NORFOLK, Va. — A man accused of fatally shooting five people at a Maryland newsroom is believed to have mailed a letter on the day of the rampage to a Virginia journalist he harassed for years and unsuccessfully sued, police and the journalist said Thursday. The letter arrived Thursday at The Virginian-Pilot newspaper in Norfolk. It was the fourth such letter…
The Justice Department told a federal court in California Friday that the Trump administration may need more time in certain circumstances to reunite undocumented families separated at the southern border. On June 26, in response to a lawsuit filed to resolve the separation issue, that court gave the Trump administration 30 days to reunite children and parents. The court gave…
He replaces Stacey Pickering, who resigned recently to become executive director of the Mississippi State Veterans Affairs Board.
The escapee was serving two consecutive life sentences for the murders of Carmen Dale Edwards and Kenneth Gibson in Biloxi and Gulfport in 2014.
SEATTLE — Behind tall brick walls and secure windows, hundreds of patients at Washington state’s largest psychiatric hospital live in conditions that fail U.S. health and safety standards, while overworked nurses and psychiatrists say they are navigating a system that punishes employees who speak out despite critical staffing shortages. “They don’t have enough staff to protect patients, or provide them…
Investigators are not releasing the name of the victim or the suspect at this time.
A mother in Florida says she secretly recorded her son’s kindergarten teacher bullying him in school and calling him a “loser,” leading the school district to open an investigation. Kandy Escotto noticed last year that her 5-year-old son Aaron was struggling with his grades and self-esteem, and he said his teacher had called him a bad boy. Escotto wanted to…
DENVER — An erratic wildfire charging through extremely dry land in the heart of Colorado ski country destroyed three homes and forced people to flee, authorities said Thursday. Elsewhere in Colorado, a rare high-elevation tornado touched down at the site of another wildfire Thursday but apparently caused little damage and had no effect on the fire. They were among more…
New neighbors in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, started off as complete strangers. But after learning nothing more than a name, the two women ended up closer than either could have imagined. Hillary Harris said she was raised in a loving home by the couple who adopted her when she was just a month old. But she’d always wondered about…
COLUMBUS, Ohio — On paper, Richard Strauss was a well-regarded Ohio State University physician who examined young athletes for decades as a team doctor and sports-medicine researcher. Some former athletes recall him differently: Locker-room voyeur. Serial groper. “Dr. Jelly Paws.” In interviews with The Associated Press in recent weeks, seven former athletes and a former nursing student shared detailed allegations…
OKLAHOMA CITY — Scott Pruitt’s tenure as the head of the Environmental Protection Agency ended with his resignation, but political experts in his home state of Oklahoma say that he could continue his career in public office. The path could lead him back to Washington. Pruitt, a former Oklahoma state senator and two-term Republican attorney general, resigned suddenly Thursday amid ethics…
87 Photos A car is seen in a flooded street as Hurricane Irma passes through Miami, Florida, on Sept. 10, 2017 in Miami, Florida. Joe Raedle / Getty Images NORTH BAY VILLAGE, Fla. — As Hurricane Irma approached Florida last year, not everyone was scrambling to get ready. An internal affairs report shows some members of the “Landfall Team” in…
This spring, the Trump administration began a “zero tolerance” policy to criminally prosecute anyone caught crossing the border illegally. Because children can’t be in jail with their parents, more than 2,300 families caught by Border Patrol were separated. The move prompted mass outrage in the United States and internationally. After first blaming the practice on the Democrats, President Trump on…
BEIJING — The United States and China hiked tariffs Friday on billions of dollars of each other’s goods, launching what Beijing called the “biggest trade war in economic history” in a spiraling dispute over technology. The Trump administration is confronting Beijing over development tactics it says include stealing or pressuring foreign companies to hand over technology. American officials worry Chinese…
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SAN ANTONIO — Some immigrant U.S. Army reservists and recruits who enlisted in the military with a promised path to citizenship are being abruptly discharged, the Associated Press has learned. The AP was unable to quantify how many men and women who enlisted through the special recruitment program have been booted from the Army, but immigration attorneys say they know…