CINCINNATI (AP) — A federal inspection has concluded that the Cincinnati Zoo’s barrier to keep the public and gorillas separate wasn’t in compliance with standards for housing primates the day a 3-year-old boy slipped into the gorilla exhibit. The federal inspection report viewed by The Associated Press states that the zoo’s dangerous-animal response team properly […]
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A woman accused of killing her twin sister by driving their vehicle off a Hawaii cliff in May was being held Monday in a New York jail after being charged with murder for the second time in the case, authorities said. New York State Police announced over the weekend that Alexandria […]
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Donald Trump is scheduled to go on trial this month in a class-action lawsuit against him and his now-defunct Trump University, potentially taking the witness stand weeks before his inauguration as president of the United States. U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel, the Indiana-born jurist who was accused of bias by Trump […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Hillary Clinton told supporters Wednesday that they owed Donald Trump “an open mind and a chance to lead,” urging acceptance of the celebrity businessman’s stunning win after a campaign that appeared poised until Election Day to make her the first woman elected U.S. president. Addressing stricken staff and voters at a […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the 2016 presidential election. (All times EST): 7:15 a.m. President Barack Obama has invited President-elect Donald Trump to meet with him at the White House on Thursday. The president plans to address Trump’s victory in a statement from the White House on Wednesday. The White House says Obama called […]
MIAMI (AP) — Janet Reno, the first woman to serve as U.S. attorney general and the epicenter of several political storms during the Clinton administration, including the seizure of Elian Gonzalez, died early Monday. She was 78. Reno died from complications of Parkinson’s disease, her goddaughter Gabrielle D’Alemberte said. D’Alemberte said Reno spent her final […]
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia’s seven-day transit strike is over. The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority says the city’s main transit agency and the union representing about 4,700 workers reached an agreement early Monday. SEPTA Board Chairman Pasquale Deon said it is a fair deal that provides “wage increases, pension improvements, and maintains health care coverage […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the U.S. presidential race (all times EDT): 9 a.m. The number of early voters in Florida has already exceeded the total from 2012, with voting continuing through the weekend. State election officials reported Friday that nearly 5.3 million Floridians have voted by mail or at polling precincts. In 2012, […]
BERWYN, Pa. (AP) — Donald Trump‘s wife, Melania, made a rare appearance on the campaign trail on Thursday, pledging to focus on combatting online bullying and serve as an advocate for women and children if her husband is elected to the White House. Her description of the perils of social media seemed at odds with […]
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A white man with a history of racial provocations and confrontations with police ambushed and fatally shot two white officers in separate attacks as they sat in their patrol cars, authorities said. Police took 46-year-old Scott Michael Greene into custody hours after the killings early Wednesday, less than three weeks […]
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Commuters braced for a third day of traffic gridlock in and around Philadelphia as the city’s transit agency urged the union representing about 4,700 striking workers to engage in good-faith negotiations to bring an end to the walkout. The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority said in a statement late Wednesday that a strike […]
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Police in Des Moines, Iowa, say two officers have been shot and killed in ambush-style attacks. The Des Moines Police Department said in a news release that the shootings took place early Wednesday. Officers responded to a report of shots fired at about 1:06 a.m. and found an Urbandale Police […]
