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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Funeral services will be held Saturday for one of four Black women who helped integrate New Orleans public schools when they were girls in 1960. Tessie Prevost Williams, known as one of the “New Orleans Four,” died July 6 following a series of medical complications. She was 69. On Nov. 14,

NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (AP) — CSX says one of its locomotives derailed and struck a residential garage in Niagara Falls. The railways says no one was injured in the incident Monday morning. In a statement, CSX said the impact caused a loss of diesel fuel, which was contained and did not impact any waterways.  Photos

RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) — At least a half-dozen homes lay in ruins Monday after one of many dangerous wildfires in the West suddenly swept into a Southern California neighborhood during a blistering heat wave. Six homes were ravaged and seven damaged when the fire sparked by fireworks erupted Sunday afternoon in a hilly area of

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s a daunting to-do list. Vice President Kamala Harris suddenly needs to whip up a presidential campaign nearly from scratch. It’s a process that usually takes months, even years. She does inherit parts of Joe Biden’s campaign. But she has only about two months before early voting starts. And, of

AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Abdul “Duke” Fakir, the last surviving original member of the beloved Motown group the Four Tops that was known for such hits as “Reach Out, I’ll Be There” and “Standing in the Shadows of Love,” has died at age 88. Fakir died Monday of heart failure at his

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The largest trial court in the country was closed Monday after a ransomware attack shut down its computer system late last week, officials with the Superior Court of Los Angeles County said. The court disabled its computer network upon discovery of the cybersecurity attack early Friday, and the system remained down

Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Cleveland-Cliffs says it will produce electrical transformers at a West Virginia facility that closed earlier this year. Cleveland-Cliffs plans to reopen the Weirton facility in early 2026. The company says as many as 600 union workers who were laid off will have the chance to work at the new

AP Sports Writer BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — Charlie Woods shot a 12-over 82 on Monday in the U.S. Junior Amateur at Oakland Hills. The 15-year-old son of Tiger Woods birdied both of the par 5s on the Oakland Hills North Course and struggled on the par 3s and 4s, carding five double bogeys and

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. House leaders are calling on CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz to testify to Congress about the cybersecurity company’s role in sparking the widespread tech outage that grounded flights, knocked banks and hospital systems offline and affected services around the world. CrowdStrike said this week a “significant number” of the millions of computers

Associated Press RABAT, Morocco (AP) — Mohamed Ziane, a Moroccan former government minister, has been sentenced to five years in prison in a corruption case that his attorney described as retribution for outspokenness and work defending political prisoners. Ziane, who is 81 and served as Morocco’s human rights minister from 1996 to 1997, was long

AP Sports Writer CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Commissioner Jim Phillips firmly believes in the future of the Atlantic Coast Conference amid the uncertainty of realignment and the wholesale changes to the model of college athletics itself. He was ready to tell everyone why, too, as the league opened its preseason football media days Monday. Trading

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Even before President Joe Biden’s long-speculated withdrawal from the 2024 presidential race, allies of former President Donald Trump floated the possibility of suing to block Democrats from having anyone other than Biden on the ballot in November. But election administration and legal experts said the timing of Biden’s exit on

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s withdrawal from his reelection bid and his endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris to take on Republican Donald Trump in November has scrambled what had once been a settled and suspense-free Democratic presidential nomination contest. Biden had secured enough delegates by March 12 from his primary and

BANGKOK (AP) — Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, the head of Myanmar’s military-government, has also taken the position of acting president to replace the holder of that post, who was unable to perform his duties due to health problems. State media’s announcement of the declaration naming Min Aung Hlaing to replace Myint Swe came four

Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The U.K.’s new home secretary says a scrapped plan by former British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to send some migrants on a one-way trip to Rwanda was the “most shocking waste of taxpayer money I have ever seen.” Yvette Cooper says the plan had cost 700 million pounds ($904 million)