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By JIM SALTER Associated Press The husband and wife owners of a Missouri boarding school for boys are jailed and facing felony charges after a lengthy investigation by a county sheriff. Wayne County Sheriff Dean Finch says in a news release that Larry Musgraves Jr. was arrested Friday evening on the ABM Ministries campus in
Continue ReadingBy BROOKE LEFFERTS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Children’s author Kate DiCamillo, known for “The Tale of Despereaux” and “Because of Winn-Dixie,” has a new book debuting this week called “Ferris.” It has all the hallmarks of an inventive, funny DiCamillo story, with well-drawn characters. But for the first time, its nucleus is a
Continue ReadingSTOCKTON, Calif. (AP) — Pacific fired basketball coach Leonard Perry after the team went winless in the West Coast Conference regular season. The school announced Monday that Perry would be reassigned to other duties at the school and associate coach Josh Newman will serve as interim head coach at the conference tournament. Perry had a
Continue ReadingBy Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — The Massachusetts Air National Guardsman accused of posting a trove of highly classified intelligence reports and other documents on social media pleaded guilty on Monday to willfully retaining and disseminating national defense information. Jack Teixeira, 22, pleaded guilty to all six counts he faced under the Espionage Act during a
Continue ReadingBy JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Through one of the most tumultuous periods in Oscar history, through flub and slap, Jimmy Kimmel has emerged as the steadying hand and abiding face of the Academy Awards. When Kimmel hosts the 96th Oscars on Sunday, he’ll be emceeing the telecast for the fourth
Continue ReadingRENO, Nev. (AP) — A U.S. Postal Service plan to downsize a regional mail hub in Reno and move package and letter processing to Sacramento, California, has members of Nevada’s congressional delegation and the state’s top election administrator worried about service delays and mail-in ballot handling. The elected officials point to a lack of transparency
Continue ReadingBy EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. envoy focusing on sexual violence in conflict said in a new report Monday that there are “reasonable grounds” to believe Hamas committed rape, “sexualized torture,” and other cruel and inhumane treatment of women during its surprise attack in southern Israel on Oct. 7.
Continue ReadingBy WAYNE PARRY Associated Press TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey voters may get the chance in November to weigh in on whether new power plans that burn fossil fuels should be banned. But if they do, any ban would come with a big loophole that would still permit emergency backup plants that burn fossil
Continue ReadingBy JAKE OFFENHARTZ and MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The former chief financial officer of Donald Trump’s company has pleaded guilty in New York to lying under oath during his testimony in the ex-president’s civil fraud case. Allen Weisselberg will not have to testify at Trump’s hush-money criminal trial as part
Continue ReadingBy Rohan Mattu Click here for updates on this story BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Ravens fans can expect plenty of new food and beverage options at M&T Bank Stadium soon as the team makes a “major expansion” to its food and beverage program, the team announced Monday. That expansion includes a change from its current concessionaire,
Continue ReadingBy ERIC OLSON AP Sports Writer TCU has gotten out to a program-best 12-0 start with big contributions from freshmen and transfers who have replaced major contributors from the team that made the College World Series. The Horned Frogs beat Southern California twice and Arizona State once over the weekend at Globe Life Field in
Continue ReadingBy Paul Burton Click here for updates on this story BOSTON (WBZ) — A mother plans to file a lawsuit after she said her special needs son was restrained to his chair by a teacher at a Boston school. Anacelia Cuevas broke down as she explained what happened to her 3-year-old son at the James
Continue ReadingBy DAVID BRANDT AP Baseball Writer SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — The more Matt Chapman looked around, the more the four-time Gold Glove third baseman realized he wanted to go back to the Bay Area. “It just seemed like it was destiny,” Chapman said. “I think we’ve got some unfinished business.” Chapman — a California native
Continue ReadingGLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — The Los Angeles Dodgers acquired infielder Andre Lipcius from the Detroit Tigers for cash on Monday. To make room on the 40-man roster, the Dodgers transferred pitcher Clayton Kershaw to the 60-day injured list. The three-time Cy Young Award winner has said he expects to return in July or August after
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Sofía Barruti (CNN) — Los daños a los cables submarinos en el mar Rojo están perturbando las redes de telecomunicaciones globales y obligando a los proveedores de Internet a desviar hasta una cuarta parte del tráfico entre Asia, Europa y Medio Oriente. Según la empresa de telecomunicaciones de Hong Kong HGC Global Communications, se han
Continue ReadingBy KIRSTEN GRIESHABER, VANESSA GERA and STEPHANIE LIECHTENSTEIN Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — On the day that Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was laid to rest in Moscow, Russian state media leaked an audio recording of German military officers discussing the hypothetical use of Taurus long-range missiles in Ukraine. The conversation on a sensitive subject
Continue ReadingBy JIMMY GOLEN AP Sports Writer Dartmouth basketball players remain on schedule to vote on whether to form the nation’s first-ever college athletes’ labor union after a National Labor Relations Board official rejected the school’s request to reopen the case. NLRB regional director Laura Sacks denied the school’s request, saying there was no new evidence
Continue ReadingBy JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — Swiss police say the 15-year-old suspect in the stabbing of an Orthodox Jewish man in Zurich over the weekend had appeared in a video expressing solidarity with the banned Islamic State group and called himself as a “soldier” in its self-described caliphate. Police say authorities are investigating
Continue ReadingBy MARK ANDERSON AP Sports Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — Tara VanDerveer managed to compartmentalize her emotions as she chased down and eclipsed Mike Krzyzewski’s all-time wins record earlier this season, determined to focus only on the moment ahead. And that’s how the Hall of Fame Stanford coach is approaching the final Pac-12 Conference women’s
Continue ReadingBy RUSS BYNUM Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — A federal agency is asserting legal rights to waters that feed the Okefenokee Swamp and its vast wildlife refuge, setting up a new battle with a mining company seeking permits to withdraw more than 1.4 million gallons per day. Twin Pines Minerals is in the final
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