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German surgeon fired after getting hospital cleaner to assist amputation 05/19/2023 10:53am • BERLIN (AP) — Officials at a hospital in western Germany have expressed regret after it emerged that one of their surgeons got a cleaner to assist in a toe amputation. Public broadcaster SWR reported Friday that the incident at the Mainz University Hospital, which happened in 2020, didn't result i First Mission scratched from Preakness by vet 36 hours before Triple Crown race 05/19/2023 10:41am • BALTIMORE (AP) — Brad Cox-trained First Mission has been scratched from the Preakness on the advice of veterinarians, taking one of the top contenders out of the Triple Crown race 36 hours before post time. Owner Godolphin and the Maryland Jockey Club announced the scratch early Friday, saying Grimm verdict: German doctor convicted over threat by fairy tale loses appeal 05/19/2023 09:13am • BERLIN (AP) — A German court has rejected an appeal by a doctor convicted of threatening a woman by emailing her an extract from a fairy tale that featured a character being condemned to a gruesome death. The Frankfurt state court said Friday it upheld a verdict from a district court in the city o 88-year-old Australian doctor freed 7 years after kidnapping by Islamic extremists in West Africa 05/18/2023 11:30pm • CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — An 88-year-old Australian doctor held captive by Islamic extremists in West Africa for more than seven years has been freed and has returned to Australia. Ken Elliott was safe and well and was reunited with his wife and their children on Thursday night, Foreign Minister Rhode Island governor signs bill to fund abortion coverage for state workers and Medicaid recipients 05/18/2023 10:06pm • PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Rhode Island Gov. Daniel McKee signed a bill into law Thursday that would let state funds be used to pay for health insurance plans that cover state workers and Medicaid recipients seeking abortions. The signing ceremony was held almost immediately after the state Senate ap Car rushes Vatican gate, is fired on by gendarmes; driver apprehended after reaching courtyard 05/18/2023 09:38pm • ROME (AP) — A car driven by someone with apparent psychiatric problems rushed through a Vatican gate Thursday evening and sped past Swiss Guards into a palace courtyard before the driver was apprehended by police, the Holy See said. Vatican gendarmes fired a shot at the speeding car’s front tire Will Virtual Staging Help Sell Your Home? 05/18/2023 08:00pm • When a real estate agent lists a home, staging is a big part of the prep work before the property is ready to be presented to the world. Some degree of staging has become commonplace, especially in the more competitive markets around the country. Typically, a Realtor will work with the furniture and 20 Best STEM Careers 05/18/2023 08:00pm • Explore the top STEM-related careers.If you're looking for lucrative work opportunities with plenty of growth potential, consider a career in science, technology, engineering or math. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, STEM careers had median wages and career growth rates in 2021 that AP analysis: Most beauty school programs would be in jeopardy under US proposal 05/18/2023 06:20pm • Under a new proposal intended to protect students, nearly two-thirds of cosmetology certificate programs at for-profit colleges would would risk losing federal funding. So would over a third of such programs in massage therapy and dental support services. Overall, 22% of programs at for-profit schoo UN warns that urgent funding needed to avert catastrophic hunger in northeast Nigeria 05/18/2023 06:16pm • ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — At least $396 million is urgently needed to prevent widespread hunger and malnutrition in northeastern Nigeria from turning into a “full-blown catastrophe,” the United Nations office in the West African nation said Thursday. “We are ringing the alarm bell that there are FDA advisers back RSV vaccine for pregnant women that protects their newborns 05/18/2023 05:40pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — A first-of-its-kind RSV vaccine for pregnant women guards their newborns against the scary respiratory virus -– and federal health advisers on Thursday backed Pfizer's shot despite some lingering questions. RSV fills hospitals with wheezing babies each fall and winter, and the Virginia Daybook 05/18/2023 04:31pm • Associated Press Virginia Daybook for Thursday, May. 18. The daybook is for planning purposes only and is not intended for publication or broadcast. You should verify any event you plan to cover. Please keep the AP in mind when news develops. To see your Daybooks and events for Virginia and other St Group plans to put legalization of medical marijuana on Nebraska ballot 05/18/2023 03:30pm • A group led by a Nebraska state lawmaker plans to again try to put the question of legalizing medical marijuana before state voters in November 2024. It will be the third time Nebraskans for Medical Marijuana launch a petition effort after two previous efforts failed. In 2020, the group came close Death row inmate challenges new Tennessee post-conviction law 05/18/2023 01:02am • MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee death row inmate is challenging the newly expanded authority of the appointed state attorney general to argue certain capital cases, a power that lawmakers shifted away from locally elected prosecutors under a new law after some expressed reluctance to pursue the Ukrainian trauma surgeon operates on soldiers all day long amid Russia's war 05/17/2023 08:42pm • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — As the lead trauma surgeon at a military hospital in Ukraine's capital, Petro Nikitin has his hands deep in a war churning hundreds of kilometers (miles) away. The 59-year-old doctor's work to repair the bodies of some of the most badly injured soldiers is all-consuming. “I