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Report finds 'no evidence' Hawaii officials prepared for wildfire that killed 102 despite warnings 09/13/2024 08:43pm • HONOLULU (AP) — Investigators reviewing the emergency response to last year's wildfire that killed 102 people on Maui said in a report released Friday they found “no evidence” Hawaii officials made preparations for it, despite days of warnings that critical fire weather was coming. That lack o NHRA Toyota US Nationals Results 09/13/2024 08:02pm • Friday At Maple Grove Raceway Mohnton, Pa. Qualifying TOP FUEL 1. Justin Ashley, 3.713 seconds, 333.49 mph; 2. Tony Schumacher, 3.733, 328.70; 3. Doug Kalitta, 3.736, 335.73; 4. Tony Stewart, 3.741, 328.46; 5. Shawn Langdon, 3.741, 324.59; 6. Steve Torrence, 3.754, 332.18; 7. Clay Millican, 3.762, Mexico's president asks Sinaloa cartel to act 'responsibly' as violence escalates in the north 09/13/2024 07:32pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador on Friday asked the warring factions of the Sinaloa cartel to act "responsibly” so no one else gets killed, after a week of escalating violence nearly paralyzed the Sinaloa state capital, Culiacan. Asked by a journalist if he tru How 3 young Americans ended up in the middle of a coup attempt in Congo and facing the death penalty 09/13/2024 07:08pm • KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — A military court in Congo, one of Africa’s largest countries, has convicted three Americans and dozens of others of taking part in a coup attempt and imposed “the harshest penalty, that of death.” The court convicted the 37 defendants, including the three Americans and FACT FOCUS: A look at false claims made by Trump in California 09/13/2024 06:46pm • In a press conference from his Los Angeles-area golf club, former President Donald Trump revisited several topics from Tuesday night's debate, repeating several false and misleading claims on issues including crime, the economy and immigration. Here's are the facts: Trump again falsely claims crime Things to know about about the deadly wildfire that destroyed the Maui town of Lahaina 09/13/2024 05:43pm • HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii officials didn't prepare for dangerous fire weather in the days before flames incinerated the historic Maui town of Lahaina even though they were warned by meteorologists, the state's attorney general said Friday. The finding came in a 518-page report drafted for the attorn Colorado teen hoping for lakeside homecoming photos shot in face by town councilman, police say 09/13/2024 05:25pm • DENVER (AP) — A teenager scouting out a spot near a Colorado lake to take picturesque homecoming photos this weekend was shot in the face when the boyfriend of the property owner fired his weapon and yelled, “Oh sh__, my gun went off,” court records show. The 17-year-old boy survived the shoo Ravens rookie Nate Wiggins won't play against the Raiders after being involved in a car crash 09/13/2024 05:00pm • OWINGS MILLS, Md. (AP) — Baltimore Ravens rookie cornerback Nate Wiggins will not play Sunday against the Las Vegas Raiders after coach John Harbaugh said the first-round pick was involved in a car crash Wednesday. Wiggins was listed as out with a neck injury/concussion. “He’s fine, he� After storms like Francine, New Orleans rushes to dry out 09/13/2024 04:55pm • NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Hurricane Francine rapidly strengthened before making landfall in Louisiana on Wednesday, knocking out power for hundreds of thousands of people, flooding a cemetery and dumping rain on New Orleans, a city that relies on a uniquely complicated network of canals and pumps to get Las Vegas, Baltimore meet in Week 2 with Ravens QB Jackson, Raiders DE Crosby set to match up 09/13/2024 04:51pm • Las Vegas (0-1) at Baltimore (0-1) Sunday, 1 p.m. EDT, CBS BetMGM NFL Odds: Ravens by 9 1/2. Series record: Ravens lead 8-4. Against the spread: Las Vegas 0-1; Baltimore 0-1. Last meeting: Raiders beat Ravens 33-27 in overtime on Sept. 13, 2021, in Las Vegas. Last week: Raiders lost to the Chargers Officials ignored warning signs prior to young girl's death at the hands of her father, lawsuit says 09/13/2024 04:36pm • MEREDITH, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire social workers ignored a litany of warning signs that a 5-year-old girl was being physically abused by her father prior to the child's death, the slain girl's mother alleged in a negligence lawsuit filed Friday against the state. Crystal Sorey says the state’s Suki Waterhouse pens a 'Memoir of a Sparklemuffin' on her wide-ranging sophomore album 09/13/2024 04:27pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Suki Waterhouse discovered the Sparklemuffin spider during a late-night scroll. “He’s wildly colored. He’s cute,” she said. Best of all: He dances. “I felt somewhat akin to him.” The spider became a foil and a mascot for Waterhouse's sophomore album, “Memoir of a Spa Justin Timberlake pleads guilty to impaired driving in New York 09/13/2024 04:01pm • SAG HARBOR, N.Y. (AP) — Justin Timberlake urged drivers not to get behind the wheel of a car after even a single alcoholic drink on Friday, shortly after pleading guilty to driving while impaired in New York’s Hamptons earlier this year. The public safety announcement in front of the Sag Harbor Election 2024 Latest: Harris concentrates on Pennsylvania while Trump stumps in the West 09/13/2024 03:57pm • Former President Donald Trump will hit the campaign trail in Western states on Friday as his opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris fixes her attention on the battleground state of Pennsylvania in the East. Trump held what was billed as a news conference at his Los Angeles-area golf club in the morn Feds rarely punish hospitals for turning away pregnant patients 09/13/2024 03:44pm • As the pregnant woman's contractions rolled in every two minutes, staff at Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, dispatched an ambulance to send her elsewhere. Just two minutes later, she gave birth to a 6-pound baby girl in the cab of the ambulance down the road fr