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Updated 1 month, 2 weeks ago

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
School bus in Tennessee involved in crash; 2 killed

DECATUR, Tenn. (AP) — Two people have been killed in a crash between a school bus and a utility service vehicle, the Tennessee Highway Patrol said.

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
Colorado's largest wildfire has burned more than 200 homes

FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) — A wildfire that has scorched more than 326 square miles (844 square kilometers) since it started in mid-August, becoming the largest in Colorado history, has damaged or destroyed more tha…

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
Tennessee Highway Patrol: Two killed in crash involving a school bus and utility service vehicle in eastern Tennessee

DECATUR, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee Highway Patrol: Two killed in crash involving a school bus and utility service vehicle in eastern Tennessee.

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
Peru's Machu Picchu reopening Sunday after pandemic closure

MACHU PICCHU, Peru (AP) — Except workers repairing roads and signs, Peru's majestic Incan citadel of Machu Picchu is eerily empty ahead of its reopening Sunday after seven months of closure due to the coronavirus p…

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
Philadelphia victim's family sought ambulance, not police

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The family of a Black man killed by Philadelphia police officers in a shooting caught on video had called for an ambulance to get him help with a mental health crisis, not for police interventio…

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
Authorities report a school bus carrying children has been involved in a serious crash in Tennessee.

DECATUR, Tenn. (AP) — Authorities report a school bus carrying children has been involved in a serious crash in Tennessee.

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
Officials: School bus in Tennessee involved in serious crash

DECATUR, Tenn. (AP) — A school bus carrying children was involved in a serious highway crash Tuesday in Tennessee, authorities said.

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
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Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
Backers get needed funds for North Dakota Roosevelt library

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota's governor, Microsoft, a Walmart heir, and a Fargo media mogul are among the major financial backers of a proposed presidential library for Theodore Roosevelt in the state's weste…

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
AP News in Brief at 6:04 p.m. EDT

Biden vows his unity can 'save country'; Trump hits Midwest

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
Kistner's election delay bid rejected at Supreme Court

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Minnesota Republican candidate's bid to delay voting in his congressional race to February due to the death of a third-party candidate was rejected Tuesday at the Supreme Court.

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
AP News Digest 6 p.m.

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Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
Store guard stabbed 27 times for asking women to wear masks

CHICAGO (AP) — Two sisters accused of stabbing a West Side Chicago store security guard 27 times with a knife after he asked them to wear face masks and use hand sanitizer were ordered held without bond Tuesday.

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
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Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
Ohio governor has been pleading for action on gun violence

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — As Gov. Mike DeWine uses his twice-weekly bully pulpit to detail Ohio's fight against the coronavirus, the Republican chief executive has also continued his so-far unsuccessful crusade against…