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Parachutists bail in pandemic on West Virginia’s Bridge Day
FAYETTEVILLE, W.Va. — Parachutists won’t jump off the nation’s third-highest bridge next month because of worries about sufficient emergency health care amid the coronavirus pandemic, an organizer said Wednesday. Marcus Ellison, an organizer for BASE jumpers, told the Bridge Day Commission on Wednesday that the group will not participate in...
Appeals court throws out ruling on handgun sales to people under 21
RICHMOND, Va. — A federal appeals court on Wednesday threw out a ruling that found a law banning licensed firearms dealers from selling handguns to young adults under 21 is unconstitutional. A three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond ruled that the case is now...
Mother, daughter charged with murder for ‘outlaw’ butt lift procedures
LOS ANGELES — A mother and daughter have been arrested in Southern California on suspicion of performing “outlaw” buttocks augmentation procedures on women, including one who died, police said Wednesday. Libby Adame, 51, and Alicia Galaz, 23, are accused of performing the “inherently unsafe, FDA unapproved” cosmetic procedures at non-medical...
West Virginia governor withdraws from consideration as boys basketball coach
LEWISBURG, W.Va. — West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice has withdrawn from consideration as the coach of a boys high school basketball team where he already is the girls coach. In a letter to the Greenbrier Board of Education on Tuesday, Justice asked that a boys coach be named soon at...
Day 4 of search in Florida park for Brian Laundrie, Gabby Petito’s boyfriend
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Search teams fanned out Wednesday at a Florida wilderness park to look for the boyfriend of Gabby Petito, the young woman who authorities say was killed while on a cross-country trip with him. The search resumed around 8 a.m. Wednesday at the 24,000-acre Carlton Reserve park,...
Trump sues niece, NY Times over records behind ’18 tax story
NEW YORK — Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday sued his estranged niece and The New York Times over a 2018 story about his family’s wealth and tax practices that was partly based on confidential documents she provided to the newspaper’s reporters. Trump’s lawsuit, filed in state court in New...
Officials: Many Haitian migrants on Texas border are being released into U.S.
DEL RIO, Texas — Many Haitian migrants camped in a small Texas border town are being released in the United States, two U.S. officials said Tuesday, undercutting the Biden administration’s public statements that the thousands in the camp faced immediate expulsion. Haitians have been freed on a “very, very large...
Teen pleads guilty in killing of college student Tessa Majors in NYC park
NEW YORK — One of two teens charged as adults in the fatal stabbing of a college student in a New York City park pleaded guilty Tuesday to murder and robbery charges. Luchiano Lewis was accused of holding Barnard College freshman Tessa Majors in a headlock and preventing her from...
Gabby Petito confirmed dead of homicide, autopsy finds
NORTH PORT, Fla. — Gabby Petito was killed by another person, a coroner concluded while also confirming that the human remains found recently at a Wyoming national park were those of the 22-year-old woman who disappeared months after she set out on a cross-country road trip with her boyfriend, the...
German officials fear anti-mask radicalization after killing of 20-year-old cashier
BERLIN — Senior politicians in Germany expressed shock over the weekend killing of a young gas station clerk who asked a customer to wear a face mask, and they warned Tuesday against the radicalization of people who oppose the country’s pandemic restrictions. A 49-year-old German man was arrested in the...
Options shrink for Haitian migrants straddling Texas borderVideo
DEL RIO, Texas — Options narrowed Tuesday for thousands of Haitian migrants straddling the Mexico-Texas border as the United States government ramped up expulsion flights to Haiti, and Mexico began flying and busing some away from the border. Dozens of migrants upset about being deported to Haiti tried to rush...
Lawyer: R. Kelly unlikely to take stand in trafficking trial
NEW YORK — R. Kelly is unlikely to take the witness stand at his sex-trafficking trial, a lawyer for the R&B singer told a judge Tuesday. The remark by attorney Deveraux Cannick, made with the jury out the courtroom, came as the defense wound down its case at the trial...
