SPRINGFIELD TOWNSHIP, Ohio (AP) — A 10-year-old girl was accidentally shot and killed while she and a young relative were playing with a gun inside a home, authorities said. The shooting in Springfiel…
Michigan-Ohio State finale highlights 3rd Big Ten schedule
By The Associated Press The Big Ten’s third football schedule of the 2020 season is highlighted by Michigan-Ohio State on Dec. 12, the final day of the conference’s regular-season and the latest date …
AP-NORC poll: Majority plan to vote before Election Day
By NICHOLAS RICCARDI and HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A majority of President Donald Trump’s supporters plan to cast their ballot on Election Day, while about half of Joe Bide…
Ginsburg, a feminist icon memorialized as the Notorious RBG
By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg moved slowly. When court was in session, she often had her head down, sometimes leading visitors to think s…
Firefighters battle exhaustion along with wildfire flames
By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press BEAVERCREEK, Ore. (AP) — They work 50 hours at a stretch and sleep on gymnasium floors. Exploding trees shower them with embers. They lose track of time when the…
Gunfire at Ohio high school football game wounds 2
AKRON (AP) — Two people were wounded by gunfire Thursday night at a high school football game in Akron, police said. Both of the victims are expected to recover from their injuries. They were shot aft…
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dies at 87
By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a towering women’s rights champion who became the court’s second female justice, died Friday at her home i…
More migrant women say they didn’t OK surgery in detention
By NOMAAN MERCHANT Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Sitting across from her lawyer at an immigration detention center in rural Georgia, Mileidy Cardentey Fernandez unbuttoned her jail jumpsuit to show …
Push is underway to test COVID-19 vaccines in diverse groups
By LAURAN NEERGAARD and FEDERICA NARANCIO Associated Press TAKOMA PARK, Md. (AP) — In front of baskets of tomatoes and peppers, near a sizzling burrito grill, the “promotoras” stop masked shoppers at …
Manager ordered census layoffs despite judge’s ruling
By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Two weeks after a federal judge prohibited the U.S. Census Bureau from winding down the 2020 census, a manager in Illinois instructed employees …