Month: September 2022

By ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — A man shot and killed a Toronto police officer while he was was on lunch break, shot another person and then fled and shot three more people elsewhere, including one other fatally, before being tracked down and shot dead by police a cemetery in a different city.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The man who shot and killed John Lennon outside his Manhattan apartment building in 1980 has been denied parole for a 12th time. The state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision said Monday that Mark David Chapman appeared before a parole board at the end of August. Chapman shot and killed

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer Ten years ago scientists warned the world about how climate change would amplify extreme weather disasters. What they predicted in 2012 has come true the last few summers. There are deadly floods, oppressive heat waves, killer storms, devastating droughts and what scientists call unprecedented extremes. Looking back at a

By LEANNE ITALIE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Hannah Waddingham wore Dolce & Gabbana with bedazzled high top sneakers on her feet Monday while Elle Fanning went Old Hollywood in a gown designed by Sharon Long of her show, “The Great,” as glamour returned to the Emmys in sticky Los Angeles humidity. Waddingham, from

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles County resident with a compromised immune system has died from monkeypox, local health officials announced Monday. It’s believed to be the first U.S. fatality from the disease. The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health announced the cause of death, and a spokesperson said it was confirmed by

By LYNN ELBER AP Television Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sheryl Lee Ralph stopped the Emmy Awards show Monday by accepting the best supporting actress comedy award for “Abbott Elementary” with a brief but rousing song of affirmation. “I am an endangered species, but I sing no victim song. I am a woman, I am

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department said Monday that it was willing to accept one of Donald Trump’s picks for an independent arbiter to review documents seized during an FBI search of the former president’s Florida home last month. The accommodation could help accelerate the selection process and shorten any

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A New Orleans judge has brought in a mediator to try to work out a settlement with hundreds of people who claim damage from a hotel construction collapse nearly three years ago. Plaintiffs say they were injured, a loved one killed, or their business damaged when upper stories of a planned

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Lawmakers in Australia’s Victoria state — named for a 19th century queen — will pledge their allegiance to King Charles III on Tuesday in a legal quirk showing how complicated severing Australia’s constitutional ties with Britain’s monarch might become. The center-left Labor government wants an Australian