Republican Mark Messmer won election to a U.S. House seat representing Indiana on Tuesday. The former Indiana state Senate majority leader defeated Democrat Erik Hurt, an Evansville movie theater manager. Messmer resigned from his state Senate post in September to focus on winning the seat vacated by retiring seven-term U.S. Rep. Larry Bucshon. Messmer campaigned
Continue ReadingRepublican Rep. Gus Bilirakis won reelection to a U.S. House seat representing Florida on Tuesday. The 12th District falls along the Gulf Coast, just north of Tampa Bay and covers part of the region struck by consecutive hurricanes last month. Bilirakis has served in the House since 2007. Prior to that, he was a member
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Democrat U.S. Rep. Jahana Hayes, of Connecticut, has won a fourth term, defeating former Republican state Sen. George Logan in a rematch. Republicans had hoped to flip the blue state’s 5th Congressional District and end the Democrats’ control of the delegation. Hayes defeated Logan on Tuesday. Logan portrayed himself as an independent thinker
Continue ReadingAssociated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A voter filed a lawsuit against a county in ruby-red West Virginia calling for a special election after just under 700 people cast erroneous ballots that omitted the name of a Democratic state senate candidate. Mingo County voter James Williamson and the American Civil Liberties Union of West Virginia
Continue ReadingGLENDALE, Calif. (AP) — A funeral was held for Tito Jackson at the same Southern California cemetery where his brother Michael Jackson and his father Joe Jackson are buried. Family and friends gathered Monday to mourn the singer and guitarist for the Jackson 5 and the Jacksons at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, about
Continue ReadingWAYNESBORO, Va. (AP) — A judge in a rural Virginia city has ordered two officials there to certify the results of the election. The pair filed a lawsuit last month threatening not to certify unless they could hand-count the ballots. The Monday order comes after five registered voters in Waynesboro filed their own lawsuit claiming
Continue ReadingAssociated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Republican Deb Fischer has won a third term representing Nebraska in the U.S. Senate. Fischer won her previous two elections by wide margins in the deeply conservative state. But she faced her toughest challenge yet in Dan Osborn, a working-class industrial mechanic and military veteran who appealed to voters
Continue ReadingAssociated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska voters have enshrined the state’s current ban on abortion after the first 12 weeks of pregnancy in the state’s constitution. Voters on Tuesday also rejected a competing ballot measure that would have established the right to have an abortion until the point that a fetus could viably survive
Continue ReadingAssociated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska 2nd House District contest proved again to be the state’s most competitive, pitting Republican incumbent Don Bacon against Democratic state Sen. Tony Vargas in a rematch from 2022. The race remained tight hours after polls closed. Two years ago, Bacon won with 51% of the vote. This time,
Continue ReadingSAN DIEGO (AP) — Former military defense contractor Leonard “Fat Leonard” Francis was sentenced Tuesday to 15 years in prison for masterminding a decade-long bribery scheme that swept up dozens of U.S. Navy officers, federal prosecutors said. U.S. District Judge Janis L. Sammartino also ordered Francis to pay $20 million in restitution to the Navy
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BOSTON (AP) — A jury has found an Alabama man not guilty of killing an 11-year New Hampshire girl more than 35 years ago. The case came down to whether the jury believed DNA found under Melissa Ann Tremblay’s fingernails was from Marvin “Skip” McClendon Jr.. After telling a judge they were deadlocked,
Continue ReadingAssociated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Republican Mike Kehoe has won the Missouri governor’s race by edging out Democrat Crystal Quade. Voters promoted the lieutenant governor in Tuesday’s election. He told supporters after his victory that he would get to work fighting crime as soon as he’s sworn in. He will succeed GOP Gov.
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Voters for Kamala Harris and Donald Trump who cast their ballots for Tuesday’s presidential election had vastly different motivations — reflecting a broader national divide on the problems the United States faces. AP VoteCast, an extensive survey of more than 110,000 voters nationwide, found that the fate of democracy appeared
Continue ReadingAssociated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A U.S.-led statement approved by 10 of the 15 U.N. Security Council members condemned a recent North Korean intercontinental ballistic missile launch. It also called on Pyongyang to return to negotiations and abandon its missile programs. The statement Tuesday follows a series of recent North Korean missile launches including
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — California was bracing Tuesday for another round of powerful winds that will cause humidity levels to drop and raise the risk of wildfires in much of the state. For the second time in three weeks, a “diablo wind” — notorious in autumn for its hot, dry gusts — was expected to
Continue ReadingAP Music Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Minneapolis musician Tyka Nelson, Prince’s only full sibling, died Monday. She was 64. Her son President Nelson says she died at a hospital in Robbinsdale, Minnesota. A cause of death was not immediately available. Nelson, a singer-songwriter, released four albums across her career, starting with 1988’s “Royal Blue.”
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — The Mexican Navy says it has seized 3.6 tons of cocaine aboard a boat off the Pacific coast. The Navy said Tuesday the boat was spotted about 153 miles (246 kilometers) off the resort of Acapulco. Navy ships arrived to intercept the boat, which was carrying 102 packages filled with bricks
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Hundreds of news organizations, readers, listeners and viewers will look to the The Associated Press Decision Desk on Nov. 5 to learn dozens of election results. Some have already been looking to the AP to learn where voters stand on certain issues and candidates. The AP has been calling elections
Continue ReadingNOVI SAD, Serbia (AP) — Protesters have thrown flares and red paint at the City Hall building in the Serbian city of Novi Sad in rage over last week’s collapse of a concrete canopy at the railway station that killed 14 people. Police have responded by firing tear gas canisters. The protesters surrounded the building
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies has launched an international emergency appeal asking donors to provide resources for Lebanon during the Israel-Hezbollah war. IFRC also called on all parties Tuesday to protect paramedics in the conflict that has left thousands of people dead and wounded, many
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