By HOLLY RAMER Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Jurors in the first criminal trial linked to New Hampshire's sprawling child abuse scandal began deliberating Thursday in the case of a former youth detention center worker charged with repeatedly raping a teenage girl two decades ...
By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. lost twice Thursday in his battles to stay on the presidential ballot in some states and get off of it in others. North Carolina's elections board refused to take him off that state's ballot, with a majority ...
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Five members of an alleged burglary ring are facing federal charges for break-ins that targeted rural pharmacies in western Iowa and western Nebraska in 2022 and 2023, authorities announced Thursday. The Omaha, Nebraska, field division of the Drug Enforcement ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A former police officer in the nation's capital was sentenced Thursday to five years in prison for fatally shooting a 27-year-old man who had been sleeping in the driver's seat of a car stopped at a traffic light. Former Metropolitan Police Department Sgt. Enis Jevric, 42, ...
By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI has failed to report some child sexual abuse allegations to local law enforcement or social service agencies even after changes prompted by its handling of the case against former USA Gymnastics team ...
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — Former New Jersey governor and unsuccessful Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie will teach a course on running for office at Yale University this semester. The weekly seminar taught by Christie is titled "How to Run a Political Campaign" and is open to ...
By MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Nippon Steel Corp. raised its capital commitment Thursday by more than $1 billion to spend on U.S. Steel's plants amid entrenched political and labor opposition to the Japanese company's nearly $15 billion acquisition of the iconic ...
By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer The average rate on a 30-year mortgage eased for the second week in a row and remains at its lowest level in more than a year, good news for prospective homebuyers facing home prices near all-time highs. The rate fell to 6.35% from 6.46% last week, mortgage ...
HERNANDO, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi sheriff's department says it has set new security procedures since an inmate escaped and fled to Chicago, where he was arrested last week after a 15-hour standoff with police at a restaurant just blocks from the Democratic National Convention. Joshua ...
By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press MISSION, Kan. (AP) — An inmate whose escape from a Kansas prison hidden in a dog crate became the subject of a book and TV movie has died behind bars. John Manard, who was 45, died Sunday at the La Palma Correctional Facility, a private prison in ...
By MEG KINNARD and JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Next month's debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump won't have an audience, live microphones when candidates aren't speaking, or written notes, according to rules that ABC News, the ...
AKRON, Ohio (AP) — Handing out food and drinks from an ice cream truck is off limits for marijuana businesses in Ohio, according to state regulators. So is an online promotion saying, "Can you take me higher?" Ohio's Division of Cannabis Control has proposed fines totaling $212,000 against ...
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A "mega den" of hundreds of rattlesnakes in Colorado is getting even bigger now that late summer is here and babies are being born. Thanks to livestream video, scientists studying the den on a craggy hillside in Colorado are learning more about these enigmatic — and ...
By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy grew last quarter at a healthy 3% annual pace, fueled by strong consumer spending and business investment, the government said Thursday in an upgrade of its initial assessment. The Commerce Department had previously ...
ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia Senate committee kicked off a new push by Republicans in the state to ban transgender women from participating in women's sports, hearing testimony on Tuesday from five former college swimmers who are suing the NCAA and Georgia Tech over a transgender woman's ...
BURKE COUNTY, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina officials determined the cause of a fire inside a car in Burke County was a children's book. A child's car seat was set ablaze when a "button battery" in a children's book caught fire after being left in the vehicle on Sunday, according to the George ...
By ANNIE MA AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — After a long summer of technical glitches, most of America's prospective college students finally applied for federal financial aid — an annual process upended by a redesign-gone-bad. The number of high school seniors who have ...
Two people in eastern Wisconsin and one person in northeastern Illinois have died of West Nile virus, according to health officials. A third person in Wisconsin also has been hospitalized because of the mosquito-borne illness, the Wisconsin Department of Health Services said Thursday in a ...
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — A proposal in Baltimore that would allow city voters to decide whether to pay new parents $1,000 will not appear on the ballot in November after Maryland's highest court ruled it unconstitutional. The court issued a ruling Thursday after hearing oral arguments ...
NEW YORK (AP) — A former New York City police officer has been sentenced to 27 years in prison for shooting and wounding her ex-girlfriend and killing the ex-girlfriend's new love interest. Former officer Yvonne Wu, 34, was sentenced Wednesday in state court in Brooklyn after pleading guilty ...