By JEFFREY S. COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A condemned South Carolina inmate chose Friday to be executed by lethal injection, instead of by firing squad or electrocution, for killing a store clerk in 1999. State prison officials had told Richard Moore this month he ...
By MICHELLE CHAPMAN and TOM MURPHY Associated Press CVS Health CEO Karen Lynch has stepped down with company shares sinking 19% this year and the health care giant struggling on several fronts. Company shares tumbled again Friday after CVS Health also warned of disappointing third-quarter ...
SARASOTA, Fla. (AP) — The emergency management chief of the Florida county where Hurricane Milton made landfall earlier this month warned about reports of scammers in the area who are posing as Federal Emergency Management Agency officials and trying to get financial information from the ...
By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — It's a trend that has surprised many: Why, despite being squeezed by high prices, have Americans kept spending at retail stores and restaurants at a robust pace? One key reason is a relatively simple one: Wealthier consumers, ...
By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris will make her first campaign appearances with Barack Obama and Michelle Obama, two of the most popular figures in the Democratic Party, at get-out-the-vote events this month in Georgia and Michigan. It ...
By JUAN A. LOZANO and MICHAEL GRACZYK Associated Press HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — The Texas Supreme Court halted Thursday night's scheduled execution of a man who would have become the first person in the U.S. put to death for a murder conviction tied to a diagnosis of shaken baby ...
By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nevada Democratic U.S. Sen. Jacky Rosen and Republican challenger Sam Brown painted each other as extremists, but fireworks were few during their only face-to-face debate in a presidential battleground state where the Nov. 5 election could ...
By JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump laced into Vice President Kamala Harris and other Democrats in a pointed and at times bitter speech as he headlined the annual Al Smith charity dinner in New York. Trump, in remarks that often felt more like a ...
BY KIM CHANDLER Associated Press ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — Alabama executed a man Thursday who admitted to killing five people with an ax and gun during a drug-fueled rampage in 2016 and dropped his appeals and asked to be put to death. Derrick Dearman, 36, was pronounced dead at 6:14 p.m. ...
By KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A three-judge panel on Thursday ruled that Tennessee doctors who provide emergency abortions to protect the life of the mother cannot have their medical licenses revoked or face other disciplinary actions while a lawsuit ...
By MIKE CATALINI Associated Press FOLSOM, Pa. (AP) — Elon Musk held his first solo event in support of Donald Trump for president on Thursday, encouraging voters in the Philadelphia suburbs to register to cast their ballots and vote early, though some attendees shouted back, "Why?" The ...
MENDENHALL, Miss. (AP) — A construction company said Thursday that it is cooperating with local authorities' investigation of how a bridge in rural Mississippi collapsed while some of its employees were preparing the structure for demolition. Three employees of T.L. Wallace Construction were ...
By ERIC TUCKER and LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department announced criminal charges Thursday against an Indian government employee who specialized in intelligence in connection with a foiled plot to kill a Sikh separatist leader living in New York ...
SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. (AP) — An off-duty dispatcher for a Long Island police department accidentally shot himself in the hand while unloading his gun as he was driving a moving car, and the bullet lodged in the wallet of a passenger, police said. The 37-year-old dispatcher for the Southampton ...
By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A Brooklyn man who served 27 years in prison for robbery and drug charges has been granted early release by the same federal judge who sentenced him to five life terms behind bars, a penalty the judge now says was overly harsh. Walter ...
WOODLAND, Maine (AP) — A man used homemade explosives, some of which he dropped from drones, to attack or intimidate in a dispute rooted in local politics in a community in northern Maine, law enforcement officials said. No one was hurt. Joshua Brydon, 37, of Woodland, appeared in court this ...
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A former Florida college student is facing several charges in the death of her newborn infant, whose body was found wrapped in a towel in a trash can. Investigators said Friday that Brianna Moore, 19, is charged with aggravated manslaughter of a child, child neglect with ...
BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) — When Dustin Kjersem was found dead inside his tent at a remote Montana campsite with extensive injuries to his skull and body, it was initially reported as a possible bear mauling. There have been previous grizzly bear attacks in the forests of southwestern Montana, but ...
By KATE BRUMBACK and JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — National and state Republicans on Thursday appealed a judge's ruling that said seven election rules recently passed by Georgia's State Election Board are "illegal, unconstitutional and void." The Republican National Committee ...
By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — An Alabama man was arrested Thursday for his alleged role in the January hack of a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission social media account that led the price of bitcoin to spike, the Justice Department said. Eric Council ...