MADISON, W.Va. (AP) — A 13-year-old football player in West Virginia died over the weekend after receiving a head injury in practice, his father said. Madison Middle School defensive lineman Cohen Craddock was hurt while making a tackle on Friday. The eighth grader suffered from brain ...
By JOHN RABY Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Inadequate inspections by an operator and a lack of oversight by the Federal Aviation Administration were partly to blame for the crash of a Vietnam-era tourist helicopter that killed six people in West Virginia two years ago, ...
PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — Detectives on Monday described in court how they zeroed in on a Utah mother known for penning a children's book about grief as the main suspect in her husband's fatal poisoning. The multiday hearing will determine whether prosecutors have enough evidence against her to ...
A Pennsylvania museum has agreed to sell a 16th century portrait that once belonged to a Jewish family that was forced to part with it while fleeing Nazi Germany before World War II. The Allentown Art Museum will auction "Portrait of George the Bearded, Duke of Saxony," settling a restitution ...
By DAVID KOENIG AP Business Writer Many children have gone back to school in the U.S., and the days are getting shorter, but there is still one more excuse to use the swimsuits and beach towels before packing them up: Labor Day. Airports, highways, beaches and theme parks are expected to ...
By ZEKE MILLER and CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — She's the sitting vice president who has been in office for 3 1/2 years. She's also the presidential candidate of just five weeks promising a "new way forward." Kamala Harris is having it both ways as she hits the ...
By SEAN MURPHY and MATT O'BRIEN OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A body camera captured every word and bark uttered as police Sgt. Matt Gilmore and his K-9 dog, Gunner, searched for a group of suspects for nearly an hour. Normally, the Oklahoma City police sergeant would grab his laptop and spend ...
By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — A Utah woman who authorities say fatally poisoned her husband then published a children's book about coping with grief is set to appear in court Monday for the start of a multiday hearing that will determine whether prosecutors ...
By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A jury that heard a former Las Vegas-area Democratic politician insist that evidence including DNA tying him to the killing of an investigative journalist was tainted, planted or wrong — and that he was the victim of a massive conspiracy ...
By RICHARD LARDNER, JONATHAN MATTISE, TRENTON DANIEL and STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — John Kolb, a retired Minnesota National Guard colonel, knew Tim Walz by reputation as an "excellent leader" who adroitly guided the enlisted troops in his field artillery ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Walmart has recalled nearly 10,000 cases of apple juice sold in stores across the U.S. that were found to contain potentially harmful levels of inorganic arsenic. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration gave the recall a more urgent classification Friday after making its ...
By JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance says Donald Trump would not support a national abortion ban if elected president and would veto such legislation if it landed on his desk. "I can absolutely commit that," Vance said when asked ...
By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer The largest proposed grocery store merger in U.S. history is going to court. On one side are supermarket chains Kroger and Albertsons, which say their planned merger will help them compete against rivals like Costco. On the other side are antitrust ...
By CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press Isabella Pires first noticed what she calls the "gradual apathy pandemic" in eighth grade. Only a handful of classmates registered for service projects she helped organize at her Massachusetts school. Even fewer actually showed up. When she got to high ...
By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (AP) — It was the summer of 1945 when the United States dropped atomic bombs on Japan, killing thousands of people as waves of destructive energy obliterated two cites. It was a decisive move that helped bring about the end of ...
By JENNIFER McDERMOTT and ISABELLA O'MALLEY Associated Press When Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz strolled onstage to welcome a conference of clean power advocates to Minneapolis in May, he was quick to note that his state is now getting a little over half of its power from renewables. In the next ...
By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA decided Saturday it's too risky to bring two astronauts back to Earth in Boeing's troubled new capsule, and they'll have to wait until next year for a ride home with SpaceX. What should have been a weeklong test flight ...
By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The official nonprofit organization of the National Park Service is set to receive the largest grant in its history, a $100 million gift the fundraising group described as transformative for the country's national parks. The ...
SUPAI, Ariz. (AP) — The body of an Arizona woman who went missing in the Grand Canyon National Park after a flash flood days earlier was recovered Sunday, park rangers said. The body of Chenoa Nickerson, 33, from the Phoenix suburb of Gilbert, Arizona, was discovered by a group rafting down ...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A vehicle carrying an 11-year-old girl and five young teenagers crashed into a tree in Northern California on Sunday, killing the 11-year-old and leaving the others injured, authorities said. Four girls between the ages of 13 and 15 and a boy, 13, were taken to hospitals ...