Suspect caught in shooting that left 1 officer dead, … HERMANN, Mo. (AP) — The search for the man suspected of killing one small-town Missouri police officer and badly injuring another ended Monday after police fired tear gas into the home, and arrested the man when he came outside. The shooting happened about 9:30 p.m. Sunday at a convenience store in Hermann, a town of […]
At Ukraine’s front, police try to evacuate holdout … AVDIIVKA, Ukraine (AP) — Pale and grimy from living in a dank, dark basement for nearly a year, the teenager and his weeping mother emerged to the sound of pounding artillery and headed to a waiting armored police van that would whisk them to safety. Russian forces were not far from their battered front-line town […]
‘A time bomb’: India’s sinking holy town faces grim … JOSHIMATH, India (AP) — Inside a shrine overlooking snow-capped mountains, Hindu priests heaped spoonfuls of puffed rice and ghee into a crackling fire. They closed their eyes and chanted in Sanskrit, hoping their prayers would somehow turn back time and save their holy — and sinking — town. For months, the roughly 20,000 residents in […]
Officials: Utah father killed wife, mother-in-law … Eight family members, five of them children, were found dead from gunshot wounds.
‘At least one administrator’ was alerted 6-year-old … During a virtual town hall with parents, the superintendent of Newport News Public Schools said the student’s bag was searched hours before the shooting.
Newspapers dying? Ralph Nader’s giving birth to one NEW YORK (AP) — At age 88, Ralph Nader believes his neighbors in northwest Connecticut are tired of electronics and miss the feel of holding a newspaper to read about their town. So at a time that local newspapers are dying at an alarming rate, the longtime activist is helping give birth to one. Copies […]
Blast at residential building in Germany injures … BERLIN (AP) — German police have detained a suspect in connection with an explosion at a residential building that injured 12 first responders on Thursday, some of them seriously, a senior security official said. The interior minister of North Rhine-Westphalia state, Herbert Reul, said that 10 firefighters and two police officers were injured in the […]
US ambassador accuses South Africa of providing weapons, … CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — The U. S. ambassador to South Africa accused the country Thursday of providing weapons and ammunition to Russia for its war in Ukraine via a cargo ship linked to a sanctioned company that docked secretly at a naval base near the city of Cape Town in December. South African […]
Ukraine: Mourners commemorate 8 men killed in Bucha BUCHA, Ukraine (AP) — Clutching flowers and wiping away tears, relatives, neighbors and friends of eight men executed by Russian forces during the occupation of the Ukrainian town of Bucha gathered Saturday to mark the first anniversary of the deaths. The eight had set up a roadblock in an attempt to prevent Russian troops from […]
Small towns reclaim abandoned ski areas as nonprofits CUCHARA, Colorado (AP) — It’s been the longest wait, their whole lives, in fact. But Race Lessar and Landen Ozzello are finally right where they want to be, on a snowy slope close to home, molding snow into a ski jump. Their local ski mountain just reopened. “I’m happy that it’s open for at least […]