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LONDONDERRY, N.H. (AP) — Authorities say a small plane crashed in a neighborhood near the Manchester-Boston Regional Airport in New Hampshire shortly after takeoff, and firefighters helped remove the trapped pilot, who was taken to a hospital. The Federal Aviation Administration says the pilot was the only person on board the Wiggins Airways plane. The

By AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press Utah is now the latest state to regulate bathroom access for transgender people. On Friday, its Republican-controlled Legislature passed a measure that requires them to use bathrooms and locker rooms in public schools and government-owned buildings that match their sex assigned at birth. Under the measure, trans people can

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ and LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Jurors began deliberations Friday in the defamation trial against former President Donald Trump, deciding whether he owes writer E. Jean Carroll more than the $5 million awarded by another jury that last year concluded he sexually abused her in 1996 and defamed her

By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street closed out its latest winning week with a mixed finish on Friday, as drops for technology stocks dragged on the market. The S&P 500 slipped 3.19 points, or 0.1%, to 4,890.97. It’s the first decline for the index after a six-day winning streak

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration said Friday it is delaying consideration of new natural gas export terminals in the United States, even as gas shipments to Europe and Asia have soared since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The decision by President Joe Biden, announced as the 2024 presidential election year

By ED WHITE Associated Press PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — Prosecutors are portraying the mother of a Michigan school shooter as an aloof parent more interested in horses than the mental health of her teenage son. They said Friday that Ethan Crumbley was apparently having hallucinations months before killing four students at Oxford High School in

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — A judge has given a green light to a controversial plan to reduce the width of Atlantic City’s main street from four lanes to two. Superior Court Judge Michael Blee rejected arguments Friday from five casinos and a hospital that the half-finished project to narrow

NORTH BELLMORE, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities have seized about a hundred animals from a Long Island home packed with exotic species — including a giant African snail, degus, a sulcata tortoise and a South American ostrich. The animals were discovered by state and local authorities Tuesday night in the basement and backyard shed of a

ATLANTA (AP) — In a story published Jan. 22, 2024, about a Georgia antisemitism bill, The Associated Press erroneously reported Rabbi Elizabeth Bahar’s last name. It’s Bahar, not Baher.

RIFLE, Colo. (AP) — Republican U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert’s ex-husband, Jayson Boebert, has been charged with assault and other counts in connection with two domestic altercations. Authorities say the charges filed Wednesday are in connection with an argument he had with the congresswoman in a restaurant, and a physical fight with the former couple’s son.