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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Authorities say stand-up comedian Fuquan Johnson was among three people who died of a suspected overdose at a Los Angeles party. Police say three people were declared dead at the scene in the Venice neighborhood Saturday and a fourth was taken to a hospital in critical condition. The LA County coroner’s

By DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A towering statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in Richmond, Virginia, is about to be taken down as a symbol of racial injustice. Wednesday’s planned removal comes more than 130 years after the monument was erected to honor the South’s top military commander in the

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press NEW CASTLE, Del. (AP) — President Joe Biden has marked Labor Day by delivering deli sandwiches to union members in his home state of Delaware. Biden says union members are the people who helped build the middle class. A casually dressed Biden brought sandwiches from a local chain restaurant to

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain says it is postponing the start of post-Brexit border checks on goods going to Northern Ireland, as it seeks breathing space in its tense standoff with the European Union over trade rules. Brexit Minister David Frost said Monday that the government would continue to trade “on

SCARBOROUGH, Maine (AP) — Greg Wilfert remembers his first visit to Scarborough Beach State Park as a teenager like it was yesterday. Decades later, he’s working his 50th consecutive season as a lifeguard at the same beach. Wilfert carved out his summers for lifeguarding over the years even as he worked as a physical education

By SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — French energy giant Total has signed mega contracts with Iraq worth $27 billion to develop oil fields, natural gas and a crucial water project. Officials say Monday they will be key for oil-rich Iraq to maintain crude output. The deals were inked Sunday with Prime Minister Mustafa

BANGKOK (AP) — A court in Myanmar extended for two weeks the pre-trial detention of Danny Fenster, an American journalist in the military-led Southeast Asian nation who was arrested in May. Fenster was detained at Yangon International Airport on May 24, as he was about to board a flight to go to the United States

By LISA RATHKE Associated Press MORRISTOWN, Vt. (AP) — Rural communities across the country are wrestling with the economic perks and environmental drawbacks of opening up their roads to ATVs. Interest in ATVs has only intensified as more people got outdoors during the pandemic. But their popularity has sometimes pitted riders against residents. People in

GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Authorities are investigating after a 6-year-old girl died at an amusement park in the western Colorado town of Glenwood Springs. A spokeswoman for the Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park says “an incident” occurred Sunday evening on the Haunted Mine Drop ride that caused the death. The Post Independent reports the park

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The October illegal campaign contribution trial of an associate of Rudy Giuliani and a guilty plea set to occur this week by a second associate puts a spotlight on him as a government probe of the former mayor continues. A judge last week refused to delay

By CHRISTINA PACIOLLA Associated Press The morning after one of the most intense tornadoes recorded in New Jersey history all but demolished the largest dairy farm in the state, owners Marianne and Wally Eachus looked at each other and just cried. An EF3 tornado ripped through Mullica Hill, a suburb of Philadelphia, and nearly demolished

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A lawyer from a prominent South Carolina legal family who found his wife and son shot to death at their home three months ago and was injured when a bullet grazed his head as he changed a tire over the weekend says he is going to