Republican Missouri Gov. Mike Parson on Friday will announce his pick to serve out the remainder of Kim Gardner’s term as the chief prosecutor in St. Louis, following her sudden departure earlier …
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By JIM SALTER
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5/19/23
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Oregon State Police say seven people are dead and others have been hurt in a crash involving two semi trucks and a passenger vehicle on Interstate 5 in an agricultural area between Salem and Eugene. …
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5/19/23
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Updated charging documents say a Utah woman who wrote a children’s book about grief after her husband’s death and was later arrested for killing him had made changes to her husband’s life …
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By BRADY McCOMBS and SAM METZ
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5/18/23
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Indiana Jones fever — and fervent love for its star, Harrison Ford — have swept through the Cannes Film Festival.
Ford and his last film as the whip-cracking explorer held the spotlight …
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5/18/23
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New Mexico's top prosecutor says caregivers tortured a 38-year-old developmentally disabled woman before her death. Attorney General Raúl Torrez detailed the woman's injuries during a news …
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By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN
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5/18/23
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New Jersey environmental officials will allow a shore town to carry out emergency repairs to its badly eroded beachfront, even as the two sides continue a years-long fight over how best to protect …
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By WAYNE PARRY
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5/18/23
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Investigators looking into the collapse of a Pittsburgh bridge last year want transportation officials nationwide to examine more than 10,000 other bridges with similar steel construction. The …
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By JOSH FUNK
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5/18/23
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A new grantmaking effort funded by former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and his wife Connie’s philanthropic arm will provide $42.5 million over the next five years to support more than 100 Black-led …
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By SARA HERSCHANDER of The Chronicle of Philanthropy
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5/18/23
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Christiane Amanpour, the veteran international correspondent who has been at CNN for 40 years, became the network's first journalist to publicly criticize the decision to host Donald Trump for a town …
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By DAVID BAUDER
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5/18/23
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The head of the U.S. agency charged with enforcing civil rights in the workplace says artificial intelligence-driven “bossware” tools that closely track the whereabouts, keystrokes and …
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By MATT O'BRIEN
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5/18/23
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Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes fell again last month, more evidence that many prospective homebuyers are being held back by a persistently low inventory of homes for sale and elevated …
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By ALEX VEIGA
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5/18/23
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One of the most vocal bystanders who watched as a Minneapolis police officer killed George Floyd is suing the city, alleging he was assaulted and suffered emotional distress. Donald Williams filed …
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By LISA BAUMANN
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5/17/23
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Prosecutors say that superiors of the Massachusetts Air National guardsman charged with leaking highly classified military documents had raised concerns internally on multiple occasions about his …
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By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER
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5/17/23
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A volunteer police officer responding to a report of a bee swarm was hospitalized after getting stung multiple times on his face and collapsing onto the street in a Los Angeles neighborhood. A TV …
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5/17/23
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Juror are deliberating at the second trial of “That ’70s Show” actor Danny Masterson, who is charged with raping three women between 2001 and 2003. A deadlocked jury led to a mistrial for …
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By The Associated Press
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5/17/23
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Hundreds of people packed a church for the funeral of a Chicago police officer who was off duty when she was fatally shot during an armed robbery spree by four teenagers charged in her death. Officer …
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5/17/23
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A limousine service manager has been convicted of manslaughter in a crash that killed 20 people in rural New York. The 2018 crash was one of the deadliest U.S. road wrecks in two decades. Jurors were …
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By MAYSOON KHAN
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5/17/23
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Drug overdose deaths in the U.S. rose slightly in 2022. That makes it the first year without a substantial increase since 2018. Officials with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say the …
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By MIKE STOBBE
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5/17/23
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Publisher Penguin Random House and PEN America have sued a Florida school district over its removal of books about race and LGBTQ+ identities. The federal lawsuit filed Wednesday marks the latest …
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By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE
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5/17/23
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Authorities say the second of two inmates who escaped from a Philadelphia prison earlier this month has been captured. The city commissioner says 18-year-old Ameen Hurst was arrested early Wednesday …
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5/17/23
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