By MICHAEL TARM AP Legal Affairs Writer A crane operator from Florida who breached the U.S. Senate chamber carrying a Trump campaign flag was sentenced Monday to eight months behind bars, the first pu…
Female surfers overcome sexism’s toll to earn Olympic berth
By SALLY HO Associated Press LEMOORE, CALIF. (AP) — Johanne Defay of France was devastated when the mega sponsor Roxy dropped her right before she became a pro surfer in 2014, shattering her confidenc…
History awaits: Bucks try to focus with championship chance
By BRIAN MAHONEY AP Basketball Writer MILWAUKEE (AP) — High atop the outside of Fiserv Forum — way above even a leaping Giannis Antetokounmpo’s reach — blares the Bucks’ postseason motto. …
A year out, $60M bribery scandal felt in business, politics
By MARK GILLISPIE and JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The arrests one year ago Wednesday of then-Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder and four associates in connection with an …
John C. Fairchild
John C. Fairchild, 73 of West Liberty, passed away Friday July 16, 2021, at Springfield Regional Medical Center, survived by his wife Peggy of 46 years. He was born April 22, 1948, to the late Charles…
In Trump’s Jan. 6 recast, attackers become martyrs, heroes
By CALVIN WOODWARD, COLLEEN LONG and DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A cocktail of propaganda, conspiracy theory and disinformation — of the kind intoxicating to the masses in the dar…
AP FACT CHECK: Trump makes false claims about Arizona audit
By JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Former President Donald Trump issued three statements in two days falsely claiming that voting fraud and irregularities cost him Arizona’s e…
AP: Few AZ voter fraud cases, discrediting Trump’s claims
By BOB CHRISTIE and CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona county election officials have identified fewer than 200 cases of potential voter fraud out of more than 3 million ball…
FACT FOCUS: A false narrative of 74K extra votes in Arizona
By ALI SWENSON Associated Press Cyber Ninjas, the cybersecurity consulting firm hired by Arizona Senate Republicans to oversee a partisan review of the 2020 election, on Thursday pushed a false narrat…
NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn’t happen this week
By The Associated Press 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 A…