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Bud Light exec takes leave after boycott calls, reports say 04/22/2023 05:34pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� The marketing executive who oversaw a partnership between Bud Light and a transgender influencer is taking a leave of absence after it snowballed into cries for boycotts from some angry customers, according to media reports. Alissa Heinerscheid, Bud Light���s vice president of mark Alabama education director ousted over book's stance on race 04/22/2023 05:24pm • MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) ��� Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey on Friday announced she replaced her director of early childhood education over the use of a teacher training book, written by a nationally recognized education group, that the Republican governor denounced as teaching ���woke concepts" because of lang Rural Maine town shaken by violence remembers slain friends 04/22/2023 03:37pm • BOWDOIN, Maine (AP) ��� Tireless. Helpful. Deeply religious. Those were some of the ways Patti Eger���s friends remembered her Thursday in the small Maine town of Lisbon Falls, joining hands in prayer on a lawn outside a white church to say goodbye to a woman who stood alongside them to do charity w Extreme weather is nearly universal experience: AP-NORC poll 04/22/2023 03:37pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� An overwhelming majority of people in the United States say they have recently experienced an extreme weather event, a new poll shows, and most of them attribute that to climate change. But even as many across the country mark Earth Day on Saturday, the poll shows relatively few For transgender kids, a frantic rush for treatment amid bans 04/22/2023 12:51pm • SALT LAKE CITY (AP) ��� As a third grader in Utah, mandolin-playing math whiz Elle Palmer said aloud what she had only before sensed, telling a friend she planned to transfer schools the following year and hoped her new classmates would see her as a girl. Several states northeast, Asher Wilcox-Broek Oklahoma county worried about fallout from racist recording 04/22/2023 12:30pm • IDABEL, Okla. (AP) ��� So many residents of northern Texas cross the border into McCurtain County in far southeast Oklahoma each week that the area has earned the nickname of the ���Dallas-Fort Worth Hamptons.��� With its clean rivers and lakes, these forested foothills of the Ouchita Mountains have Will Fox settlement alter conservative media? Apparently not 04/22/2023 09:26am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Days after Fox News agreed to pay nearly $800 million to settle a lawsuit over its airing of 2020 election lies, you'd be hard-pressed to notice anything had changed there. Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham led their shows Thursday talking about Hunter Biden, the p Salisbury aims for community at village for homeless 04/22/2023 09:01am • SALISBURY, Md. (AP) ��� Anne Street Village will soon be teeming with life; a sense of relief, hope and security overflowing from the brand-new gated community. The city of Salisbury announced the completion of Anne Street Village, the city���s first transitional housing community for homeless resid Alonso hits majors-best 10th homer, Lucchesi wins in return 04/22/2023 01:39am • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ��� Joey Lucchesi used to ask his parents not to come watch him pitch because that way he wouldn't get rattled. There's no way he could do that this time after such a long wait to get back on a big league mound, such a long and daunting road recovering from Tommy John surgery ��� Longtime K-State coach, administrator Barrett dies at 93 04/21/2023 08:58pm • Former Boston Celtics forward Ernie Barrett, who starred at Kansas State and spent 75 years at the school as an athlete, coach and administrator, died Friday in Manhattan, Kansas. He was 93. Barrett's family announced his death. A memorial service is scheduled for Thursday at Bramlage Coliseum, wher Man wanted in NC shooting waives extradition from Florida 04/21/2023 08:35pm • TAMPA, Fla. (AP) ��� A North Carolina man accused of shooting and wounding a 6-year-old girl and her parents after children went to retrieve a basketball that had rolled into his yard waived extradition during a brief court appearance Friday morning in Florida. Robert Louis Singletary, 24, was arres Review finds no misconduct at Missouri trans youth clinic 04/21/2023 08:09pm • COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) ��� A Missouri university said Friday that an internal review has found allegations of improper care at a center for young transgender patients were ���unsubstantiated,��� after a former employee made claims of poor treatment ��� leading the state���s attorney general to investiga Confusion as Musk's Twitter yanks blue checks from agencies 04/21/2023 06:38pm • CHICAGO (AP) ��� Twitter has long been a way for people to keep track of tornado watches, train delays, news alerts or the latest crime warnings from their local police department. But when the Elon Musk-owned platform started stripping blue verification check marks this week from accounts that don' Bijan Ghaisar's family reaches $5M settlement in 2017 US Park Police shooting 04/21/2023 05:48pm • The family of the unarmed Virginia man shot and killed by U.S. Park Police officers in 2017 after a traffic stop has reached a $5 million settlement with the federal government, according to a court filing in the case. The Washington Post first reported on the filing. Bijan Ghaisar's mother an Kansas governor nixes abortion, anti-diversity budget items 04/21/2023 05:43pm • TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) ��� Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly vetoed anti-diversity and anti-abortion provisions in Kansas' next state budget Friday, intensifying a conflict with the Republican-controlled Legislature over culture war issues that could see her scotch a dozen or more conservative initiatives. Th