Month: April 2023

GOLDSBORO, N.C. (AP) — Police in North Carolina say a 14-year-old girl was killed and five other people were wounded in a shooting during a gathering at a home. WRAL reports that the shooting happened around 6:30 p.m. in Goldsboro. The Goldsboro Police Department says the five who were wounded were stable and being treated

By JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press/Report for America DENVER (AP) — Cindy Powers was driven into bankruptcy by 19 life-saving abdominal operations. Medical debt started stacking up for Lindsey Vance after she crashed her skateboard and had to get nine stitches in her chin. And for Misty Castaneda, open heart surgery for a disease she’d had

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A 1-year-old Australian shepherd took an epic trek across 150 miles (241 kilometers) of frozen Bering Sea ice that included being bitten by a seal or polar bear before he was safely returned to his home in Alaska. Mandy Iworrigan, Nanuq’s owner who lives in Gambell, Alaska, and her family were

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States is warning Mali’s military government that it would be “irresponsible” for the United Nations to continue deploying its more than 15,000 peacekeepers unless it ends restrictions including on operating reconnaissance drones. The U.S. also is calling for the western African nation to

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Inter American Human Rights Court has ruled that Mexico violated the rights of two men who were held in pre-trial detention for 17 years before being convicted of homicide. The court is a branch of the Organization of American States. The court announced Wednesday that such extended detention violated the

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD AP Political Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, who has faced calls to resign from fellow Democrats, asked Wednesday to be temporarily replaced on the Judiciary Committee while she recovers from illness that has kept her away from Washington for weeks. Feinstein, the oldest member of

By The Associated Press FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) — Police say four people have been wounded in a shooting at a park during a memorial in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Police tell The Journal Gazette that the shooting occurred around 6:45 p.m. during a balloon release at McCormick Park. One woman and three men were taken