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By HOLLY RAMER Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A New Hampshire man has been convicted of killing his young daughter then hiding her body for months before disposing of it. Adam Montgomery was convicted of second-degree murder and other charges Thursday. He was accused of beating 5-year-old Harmony Montgomery to death in December 2019.
Continue ReadingBy EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi’s Republican attorney general is suing the Republican state auditor over who has the power to recover interest on misspent welfare money from retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre. Attorney General Lynn Fitch says in the lawsuit Thursday that Auditor Shad White is encroaching on responsibilities
Continue ReadingBy Daniel Dale, CNN Washington (CNN) — Now that a former FBI informant’s claim about President Joe Biden having supposedly received a bribe from a Ukrainian businessman has been debunked, with ex-informant Alexander Smirnov facing federal charges for lying to the FBI, House Republicans are playing down the importance of the bribery tale to their effort
Continue ReadingBy JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A civil rights group says a South Carolina prison policy banning inmates from speaking to reporters in person or having their writings directly published violates their First Amendment free speech rights. The American Civil Liberties Union sued in federal court Thursday. The ACLU says while prisons
Continue ReadingCOLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A former Ohio sheriff’s deputy charged in the killing of a Black man will face a retrial. The decision announced Thursday by prosecutors comes just days after a jury couldn’t agree on a verdict in Jason Meade’s first trial and the judge declared a mistrial, ending tumultuous proceedings that saw four
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By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A former Colorado police officer is appealing his conviction by a jury for his role in the death of Eljiah McClain, a 23-year-old Black man who died after being stopped by police in a Denver suburb in 2019. Lawyers for Randy Roedema filed a notice of appeal
Continue ReadingBy DENISE LAVOIE and MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Four foreign nationals were arrested and charged Thursday with transporting suspected Iranian-made weapons on a vessel intercepted by U.S. naval forces in the Arabian Sea last month. Two Navy SEALs died during the mission. The criminal complaint unsealed Thursday in U.S. District Court
Continue ReadingMADISON, Wis. (AP) — Out-of-state hunters and anglers would face higher license fees under a bill the Wisconsin Assembly approved Thursday. The measure would raise a variety of hunting, fishing and trapping license fees for out-of-state residents to help shrink a deficit in the state’s fish and wildlife account. The Assembly passed the legislation 97-0,
Continue ReadingCNN By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — Alexander Smirnov, the former FBI informant indicted for lying about President Joe Biden’s family and their alleged dealings in Ukraine, has been re-arrested in Nevada. Though prosecutors fought to keep him behind bars, Smirnov was released by Magistrate Judge Daniel Albregts in Nevada on Tuesday with several conditions, including GPS
Continue ReadingBy JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The Eagles’ manager once told their authorized biographer that his book wasn’t getting published because of friction from “a pampered rock star,” according to a recording played in court Thursday. “It’s gonna come out when God Henley says it can,” Irving Azoff said in the same
Continue ReadingBy JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The Eagles’ manager once told their authorized biographer that his book wasn’t getting published because of friction from “a pampered rock star,” according to a recording played in court Thursday. “It’s gonna come out when God Henley says it can,” Irving Azoff said in the same
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By BRENDAN FARRINGTON Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A bill that would be one of the nation’s most restrictive bans on minors’ use of social media is heading to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. Lawmakers passed the bill Thursday to keep children under the age of 16 off popular platforms regardless of parent approval. The
Continue ReadingBy TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer MIAMI (AP) — Delon Wright has been on the Miami Heat practice court countless times. He used to play there for hours alongside the likes of Tim Hardaway Jr., Gary Payton II and Trey Mourning while their fathers were downstairs in actual Heat games. He was back on the
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Sol Amaya (CNN) — El perro Bobi, que murió el año pasado supuestamente a la edad de 31 años, fue despojado del título de perro más viejo del mundo luego de una revisión por parte de Guinness World Records (GWR), anunció la organización este jueves. Bobi, un Rafeiro do Alentejo, era conocido como el perro
Continue ReadingBy LINDSAY WHITEHURST, RIO YAMAT and KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A former FBI informant who claims to have links to Russian intelligence and is charged with lying about a multimillion-dollar bribery scheme involving President Joe Biden’s family was again taken into custody Thursday in Las Vegas, two days after a judge
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By Anna Chernova, Sebastian Shukla, Christian Edwards and AnneClaire Stapleton, CNN (CNN) — The mother of Russian opposition politician Alexey Navalny, who died in an Arctic penal colony last week, said Thursday she had seen her son’s body and was being pressured to hold a secret funeral. Lyudmila Navalnaya said she had seen her son’s
Continue Reading Rocío Muñoz-Ledo Río de Janeiro (CNN) — El secretario de Estado de EE.UU., Antony Blinken, anunció este jueves que Estados Unidos planea aportar US$ 200 millones a la misión de apoyo multinacional para la seguridad en Haití. Blinken dijo que esa financiación se destinará a apoyar a la Policía Nacional de Haití “con planificación, con
Continue ReadingBy Diksha Madhok, CNN New Delhi (CNN) — Toyota is recalling about 280,000 pickups and SUVs in the United States because the engine may not disengage entirely when in neutral. “Certain parts of the transmission may not immediately disengage when the vehicle is shifted to the neutral position,” the Japanese manufacturer said in a statement
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By MARCIA DUNNAP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A private lander on Thursday made the first U.S. touchdown on the moon in more than 50 years, but managed just a weak signal back until flight controllers scrambled to gain better contact. Despite the spotty communication, Intuitive Machines, the company that built and managed the craft,
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