Month: June 2023

HAZARD, Ky. (AP) — A community college in eastern Kentucky says Bluegrass musician Bobby Osborne has died. He was 91. Bobby Osborne and his brother Sonny made up “The Osborne Brothers,” and their version of the song “Rocky Top” in 1967 became an official state song of Tennessee. For several years Bobby Osborne taught at

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom and the Democrats who control the state Legislature have agreed on how to spend $310.8 billion over the next year, endorsing a plan that covers a nearly $32 billion budget deficit without raiding the state’s savings account. The nation’s most populous state

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. is imposing sanctions on four firms and one individual connected to the Wagner Group. The Russian mercenary group led a brief revolt against the Kremlin last week. The sanctions are not directly related to last week’s uprising. Treasury says the sanctioned firms engaged in illicit

By MARGARET STAFFORD and SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey is asking a court to reverse the conviction or order a new trial for a former Kansas City police detective who shot and killed a Black man in 2019. In a filing Monday with the Missouri Court

LONDON (AP) — Stormzy is set to become an owner of English ninth-tier soccer club AFC Croydon. The 29-year-old grime star is part of a three-man consortium, including Crystal Palace forward  Wilfried Zaha, that has agreed a deal to acquire the assets of the south London side. Stormzy is from Croydon and has a long-standing

By RICHARD LARDNER and JENNIFER McDERMOTT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — More than $200 billion may have been stolen from two large COVID-19 relief initiatives, according to new estimates from a federal watchdog investigating federally funded programs that helped small businesses survive the worst public health crisis in more than a hundred years. The numbers

By JAMES POLLARD Associated Press/Report for America COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A potential swing vote on the newly all-male South Carolina Supreme Court grilled lawyers over whether patients have enough time to get an abortion after learning of their pregnancy as the justices weighed whether a new ban is similarly unconstitutional to one that got

By KEMO CHAM Associated Press FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — Sierra Leone’s election commission says President Julius Maada Bio has won a second term in office. The announcement Tuesday said that the incumbent leader had received 56.17% of ballots cast, just over the 55% needed to avoid a second round. Electoral officials said that the

By ANDREA RODRÍGUEZ Associated Press HAVANA, Cuba (AP) — The Cuban government opened the door to the creation of more small- and medium-sized businesses in September 2021. And there are now over 8,000 of these type of enterprises operating legally on the island. Among them is a group of entrepreneurs who benefited from a business

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Ugandan activists have brought another legal case against French oil giant TotalEnergies, seeking damages over alleged food and land rights violations in the company’s East Africa operations. The civil suit filed in Paris on Tuesday comes four months after the collapse of a similar case brought

LONDON (AP) — A late-life masterpiece by Austrian artist Gustav Klimt sold Tuesday for 74 million pounds ($94.35 million), making it the most expensive painting ever auctioned in Europe. “Dame mit Fächer” — Lady with a Fan — sold to a buyer in the room at Sotheby’s in London. The sale price exceeded the presale