Month: July 2023

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A man who says Kevin Spacey made crude and racially offensive remarks before grabbing his genitals said he kept the degrading incident boxed up inside for more than a decade. He says he feared no one would believe his word against that of an Oscar-winning “golden boy.”

NORTH MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (AP) — Five people are dead after a single-engine plane crashed over the weekend in a South Carolina coastal resort town. Officials say Sunday’s fiery wreck near a golf course in North Myrtle Beach killed all four passengers and the pilot. The Myrtle Beach Sun News reports that Horry County’s chief

JERUSALEM (AP) — The office of Israel’s prime minister says a dual Israeli-Russian citizen who has been missing in Iraq for months is being held by an Iran-backed militia in Iraq. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said Wednesday that Elizabeth Tsurkov, who disappeared in late March, is still alive “and we hold Iraq responsible for

CORDELE, Ga. (AP) — Authorities say a sheriff’s deputy in Georgia has been shot and killed and the suspect tried to flee in the deputy’s patrol car. The Crisp County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release that the deputy encountered a vehicle in the middle of a road in Cordele around 3:40 a.m. Wednesday.

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — The United Nations food agency says millions of hungry people in West Africa are left without aid because it is struggling with limited funding to respond to the region’s worst hunger crisis in 10 years. In a statement issued Wednesday by the U.N. World Food Program,

By KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former New York Mayor Bill de Blasio and his wife, Chirlane McCray, say they are separating but not divorcing after 29 years of a marriage that helped lift de Blasio into the mayor’s job. De Blasio and McCray told The New York Times that they will

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Groups hoping to enshrine abortion rights in Ohio’s constitution delivered nearly double the number of signatures needed to place an amendment on the fall statewide ballot, aiming to signal sweeping widespread support for an issue that still faces the threat of needing a significantly increased

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong police have arrested four men they accused of providing financial support to people who fled overseas and are involved in activities endangering national security, escalating a high-profile crackdown on dissidents in the semi-autonomous Chinese city. Police did not identify the four suspects or the

WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Soccer royalty made its way into the Royal Box at Wimbledon when David Beckham took his place on Centre Court. Beckham attended Day 3 of the grass-court tournament a day after Princess Kate was in the stands. Beckham is one of the most famous players in soccer history for both his

By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer Years after their sport was hoisted onto the Olympic stage, the idea of riding for big money and gold medals still felt dirty, in a way, to most pro snowboarders. They were more focused on fun and friends than cash and prizes. For every death-defying calculation Shaun White made

SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — Police in Louisiana say three people were killed and 10 others wounded in a mass shooting, one of several across the nation this week as Americans celebrated the Fourth of July. Shreveport police Sgt. Angie Willhite said one of the injured was in critical condition Wednesday after the gunfire late Tuesday