PHOENIX (AP) — Sentencing was postponed Thursday for former Arizona prisons chief Charles Ryan on his no-contest plea to a disorderly conduct charge stemming from a 2022 armed standoff at his Tempe home. The postponement occurred because Ryan’s lawyer requested a separate hearing to present evidence favorable to his client. Ryan is expected to be
Continue ReadingBy ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Online retailer eBay Inc. will pay a $3 million fine to resolve criminal charges over a harassment campaign waged by employees who sent live spiders, cockroaches and other disturbing items to the home of a Massachusetts couple, according to court papers filed Thursday. The Justice Department
Continue ReadingBy PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The caretakers of part of one of Maine’s most beloved lighthouses said Thursday they believe they can rebuild a portion of the structure that was damaged in a storm this week. The strong storm that brought high winds and heavy rains to the Northeast badly damaged
Continue ReadingBy DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer Federal officials are investigating Boeing’s design of a panel that blew off a jetliner in midflight last week. The Federal Aviation Administration said Thursday that the investigation is focusing on door plugs like the one that came off an Alaska Airlines Boeing jetliner over Oregon. The FAA says Boeing’s
Continue ReadingMEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — The first meeting of an After School Satan Club at a Tennessee elementary school drew protesters, but organizers said the children who attended had enjoyed the gathering. Faith and education leaders denounced plans for the club at Chimneyrock Elementary in Cordova when it was announced last month, but said they would
Continue ReadingBy SCOTT McFETRIDGE Associated Press Hundreds of people said goodbye to an 11-year-old boy known as “Smiley,” a week after he was shot to death at his Iowa school by an older student who also wounded seven other children and staff members before killing himself. Residents of the small community of Perry on Thursday packed
Continue ReadingGUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemala has arrested its former interior minister for allegedly not carrying out his duties when he opted for dialogue with protesters rather than using force to remove them as a court had ordered. Police arrested Napoléon Barrientos at his home Thursday, leading him out in handcuffs and a bulletproof vest. Barrientos
Continue ReadingBy PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Higher energy and housing prices boosted overall U.S. inflation in December, a sign that the Federal Reserve’s drive to slow inflation to its 2% target will likely remain a bumpy one. Overall prices rose 0.3% from November and 3.4% from 12 months earlier. Excluding volatile food
Continue ReadingBy TIM REYNOLDS AP Sports Writer MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Apple TV and Major League Soccer are expanding their collaboration, announcing Thursday that the looming MLS season will be chronicled in a new all-access docuseries similar to the ones that have given fans a deep, different look at golf, auto racing and tennis in
Continue ReadingBy ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate rose for the second time in as many weeks, climbing to its highest level in four weeks. The average rate on a 30-year mortgage rose to 6.66% from 6.62% last week, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday. A year
Continue ReadingBy KYLE HIGHTOWER AP Sports Writer FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Six-time NFL champion Bill Belichick agreed to part ways as the coach of the New England Patriots, ending his 24-year tenure as the architect of the most decorated dynasty of the league’s Super Bowl era. Belichick and team owner Robert Kraft announced the move to
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL R. SISAK and JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Barred from giving his own closing argument, Donald Trump took in his lawyer’s summation as a glowering, arms-folded spectator at the end of his New York civil fraud trial Thursday, hours after authorities responded to a bomb threat at the judge’s house.
Continue ReadingBy MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer The best CES products pierce through the haze of marketing hype at the Las Vegas gadget show to reveal innovations that could improve lives. The worst could harm us or our society and the planet in such “innovatively bad” ways that a panel of self-described dystopia experts has judged
Continue ReadingBy HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Hundreds of people have attended a ceremony honoring the memory of renowned Ukrainian poet Maksym Kryvtsov, who was killed in action while serving as a soldier in the war Russia started in Ukraine nearly two years ago. A large crowd gathered Thursday in the courtyard of
Continue ReadingBy Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — The world’s oldest known fossilized skin belonged to a species of reptile that lived before dinosaurs roamed the Earth, a new study has found. The fragment of fossilized reptile skin was found in a limestone cave in Oklahoma, United States, and is at least 130 million years older than
Continue ReadingBy TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon’s internal watchdog says he will review the secrecy surrounding Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s hospitalization and why the Defense Department waited days to inform the White House that he had transferred authority to his deputy. Austin is still in the hospital being treated for complications from
Continue ReadingCHICAGO (AP) — Winger Cade Cowell has left U.S. training camp ahead of a possible transfer from San Jose to Mexican club Chivas Guadalajara. The 20-year-old Cowell had been with the group practicing for a Jan. 20 exhibition against Slovenia at San Antonio. No replacement for Cowell was announced Thursday by the U.S. Soccer Federation.
Continue ReadingBy Natasha Bertrand, CNN (CNN) — The Pentagon’s inspector general is launching a review of whether the Pentagon has the appropriate policies in place to ensure an effective transfer of power and duties following Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s hospitalizations that were not immediately disclosed to the White House or other senior national security officials. The Inspector General’s office
Continue ReadingBy JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The illegal tunnel discovered under a historic Brooklyn synagogue compromised the stability of several structures surrounding the religious complex, prompting an order to vacate as well as citations against its owners, city officials said. Inspectors with New York City’s building safety agency uncovered a tunnel that
Continue ReadingBy JOHN CARUCCI Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — “Vanderpump Rules” star Ariana Madix becomes the latest celebrity to take on the role of Roxie Hart in the Broadway musical, “Chicago.” The show comes at a good time for Madix, who found out in the past year that her longtime partner and “Vanderpump Rules” co-star
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