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By AARON BEARD AP Basketball Writer The Atlantic Coast Conference will hold five straight men’s basketball tournaments in North Carolina starting in 2025, while the women’s tournament that has had a longtime home in Greensboro as the city of the league’s founding will split time between there and Charlotte. The ACC announced future sites for
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A former Olympian and longtime track coach pleaded guilty Thursday to charges of sexually molesting young boys while working at a sports camp in western Massachusetts in the 1970s. Conrad Mainwaring, who was a hurdler for Antigua and Barbuda in the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, faced
Continue ReadingBy DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Upon receiving his first treatment for cancer, Britain’s King Charles III retreated to Sandringham House, a private estate where the monarch has long taken refuge while walking and shooting along the windswept North Sea coast of eastern England. Sandringham, the private home of the last six British
Continue ReadingBy SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Republican member of the Wisconsin Elections Commission who has faced calls to resign after falsely declaring that former President Donald Trump won the state claimed Thursday that “no white Republican that has done more for the Black community than me.” Bob Spindell made the remark
Continue ReadingBy ERIC TUCKER, LINDSAY WHITEHURST, ZEKE MILLER and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden “willfully” retained and disclosed highly classified materials when he was a private citizen, including documents about military and foreign policy in Afghanistan and other sensitive national security matters, according to a Justice Department report that nonetheless says
Continue ReadingCAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (AP) — Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey has filed criminal charges accusing a county coroner of stealing cash from a dead person and misstating the causes of death for several people. Bailey also filed a motion that seeks to remove Cape Girardeau County Coroner Wavis Jordan from office. The criminal charges include
Continue ReadingBy MARK DIDTLER Associated Press LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) — Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred said he would be disappointed if the Oakland Athletics don’t open their proposed Las Vegas ballpark at the start of the 2028 season and expressed skepticism about big leaguers appearing in that year’s Olympics. The A’s announced an agreement on
Continue ReadingBy STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — An Asian American assistant chief was named interim chief of the Los Angeles Police Department on Wednesday, taking charge of a force that mostly has been led by white men. Assistant Chief Dominic H. Choi was unanimously appointed by the civilian Board of Police Commissioners. Choi,
Continue ReadingBy STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — An Asian American assistant chief was named interim chief of the Los Angeles Police Department on Wednesday, taking charge of a force that mostly has been led by white men. Assistant Chief Dominic H. Choi was unanimously appointed by the civilian Board of Police Commissioners. Choi,
Continue ReadingBy Haley Talbot, CNN House Energy and Commerce Chairwoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers, the first woman to hold that position, announced Thursday she is not seeking reelection, the latest establishment Republican to make public their plans to leave Congress. “After much prayer and reflection, I’ve decided the time has come to serve the people of Eastern
Continue ReadingBy JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Defense lawyers have unsuccessfully sought a mistrial in the case against two men charged with the murder of Jam Master Jay. They say prosecutors improperly guided a witness to testify Thursday that one defendant confessed to her decades ago that he killed the Run-DMC star and
Continue ReadingBy PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Police who testified before an independent commission investigating the response to a mass shooting in Maine acknowledged missed opportunities to end a manhunt for the shooter that locked down the community and terrified residents. Maine Gov. Janet Mills and state Attorney General Aaron Frey assembled the
Continue ReadingBy KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Tennessee House has unanimously advanced legislation requiring that schools determine the cause of a fire alarm being triggered before instructing children leave a classroom. The proposal passed Thursday is in response to a Nashville elementary school shooting last year. Smoke from the shooter’s weapon triggered
Continue ReadingCNN By John Fritze, Jeremy Herb and Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court signaled Thursday it is poised to back former President Donald Trump and fend off a blockbuster challenge to his eligibility to appear on Colorado’s ballot, potentially by a wide margin. During more than two hours of arguments, Chief Justice John
Continue ReadingCNN Opinion by Steve Vladeck (CNN) — Thursday’s oral arguments at the Supreme Court were ostensibly about the meaning of a long-dormant section of the US Constitution’s 14th Amendment, which disqualifies from future federal office those who’ve engaged in insurrection after swearing an oath to the Constitution. But the justices spent remarkably little time actually analyzing that
Continue ReadingCNN By John Fritze, Jeremy Herb and Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court signaled Thursday it is poised to back former President Donald Trump and fend off a blockbuster challenge to his eligibility to appear on Colorado’s ballot, potentially by a wide margin. During more than two hours of arguments, Chief Justice John
Continue ReadingBLAIR, Neb. (AP) — A man accused of fatally attacking a priest in a small Nebraska town has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder and other charges. Kierre Williams of Sioux City, Iowa, also is accused of using a deadly weapon to commit a felony, burglary and possession of a weapon by a prohibited person.
Continue ReadingBy ZEKE MILLER, COLLEEN LONG, ERIC TUCKER and LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will not seek any redactions in a report by the Justice Department special counsel investigating his handling of classified documents, the White House said Thursday, clearing the way for its release. White House Counsel’s office spokesman Ian
Continue ReadingBy NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The prevailing view among legal experts before the Supreme Court heard argument in a case to remove Donald Trump from the 2024 ballot was that the justices wouldn’t take that step. And after Thursday’s lengthy arguments, that sense has grown. The justices’ questions challenged the notion that
Continue ReadingBy Daniel Dale, CNN Washington (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump lied Thursday that Nancy Pelosi caused the insurrection at the Capitol on January 6, 2021, making a claim that has no basis in reality. He also repeated a previous false claim that the rioters had “no guns.” And he continued to omit critical context
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