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LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — More than $3.9 million in housing funds that was taken electronically has been recovered, a Kentucky mayor said Friday.
The funds were seized from a private account and refunded to the city of Lexington, a news release from the city said.
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LOS ANGELES — New audio files from the Los Angeles Fire Department reveal that actor Anne Heche was trapped in her car for nearly an hour before being rescued at the scene of the fiery crash that led to her death last month.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Eastside High School basketball coach Herman “Pop” Williams would drive and listen to the talented, contemplative teenager in the passenger’s seat.
President Joe Biden announced last week he will cancel $10,000 in federal student loan debt (or $20,000 for those with Pell grants) as long as the borrower makes under $125,000 a year.
The Federal Trade Commission is investigating Amazon’s $3.9 billion acquisition of the primary health organization One Medical, a move that could delay the completion of the deal. According to a regulatory filing, both One Medical and Amazon received a request for additional information on Friday in connection with an FTC review of the merger. Amazon announced plans in late July to purchase One Medical, a concierge-type medical service with roughly 190 medical offices in 25 markets. Last week, the e-commerce giant said it would shutter its own hybrid virtual, in-home care service, which competed with One Medical, because it wasn’t meeting customers' needs.
A fast-moving wildfire in Northern California's Siskiyou County has burned nearly 1,000 acres and destroyed multiple buildings as a heat wave across the state heightened fire dangers.
West Virginia's House speaker says he plans to contact members next week to call them back for a special session, likely to discuss an ongoing abortion bill. Speaker Roger Hanshaw says lawmakers' Sept. 12 return would coincide with regularly scheduled interim committee meetings. Before adjourning in July, the House refused to concur with Senate amendments on an abortion bill. Instead, the House asked for a conference committee to iron out differences. Senate President Craig Blair says Hanshaw's statement took him by surprise. Blair says he won't call senators back into session without a concrete plan for producing a bill that has the votes to pass both chambers.
DETROIT — Unless you’ve struggled with mental illness, especially if you struggled with it in the public glare, you can’t know the courage it took for Tigers outfielder Austin Meadows to come forth with his struggles.
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Argentina's vice president survives assassination attempt
Democrat Katie Hobbs is declining to participate in a head-to-head debate against Republican Kari Lake in the race for Arizona governor. Hobbs on Friday requested the candidates be interviewed individually instead. The Citizens Clean Elections Commission, which organizes debates in races up and down the ballot, said it would consider the request. The Hobbs campaign said the commission’s raucous Republican primary debate was fodder for late-night comedians, and she doesn’t want to participate in another spectacle. Lake called Hobbs a “coward” for refusing to debate. Meanwhile, Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly and Republican Blake Masters both agreed to a televised debate sponsored by the commission on Oct. 6.
A man has pleaded guilty to murdering four women whose bodies were found in vacant Detroit houses in 2018 and 2019. Wayne County Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Maria Miller said 37-year-old Deangelo Martin also pleaded guilty on Friday to sexually assaulting two other women. Martin pleaded guilty just days before he was scheduled to stand trial. An agreement with prosecutors that calls for him to be sentenced to 45 years to 70 years in prison. The plea comes three years after prosecutors announced the charges in the slayings that they characterized as the work of a serial killer. Martin is set to be sentenced on Oct. 6.
NEW YORK — A Brooklyn judge will allow people who have “some dislike” of former President Donald Trump to serve as jurors at the upcoming trial of his former associate Thomas Barrack, according to a ruling released Friday.
Democrat Katie Hobbs says she has declined to agree to a televised debate with Republican Kari Lake as both seek the Arizona governor’s office. Hobbs’ campaign instead proposed that she and Lake sit down separately with Arizona PBS moderator Ted Simons for 30-minute interviews. Lake's spokesman says voters deserve more than two candidates talking in separate rooms. Hobbs' campaign has been talking with the Citizens Clean Election Commission and Arizona PBS for weeks to try to agree on terms for the scheduled Oct. 12 debate. The debates are televised and streamed live across the state on PBS and numerous television stations.
DALLAS — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said this week that although the state’s abortion ban makes no exception for rape or incest, victims of these crimes can take emergency contraception and call the police.
