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An ex-Kansas police chief who led a raid on a newspaper is charged with obstruction of justice 08/13/2024 04:37pm • TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) ��� A former Kansas police chief who led a raid last year on a weekly newspaper has been charged with felony obstruction of justice and is accused of persuading a potential witness to withhold information from authorities when they later investigated his conduct. The single charge After a slew of controversies, the SBC turns to a low-key leader to keep things cool 08/13/2024 04:31pm • CHARLOTTE, N.C. (RNS) ��� As he stepped up into the old-fashioned wooden pulpit on a recent Sunday, Pastor Clint Pressley wasted no time. After quickly thanking the student discipleship minister who had brought many of the church���s Camp Paradise teens to the 11 a.m. service at his church, Hickory DNA investigation links California serial killer to 1986 killing of young woman near Los Angeles 08/13/2024 03:45pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� The long-unsolved 1986 killing of a young Southern California woman has been linked to a convicted serial killer who admitted the crime, authorities said Tuesday. DNA from the killing of Cathy Small, 19, matched William Suff, who was sentenced to death after being convicted in 1 ACC preview: No. 10 Florida St looking to back up last year's breakthrough league title with CFP bid 08/13/2024 03:26pm • Mike Norvell and Florida State got a taste of the big time last season. The Seminoles are not about to let that slip away this fall. ���It sets the stage and opportunity for us to continue to push and continue to elevate this program to ultimately where it deserves to be,��� Norvell said after leadi Dentist charged with invasion of privacy after camera found in employee bathroom, police say 08/13/2024 02:31pm • WEIRTON, W.Va. (AP) ��� A West Virginia dentist faces charges after police said a concealed camera allegedly was found in his office's employee bathroom. Dr. Jeremy Michael Crow turned himself in at the Weirton Police Department on Monday. Crow, 45, of Washington, Pennsylvania, was charged with 39 c Florida counting on 6 key transfers, including WRs Badger and Dike, as Billy Napier begins Year 3 08/13/2024 01:25pm • GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) ��� Billy Napier needs some help. The Florida football coach is 11-14 in two seasons in Gainesville, including 0-2 against middling Kentucky and 1-7 against rivals Florida State, Georgia, LSU and Tennessee. No coach in school history has endured three consecutive losing season Defending women's Tour de France champion Demi Vollering wins time trial and takes overall race lead 08/13/2024 12:48pm • ROTTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) ��� Defending women's Tour de France champion Demi Vollering won a short, sharp time trial through the streets of Rotterdam on Tuesday to take the overall leader's yellow jersey from fellow Dutch rider Charlotte Kool in the third stage of this year's tour. Vollering's win Conservationists try to protect ecologically rich Alabama delta from development, climate change 08/13/2024 11:46am • MOBILE-TENSAW DELTA, Ala. (AP) ��� Thousands of American lotuses carpet the water's surface, faces turned toward the morning sun. Bright yellow warblers flit among cypress trees along a creek bank. A paddlefish jumps as a motorboat rounds a bend. The Mobile-Tensaw Delta ��� a lush, vibrant and surpr Turkey says Ethiopia and Somalia have made 'notable progress' in talks to settle dispute 08/13/2024 11:44am • ANKARA, Turkey (AP) ��� Ethiopia and Somalia have made ���notable progress��� in efforts to settle a dispute sparked by Ethiopia���s deal with the breakaway region of Somaliland, Turkey���s foreign minister said Tuesday. Hakan Fidan made the comments at the end of a second round of talks between the Takeaways from AP's story on Alabama's ecologically important Mobile-Tensaw Delta and its watershed 08/13/2024 11:14am • Alabama���s Mobile-Tensaw Delta is a more-than 400-square-mile (1,036-square-kilometer) expanse of cypress swamps, oxbow lakes, marshland, hardwood stands and rivers unusually rich in plant and animal diversity. It's also a critical conduit between the rest of Alabama and the Gulf of Mexico, drainin Want to speed up a road or transit project? Just host a political convention 08/13/2024 11:09am • CHICAGO (AP) ��� Chicago officials had planned to open a new elevated train station near the United Center more than four years ago, but numerous delays left some neighbors wondering if it ever would happen. Then the Democratic National Committee picked the city to host its convention. Construction A ship in the Red Sea is attacked 3 times by suspected Yemeni rebels, including with a drone boat 08/13/2024 10:36am • DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) ��� A Liberian-flagged oil tanker in the Red Sea came under attack three times on Tuesday, including in an assault using a bomb-carrying drone boat, likely the latest in a campaign by Yemen's Houthi rebels over the Israel-Hamas war, officials said. The attacks come Teenager wearing a helmet and bulletproof vest randomly stabs 5 people at a cafe in Turkey 08/13/2024 02:56am • ANKARA, Turkey (AP) ��� A teenager wearing a helmet and bulletproof vest randomly stabbed five people at an open-air cafe in northwest Turkey before being detained by police, officials and media reports said Tuesday. The 18-year-old, identified as Arda K., broadcast Monday���s knife attack on social Top Ukrainian commander says his forces now control almost 390 square miles of Russia's Kursk region 08/13/2024 01:19am • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) ��� Ukraine's top military commander says his forces now control 1,000 square kilometers (386 square miles) of Russia's neighboring Kursk region, the first time a Ukrainian military official has publicly commented on the gains of the lightning incursion that has embarrassed the Kr Drop in winds offers hope as firefighters battle huge wildfire on fringes of Athens. 1 person dead 08/13/2024 12:35am • ATHENS, Greece (AP) ��� A major wildfire raged across the northern suburbs of Athens on Monday, leaving at least one person dead and triggering multiple evacuations as swirling winds hampered the efforts of hundreds of firefighters and dozens of water-dropping planes. The fire department said shortl