Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Four high school students in Las Vegas were indicted Friday as adults on second-degree murder charges in the deadly beating of their schoolmate in November, a fight that was captured on cellphone video and had been widely shared across social media. Chief Deputy District Attorney John Giordani said in
Continue ReadingGLEN ROCK, Pa. (AP) — A school board in southern Pennsylvania has voted to reinstate the district’s old mascot logo portraying a Native American fighter, despite criticism that it’s outdated and culturally insensitive. The Southern York County School District voted 7-2 on Thursday to bring back the logo. It had been been retired in April
Continue ReadingBy STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street returned to record heights Friday to cap a punishing, two-year round trip dogged by high inflation and worries about a recession that seemed inevitable but hasn’t arrived. The S&P 500, which is the centerpiece of many 401(k) accounts and the main measure that
Continue ReadingBy BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky Secretary of State Michael Adams has pushed back against efforts to eliminate three days of early voting in the Bluegrass State. His comments expose fissures within Republican ranks in a state that has avoided fights over election rules that erupted elsewhere. Speaking to a legislative
Continue ReadingBOSTON (AP) — One of two Rhode Island men charged with assault and battery and disorderly conduct in connection with the death of a fan at a New England Patriots game has pleaded not guilty. In a brief court appearance Friday, 59-year-old John Vieira entered the plea over allegations that he and 39-year-old Justin Mitchell
Continue ReadingBy TERRY SPENCER Associated Press Police cleared the ousted chair of the Florida Republican Party of rape allegations on Friday, but said they have asked prosecutors to charge him with illegally video recording the sexual encounter he had with a female acquaintance. The Sarasota Police Department said in a statement that a review of a
Continue ReadingBy JOHN MARSHALL AP Basketball Writer The best praise UCLA’s players could expect from John Wooden was a twinkle in the eye or a slight upward curl in one corner of his mouth. After wins — and there were a lot — Wooden might give a player a pat on the shoulder or rub of
Continue ReadingBy JOHN O’CONNOR AP Political Writer SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The Illinois Supreme Court has upheld the consolidation of local police and firefighter pension systems, a rare victory in a yearslong battle to find an answer to the state’s besieged retirement accounts. The court’s unanimous opinion Friday rejected claims by three dozen working and retired
Continue ReadingBy SARA CLINE Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The Louisiana Legislature passed a congressional map with a second majority-Black district on Friday, marking a win for Democrats after a legal battle and political tug-of-war that spanned nearly two years. Democrats have long fought for a second majority-minority district among Louisiana’s six congressional districts
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A small airplane that crashed into the ocean off the California coast on Sunday was constructed piece by piece over nearly a decade, one of tens of thousands of home-built aircraft that are part of a high-flying hobby taking off across the country. Federal investigators said
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A small airplane that crashed into the ocean off the California coast on Sunday was constructed piece by piece over nearly a decade, one of tens of thousands of home-built aircraft that are part of a high-flying hobby taking off across the country. Federal investigators said
Continue ReadingBy RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer Hard-throwing reliever Josh Hader and the Houston Astros agreed to a $95 million, five-year contract on Friday, a person familiar with the negotiations told The Associated Press. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the deal was subject to a successful physical. Hader will get a $19 million
Continue ReadingBy ASHRAF KHALIL and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Thousands of opponents of abortion rights rallied under falling snow on Friday at the annual March for Life, as speakers urged the impassioned crowd to capitalize on the movement’s major victory in the Supreme Court and keep fighting until abortion is eliminated. Months
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Like other universities, Harvard is struggling to manage campus responses to Israel’s war in Gaza. On Friday it announced the creation of task forces to combat both antisemitism and Islamophobia. The task forces follow the resignation of Harvard president Claudine Gay, amid a backlash related to congressional
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Police in New York City say an 11-month-old baby has died after being burned by steam leaking from a radiator inside a Brooklyn apartment. Officers responding to a 911 call Friday morning found the boy unconscious inside an apartment bedroom. Police say the baby was taken to a hospital, where he
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president is calling on citizens not to support drug cartels or oppose the installation of National Guard barracks, after a number of videos surfaced showing residents cheering convoys of cartel gunmen. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Friday he understood that the gangs may be pressuring civilians to appear in
Continue ReadingBy Nadeen Ebrahim and Vasco Cotovio, CNN (CNN) — Divisions within the Israeli government are deepening after war cabinet minister Gadi Eisenkot suggested the key war aim of defeating Hamas is unrealistic and called for elections within months. “Those who say that there was a major blow and demolition of the capabilities in the north of the strip
Continue ReadingFORT EDWARD, N.Y. (AP) — An upstate New York man on trial for the shooting death of a 20-year-old woman who was with a group of friends who mistakenly drove up his backcountry driveway testified that he believed he was under siege that night and now feels “like my soul is dead.” But he maintained
Continue ReadingBy Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump renewed his motion for a mistrial of the defamation case brought by former magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll after she acknowledged deleting some emails. Trump’s attorney Alina Habba asked for a mistrial earlier this week in the middle of cross-examination of Carroll when Carroll testified
Continue ReadingBy Jason Morris and Zachary Cohen, CNN (CNN) — The special prosecutor hired by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to pursue the criminal case against former President Donald Trump bought tickets for Willis to accompany him on at least two out-of-state trips, records released Friday show. A Friday motion filed in Cobb County Superior
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