Fifty years ago, ABC sportscaster Jim McKay delivered the worst possible news with three words: “They're all gone." With that, we learned the awful fate of 11 Israeli hostages at the Munich Olympics. Even after all this time, it’s still difficult to shake those images of a masked Palestinian terrorist lurking on the balcony of the Olympic Village. It’s still difficult to get one’s head around just how senseless and needless it all was. And then there are those left behind, to live a lifetime filled with hurt in their hearts and questions that can never be answered about what might have been.
SAN FRANCISCO — Brandon Belt will undergo season-ending surgery on his right knee, the Giants announced on Friday. The procedure on his troublesome knee could spell the end of 34-year-old Belt’s MLB career.
North Carolina’s State Board of Elections has chosen not to fight a recent decision by the state rules panel blocking its proposed restrictions on party-appointed poll watchers this fall. But the board pledged Friday to do all it can to help county elections officials maintain a safe. orderly voting environment and to deter any voter intimidation. The state’s Rules Review Commission shot down two temporary rule changes last week that would have more clearly outlined the code of conduct for partisan election observers in response to more than a dozen reported violations during the May primaries. Republicans have been leading the charge to block the rule changes since June.
U.S. prosecutors say a tip along with the perseverance of the mother of a woman killed in San Diego in 2016 led to the arrest of her boyfriend who fled to El Salvador and was captured there last month. Raymond McLeod pleaded not guilty to a murder charge in San Diego Superior Court. He is accused of strangling his girlfriend, Krystal Mitchell, 30, a mother of two. His attorney could comment not be reached for comment.
LOS ANGELES — When two Los Angeles police officers confronted Jermaine Petit on an evening in July, one of them quickly realized that reports Petit was carrying a gun were inaccurate.
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NEW YORK — Officials from Mayor Eric Adams’ administration visited Texas on Friday to learn more about the state’s handling of an influx of Latin American migrants, thousands of whom have been sent to New York in recent months, putting a strain on the city’s homeless shelter system.
Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife Director Kelly Susewind has authorized the killing of one wolf because of cattle attacks in northeast Washington. The Capital Press reports the Smackout wolf pack has attacked cattle in Stevens and Pend Oreille counties. The agency says non-lethal deterrents employed by several ranchers have not stopped the predations. The wolf pack crossed the line for the department to consider lethal control when it killed two calves and injured two others during the last two weeks in August. The agency says the decision to remove one wolf increases chances that enough adult wolves will survive to care for juveniles.
CNN White House correspondent John Harwood says he’s exiting the news channel. In a tweet Friday, he says he was proud of the work he'd done. His departure comes amid other significant changes at CNN. Last month, CNN canceled its weekly “Reliable Sources” media analysis show after three decades on the air, and host Brian Stelter left the network. The network is making a move to be less confrontational politically. Harwood came to CNN from CNBC, and previously worked at the St. Petersburg Times and the Wall Street Journal. Harwood said he looked forward to figuring out what's next. CNN didn't reply to a request for comment.
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Mayor of Weed, California, says multiple homes have been destroyed in fire that started at lumber mill Friday afternoon.
Court records show that the West Virginia man charged in a shooting at western Maryland machine shop that killed three coworkers has pleaded not criminally responsible for mental reasons. Joe Louis Esquivel is charged with murder, attempted murder and other offenses in the June 9 shooting at Columbia Machine in Smithsburg and an ensuing shootout with police. The Herald-Mail reports that in a recent filing, Esquivel asserted that at the time of the shootings he lacked the capacity to either “appreciate the criminality of the alleged conduct” or “conform that conduct to the requirements of law” due to a “mental disorder or mental retardation." A judge accepted the plea and approved Hutchison’s request for bifurcated trials.
Californians sweltering in the West’s lengthening heat wave have been asked to reduce air conditioning and cut other electricity use again to prevent stress on the state’s electrical grid that could lead to rolling blackouts. Friday is the third consecutive day of requests by the state’s grid operator for voluntary cutbacks during late afternoon and evening hours to balance supply and demand. The California Independent System Operator says multiple generators have been forced out of service because of the extreme heat, making energy supplies tighter. The grid operator says Thursday saw the highest electrical demand since September 2017, and there's major concern about even higher temperatures Sunday through Tuesday.
