By Sara Smart, CNN (CNN) — Nearly 40 years ago, human remains were found on a beach in St. Johns County, Florida. This week, authorities identified those remains as a woman who was last seen by her family in 1968. Mary Alice Pultz was 25 at the time. She had been raised in Rockville, Maryland,
Continue ReadingBy KYLE HIGHTOWER AP Sports Writer For much of the past two years, Caitlin Clark has been the centerpiece of the college basketball world. Now Clark, like NBA Hall of Famer Larry Bird was 45 years ago, is involuntarily the focus of discussions about race and her transition to professional basketball. Though Clark hasn’t said
Continue ReadingBy KASPARMAN PILIANG Associated Press PADANG, Indonesia (AP) — Heavy rains and torrents of cold lava and mud flowing down a volcano’s slopes on Indonesia’s Sumatra island have triggered flash floods. Official said Sunday that at least 37 people were dead and more than a dozen others were missing. Monsoon rains and a major mudslide
Continue ReadingMONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Republican Gov. Phil Scott is running for reelection to a fifth two-year term in the largely blue state of Vermont. Scott announced his reelection bid on Saturday, saying there’s more work to do. He said during his four terms he and his team have worked to grow the economy, make Vermont
Continue ReadingBy EDGAR M. CLEMENTE Associated Press TAPACHULA, Mexico (AP) — A strong earthquake shook the border of Mexico and Guatemala early Sunday, driving frightened residents into the streets. The temblor struck just before 6 a.m. near the Mexican border town of Suchiate, where a river by the same name divides the two countries. The epicenter
Continue ReadingBy KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Swiss Eurovision fans were getting ready Sunday to give a hero’s welcome to singer Nemo, who won the 68th Eurovision Song Contest with “The Code,” an operatic pop-rap ode to the singer’s journey toward embracing a nongender identity. The singer, who is Swiss but currently lives in
Continue ReadingATLANTA (AP) — Authorities in Atlanta say three police officers were hospitalized with gunshot wounds after an altercation that left a man dead. Atlanta Police Chief Darin Schierbaum says officers responded at 5:15 p.m. Saturday to a report of an armed person and encountered a man with a handgun and a knife on Desoto Avenue.
Continue ReadingBy SAMYA KULLAB and VASILISA STEPANENKO Associated Press VILCHA, Ukraine (AP) — Thousands more civilians have fled Russia’s renewed ground offensive in Ukraine’s northeast that has targeted towns and villages with a barrage of artillery and mortar fire, officials said Sunday. The intense battles have forced at least one Ukrainian unit to withdraw in the
Continue ReadingBy ALEXANDRA OLSON and CLAIRE SAVAGE AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — More working U.S. parents than ever are celebrating their first Mother’s Day with hard-fought access to paid time off to care for newborns. But the majority still must forego pay to care for new babies or other loved ones, even as efforts
Continue ReadingBy Greg Hughes, Dana Bash and Courtney Pence, CNN (CNN) — Standing in front of a ruined warehouse in tornado-ravaged Marietta, Oklahoma, FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell was full of questions. “Have you gotten any sleep yet?” she asked the mayor. To the sheriff: “Your home is okay? Your family?” “Do you have any questions for
Continue ReadingTAPACHULA, Mexico (AP) — A strong earthquake has shaken the border of Mexico and Guatemala driving frightened residents into the streets. The temblor struck just before 6 a.m. Sunday near the Mexican border town of Suchiate, where a river by the same name divides the two countries. There were no immediate reports of damage, but
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press An apartment block partially collapsed in the Russian border city of Belgorod on Sunday, leaving at least 19 injured. Officials blamed Ukrainian shelling and said there were also likely deaths. Online footage showed rescuers searching for survivors among the remnants of the building’s stairwell, then fleeing the scene as part of
Continue ReadingThe Associated Press EUCLID, Ohio (AP) — A police officer was shot and killed in Ohio after being called to a residential area for a disturbance. Citing a statement from the Euclid Police Department, multiple news outlets said that the officer was shot Saturday night after being ambushed by a suspect. The officer was taken
Continue ReadingBy SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Thousands more civilians have fled Russia’s renewed ground offensive in Ukraine’s northeast that has targeted towns and villages with a barrage of artillery and mortar fire, officials said Sunday. The intense battles have forced at least one Ukrainian unit to withdraw in the Kharkiv region, capitulating
Continue ReadingBy JENNIFER PELTZ and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — He once said he would take a bullet for Donald Trump. Now Michael Cohen is prosecutors’ biggest piece of legal ammunition in the former president’s hush money trial. But if Trump’s fixer-turned-foe is poised to offer jurors this week an insider’s view of
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press An apartment block has partially collapsed in the Russian border city of Belgorod. Officials on Sunday blamed Ukrainian shelling and said there were deaths. Online footage showed rescuers searching for survivors among the remnants of the building’s stairwell, then fleeing the scene as part of the roof crashed to the ground.
Continue ReadingVANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — A fourth Indian national living in Canada has been charged in the slaying of a Sikh separatist leader last June that became the center of a diplomatic spat with India. British Columbia’s Integrated Homicide Investigation Team say that 22-year-old Amandeep Singh was already in the custody of Peel Regional Police
Continue ReadingBy Edward-Isaac Dovere and Manu Raju, CNN (CNN) — The war in Gaza is reverberating all the way through north Bronx and Westchester County, defining the most competitive primary an incumbent House Democrat is facing anywhere in the country. That’s where Rep. Jamaal Bowman of New York, who got to Washington four years ago by
Continue ReadingBy TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Two Air Force fighter jets recently squared off in a dogfight in California. One was flown by a pilot. The other wasn’t. That second jet was piloted by artificial intelligence, with the Air Force’s highest-ranking civilian riding along in the front seat. It was the ultimate display
Continue ReadingBy TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Two Air Force fighter jets recently squared off in a dogfight in California. One was flown by a pilot. The other wasn’t. That second jet was piloted by artificial intelligence, with the Air Force’s highest-ranking civilian riding along in the front seat. It was the ultimate display
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