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2nd worker trapped under collapsed Kentucky coal prep plant has died, governor says 11/03/2023 06:16pm • The second of two workers trapped under a coal mine preparation plant that collapsed earlier this week in eastern Kentucky has died, Gov. Andy Beshear announced Friday. ���This is a heartbreaking situation," the Democratic governor wrote on social media, calling for prayers for the men's loved ones 2 teens plead not guilty in fatal shooting of Montana college football player 11/03/2023 06:04pm • BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) ��� Two teenagers were charged as adults after investigators say they drove after a Rocky Mountain College student-athlete who was killed last week by a bullet that went through his driver���s side window near campus. A 16-year-old male was charged Friday with deliberate homicid Illinois city tickets reporter for asking too many questions, in latest First Amendment dustup 11/03/2023 05:50pm • SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) ��� Officials in a suburban Chicago community have issued municipal citations to a local news reporter for what they say were persistent contacts with city officials seeking comment on treacherous fall flooding. The tickets from Calumet City, a city of 35,000 located 24 mile Officer who shot Breonna Taylor says fellow officer fired 'haphazardly' into apartment during raid 11/03/2023 05:49pm • LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) ��� The ex-Louisville officer who fatally shot Breonna Taylor during a botched police raid took the witness stand Friday and criticized the actions of a former officer who is on trial on charges of violating Taylor���s civil rights. Myles Cosgrove was one of the officers at Tayl Chicago-area police entered wrong home, held disabled woman and grandkids for hours, lawsuit alleges 11/03/2023 05:42pm • Chicago-area police serving an arrest warrant entered the wrong home in 2021 and held a disabled woman, her four young grandchildren and others for hours, violating their civil rights, a federal lawsuit alleges. Adela Carrasco, 63, her grandchildren and other plaintiffs contend in a lawsuit filed We Israel deports thousands of Palestinian workers back to Gaza's war zone 11/03/2023 05:10pm • JERUSALEM (AP) ��� Israel on Friday deported thousands of Palestinian workers from the Gaza Strip back to the besieged territory, Palestinian authorities said, capping what many described as harrowing weeks trapped in legal limbo since their detention when the Israel-Hamas war erupted. Some workers, Puerto Rican ex-boxer F��lix Verdejo sentenced to life in prison in the killing of his pregnant lover 11/03/2023 04:34pm • SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) ��� Former Puerto Rican boxer F��lix Verdejo received two life sentences on Friday after he was found guilty in the grisly killing of his 27-year-old pregnant lover. A federal judge sentenced Verdejo following emotional speeches by the family of Keishla Rodr��guez, who was Jurors deliberating in manslaughter trial of officer who used neck hold on Elijah McClain 11/03/2023 04:22pm • BRIGHTON, Colo. (AP) ��� Jurors began deliberations Friday in the case of a Colorado police officer who prosecutors say is guilty of manslaughter after stopping Elijah McClain as he walked home from the store and then abandoning the 23-year-old Black man after putting him in a neck hold. Aurora Offi Millions of dollars of psychedelic mushrooms seized in a Connecticut bust 11/03/2023 04:05pm • Law enforcement officials came across a staggering find after being tipped off about possible drug-dealing: dozens of dog-food-size bags of psychedelic mushrooms worth an estimated $8.5 million at a home in rural Connecticut. A drug task force including federal, state and local authorities raided th How international law applies to war, and why Hamas and Israel are both alleged to have broken it 11/03/2023 03:00pm • LONDON (AP) ��� The United Nations says it is collecting evidence of war crimes by both sides in the Israel-Hamas war, which began with the militant group���s brutal Oct. 7 cross-border attack and was followed by Israel's relentless bombardment and a siege of Gaza. At least 1,400 Israelis and more t Minneapolis City Council approves site for new police station; old one burned during 2020 protest 11/03/2023 02:42pm • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) ��� The Minneapolis City Council and Mayor Jacob Frey have agreed on a new location for a police station to replace the one ransacked and set on fire in response to the murder of George Floyd by a city police officer. The council voted 8-5 Thursday to approve a new Third Precinct st Iran sentences a woman to death for adultery, state media say 11/03/2023 02:34pm • TEHRAN, Iran (AP) ��� An Iranian court has sentenced a woman to death for adultery, state media said. A report by the IRAN newspaper on Wednesday said the woman worked as a trainer in a gym for females. It said her husband contacted police in 2022 when he found her with another man at their home. T Belarus sentences independent newspaper editor to 4 years in prison 11/03/2023 02:31pm • TALLINN, Estonia (AP) ��� Belarusian authorities on Friday convicted the chief editor of a prominent independent regional newspaper of ���discrediting the Republic of Belarus��� and sentenced him to four years in prison, as the country continues its crackdown on dissent. A court in Molodechno, a cit Santa Fe considers tax on mansions as housing prices soar 11/03/2023 02:23pm • SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) ��� Voters are deciding whether to tax mansions to pay for affordable housing initiatives in a state capital city prized for its desert-mountain vistas, vibrant arts scene and stucco architecture rooted in Native American and Spanish-colonial tradition. The tax on homes sold for 2 killed as flooding hits Kenya, sweeping away homes and destroying roads, officials say 11/03/2023 02:20pm • NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) ��� Heavy rains and flooding ravaged parts of Kenya on Friday, sweeping away homes and livestock and destroying roads and electric transmission lines, authorities said. At least two people were killed and at least one was missing. One of the victims died after a house collapsed u