Associated Press DENVER (AP) — State regulators have ordered a former Colorado gold mine where a tour guide was killed and a group of tourists was trapped for hours after an elevator accident to remain closed while its operations are reviewed. The move was announced Thursday. A spokesperson for the state’s mining division said it
Continue ReadingAssociated Press/Report for America TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Residents of Florida’s Gulf Coast who weathered back-to-back hurricanes now have something else to keep an eye on: A possible plume of harmful algae in the waters off of the state’s southwest coast. Red tides occur when algae grow out of control and produce harmful toxins that
Continue ReadingSALEM, Ore. (AP) — The Oregon Secretary of State Elections Division shut down its phone lines following a barrage of calls from people responding to false claims that the state’s voters pamphlet does not include Republican nominee Donald Trump. The voter’s pamphlet does list Trump as a candidate and notes that he declined to provide
Continue ReadingAP Music Writer One Direction member Liam Payne was found dead this week after falling from a hotel balcony in Buenos Aires, Argentina, at just 31. In life, Payne was critical part of One Direction, a boy band unlike any other. Experts told The Associated Press that he was the grounding force of the group,
Continue ReadingAP Sports Writer CLEVELAND (AP) — The Browns are moving out of their lakefront home. The team officially announced plans to leave their 25-year-old stadium on the shores of Lake Erie when the lease expires in 2028 and move to a domed facility in suburban Brook Park despite the city’s efforts to keep it in
Continue ReadingAssociated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina man has been sentenced to life in federal prison in the killing of a Black transgender woman after their secret sexual relationship was exposed. A judge sentenced Daqua Lameek Ritter in federal court in Columbia on Thursday. Ritter had been convicted in February of a hate
Continue ReadingAP Sports Writers Virginia basketball coach Tony Bennett is retiring effective immediately. The program said Thursday that Bennett will announce his retirement at a news conference Friday. No reasons were given for Bennett’s abrupt departure less than three weeks before the start of the season. The 55-year-old Bennett led the Cavaliers to the national title
Continue ReadingAssociated Press MIAMI (AP) — The former judge who presided over the trial of the 2018 Parkland high school mass murderer has sharply criticized his public defenders during a presentation to Miami law students. Former Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer told the Florida International University law students Thursday that the public defenders who represented Nikolas Cruz
Continue ReadingAP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Teen smoking hit an all-time low in the U.S. this year. It’s part of a big drop in the youth use of tobacco that includes electronic cigarettes and hookahs. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday reported a 20% drop in the estimated number of middle
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — The Archdiocese of Los Angeles has agreed to pay $880 million to hundreds of victims of clergy sexual abuse dating back decades. The settlement with 1,353 people who allege that they were abused by local Catholic priests is the largest single child sex abuse settlement with a Catholic archdiocese, according to
Continue ReadingAssociated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel’s killing of Yahya Sinwar, Hamas’ top leader and the mastermind of the group’s Oct. 7 2023, attack, is a dramatic turning point in the brutal yearlong war that it touched off. Sinwar’s killing on Wednesday decapitates the Palestinian militant group that has already been reeling from months
Continue ReadingAssociated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A group of Oklahoma parents, teachers and ministers are suing to stop the state’s top education official from forcing schools to incorporate the Bible into their lesson plans. The lawsuit filed Thursday with the Oklahoma Supreme Court also asks the court to stop State Superintendent Ryan Walters from spending
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The Arkansas Supreme Court has upheld the wording of a ballot measure that would revoke the license issued for a planned casino. Justices on Thursday rejected the challenge to the proposed constitutional amendment that had claimed the measure was misleading. The court earlier this week rejected another part
Continue ReadingAP Science Writer How a sperm and an egg fuse together has long been a mystery. New research by scientists in Austria provides tantalizing clues, showing fertilization works like a lock and key across the animal kingdom, from fish to people. “We discovered this mechanism that’s really fundamental across all vertebrates as far as we
Continue ReadingAssociated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A new report says more than 1 billion people in the world live in acute poverty, over half are children and nearly 40% live in conflict-torn and fragile countries. The report released Thursday by the U.N. Development Program and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative says more than
Continue ReadingAssociated Press MILWAUKEE (AP) — Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris says the death of Hamas’ top leader, Yahya Sinwar, “gives us an opportunity to finally end the war in Gaza.” Harris made the comment Thursday at a Wisconsin college campus where she was campaigning. Harris said the war must end with Israel secure, the hostages
Continue ReadingAssociated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Divorce records for Arizona Democratic Senate candidate Ruben Gallego and his ex-wife, Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego, were made public Thursday after an Arizona court unsealed most of the seven-year-old case file. The records offer little insight into the high-profile marriage or the reasons it fell apart. There are no allegations
Continue ReadingAP Health Writer MILWAUKEE (AP) — U.S. health officials say whooping cough is at its highest level in a decade for this time of year. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday that so far this year there have been about 18,500 cases of whooping cough. That’s the most at this point in
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Dozens of farmers in Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin are scrambling to feed their flocks after a struggling organic broiler chicken producer abruptly closed a year after getting a $39 million federal loan. Pure Prairie Poultry shuttered its Charles City, Iowa, processing plant after filing for bankruptcy in September. The company had provided chicks
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Global finance leaders are facing a major uncertainty as they meet in Washington next week: Who will win the U.S. presidential election and shape the policies of the world’s biggest economy? Republican nominee former President Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Vice President Kamala Harris have spoken little about their plans
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