Dangerous heat to grip parts of 13 states in South, Midwest
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Forecasters are warning of scorching heat across a wide stretch of the U.S. South and Midwest, where the heat index will feel as high as 117 degrees in some spots. Parts of 13 states on Monday will be under heat advisories, from Texas, Louisiana and Florida in...
Early study results suggest 2 Ebola treatments saving lives
WASHINGTON — Two of four experimental Ebola drugs being tested in Congo seem to be saving lives, international health authorities announced Monday. The preliminary findings prompted an early halt to a major study on the drugs and a decision to prioritize their use in the African country, where a yearlong...
Drive-by shooting kills 8-year-old Kansas City boy
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas City police say an 8-year-old boy died and his mother was seriously injured when someone shot dozens of bullets at their home. Police say Brian Bartlett and his mother were asleep when they were shot late Saturday. Brian and his mother were rushed to hospitals,...
Friend of Ohio shooter charged with lying on firearms forms
DAYTON, Ohio — The Justice Department says a friend of the Ohio gunman is being charged with lying on federal firearms forms. Authorities say more information about the charges being unsealed will be announced Monday afternoon. The charges come a little over a week after the mass shooting in Dayton,...
Cigarette butts pose big microplastic hazard in the oceans
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — You’ve seen it before: A driver idling at a stoplight flicks a cigarette butt out the window or a worker during a smoking break drops one to the sidewalk. What you don’t see is what happens to those cigarette butts. Typically, rain sweeps them down storm...
Trump overhauling enforcement of Endangered Species Act
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Monday rolled out some of the broadest changes in decades to enforcement of the landmark Endangered Species Act, allowing the government to put an economic cost on saving a species and other changes critics contend could speed extinction for some struggling plants and animals....
Teenagers allegedly steal AR-15 from school officer’s safe
RED BOILING SPRINGS, Tenn. — News outlets report two former students are accused of breaking into their Tennessee high school and stealing an assault weapon and bulletproof vests from the resource officer’s gun safe. Clay and Macon County authorities say Lee Clark and Adam Cisneros were spotted on video inside...
New rules can deny green cards for immigrants on food stamps
WASHINGTON — Trump administration rules that could deny green cards to immigrants who use Medicaid, food stamps, housing vouchers or other forms of public assistance are going into effect, one of its most aggressive moves to restrict legal immigration. Federal law already requires those seeking green cards and legal status...
Police: Kentucky man cracked 8-year-old’s head, raped her
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Police say a Kentucky man hit an 8-year-old girl in the head with a shovel, fracturing her skull, and then raped and robbed her. News outlets report 29-year-old Cane L. Madden was arrested Saturday on charges of first-degree rape, assault and robbery. A Louisville police arrest citation...
Woman, teens accused of dumping over 300 tires in lot
SCHUYLKILL HAVEN — State police say a woman and two teenagers dumped over 300 tires in a parking lot of a vacant motel in Pennsylvania. The Reading Eagle reports troopers found 61-year-old June Kuzowski and the two 15-year-olds throwing the tires out of a truck and onto the lot on...
Mass shootings have Latinos worried about being targets
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — When Michelle Otero arrived at an art show featuring Mexican-American women, the first thing she did was scan the room. Two exits. One security guard. Then she thought to herself: If a shooter bursts in, how do my husband and I get out of here alive? Otero,...
Hong Kong airport shuts down amid pro-democracy protest
HONG KONG — One of the world’s busiest airports canceled all flights after thousands of Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters crowded into the main terminal Monday afternoon. Hong Kong International Airport said in a statement that the demonstration “seriously disrupted” airport operations. Hong Kong has experienced more than two months of...
This Month in Sports History: August
A look back at sports history in the month of August via the Associated Press archives....
