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By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Court records show convicted murderer and former attorney Alex Murdaugh has agreed to plead guilty in federal court to stealing millions of dollars from clients. If Murdaugh doesn’t change his mind before standing in front of a judge at a Sept. 21 hearing in Charleston, it
Continue ReadingLianne Kolirin and Beatriz Grimalt, CNN (CNN) — Claude Ruiz-Picasso, the younger son of Pablo Picasso, has died in Switzerland at age 76. His death on Thursday was confirmed by Jean-Jacques Neuer, his lawyer for the past 25 years. In a statement emailed to CNN, Neuer said: “Claude Ruiz-Picasso, son of Pablo Picasso, has died.
Continue ReadingBy Amanda Rose Click here for updates on this story ATLANTA, Georgia (WANF) — Jane Gunn describes the loss of her two-and-a-half-year-old Goldendoodle Minerva as incomprehensible. “Minerva was my child. I mean, she was part of my family. And it just shouldn’t be okay that somebody could come out and hurt her like that,” said
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — Germany’s top security official says she hopes prosecutors will find sufficient evidence to indict whomever carried out an ttack on the Nord Stream gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea last year. The pipelines were built to carry Russian natural gas to Germany. Explosions damaged them on Sept. 26, 2022. The apparent sabotage
Continue ReadingYANKTON, S.D. (AP) — Police say an infant has died after being left in a car on a scorching day in South Dakota. Police say the baby was found inside a vehicle outside a church in Yankton, South Dakota, on Wednesday afternoon as temperatures reached 100 degrees and the heat index broke 110 degrees. Police
Continue ReadingSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The government of the Bahamas has unveiled several bills aimed at legalizing marijuana for medical and religious purposes and decriminalizing possession of small amounts. Officials say licenses for cultivation, retail, transport and religious use would only be granted to companies that are entirely Bahamian owned. Licenses for research, testing
Continue ReadingLAKE TOWNSHIP, Ohio (AP) — Police performing a welfare check at an Ohio home found five people dead inside the residence, including three children. The bodies were found around 7:30 p.m. Thursday in Lake Township, according to police. The names of the victims have not been released, pending notification of relatives. Authorities say the deaths
Continue ReadingSYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — A judge has sentenced a New York man to serve three months in prison for making threatening phone calls to Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia. Joseph Morelli was sentenced Thursday in a Syracuse federal court after pleading guilty in February to threatening Greene in several calls to her Washington,
Continue ReadingBy STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are holding on to gains after Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said more rate hikes could be on the way to continue the Fed’s fight against inflation. The S&P 500 was up 0.4% Friday morning, coming off its worst loss in three weeks. The
Continue ReadingBy CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — The mutinous soldiers who ousted Niger’s president have given approval for military support from its neighbors Mali and Burkina Faso against any attack just as the regional bloc insisted Friday on the use of force to help reverse the coup. The approval would allow the two
Continue ReadingBy YOUCEF BOUNAB Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Paris booksellers who work on the banks of the River Seine for decades are refusing to leave during the Paris Olympics next year. The opening ceremony will be held on the Seine, taking place outside of a sports venue for the first time in the Games’ history.
Continue ReadingBy GARY GERARD HAMILTON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Jason Mraz is freer than ever, and that liberation has allowed his curiosity to get the best of him — in the most optimistic ways. Musically, the two-time Grammy winner released his latest album, “Mystical Magical Rhythmical Radical Ride,” in June, a pop record that’s
Continue ReadingBy GARY GERARD HAMILTON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Jason Mraz is freer than ever, and that liberation has allowed his curiosity to get the best of him — in the most optimistic ways. Musically, the two-time Grammy winner released his latest album, “Mystical Magical Rhythmical Radical Ride,” in June, a pop record that’s
Continue ReadingBy Marissa Sulek Click here for updates on this story NASHVILLE, Tennessee (WSMV) — An East Nashville woman said she ordered a bridal dress online, but it was never delivered. She found out the post office near her threw it out. “I told them I was going to go to the news, and they said,
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Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Se han tomado millones y millones de fotografías de presidentes de Estados Unidos. Pero ninguno como esta. La fotografía policial de Donald Trump se convirtió instantáneamente en una de las imágenes más icónicas de cualquiera que haya servido como comandante en jefe de Estados Unidos. El recluso número P01135809 mira
Continue ReadingBy THALIA BEATY Associated Press Open Society Foundations plan to significantly curtail their work in Europe and lay off much of their staff there. That’s according to an internal email and several current employees, who say the decision is painful and perplexing. The planned European cuts would represent a historic break with the roots of
Continue ReadingBy TAMMY WEBBER Associated Press POTTER, Neb. (AP) — When Reed Cammack hears the first meadowlark of spring, he knows his family has made it through another cold, snowy winter on the South Dakota prairie. Nothing’s better, he says, than hearing the birds light up the area with song at sunrise. “It’s part of the
Continue ReadingTHE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte says the foreign minister of the Netherlands is “the right man” to to fill a European Commission vacancy after Frans Timmermans quit this week to lead a center-left bloc into the country’s November general election. Rutte’s ruling coalition proposed Foreign Minister Wopke Hoekstra as the
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer JACKSON HOLE, Wyoming (AP) — The continued strength of the U.S. economy could require further interest rate increases, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said Friday in a closely watched speech that also highlighted the uncertain nature of the economic outlook. Powell noted that the economy has been growing faster
Continue ReadingBy COREY WILLIAMS and MIKE HOUSEHOLDER Associated Press CANTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — Severe storms powered by winds of up to 75 mph (121 kph) in Michigan downed trees, tore roofs off buildings and killed five people while leaving hundreds of thousands of customers without power, officials said. The National Weather Service said Friday some
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