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Thousands of Americans each year turn to state-run programs that provide financial assistance to victims of violent crime. The money is used to help with funeral expenses, physical and emotional therapy, lost wages, crime-scene cleanup and more.While interviewing people for a story on gun violence in Philadelphia, The Associated Press heard from victim after victim… […]

By SARA CLINE Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana has become the first state where judges can order offenders guilty of certain sex crimes against children to undergo surgical castration under a bill signed into law by Republican Gov. Jeff Landry on Tuesday. While the punishment of surgical […]

Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A shooter who opened fire Friday at a grocery store in Arkansas left the store and parked cars riddled with bullet holes as bystanders ducked for cover both indoors and in the parking lot, killing 3 people and wounding 10 others, authorities said. […]

Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] NEW YORK (AP) — Car dealerships across North America have faced major disruptions this week. CDK Global, a company that provides software for thousands of auto dealers in the U.S. and Canada, was hit by back-to-back cyberattacks on Wednesday. That led to an outage that continued to impact […]

Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Despite changes made to North Carolina’s masking bill to quell concerns over the removal of a pandemic-era health exemption Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper said he vetoed the legislation on Friday mostly for a different reason: a campaign finance provision tacked on to the end […]

VINEYARD HAVEN, Mass. (AP) — Sheryl Taylor works as an administrator for Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School. Each summer, she has to leave the island or stay with friends because she can’t afford the high seasonal rents. How high? The average vacation home rents for $6,500 a week. “I have spent a significant amount of […]

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Biden administration is advancing its plan to restrict logging within old-growth forests that are increasingly threatened by climate change, with exceptions that include cutting trees to make forests less susceptible to wildfires according to a U.S. government analysis obtained by The Associated Press. The analysis, which is expected to be […]

By FELIX MARQUEZ and MEGAN JANETSKY Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] VERACRUZ, Mexico (AP) — When the nursing home in southern Mexico began to bake in the country’s ongoing heat wave staff cycled their elderly residents through the few cooling options they had. First, some would sit in front of fans buzzing in […]

Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (AP) — An attempted robbery at a highway rest area in eastern Nebraska left a 72-year-old man dead and his 71-year-old wife critically injured in a knife attack Wednesday, authorities said. The Hall County Sheriff’s Office said deputies were called to an Interstate 80 rest […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Sutherland, the Canadian actor whose wry, arrestingly off-kilter screen presence spanned more than half a century of films from “M.A.S.H.” to “The Hunger Games,” has died. He was 88. Sutherland died Thursday in Miami after a long illness, according to a statement from Creative Artists Agency, which represented him. Kiefer […]