By HARM VENHUIZEN Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin judge says the state Senate’s vote to fire a top elections official last month had no effect. Dane County Judge Ann Peacock ruled Friday that Meagan Wolfe, the nonpartisan administrator of the Wisconsin Elections Commission, will remain in office while a lawsuit plays out.
Continue ReadingBy BERNIE WILSON AP Sports Writer EL CAJON, Calif. (AP) — A San Diego County Superior Court judge on Friday rejected a request to raise star Memphis basketball recruit Mikey Williams’ bail for what the prosecution said was a threatening social media post, and granted a speedy trial for the 19-year-old on nine felony charges
Continue ReadingBy DAVID SHARP, PATRICK WHITTLE, HOLLY RAMER and MICHELLE R. SMITH Associated Press LEWISTON, Maine (AP) — Authorities scoured the woods and hundreds of acres of family-owned property, sent dive teams with sonar to the bottom of a river and scrutinized a possible suicide note Friday in the second day of their intensive search for
Continue ReadingBy WAFAA SHURAFA, JOSEF FEDERMAN and BASSEM MROUE Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel knocked out internet and communications in the Gaza Strip in stepped-up bombardment Friday night, largely cutting off its 2.3 million people from contact with each other and the outside world and creating a near-blackout of information, as the
Continue ReadingBy DAVID SHARP, PATRICK WHITTLE, HOLLY RAMER and MICHELLE R. SMITH Associated Press LEWISTON, Maine (AP) — Maine officials have lifted a shelter in place order as they search for the suspect in the Lewiston massacre. State Public Safety Commissioner Mike Sauschuck made the announcement Friday after naming all 18 victims of the mass shooting
Continue ReadingCLINTON, N.C. (AP) — A sheriff’s office in southeast North Carolina has released the names of five people found fatally shot in a home earlier this week. Sampson County sheriff’s deputies were called to a home off Garland Highway outside Clinton shortly before 1 a.m. Thursday for a report of a homicide. They found five
Continue ReadingBy ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden wasn’t successful in unseating New Hampshire from the first-in-the-nation primary slot it has held for more than a century, but his decision not to appear on the state’s 2024 primary ballot has nonetheless added a new wrinkle to the contest and created complications for
Continue ReadingBy PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press FALMOUTH, Maine (AP) — Maine’s close-knit community of deaf and hard of hearing people is grieving in the wake of the Lewiston shootings that killed beloved members, many of whom were ardent advocates. The shootings, at a bowling alley and a bar in Lewiston, killed at least four people in
Continue ReadingORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Leaders of a private foundation working to build a museum and memorial to honor the victims of a massacre at a gay nightclub in Florida say they are dropping their plans to build a museum. Officials with the onePulse Foundation said in a public letter Friday that they are unable to
Continue ReadingBy Alex Marquardt, Jennifer Hansler and Yahya Abou-Ghazala, CNN Washington (CNN) — More than two weeks of intense negotiations to evacuate foreign nationals out of Gaza have yielded few signs of progress, leaving hundreds of desperate civilians stranded inside the war-torn strip of land as Israeli ground operations expanded amid a barrage of airstrikes on Friday. Multiple sources involved
Continue ReadingBy ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A judge has removed himself from the Young Dolph murder case Friday. The judge was ordered to recuse by a Tennessee appeals court, which questioned whether he could be impartial to a man charged with killing the rapper two years ago. Shelby County Criminal Court Judge
Continue ReadingBy STAN CHOE and DAMIAN J. TROISE AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks stumbled on Wall Street, bringing the S&P 500 10% below the peak it reached in July and putting the benchmark index into what’s called a “correction.” The S&P 500 fell 0.5%, or 19.86 points, to close at 4,117.37 Friday and
Continue ReadingBy KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Biden administration has designated four tracts of federal waters in the Gulf of Mexico off the Texas and Louisiana coasts for development of wind energy. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management announcement Friday follows the first Gulf sale of leases for wind development earlier this
Continue ReadingMAYVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — Author Salman Rushdie could take the stand against the man accused of repeatedly stabbing him when the defendant goes on trial early next year. Chautauqua County District Attorney Jason Schmidt says Rushdie is on the witness list for the trial of 25-year-old Hadi Matar. A judge on Friday scheduled the trial
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DAP Health is hosting its three mile ‘Health Equity Walk’ this Saturday. The event, formerly known as the, ‘Desert AIDS Walk’ kicks off at at 9 a.m. at Ruth Hardy Park in Palm Springs. Although they’re changing the walk’s name, DAP is sharing how they’re continuing to provide HIV care while expanding their services. “This
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press Travis Dermott had a lot on his mind as he carefully wrapped the shaft of his hockey stick with rainbow-colored tape. The NHL had dispatched a memo to teams before the season, reiterating its ban on altering on-ice gear for warmups and practices to reflect theme nights. The Arizona Coyotes defenseman
Continue ReadingBy Chandelis Duster, CNN (CNN) — The statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that was once at the center of the deadly 2017 White nationalist “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, has been melted down. The statue was rendered into bronze ore Saturday at a foundry in an undisclosed location, according to University
Continue ReadingBy LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia school district has passed a policy mandating annual religious freedom training as part of a lawsuit settlement. The settlement was finalized Thursday. It comes after some students were required to attend an evangelical preacher’s religious revival assembly during the school day in 2022.
Continue ReadingBy Daniel Strauss, Fredreka Schouten, Steve Contorno, Alayna Treene and Kristen Holmes, CNN (CNN) — GOP 2024 presidential candidates traveling to the Republican Jewish Coalition’s annual conference are facing a unique challenge this year: how to distinguish themselves from former President Donald Trump on their support and approach to defending Israel as the country’s war
Continue ReadingBy STAN CHOE and DAMIAN J. TROISE AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks closed lower on Wall Street, pulling the S&P 500 down 10% from the peak it reached in July. That puts the benchmark index into what’s called a ‘correction.’ The declines came amid the latest batch of earnings from big technology
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