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Ex-Honduran president defends himself at New York drug trafficking trial 03/05/2024 06:33pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández took the witness stand in his defense at his New York trial on Tuesday, denying that he teamed up with drug dealers to protect them in return for millions of dollars in bribes. His testimony in Manhattan federal court came after sev Liberty University will pay $14 million, the largest fine ever levied under the federal Clery Act 03/05/2024 06:33pm • Liberty University has agreed to pay an unprecedented $14 million fine for the Christian school's failure to disclose information about crimes on its campus and for its treatment of sexual assault survivors, the U.S. Department of Education announced Tuesday. The fine is by far the largest ever levi Man released from prison after judge throws out conviction in 1976 slaying after key witness recants 03/05/2024 06:18pm • PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A Philadelphia man has been released from prison after his conviction in a poolroom slaying almost a half-century ago was overturned following recantation by a key witness of his testimony several years ago. William Franklin, 77, released Tuesday, was convicted in the 1976 slay North Dakota police officers cleared in fatal shooting of teen last year 03/05/2024 06:05pm • BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A North Dakota prosecutor has declined charges against three Bismarck police officers who were involved in the fatal shooting of a teenager last fall during a traffic stop. Nicholas Bruington, 17, of Bismarck, was shot and killed Nov. 12, 2023, in a mall parking lot, where th Explosive fire at site housing vaping supplies kills 1 outside Detroit, sends debris a mile away 03/05/2024 05:50pm • CLINTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — A fire that destroyed a building housing supplies for the vaping industry caused multiple explosions, killing one person and injuring a firefighter as the blasts rocked suburban Detroit, sending gas canisters and debris into the air, authorities said. The debris fell Lazio fan arrested for Hitler salute as supporters sing fascist songs in Munich beer hall 03/05/2024 05:50pm • MUNICH (AP) — One Italian fan among about 100 Lazio soccer supporters who sang fascist songs in the beer hall where Adolf Hitler founded the Nazi party was arrested and fined for giving a Hitler salute. Munich police spokesman Michael Marienwald told The Associated Press on Tuesday that an 18-year Chanel revisits Deauville roots as Ghesquière fetes 10 years at Louis Vuitton in Paris 03/05/2024 05:14pm • PARIS (AP) — In a cinematic homage blurring fashion and film, Chanel transported its audience at Paris Fashion Week to a fictional Deauville for its latest showcase. A black and white short film of the Normandy seaside town, starring Brad Pitt and Penélope Cruz, evoked Chanel’s roots. Fusing th Missouri Supreme Court declines to hear appeal of ex-Kansas City detective convicted of manslaughter 03/05/2024 05:13pm • KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday announced it will not hear an appeal from a former Missouri detective convicted in the 2019 shooting death of a Black man. The state Supreme Court denied former Kansas City detective Eric J. DeValkenaere's motion to hear his case. The W Paris won't allow tourists free access to the Olympics opening ceremony along the Seine River 03/05/2024 05:02pm • PARIS (AP) — Tourists won’t be allowed to watch the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics along the Seine River for free, the French government announced Tuesday, as it grapples with security concerns about the unprecedented open-air event. Free access will be invitation-only instead. Organizer Police find more human remains on Long Island and identify victims as a man and woman in their 50s 03/05/2024 04:52pm • BABYLON, N.Y. (AP) — Human remains found Tuesday in a wooded area and state park on Long Island are believed to be from the same victims as limbs and other body parts found last week at a different park, police said. The discoveries were made in nearby West Babylon and at Bethpage State Park in Fa James Crumbley is up next as second parent to stand trial in Michigan school shooting 03/05/2024 04:49pm • PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — A man who purchased a gun with his son four days before a Michigan school shooting is headed to trial, accused of failing to take steps that could have prevented the teen from killing four students and wounding others. No one says James Crumbley knew what Ethan Crumbley plann Nebraska's new law limiting abortion and trans healthcare is argued before the state Supreme Court 03/05/2024 04:48pm • Members of the Nebraska Supreme Court appeared to meet with skepticism a state lawyer's defense of a new law that combines a 12-week abortion ban with another measure to limit gender-affirming health care for minors. Assistant Attorney General Eric Hamilton argued Tuesday that the hybrid law does no Russian spymaster said opposition leader Alexei Navalny died of natural causes 03/05/2024 03:17pm • Russia's spymaster said Tuesday that opposition leader Alexei Navalny died of natural causes, a statement that appeared to reflect the Kremlin's efforts to assuage international outrage over the death of President Vladimir Putin's fiercest foe. Sergei Naryshkin, the director of the Foreign Intellige Miami Beach is breaking up with spring break — or at least trying to 03/05/2024 03:15pm • MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Miami Beach is trying to break up with spring break, but it's not yet clear whether spring break will take the hint. After three consecutive years of spring break violence, Miami Beach officials are implementing monthlong security measures aimed at curbing the chaos, incl Man wanted in New York killing pleads not guilty to charges stemming from 2 stabbings in Arizona 03/05/2024 03:02pm • PHOENIX (AP) — A man sought in New York in a fatal bludgeoning last month in a Manhattan hotel has pleaded not guilty to attempted murder and other felony charges in Arizona in separate stabbings of two women over a week later in metro Phoenix. Raad Noah Almansoori, 26, was arraigned Tuesday in Ma