Matthew Wolff is now a footnote in LIV Golf history. He has the first hole-in-one in the Saudi-funded league. Wolff shot a 63 and has a one-shot lead in the LIV Golf Invitational-Boston. A pair of newcomers are one shot back. Cameron Smith and Joaquin Niemann are among six players to recently sign with Greg Norman's rival series. Smith made a long eagle putt on his final hole. He also broke a club against a tree playing a shot. Jordanian teen Shergo Al Kurdi filled in for Henrik Stenson. The Swede couldn't play because of vertigo. Phil Mickelson shot 74.
The Portland Thorns say team owner Merritt Paulson was contacted in 2019 about former coach Paul Riley’s interest in becoming head coach of the U.S. women’s national team, and he disclosed that Riley had had been fired by the team for cause. But the team maintains Riley didn't try to shape a decision. The statement came in response to a report by ESPN that detailed a presentation for Thorns employees by a firm conducting an investigation into how allegations of sexual coercion and harassment made against Riley were handled. Riley coached the Thorns in 2014-15 before he was dismissed.
The attorney for the Prior Lake, Minnesota, man charged with stabbing a teenager to death and wounding four others on the Apple River in western Wisconsin laid out his client's self-defense claim in court Friday.
Matteo Berrettini has ended Andy Murray’s bid to return to the fourth round of a Grand Slam tournament by beating the the three-time major 6-4, 6-4, 6-7 (1), 6-3 at the U.S. Open. Murray hasn’t reached the round of 16 in one of tennis’ four biggest tournaments since Wimbledon in 2017, when he was ranked No. 1. He later had two operations on his right hip and a metal implant. He won the 2012 U.S. Open and Wimbledon in 2013 and 2016. Berrettini was the runner-up at Wimbledon last year. Serena Williams is scheduled to play Ajla Tomljanovic at night in Arthur Ashe Stadium.
The Democratic nominee for a key North Carolina legislative seat this fall is still a candidate following a challenge to her residency in the district. The State Board of Elections ruled on Friday in favor of Valerie Jordan, who is running for the 3rd Senate District seat against Republican Bobby Hanig. Hanig questioned whether Jordan lived in the district. The Democrat-majority board voted 3-2 to reverse the findings of the Currituck County Board of Elections, which declared there was “substantial evidence” against Jordan. Hanig said he's still weighing whether to appeal to Superior Court. The 3rd District election could decide whether Senate Republicans gain a veto-proof majority.
ATLANTA — The Fulton County special grand jury is growing increasingly interested in an alleged election data breach in rural Coffee County as part of its multifaceted criminal investigation into Georgia’s 2020 election.
Screen icon and activist Jane Fonda revealed Friday that she has been diagnosed with lymphoma and has started chemotherapy.
Greek soccer club Olympiakos has signed Brazilian star Marcelo. Marcelo has spent the past 16 seasons playing for Real Madrid. There he accumulated 25 tropies, the most in the club's history. The terms of the contract were not announced by Olympiakos but Greek sports sites reported it is for one year with an option for an additional year. He's an attacking left back, or wing-back, and aged 34.
A judge in Nicaragua has sentenced a Roman Catholic priest to 49 years in prison for the rape of a 14-year-old girl. Judge Edén Aguilar Castro sentenced Rev. José Leonardo Urbina on Friday to 24 years in prison on two counts of abuse and 25 years for one count of rape. However, Aguilar Castro ruled the Urbina would serve only 30 years. Nicaraguan law limits maximum sentences in most cases to 30 years. Urbina served as a priest at the Perpetuo Socorro parish in the town of Boaco, which is 55 miles (90 kilometers) northeast of the capital, Managua. He was arrested in July on a complaint from the victim’s mother.
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden said Friday that he'll be attending the Detroit Auto Show later this month because he is "a car guy."
PITTSBURGH — Federal prosecutors this week gave notice to Robert Bowers' legal team that they will use his antisemitic vitriol on Gab.com at his trial as well as evidence from his phone, including a video of Jared Kushner in Jerusalem, images of Bowers making white supremacist gestures and a…
CNN White House correspondent John Harwood announced Friday that he is leaving the network.
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