Month: June 2023

BERLIN (AP) — German police have warned of a potentially lethal “Blue Punisher” variety of ecstasy in circulation after the death of two teenage girls was linked to the drug. Police in the northeastern state of Mecklenburg Western Pomerania said Wednesday that a 13-year-old girl died Monday at a hospital after taking one of the

HELSINKI (AP) — The deputy mayor of Finland’s capital is facing possible legal action and calls for him to pay compensation for damages and to resign after he was caught red-handed spray-painting graffiti in a railway tunnel last weekend. The Finnish Transport Infrastructure Agency told public broadcaster YLE on Wednesday that cleaning up the graffiti

By KEVIN McGILL and KEN MILLER Associated Press Scorching heat blamed for at least 13 deaths in Texas and another in Louisiana blanketed more of the Southeast on Wednesday, stretching government warnings of dangerous, triple-digit temperatures eastward into Mississippi and Tennessee. California, meanwhile, was facing its first major heat wave of the year. The National

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A U.S. Marine veteran has pleaded not guilty to second-degree manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide in the fatal chokehold of a man who was behaving erratically on a New York City subway train. Daniel Penny was initially charged with second-degree manslaughter in the May 1 death

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — USA Today’s weekly list of bestselling books returned Wednesday, ending a monthslong hiatus. Gannett had not run the list since longtime compiler Mary Cadden was among hundreds laid off. USA Today has said her duties will be automated. The restored list is a partnership with

By MIKE HOUSEHOLDER and COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Smoky air from Canada’s wildfires shrouded broad swaths of the U.S. from Minnesota to New York and Kentucky on Wednesday, prompting warnings to stay inside and exacerbating health risks for people already suffering from industrial pollution. The impacts are particularly hard on poor and

CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey man has been sentenced to more than six years in federal prison in a murder-for-hire plot against a girl with whom he had exchanged sexually explicit videos and images. John Michael Musbach was ordered Tuesday to serve more than six years. Federal prosecutors say the 34-year-old Haddonfield man

By LEANNE ITALIE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Space disco cowboy. Yacht Shabbat. Burning Man Formal. Dress to Express Your Inner Spirit. More bridal couples are tossing tradition when it comes to what guests should wear. Summer is a busy wedding season. For some guests, that means boomeranging from Dive Bar Semiformal to Whimsical

By ANITA SNOW Associated Press SUPERIOR, Ariz. (AP) — Oak Flat, a piece of national forest land in central Arizona, is at the heart of a years long struggle between Native American groups and mining interests that both consider it important for their future. Resolution Copper, a subsidiary of international mining giants Rio Tinto and

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer DALLAS (AP) — Air travelers are dealing with another day of widespread flight disruptions, even though the weather has been better along much of the East Coast. United Airlines is struggling more than other carriers. United was accounting for the majority of canceled flights in the U.S. on Thursday.

By DEEPA BHARATH of The Associated Press and ALEJANDRA MOLINA of Religion News Service OAK FLAT, Ariz. (AP) — Azee Romero climbed barefoot on the wrinkled trunk of the massive Emory oak tree at the center of the Oak Flat Campground. The 5-year-old in his black dinosaur t-shirt with hair tied under a backwards baseball