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Report shows a drop in drug overdose deaths in Kentucky but governor says the fight is far from over 06/06/2024 06:40pm • FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Drug overdose deaths in Kentucky fell nearly 10% in 2023, marking a second straight annual decline in the fight against an addiction epidemic that's far from over, Gov. Andy Beshear said Thursday. The number of fatal overdoses statewide dropped below 2,000, as officials credi North Carolina driver's license backlog may soon end, DMV commissioner says 06/06/2024 05:54pm • RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Thousands of North Carolinians waiting to receive their driver’s license could get their new cards by the end of the month, the North Carolina Division of Motor Vehicles announced Thursday. More than 350,000 physical licenses and identification cards have recently been delay The Census Bureau failed to adequately monitor advertising contract for 2020 census, watchdog says 06/06/2024 05:37pm • The U.S. Census Bureau didn't properly administer or monitor contract orders worth hundreds of millions of dollars dealing with advertising to promote participation in the 2020 census, possibly wasting taxpayers' dollars, according to the Office of Inspector General. Bureau contracting officers fail 2 more charged in betting scandal that spurred NBA to bar Raptors' Jontay Porter for life 06/06/2024 03:31pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Two more men were charged Thursday in the sports betting scandal that prompted the NBA to ban former Toronto Raptors player Jontay Porter for life. Timothy McCormack and Mahmud Mollah now join two other men — Long Phi Pham and a fourth whose name remains redacted in a court compl A figure who worked in the shadows on D-Day awarded France's highest honor 06/06/2024 01:53pm • VER-SUR-MER, France (AP) — Eighty years after Christian Lamb helped rescue France from Nazi tyranny, French President Emmanuel Macron kissed her on both cheeks and pinned the nation’s highest honor to her lapel. Lamb spent the months before D-Day alone in a tiny room in central London drawing th The Latest | D-Day's 80th anniversary brings World War II veterans back to the beaches of Normandy 06/06/2024 01:07pm • World War II veterans joined heads of state and others Thursday for poignant ceremonies on the beaches of Normandy to commemorate the 80th anniversary of D-Day. The Allied invasion, which began on June 6, 1944, led to the defeat of the Nazis and the end of the war. The assault began with Allied air Gov. Glenn Youngkin on ditching Calif. emissions standards: 'Virginians should be able to decide what car they buy' 06/06/2024 11:17am • In a potential blow to the push to get more people to buy electric cars, Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin says the Commonwealth's strict auto emission standards — based on California legislation — will be lifted by the end of the year. The governor says Virginians deserve to choose which vehicles Virginie Viard, who succeeded Karl Lagerfeld at Chanel, leaves fashion house 06/06/2024 07:40am • PARIS (AP) — Virginie Viard, the artistic director who replaced Karl Lagerfeld at Chanel after his death, is leaving the French luxury fashion house. Chanel did not immediately announce a replacement for the 62-year-old Viard, who worked with Lagerfeld for more than two decades and eventually took Slovakia's Fico says he was targeted for Ukraine views, in first speech since assassination attempt 06/06/2024 12:22am • BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Slovakia’s populist Prime Minister Robert Fico said Wednesday he believes he was targeted for having a Ukraine position contrary to the European mainstream but bears no malice toward the gunman who seriously wounded him three weeks ago. The prerecorded speech posted o Remembering D-Day: Key facts and figures about the invasion that changed the course of World War II 06/06/2024 12:05am • OMAHA BEACH, France (AP) — The June 6, 1944, D-Day invasion of Nazi-occupied France was unprecedented in scale and audacity, using the largest-ever armada of ships, troops, planes and vehicles to punch a hole in Adolf Hitler's defenses in western Europe and change the course of World War II. With District attorney in Alec Baldwin's case wins New Mexico Democratic primary race 06/05/2024 12:17pm • SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — An incumbent district attorney pursuing an involuntary manslaughter charge against Alec Baldwin fended off a Democratic challenger in New Mexico’s primary election on Tuesday to ensure her reelection. In other results, two Republicans who have stoked Donald Trump’s failed Modi loses ground in parliament, but his Hindu nationalist policies are here to stay 06/05/2024 07:22am • NEW DELHI (AP) — For the first time since Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party swept to power in 2014, the party did not secure a majority on its own in 2024 national election. But the prime minister’s coalition is still expected to run the country for another five years. Mod The last WWII vets converge on Normandy for D-Day and fallen friends and to cement their legacy 06/04/2024 11:44pm • OMAHA BEACH, France (AP) — Under their feet, the sands of Omaha Beach, and in their rheumy eyes, tears that inevitably flowed from being on the revered shoreline in Normandy, France, where so many American young men were cut down 80 years ago on D-Day. Veterans of World War II, many of them centen George defeats two challengers in Ward 4 Democratic primary in race centered on public safety 06/04/2024 11:05pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Janeese Lewis George defeated a pair of challengers in Tuesday’s Democratic primary and will head into November’s general election as a heavy favorite to retain her Ward 4 seat on the D.C. Council. George, a pillar of the council’s leftist wing, defeated Lisa Gore and Pa How Do You Move a House? And Why? 06/04/2024 08:00pm • It can be hard to find a house to purchase in a lot of markets right now, so some buyers can't afford to be too choosy. But what if the house you're looking at could be moved? Mobile homes and sheds aren't the only structures that can be relocated. Homes can, and often are, moved to a new location a