Toxic gas, new rivers of molten lava endanger Spanish island
EL PASO, Canary Islands — As a new volcanic vent blew open and unstoppable rivers of molten rock flowed toward the sea, authorities on a Spanish island warned Tuesday that more dangers lie ahead for residents, including earthquakes, lava flows, toxic gases, volcanic ash and acid rain. Several small earthquakes...
Flames pour from section of Superdome roof in New Orleans
NEW ORLEANS — Smoke and flames shot through the side of the Superdome’s roof on Tuesday as crews worked to clean and prepare the New Orleans sports and entertainment arena for painting. The New Orleans Fire Department confirmed firefighters responded to flames on the building’s roof shortly before 1 p.m....
Trudeau’s election bet fails, but Tory rival might lose job
TORONTO — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau secured victory in parliamentary elections but failed to get the majority he wanted, an outcome that threatened his Conservative rival with loss of his job after moving his party to the center and alienating its base. Trudeau bet Canadians didn’t want a Conservative government...
Sheriff: No charges after twin boys die from heat in car
COLUMBIA, S.C. — A sheriff said no charges will be filed against a South Carolina father whose 20-month-old boys died from heat after he forgot to drop them off at daycare and left them in his vehicle because he was under intense pressure at work. Watching investigators interview the father...
Biden pledges ‘relentless diplomacy’ on global challenges
UNITED NATIONS — President Joe Biden used his first address before the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday to summon allies to move more quickly to address the festering issues of the covid-19 pandemic, climate change and human rights abuses, while insisting the U.S. is not seeking “a new Cold War”...
Biden to urge action on climate change and the pandemic at UN today
President Joe Biden will try to reassure allies that the United States will not turn its back on global commitments during his first speech at the United Nations on Tuesday as he pushes for more cooperation on combatting the covid-19 pandemic and climate change. His remarks come as he’s trying...
Ex-probation officer convicted in real estate agent killing
MINNEAPOLIS — A former probation officer has been found guilty for her role in the kidnapping and killing of a Minneapolis real estate agent. Jurors in Hennepin County on Monday found 29-year-old Elsa Segura guilty of luring Monique Baugh to a bogus home showing in Maple Grove on Dec. 31,...
2 die when man jumps off building in New York, lands on another man
YONKERS, N.Y. — A distraught man jumped off the roof of a New York apartment building and landed on another man 12 stories below, killing both of them, police said. A 25-year-old man jumped from an apartment building in Yonkers on Monday evening, Yonkers police said. He landed on the...
Sudanese officials say coup attempt failed, army in control
Sudanese authorities reported a coup attempt on Tuesday by a group of soldiers but said the attempt failed and that the country’s ruling council and military remain in control. The development underscored the fragility of Sudan’s path to democracy, more than two years after the military’s overthrow of longtime autocrat...
Politico pardoned by Trump accused of illegal campaign scam
WASHINGTON — A Republican political operative pardoned by President Donald Trump after his conviction in a 2012 bribery plot has been charged again with campaign-related crimes, this time involving a 2016 illegal campaign contribution scheme and a Russian national. Jesse Benton, 43, of Louisville, Ky., was accused in an indictment...
Gabby Petito’s boyfriend sought in Florida nature preserveVideo
NORTH PORT, Fla. — Authorities were once again searching a swampy preserve area Tuesday near the home of the boyfriend wanted for questioning in the death of 22-year-old Gabby Petito, whose body was discovered at a Wyoming national park months after the pair set out on a cross-country road trip....
Texas doctor who defied the state’s abortion ban is suedVideo
DALLAS — A San Antonio doctor who said he performed an abortion in defiance of a new Texas law has been sued by two people seeking to test the legality of the state’s near-total ban on the procedure. Former attorneys in Arkansas and Illinois filed lawsuits Monday against Dr. Alan...
Lawyer of Trump CFO Allen Weisselberg says he suspects more indictments on way
NEW YORK — A lawyer for Donald Trump’s indicted corporate finance chief told a judge Monday he has “strong reason to believe” more indictments are coming in an ongoing New York investigation into the former president’s real estate empire. Lawyer Bryan Scarlatos made the remark during Trump Organization CFO Allen...
