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Indiana judge opens door for new eatery, finding `tacos and burritos are Mexican-style sandwiches' 05/17/2024 02:15pm • FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) — An Indiana judge who declared that “tacos and burritos are Mexican-style sandwiches” has cleared the way for the opening of a new restaurant, delighting a restauranteur following a legal battle. Martin Quintana, 53, has been trying for about three years to open his s The unofficial spokesman for the American muscle car, Tim Kuniskis, is retiring 05/17/2024 01:54pm • DETROIT (AP) — Tim Kuniskis, CEO of the Ram and Dodge brands and the unofficial voice of American muscle cars, is retiring after nearly 32 years with Stellantis. The announcement Friday comes as Stellantis struggles with U.S. sales as it begins the transition from internal combustion to electric v 'Digging your own grave': Maryland lifeguards warn of the hidden danger of beach sand 05/17/2024 01:45pm • Lifeguards in Ocean City, Maryland, will begin an intensive eight-day training academy this week to prepare for big crowds on Memorial Day weekend. Before swimmers hit the shore, the beach patrol is reminding them of a rule that’s posted on all of the lifeguard stands: don’t dig deep holes. � Scottie Scheffler isn't the first pro golfer to be arrested during a tournament 05/17/2024 01:01pm • Scottie Scheffler's arrest hours before his second-round tee time at the PGA Championship in Louisville, Kentucky, will go down as one of the most shocking in professional golf history. It certainly wasn't the first, though. Tiger Woods and John Daly are probably the highest-profile golfers to wear Vatican moves to adapt to hoaxes, Internet and overhauls its process for evaluating visions of Mary 05/17/2024 12:20pm • VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican on Friday overhauled its process for evaluating alleged visions of the Virgin Mary, weeping statues and other seemingly supernatural phenomena that have marked church history, putting the brakes on making definitive declarations unless the event is obviously fabrica Kenyan runner Kwemoi banned 6 years for blood doping and stripped of Olympics, world champs results 05/17/2024 12:19pm • MONACO (AP) — Kenyan 10,000-meter runner Rodgers Kwemoi was banned for six years on Friday for suspected blood doping 18 times and disqualified from Olympics and world championships races. Track and field’s Athletics Integrity Unit said Kwemoi was stripped of seven years of results through Augus Haiti is seeking a new prime minister. Dozens of candidates jostle for the key job 05/17/2024 11:41am • PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A weeklong search for a new prime minister of Haiti has flooded the inboxes of a transitional presidential council with dozens of candidates jostling to become the country's next leader. Political parties, business leaders, the diaspora and even religious institutions Preakness: How to watch, the favorites and what to expect in the second leg of the Triple Crown 05/17/2024 11:35am • The Preakness Stakes will have a Triple Crown possibility on the line when Kentucky Derby winner Mystik Dan runs in a field of eight horses on Saturday in the 149th rendition of the race. Mystik Dan is the favorite and won the Derby by a nose in the race's closest finish since 1947. Bob Baffert-trai Kosovo criticizes Council of Europe for not holding a vote on its membership, blames Serbia lobbying 05/17/2024 11:30am • PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Kosovo on Friday criticized the Council of Europe 's decision against holding a vote on its membership, saying it deprived its people and especially its ethnic minorities of democratic tools offered by the continent’s top human rights body. Kosovo’s membership was not o Mexico's cartel violence haunts civilians as the June 2 election approaches 05/17/2024 11:28am • HUITZILAC, Mexico (AP) — Tailed by trucks of heavily armed soldiers, four caskets floated on a sea of hundreds of mourners. Neighbors peered nervously from their homes as the crowd pushed past shuttered businesses, empty streets and political campaign posters plastering the small Mexican town of H Missouri inmate facing execution next month is hospitalized with heart problem 05/17/2024 10:36am • ST. LOUIS (AP) — A Missouri inmate who is due to be executed next month has been hospitalized because of a “medical emergency,” a spokeswoman for the Missouri Department of Corrections said. David Hosier, 69, is scheduled to be put to death June 11 for killing a Jefferson City couple, Angela a NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week 05/17/2024 10:30am • A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked them out. ___ Replacement of Milwaukee election official unrelated to 2020 electio South Africa ends rescue efforts at collapsed building and revises figures: 33 dead, no more missing 05/17/2024 09:58am • CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — An exhaustive rescue operation to find missing construction workers trapped in the rubble of a collapsed building in South Africa ended Friday after nearly two weeks, as authorities released a major revision of their figures and said they now believe that no one else Anne Arundel Co. elementary school teacher charged with sex abuse of multiple students 05/17/2024 09:52am • A third grade teacher in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, is under arrest and being held without bond on dozens of sex abuse charges. Authorities said the charges against 44-year-old Matthew Scott Banks Schlegel of Severna Park involved students and dated back as far as August 2022. The abuse alleg AP Decision Notes: What to expect in Idaho's state primary and Democratic presidential caucus 05/17/2024 09:26am • WASHINGTON (AP) — When Idaho voters head to the polls Tuesday to decide primaries for the U.S. House and the state legislature, one contest will be noticeably absent from the ballot: the race for the White House. That’s because state lawmakers scrapped the presidential primary last year, prompti