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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Florida Republicans chose Christian Ziegler on Saturday to be their party’s chairman heading into a 2024 election in which the state could be center stage for GOP presidential politics. The vote was 126 for Ziegler, the party’s current vice chair, to 100 for Evan Power, who chairs the GOP in Leon County, which includes the state capital, Tallahassee. Power was elected vice chair of the state […]

ISTANBUL (AP) — A couple and their son were pulled alive from under a collapsed apartment building more than 12 days after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake ravaged parts of Turkey and Syria, although the child later died at a hospital, Turkish state media reported Saturday. A foreign search team from Kyrgyzstan rescued Samir Muhammed Accar, 49, his wife, Ragda, 40, and their 12-year-old son while digging through the rubble of […]

GROSSE POINTE FARMS, Mich. (AP) — The first funerals were held Saturday for students who were killed in this week’s mass shooting at Michigan State University. Mourners in the Detroit suburb of Grosse Pointe Farms filed into St. Paul on the Lake Catholic Church to remember sophomore Brian Fraser, who was one of three students killed in Monday’s attack. At the same time, a funeral was held for Alexandra Verner […]

HOUSTON (AP) — Two Houston police officers were hospitalized after being stabbed on Saturday, officials said. The officers were responding to a call Saturday morning in southwest Houston when an unidentified person stabbed them, police said in a tweet. At least one of the officers fired his weapon, hitting the suspect. The officers were taken to a hospital in stable condition, police said. The condition of the suspect was not […]

LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Saturday sought to dampen optimism about an imminent settlement in the dispute over post-Brexit trade rules for Northern Ireland that has brought political turmoil to the region and clouded relations with the European Union. A recent flurry of meetings and diplomatic activity, including his own late-night dash to Belfast on Thursday night, has yet to yield an agreement, Sunak said during […]

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Authorities in Bulgaria have detained seven people in connection with an abandoned truck in which 18 people believed to be migrants were found dead, police said Saturday. The bodies were discovered Friday in a secret compartment below a load of lumber in the truck, which was left on a highway not far from Bulgaria’s capital, Sofia. Borislav Sarafov, director of Bulgaria’s National Investigation Service, confirmed that […]

PITTSBURGH (AP) — A man has been ordered to stand trial in the shooting death of one police officer and the wounding of another in western Pennsylvania earlier this month. Johnathan Jermia Morris, 31, of McKeesport is charged in Allegheny County with criminal homicide, attempted homicide and assault of a law enforcement officer and firearms crimes in the Feb. 6 shootings in McKeesport, about 12 miles (20 kilometers) south of […]

NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City police cruiser struck and killed a 52-year-old woman in a multivehicle accident while responding to an emergency call, police said. The crash happened at about 8:30 p.m. Friday in the Far Rockaway section of Queens. Officials said the police SUV had its emergency lights on and was about to pass a car on the left when the car turned in front of […]

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The ongoing bird flu outbreak has cost the government roughly $661 million and added to consumers’ pain at the grocery store after more than 58 million birds were slaughtered to limit the spread of the virus. In addition to the cost of the government response and rising prices for eggs, chicken and turkey, farmers who raise those animals have easily lost more than $1 billion, said […]