Month: April 2023

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Stellantis says it’s offering buyouts to groups of white-collar and unionized employees in the U.S., as well as hourly workers in Canada. The company says it needs to cut costs to remain competitive as the auto industry shifts from internal combustion vehicles to those powered by

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press MISSOULA, Montana (AP) — In the college town of Missoula, pride flags are as common a sight as the peaks of Montana’s Rattlesnake Mountains. Even a downtown crosswalk is rainbow-colored. Often described as a blue island in a vast red state, Missoula sent the first openly transgender legislator in state

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A small town near Albuquerque in New Mexico has adopted an ordinance that prohibits distribution of abortion medication or supplies by mail. The ordinance won approval Wednesday by a 4-1 vote of the town commission in Edgewood. It extends a wave of local government restrictions

By ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Federal authorities in Michigan have filed charges against 11 people in a scheme to defeat air-pollution rules by tampering with software and hardware in heavy-duty diesel engines. Records show nine of the 11 have agreed to plead guilty, along with three companies. Diesel Freak LLC, based in

By JOHN RABY Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia Republican Gov. Jim Justice is set to reveal his 2024 election plans, ending months of speculation about whether he’ll seek the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Democrat Joe Manchin. Justice is scheduled to make an announcement Thursday evening. The event at a posh

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court seemed likely Wednesday to give a 94-year-old Minneapolis woman another day in court to try to recoup some money after the county kept the entire $40,000 when it sold her condominium over a small unpaid tax bill. The justices seemed in broad agreement with

By LEA SKENE Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — Attorneys for Adnan Syed filed a motion Wednesday asking a Maryland appellate court to reconsider its recent decision to reinstate his decadesold murder conviction and life sentence, a ruling that upheld arguments from the victim’s family claiming a lower court violated their rights. Syed, whose protracted legal

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Disney sued Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday over the Republican’s takeover of its theme park district, alleging the governor waged a “targeted campaign of government retaliation” after the company opposed a law critics call “Don’t Say Gay.” The lawsuit was filed in Tallahassee minutes after

By MARK PRATT Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A former Harvard University professor convicted of lying to federal investigators about his ties to a Chinese-run science recruitment program and failing to pay taxes on payments from a Chinese university was sentenced Wednesday to supervised release and ordered to pay more than $83,000 in restitution and

By KRISTIN M. HALL AP Entertainment Writer NASHVILLE, Tennessee (AP) — Country music star Miranda Lambert is dishing on the recipes from her family and friends in East Texas. Her new cookbook is called “Y’All Eat Yet?” and is equal parts Lambert’s family memoir, a guide to Texas-style entertaining and church potluck cookbook. Lambert says