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Widespread technology outage disrupts flights, banks, media outlets and companies around the world

FRANKFURT, Germany — A global technology outage grounded flights, knocked banks and hospital systems offline and media outlets off air on Friday in a massive disruption that affected compani...

DATE: Jul 19, 2024 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Trump picks Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, a once-fierce critic turned loyal ally, as his GOP running mate

MILWAUKEE (AP) – Donald Trump named Sen. JD Vance of Ohio as his running mate on Monday, choosing a onetime critic who became a loyal ally and is now the first millennial to join a major-par...

DATE: Jul 15, 2024 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Trump rally shooting is being investigated as an assassination attempt, officials say

BUTLER, Pa. (AP) – Former President Donald Trump was the target of an apparent assassination attempt Saturday at a Pennsylvania rally, days before he was to accept the Republican nomination ...

DATE: Jul 13, 2024 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Alec Baldwin's involuntary manslaughter case dismissed in middle of trial

The case cannot be filed again

DATE: Jul 12, 2024 | CATEGORY: AP New Mexico

A Colorado grocery store will soon have its own ammo vending machine

Company has a machine in Texas, Alabama and four in Oklahoma

DATE: Jul 11, 2024 | CATEGORY: Regional News

SWAT member staging comeback after being run over by fire truck at Nuggets parade

Sgt. Justin Dodge went through eight surgeries and is now back full-time

DATE: Jul 4, 2024 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Lauren Boebert's ex-husband pleads guilty to reckless endangerment

Charges stemmed from altercations with family members

DATE: Jun 12, 2024 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Guilty: Trump becomes first former U.S. president convicted of felony crimes

NEW YORK (AP) – Donald Trump became the first former American president to be convicted of felony crimes Thursday as a New York jury found him guilty of all 34 charges in a scheme to illegal...

DATE: May 30, 2024 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Lightning strike kills Colorado rancher and 34 head of cattle

Incident stunned small, tightknit community where most everybody knows everybody

DATE: May 27, 2024 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Biden uses feisty State of the Union to contrast with Trump, sell voters on a second term

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden delivered a defiant argument for a second term in his State of the Union speech Thursday night, lacing into GOP front-runner Donald Trump for espousing ...

DATE: Mar 7, 2024 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

UConn is unanimous No. 1 in AP Top 25. No. 21 Washington State ends 302-week poll drought

UConn became the first unanimous No. 1 in The Associated Press men's college basketball poll this season, while Washington State jumped into the rankings Monday at No. 21 to end a 302-week drought stretching back to the 2007-08 season.

DATE: Feb 20, 2024 | CATEGORY: AP Sports

Welcome to the ‘Hotel California’ case: The trial over handwritten lyrics to an Eagles classic

NEW YORK – In the mid-1970s, the Eagles were working on a spooky, cryptic new song. On a lined yellow pad, Don Henley, with input from band co-founder Glenn Frey, jotted thoughts about “a d...

DATE: Feb 20, 2024 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment