SALEM, S.C. (AP) — Authorities say an 83-year-old woman has died after she fell through rotting floorboards in a century-old South Carolina house and down a well shaft the owner didn’t know was there. Oconee County Coroner Karl Addis says it took rescuers nearly four hours Sunday to get the women’s body out of the
Continue ReadingBy MEG KINNARD Associated Press BLUFFTON, S.C. (AP) — Nikki Haley drew a record crowd on Monday as she campaigned in her home state of South Carolina. Officials at a satellite campus of the University of South Carolina said around 2,500 people gathered for the event. Half that number watched from video screens outside the
Continue ReadingBy AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — U.S. Navy officials say they will discuss how they plan to remove a large aircraft from an environmentally sensitive Hawaii bay after it overshot a runway last week. The Navy has placed two temporary floating barriers around the P-8A aircraft at its resting spot in the shallow
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer BRUSSELS (AP) — U.S Secretary of State Antony Blinken will return this week to the Middle East for the third time since Israel’s war with Hamas began last month to explore further extensions of the cease-fire agreement in Gaza. That’s according to a senior State Department official who spoke
Continue ReadingBy TOM WITHERS AP Sports Writer CLEVELAND (AP) — Browns star defensive end Myles Garrett did not suffer any structural damage to his left shoulder in Sunday’s game at Denver, a positive development for a Cleveland team rocked by major injuries all season. Garrett, who has 13 sacks for Cleveland’s top-ranked defense, got hurt during
Continue ReadingPORT WASHINGTON, Wis. (AP) — A local Wisconsin official who posted a selfie with his marked ballot on Facebook during the April 2022 election has had a felony charge against him dropped. Fifty-two-year-old Mequon-Thiensville School Board member Paul Buzzell had faced maximum penalties of 3 1/2 years behind bars and $10,000 in fines. Ozaukee County
Continue ReadingBy JILL COLVIN and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump threatened over the weekend to reopen the contentious fight over the Affordable Care Act after failing to repeal it while in the White House, saying he is “seriously looking at alternatives” if he wins a second term. Trump’s comments drew
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A former Marine Corps sergeant was sentenced today to nearly four years in federal prison for lying about attempting to help two foreign terrorist organizations. Jason Fong, 26, of Irvine pleaded guilty March 23 to making a false statement involving international terrorism after a mistrial was declared in his trial in January. U.S. District Judge
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Six hiking areas across Riverside County that had been closed due to heightened fire danger were reopened today. According to the Riverside County Fire Department, fire Chief Bill Weiser received approval from the Riverside County Board of Supervisors to immediately re-open Eagle Canyon/Tin Mine east of Corona, Steel Peak north of Lake Elsinore, Bautista Canyon
Continue ReadingBy JILL LAWLESS and NICHOLAS PAPHITIS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A diplomatic spat has erupted between Greece and Britain after the U.K. canceled a planned meeting between Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Greek premier Kyriakos Mitsotakis. Mitsotakis angrily accused Sunak of trying to avoid discussing the contested Parthenon Marbles. Mitsotakis is visiting London and
Continue ReadingBy BILL BARROW Associated Press AMERICUS, Ga. (AP) — Hundreds turned out to salute Rosalynn Carter on Monday with the former U.S. first lady and global humanitarian’s final journey from her rural hometown to the Jimmy Carter Presidential Center in Atlanta as her family began three days of memorials following her death at age 96.
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A remote brush fire was burning in the hills near Indio on Monday, according to CAL FIRE. Firefighters got a call around 11:20 a.m. of a fire burning in the desert hills north of the intersection of Washington Street and Coyote Song Way near Indio. Cal Fire said the fire was burning in an area
Continue ReadingBy DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers The major U.S. stock indexes ended slightly lower Monday as Wall Street looks ahead to updates on inflation and how American consumers are feeling about the economy. The S&P 500 slipped 0.2%. The benchmark index was coming off a holiday-shortened week in the U.S. and
Continue ReadingBy AAMER MADHANI and DANIEL POLITI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Argentine President-elect Javier Milei is getting a meeting with a top Biden aide. National Security Council spokesman John Kirby says Milei will sit down with White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan on Tuesday in Washington. President Joe Biden will be traveling to Georgia
Continue ReadingBy JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — After a scorching first turn on the witness stand, former president Donald Trump plans to testify again next month in his civil fraud trial, his lawyers said Monday. He is to return Dec. 11, defense attorney Christopher Kise said. Trump was called to testify last time
Continue ReadingROUND MOUNTAIN, Texas (AP) — The CEO of a construction company and his two young children were among four people killed in a three-vehicle crash that his wife survived in Texas on the day before Thanksgiving. According to media reports, Zach Muckleroy died in the Nov. 22 crash about 45 miles west of Austin along
Continue ReadingBy JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — The top Palestinian diplomat has made a plea during a meeting of European Union members and Arab nations for a definitive end to Israel’s retaliatory attacks on the Gaza Strip. Speaking hours before Israel and Hamas agreed to extend their expiring cease-fire by two more days,
Continue ReadingBy Lauren del Valle and Kara Scannell, CNN New York (CNN) — Attorneys for Donald Trump told the court Monday that they plan to call the former president to the stand on December 11 as their last witness in the New York civil fraud trial. His son Eric Trump, also a defendant, is slated to testify on
Continue ReadingBy Sean Lyngaas, CNN Washington (CNN) — A cyberattack that diverted ambulances from hospitals in East Texas on Thanksgiving Day is more widespread than previously known and has also forced hospitals in New Jersey, New Mexico and Oklahoma to reroute ambulances, hospital representatives told CNN on Monday. All of the affected hospitals are owned, or
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The Palm Springs International Film Awards is presenting Greta Gerwig with the Director of the Year award for her film ‘Barbie’. The critically-acclaimed film, starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling alongside other Hollywood heavyweights, follows Barbie as she navigates an existential crisis in her otherwise “perfect” pink world. The record-breaking film resonated with audiences across
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