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Court rejects Oklahoma inmate’s claim father killed woman

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:17:51 GMT

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Court of Criminals on Thursday rejected a death row inmate’s claim that his father was the actual killer of a University of Oklahoma dance student in 1996.The court’s decision paves the way for Anthony Sanchez, 44, to be executed by lethal injection on Sept. 21. Attorneys for Sanchez said in a court filing that his late father, Thomas Sanchez, was the actual killer. A former girlfriend of Thomas Sanchez, who died by suicide last year, has said he confessed to killing 21-year-old Juli Busken, but that she was too afraid to come forward until after he died.But the court determined the allegations were hearsay and not enough to overcome “compelling evidence” of Anthony Sanchez’s guilt. Sanchez’s attorney did not immediately comment on the ruling.Busken, from Benton, Arkansas, had just completed her last semester at OU when she was abducted on Dec. 20, 1996, from her apartment complex in Norman. Her body was found that evening in southeast Oklahom...

Greater Mid-Atlantic News Digest 1 pm

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:17:51 GMT

Here’s a look at how AP’s general news coverage is shaping up for select stories. For up-to-the minute information on AP’s complete coverage of North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Maryland and Delaware, and the rest of the world, visit Coverage Plan at newsroom.ap.orgQuestions about coverage plans are welcome and should be directed to 919-510-8937, 202-641-9660, 410-837-8315, 804-643-6646 or [email protected]. Mid-South Assistant News Director Jonathan Drew can be reached at 919-510-8937 or [email protected] access to AP Newsroom and other technical issues, contact AP Customer Support at [email protected] or 877-836-9477.This information is not for publication or broadcast, and these coverage plans are subject to change. Expected stories may not develop, or late-breaking and more newsworthy events may take precedence. Coverage Plan will keep you up to date. All times are Eastern unless specified otherwise.NORTH CAROLINAIN BRIEF: SHOOTING-GOLDSBORO — Police in North Carolina s...

Pitcher criticizes MLB teams for extending alcohol sales

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:17:51 GMT

CINCINATTI (AP) — A pitcher with the Philadelphia Phillies is criticizing some Major League Baseball teams for extending alcohol sales with games running around 30 minutes shorter due to the sport’s new pitch clock.Matt Strahm said Thursday on the Baseball Isn’t Boring podcast that teams should be moving the cutoff for beer sales up to the sixth inning, rather than stretching to the eighth or later, since fans will have less time to sober up and drive home.At least five teams — the Houston Astros, Arizona Diamondbacks, Texas Rangers, Minnesota Twins and Milwaukee Brewers — have extended alcohol sales past the traditional seventh-inning cutoff. The Baltimore Orioles had already allowed sales into the eighth.Other teams haven’t ruled out changes.“The reason we stopped it in the seventh before was to give our fans time to sober up and drive home safe, correct?” Strahm said. “So now with a faster pace game, and me just being a man of common sense, if the game is ...

2 Indianapolis police officers indicted in Black man’s death

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:17:51 GMT

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Two Indianapolis police officers have been indicted by a grand jury in the death of a Black man who died last year after being taken into police custody at his parents’ home, prosecutors said Thursday.The indictment of officers Adam Ahmad and Steven Sanchez comes nearly a year after Herman Whitfield III’s death. His family sued the city of Indianapolis and six police officers in June over the 39-year-old pianist’s death.Sanchez was indicted on two counts of involuntary manslaughter, while Ahmad was indicted on one count, Marion County Prosecutor Ryan Mears said in a news release. Both were also indicted on charges of reckless homicide, battery resulting in serious bodily injury and battery resulting in moderate injury — all felony charges — and on a misdemeanor battery charge. Online court records did not list an attorney for either Ahmad or Sanchez.Five officers with the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department and a recruit trainee were called to...

Drake Bell, cantante y actor de “Drake & Josh”, está “desaparecido y en peligro”, según considera la Policía en Florida

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:17:51 GMT

(CNN) — El actor y cantante Drake Bell, de 36 años, más conocido por su papel de Drake en la comedia de Nickelodeon “Drake & Josh”, se encuentra desaparecido, según el Departamento de Policía de Daytona Beach (DBPD, por sus siglas en inglés).En una publicación de Facebook, el DBPD declaró que Bell fue visto por última vez en un BMW gris 2022 cerca de Mainland High School este miércoles por la noche.“Se le considera desaparecido y en peligro”, de acuerdo con el DBPD.Se alienta a cualquier persona con información a comunicarse con el DBPD al (386) 671-5207.El nombre legal de la estrella es Jared Drake Bell.CNN se puso en contacto con representantes del Departamento de Policía y con Bell para obtener más información.Las cuentas de redes sociales del actor de 36 años no se han actualizado desde el 3 de abril, cuando su cuenta verificada de Twitter tenía un post de su entrevista con YouTuber Roberto Mtz.En Instagram, sus publicaciones más recientes inclu...

