mistook for hiding German
Continue Reading By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A few weeks into the new school year, growing numbers of U.S. districts have halted in-person learning or switched to hybrid models because of rapidly mounting coronavirus infections. The setbacks in mostly small, rural districts that were among the first to go back are dampening hopes for
Continue Reading By SARAH BLAKE MORGAN Associated Press SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — A hospital in northwestern Louisiana thought the COVID-19 pandemic was letting up. Then came the ongoing surge caused by the delta variant. Nurses at Willis-Knighton Medical Center in Shreveport say they are overwhelmed and exhausted. Melinda Hunt gets up before dawn for her shift six
Continue Reading By FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zambia’s new president, longtime opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema, has been sworn into power on Tuesday, raising hopes in the southern African country that in recent years has swung from prosperity and stability to massive debt, recession and repression. Hichilema told a cheering crowd that he would
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