Grandma ‘B’ Shindehite of Youngwood remembered for outgoing manner, devotion to church
Blissful weekends with their grandmother “B” Shindehite were the highlight of the week for sisters Amanda Pizzutelli-Herb and Stacy Shipley. They’d have a weekend-long sleepover full of the good stuff — a trip to the park, junk food, bike rides and movies. “Grandma B’s house was always so much fun,”...
New York City police officer and her passenger die in fiery car crash
NEW YORK — A 24-year-old off-duty New York Police Department officer and her passenger have died after a car driven by the officer veered off a Manhattan parkway, hit a tree and erupted in flames. Police identified the victims of the 3:45 a.m. Sunday crash as 24-year-old Kimberly Lajara and...
Epstein’s guards worked extreme overtime shifts morning of deathVideo
NEW YORK — Guards on Jeffrey Epstein’s unit were working extreme overtime shifts to make up for staffing shortages the morning of his apparent suicide, a person familiar with the jail’s operations told The Associated Press. The person said that the Metropolitan Correctional Center’s Special Housing Unit was staffed with...
Muslims clash with Israeli police at Jerusalem holy siteVideo
JERUSALEM — Muslim worshippers and Israeli police clashed Sunday at a major Jerusalem holy site during prayers marking the Islamic holiday of Eid al-Adha. Palestinian medics said at least 14 people were wounded, one seriously, in the skirmishes with police at the site, which Muslims refer to as the Al-Aqsa...
Dayton bar patrons commemorate 1 week since mass shooting
DAYTON, Ohio — People who gathered at the scene of the Dayton mass shooting observed a moment of silence Sunday in tribute to the victims. Nine people were killed in the Aug. 4 attack that injured more than 30 people in the city’s historic Oregon District. Investigators say Connor Betts,...
Steve Bannon floats idea of Michelle Obama run against TrumpVideo
WASHINGTON — Democrats eager to oust President Trump in 2020 could pin their hopes on an 11th-hour bid by former first lady Michelle Obama rather than the roughly two dozen candidates now in the mix, former White House strategist Steve Bannon suggested. “I don’t see anybody that’s on this stage...
Tennessee inmate Curtis Ray Watson caught emerging from farm field
HENNING, Tenn. — A Tennessee convict suspected of killing a corrections administrator before escaping prison on a tractor was captured Sunday seven hours after homeowners recognized him on their outdoor surveillance camera, authorities said. Curtis Ray Watson put his hands up and was arrested as he came out of a...
5 children killed in fire at Erie day care centerVideo
ERIE — A day care center where children could stay overnight as their parents worked was ravaged Sunday by a fire that killed five and sent the owner to the hospital, authorities said. The victims in the lakeside city of Erie ranged in ages from 8 months to 7 years,...
Justice late, not denied: New York to allow old abuse suits
ALBANY, N.Y. — Hundreds, if not thousands of people who say they were molested as children in New York state are expected to go to court this week to sue their alleged abusers and the institutions they say failed them, including the Catholic Church, the Boy Scouts, public schools and...
Border official: Timing of immigration raids ‘unfortunate’
WASHINGTON — Trump administration officials are defending last week’s mass immigration raids in Mississippi, including emotional footage of a girl pleading with authorities to let her father go. Acting Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Mark Morgan acknowledged that video of the 11-year-old sobbing was “emotional” but says the girl was...
Epstein dies in the dark, but abuse investigation carries on
NEW YORK — Investigators have long been digging into allegations of sexual abuse and conspiracy against Jeffrey Epstein . The financier’s apparent suicide brings another mystery to investigate: How did he end up dying in jail? An additional federal investigation was launched Saturday after the Federal Bureau of Prison said...
Trump-McConnell 2020? Senate leader takes on role of wingman
WASHINGTON — It’s not quite “Trump-McConnell 2020,” but it might as well be. As he runs for reelection, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is positioning himself as the president’s wingman, his trusted right hand in Congress, transformed from a behind-the-scenes player into a prominent if sometimes reviled Republican like none...
