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UPDATED: Former Moses Lake doctor arrested after shootout with U.S. Marshals in Florida

STUART, Fla. — Former Moses Lake surgeon Thomas Earl Steffens, 72, has been arrested in Florida after an altercati…

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
Correction: Election 2020-Voting story

In a story November 3, 2020, about Election Day voting, The Associated Press erroneously reported the name of a voting advocacy group. Its name is the National Vote at Home Institute, not Vote from Home.

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
Armed men arrested near Philadelphia vote counting location

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Two men armed with loaded handguns were arrested Thursday near the Philadelphia convention center

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
Oregon man accused of producing ISIS propaganda arrested

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A federal indictment has accused an Oregon man of advocating violent jihad in an online Arabic newspaper in support of the terrorist organization ISIS.

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
Brazilian state of Amapa suffers a power blackout for days

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A fire at an electricity substation has caused four days of blackouts in most of northern Brazil’s Amapa state, disrupting the lives of hundreds of thousands of people.

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
Protester killed in southern Iraq as tensions flare again

BASRA, Iraq (AP) — Iraqi security forces opened fire during clashes with hundreds of protesters in the southern city of Basra on Friday, killing one demonstrator and wounding several others as tensions flared once …

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
Police: Suspect arrested in wounding of 2 Wisconsin officers

DELAFIELD, Wis. (AP) — A man suspected of wounding two police officers in a shooting in Wisconsin on Friday and who is wanted in North Dakota for attempted murder has been arrested following a large-scale manhunt, …

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
Police: Man wanted in North Dakota, sought in shooting that wounded two Wisconsin police officers has been arrested

DELAFIELD, Wis. (AP) — Police: Man wanted in North Dakota, sought in shooting that wounded two Wisconsin police officers has been arrested.

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
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2020 Latest: Biden plans prime-time televised address

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Man at center of tribal sovereignty ruling heads to retrial

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — A member of the Seminole Nation who was convicted in state court of sexually assaulting a child will be retried in federal court after the U.S. Supreme Court

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Analysis: Trump's vote diatribe both shocking, unsurprising

WASHINGTON (AP) — It was at the same time shocking and utterly to be expected.

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
Michigan couple with 14 sons welcome their first daughter

LAKEVIEW, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan couple whose large family attracted attention by growing to include 14 sons has welcomed their first daughter nearly three decades after the birth of their first child.

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
Cardboard canvas: artist displays work at Caracas bus stops

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The billboard spaces of vandalized bus stops in Venezuela’s capital have become an open-air gallery for an artist seeking to give some joy to people who have endured years of tumult and ha…

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
Report: Cops moved slowly due to fear dying man may be armed

WAUKEGAN, Ill. (AP) — Suburban Chicago police did not immediately provide medical aid to a mortally wounded man an officer had just shot because they feared that he or his girlfriend could have a gun, according to …