Montana close to becoming 1st state to completely ban TikTok

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:17:51 GMT

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Montana lawmakers were expected to take a big step forward Thursday on a bill to ban TikTok from operating in the state, a move that’s bound to face legal challenges but also serve as a testing ground for the TikTok-free America that many national lawmakers have envisioned. Montana’s proposal, which has backing from the state’s GOP-controlled legislature, is more sweeping than bans in place in nearly half the states and the U.S. federal government that prohibit TikTok on government devices.The House was scheduled to hold a second hearing vote on the legislation on Thursday. If it’s approved, a final House vote would likely take place Friday, after which the bill would be forwarded to Republican Gov. Greg Gianforte. He has banned TikTok on government devices in Montana. The Senate passed the bill 30-20 in March.TikTok, which is owned by the Chinese tech company ByteDance, has been under intense scrutiny over concerns it could hand over user data...

Johnny Depp y Amber Heard han encontrado la paz en el extranjero un año después de su juicio por difamación en Virginia

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:17:51 GMT

(CNN) — Un año después del comienzo del publicitado juicio por difamación de Johnny Depp y Amber Heard, CNN ha sabido por fuentes cercanas a los actores que la expareja ha dejado atrás su batalla legal.Su dramático juicio televisado en Virginia comenzó el pasado mes de abril y concluyó en junio, cuando el jurado del caso declaró tanto a Heard como a Depp responsables de difamación en sus demandas mutuas. A Depp se le concedieron US$ 10 millones en daños compensatorios y US$ 5 millones en daños punitivos. El jurado concedió a Heard US$ 2 millones por daños compensatorios y ningún dinero por daños punitivos.En diciembre, Heard anunció que ella y Depp habían llegado a un acuerdo en su demanda por difamación, escribiendo en Instagram que ella “no había hecho ninguna admisión” y que el acuerdo “no es un acto de concesión”.“Tomo esta decisión habiendo perdido la fe en el sistema legal estadounidense, donde mi testimonio no protegido sirvió como entreten...

How common is the illness that killed an Eaglecrest High School teacher?

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:17:51 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Bacterial meningitis is a highly dangerous disease, but it is relatively rare. FOX31 has learned that a third teacher with the Cherry Creek School District has passed away. Freshman baseball coach and Willow Creek Elementary physical education teacher Scott Nash died over the weekend. His cause of death has not been released, but the district said it does not believe it is related to the bacterial meningitis death of another teacher in the district. Cherry Creek School District: 2nd Eaglecrest High School teacher died over weekend Bacterial meningitis is only one kind of meningitis and is spread mainly through saliva or spit. Meningitis is only one kind of what is called a "meningococcal disease" - any illness caused by a type of bacteria called Neisseria meningitidis, the two most common of which are meningitis and septicemia. Rates of meningococcal disease in the U.S. have been falling for decades and are now at historic lows. In the 1990s, there was one case per...

Go fly a kite at the Arvada Kite Festival this Saturday

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:17:51 GMT

ARVADA, Colo. (KDVR) — The 18th annual Arvada Kite Festival will be taking to the skies Sunday, April 16. Thousands of enthusiasts and beginners will be heading to Stenger Park to partake in everything that is kite flying.At Stenger Park, the sun is out and the sky is blue. There just might be enough wind here to once again feel like a kid. Gold fever alive and well in Centennial State It will not take long to get that feeling for Ethan Lutz who, as an adult, has flown kites all his life.“It is a little liberating, you know, to have something flying like that. It is free and you are kind of controlling it, but not really, the winds really are more running the show,” said Lutz.Lutz is on the Arvada Kite Festival commission and he is preparing for the 18th annual festival. But today, he is just looking for a little breeze. “Well, I mean, when the weather is windy, it is super easy. It could be just like a beach, we get storms and weather that bring winds. I mean, shoot, it was I w...

GOP’s Tim Scott says he backs 20-week federal abortion ban

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:17:51 GMT

MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Republican Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina said Thursday that he supports a federal abortion ban after 20 weeks of pregnancy and would sign such legislation into law if he became president.“It makes total sense to me,” Scott told reporters in New Hampshire, where he was meeting with GOP officials and pastors a day after announcing his exploratory committee for a 2024 presidential campaign.Abortion has become an increasingly animating issue in elections in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court decision last year to overturn Roe v. Wade, which legalized abortion nationwide. Republican candidates are under pressure from influential anti-abortion groups to support a national ban. Democrats, including President Joe Biden, have sought to codify the right to an abortion.Scott declined to say whether he believes medication abortion should remain legal following a Wednesday ruling by a federal appeals court that preserved access to the abortion pill mifepristone for now...