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Updated 3 weeks ago

Gas prices climb across WA through April

MOSES LAKE — Gas prices across Washington continued their upward trajectory throughout April, mirroring national v…

Updated 5 years, 8 months ago
Tech sector extends slump, dragging stock market lower again

Stocks are falling again on Wall Street Friday, adding to the market's losses a day after its biggest sell-off since June.

Updated 5 years, 8 months ago
Laura's coastal cost assessed with drones, satellite images

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Hurricane Laura was hardly done

Updated 5 years, 8 months ago
Blake's father says paralyzed son optimistic after shooting

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Jacob Blake's father said Friday that his “happy-go-lucky” son is optimistic for his future, although he remains paralyzed from the waist down after being shot seven times in the back by a Keno…

Updated 5 years, 8 months ago
Kelly's lawyers want to question gang member in cell attack

CHICAGO (AP) — Attorneys for R. Kelly want to question a convicted member of the Latin Kings gang who says he beat up the jailed R&B singer in a Chicago cell.

Updated 5 years, 8 months ago
In Barr, Trump has powerful ally for challenging mail voting

WASHINGTON (AP) — As President Donald Trump sows doubt about the legitimacy of the 2020 election, he’s found a powerful partner in Attorney General William Barr.

Updated 5 years, 8 months ago
Undercover drug detective, informant killed; 3 are arrested

CLEVELAND (AP) — A Cleveland police detective who had just joined a federal violence task force was shot and killed in his unmarked car along with a police informant during a drug operation, officials said Friday.

Updated 5 years, 8 months ago
AP News Digest 2 p.m.

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Updated 5 years, 8 months ago
Jamaica's Holness wins big in bet on early elections

ST. CATHERINE, Jamaica (AP) — Prime Minister Andrew Holness won big in his bet on early elections as his Jamaica Labour Party captured 49 of 63 seats in Parliament, swamping the rival People’s National Party.

Updated 5 years, 8 months ago
Wildlife agency seeks to carve out areas from protections

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — U.S. wildlife officials on Friday proposed making it easier to carve out exemptions from habitat protections meant to save imperiled species, by placing greater weight on the potential econom…

Updated 5 years, 8 months ago
Tiz the Law is a big favorite in a Derby unlike any other

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Forget the mint juleps in souvenir glasses, men in seersucker suits and women wearing hats exploding in a floral frenzy. The Kentucky Derby still has horses — Tiz the Law is the biggest favor…

Updated 5 years, 8 months ago
At least 10 Malian soldiers killed in attack near Mauritania

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — At least 10 Malian soldiers have been killed in a night-time attack by Islamic extremists in the country’s west near its border with Mauritania, the Malian army said Friday.

Updated 5 years, 8 months ago
El Salvador president denies negotiating with gang

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — El Salvador President Nayib Bukele denied a report Friday that his government has been negotiating with one of the country’s most powerful gangs to lower the murder rate and win the…

Updated 5 years, 8 months ago
The Latest: Turkey sees highest daily death toll in months

ANKARA, Turkey — The number of daily confirmed COVID-19 deaths in Turkey topped 50 — the highest single-day fatality in the country since mid-May.

Updated 5 years, 8 months ago
German prosecutors to charge mom with murder of 5 children

BERLIN (AP) — German prosecutors said Friday they will charge a 27-year-old woman with murder after five of her young children were found dead at their home in the western city of Solingen.

Updated 5 years, 8 months ago
State trooper injured in crash 2 years ago dies of injuries

FRAMINGHAM, Mass. (AP) — A state trooper has died two years after he was hit by a car during a traffic stop, and it's not yet clear whether the driver will face new charges now that the victim is dead of his injuri…