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Iowa will pay $3.5 million to family of student who drowned in rowing accident 06/04/2024 04:35pm • DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) ��� Iowa officials agreed Tuesday to pay $3.5 million in a settlement agreement with the family of an Iowa State University student who drowned after a school crew club boat capsized in cold, rough waters. The State Appeal Board approved the terms of the agreement between Iowa Hot air balloon struck Indiana power lines, burning 3 people in basket 06/04/2024 03:33pm • LOWELL, Ind. (AP) ��� A hot air balloon struck power lines before crashing to the ground over the weekend in northwestern Indiana, injuring the pilot and the two passengers, officials said Tuesday. The balloon contacted the power lines Sunday evening in Hebron, Indiana, about 56 miles (90 kilometers Muhammad Ali's childhood home is for sale in Kentucky after being converted into a museum 06/04/2024 03:32pm • LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) ��� The pink house where Muhammad Ali grew up dreaming of boxing fame ��� and where hundreds of fans gathered for an emotional send-off as his funeral procession passed by decades later ��� is up for sale. The two-bedroom, one-bathroom house in Louisville was converted into a mu AUTO RACING: Cindric wins in NASCAR when Blaney runs out of gas. Dixon gets IndyCar win No. 58. 06/04/2024 03:04pm • All Times Eastern NASCAR CUP SERIES Toyota / Save Mart 350 Site: Sonoma, California. Schedule: Friday, practice, 5:05 p.m; Saturday, qualifying, 6 p.m.; Sunday, race, 3:30 p.m. (FOX). Track: Sonoma Raceway. Race distance: 110 laps, 218.9 miles. Last year: Martin Truex Jr. won after starting eight West Virginia newspaper, the Moundsville Daily Echo, halts operations after 133 years 06/04/2024 03:02pm • MOUNDSVILLE, W.Va. (AP) ��� The Moundsville Daily Echo, a small, independent daily newspaper in northern West Virginia, has stopped publication after 133 years and publisher Charlie M. Walton said Tuesday he was "exploring options.��� Walton told The Associated Press by telephone that the newspaper Cyprus president says a buffer zone splitting the island won't become another migrant route 06/04/2024 01:07pm • NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) ��� The president of Cyprus said Tuesday that he won���t ���open another route��� for irregular migration by letting through more than two dozen asylum-seekers now stranded in a U.N.-controlled buffer zone that bisects the war-divided island nation. President Nikos Christodouli Many Americans are still shying away from EVs despite Biden's push, an AP-NORC/EPIC poll finds 06/04/2024 12:29pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Many Americans still aren���t sold on going electric for their next car purchase. High prices and a lack of easy-to-find charging stations are major sticking points, a new poll shows. About 4 in 10 U.S. adults say they would be at least somewhat likely to buy an EV the next time NASCAR grants Larson a waiver to compete in playoffs after missing Coca-Cola 600 for Indy 500 06/04/2024 12:02pm • CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) ��� NASCAR on Tuesday granted Kyle Larson the waiver he needs to remain eligible to compete in this year's playoffs despite missing the Coca-Cola 600 because he instead ran the Indianapolis 500. The decision came after nearly nine days of internal NASCAR debate over whether Lars More than 90% of cultural heritage was rescued from Danish stock exchange fire, government says 06/04/2024 11:43am • VINGE, Denmark (AP) ��� As fire tore through downtown Copenhagen���s Old Stock Exchange in mid-April, many people in the Danish capital rushed toward the flames and emerged carrying paintings, sculptures, and other important items from Denmark���s cultural heritage. Seven weeks on and with about hal Philippines says China coast guard seized food dropped by plane for Filipino forces in disputed sea 06/04/2024 11:40am • MANILA, Philippines (AP) ��� The Philippine military chief on Tuesday said the Chinese coast guard seized one of four food packs dropped by a plane for Filipino navy personnel at a territorial outpost that has been surrounded by Chinese vessels in the disputed waters of the South China Sea. Gen. Ro Paris Olympics: Opening athlete parade on a river, not in a stadium, tops list of innovations 06/04/2024 10:44am • GENEVA (AP) ��� Exactly 100 years since the Olympics were last staged in Paris, and 128 years since its modern revival in Athens, the Summer Games can still deliver fresh looks for its 33rd edition. Here is a look at the innovations the Paris Olympics will showcase: OPENING CEREMONY This historic fi In cities across the US, Black and Latino neighborhoods have less access to pharmacies 06/04/2024 10:33am • MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) ��� Parts of the north side of Montgomery are defined by what it has lost: restaurants, grocery stores and a convenient pharmacy, the latter of which closed five years ago. People who still live in the historically Black neighborhood of Newtown, like Sharon Harris, are frustrat Why Poland says Russia and Belarus are weaponizing migration to benefit Europe���s far-right 06/04/2024 09:24am • POLAND-BELARUS BORDER, Poland (AP) ��� A Somali woman pushes her bandaged hand between two vertical bars of a thick metal barrier separating Belarus from Poland as she and four other women gaze toward the European Union. They nod gratefully as a Polish humanitarian aid worker calls to them across a A volcano erupts on a central Philippine island, sending hundreds into evacuation centers 06/04/2024 08:27am • MANILA, Philippines (AP) ��� A volcano belched a plume of ash and steam into the night sky in the central Philippines in a powerful explosion that sent more than 700 people fleeing to evacuation camps. The explosion of Mount Kanlaon Monday night on Negros Island triggered sirens across Canlaon, a c PacifiCorp will pay $178M to Oregon wildfire victims in latest settlement over deadly 2020 blazes 06/04/2024 08:00am • PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) ��� Pacific Power, part of PacifiCorp, said Monday it has agreed to a $178 million settlement with over 400 Oregon plaintiffs in the latest multimillion-dollar payout related to the deadly 2020 wildfires that ravaged the state. In other cases that have gone to trial over the past