Month: July 2024

Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Attorneys for an inmate who’s spent 25 years on Georgia’s death row are accusing a prosecutor of hiding a deal that they say casts doubt on the credibility of a crucial trial witness. Warren King was sentenced to death in September 1998 after an Appling County jury convicted him

Associated Press PANAMA CITY (AP) — Panama’s border police says that migration through the Darien Gap dividing Colombia and Panama has declined significantly this month since Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino took office and ordered authorities to get control of the dense jungle frontier. Still, migration through the Darien remains close to what it was

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Officials in Venezuela have arrested the head of security for the country’s top opposition leader, a little more than a week before President Nicolás Maduro faces a tough reelection. Former lawmaker and opposition powerhouse María Corina Machado said that Milciades Ávila was arrested early Wednesday on what she said were trumped

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military-built pier to carry humanitarian aid to Gaza will be dismantled and brought home, ending a mission that has been fraught with repeated weather and security problems that limited how much food and other supplies could get to starving Palestinians. Vice Adm. Brad Cooper, deputy commander at U.S.

Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — UFC heavyweight champion Jon Jones pleaded not guilty Wednesday to a pair of misdemeanor charges stemming from a drug test at his New Mexico home in which he was accused of being hostile. Jones appeared seated next to his attorney as the pleas were entered on his behalf during

BEIJING (AP) — State media in China say that a fire at a shopping mall has killed 16 people in the southwestern Chinese city of Zigong. The official news agency Xinhua reported that firefighters and rescuers responded to the fire call shortly after 6 p.m. at the 14-story commercial building and that they pulled 75

Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Nevada justice of the peace who ran unsuccessfully for state treasurer in 2022 has been indicted on federal charges alleging she used money donated for a memorial to slain police officers for political campaign costs, rent and her daughter’s wedding. The five-count indictment against Michele Fiore, 53, a

Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee elections officials say any state registered voters among the thousands recently asked to prove their citizenship can stay on the voting rolls even if they don’t respond to the request. The American Civil Liberties Union of Tennessee said last month it planned to sue the state over the

SOUTH CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia woman has died two years after she awakened from a coma and identified her now-late brother as her attacker. Jackson County Sheriff Ross Mellinger confirmed the death of Wanda Palmer to WCHS-TV on Tuesday. According to her obituary, Palmer died July 12 at WVU Thomas Memorial Hospital

Nearly two-thirds of Democrats say President Joe Biden should withdraw from the presidential race and let his party nominate a different candidate, according to a new AP-NORC poll. The survey sharply undercuts his post-debate claim that “average Democrats” are still with him even if some “big names” are turning on him. And it underscores the

Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Public school advocates say they have collected enough signatures to ask Nebraska voters in November to repeal a private school tuition funding law. But they’re also preparing for Republican backers to file a lawsuit to try to keep voters from weighing in. Organizers of Support Our Schools have been