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AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean
May 10-16, 2024 As young Haitians are increasingly exposed to violence, the country is undergoing a wider push to dispel a long-standing taboo on mental health services teaching parents how to put a smile on their children’s faces. Family and friends hold a vigil in...
1 person has died and another is hurt after a fiery tanker truck crash in Colorado
DENVER (AP) — One person died and another was hospitalized after a vehicle crashed into a tanker truck carrying fuel on Colorado's main east-west highway near Denver on Thursday, sending up a fireball and a huge plume of black smoke, authorities said. The crash happened on the...
4 people die in Croatia when a car carrying migrants hits a wall
ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — A car carrying migrants on Thursday skidded off a road and hit a wall in southern Croatia, killing four people and seriously injuring five others, including two children, police said. A Moldovan national who was the driver was killed in the crash, along with...
What to know about a bus crash that killed 8 Mexican farmworkers in Florida
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A bus carrying farmworkers to a watermelon field in central Florida was sideswiped by a drunk driver and overturned in a field, killing eight people and injuring dozens of others, authorities said. The man accused of causing Tuesday's crash has a...
Driver said he smoked pot oil, took medication before Florida crash that killed 8 Mexican workers
OCALA, Fla. (AP) — A man with a long record of dangerous driving told investigators he smoked marijuana oil and took prescription drugs hours before he sideswiped a bus, killing eight Mexican farmworkers and injuring dozens more, according to an arrest report unsealed Wednesday. ...
Colorado teen pleads guilty in death of driver who was hit in the head by a rock
GOLDEN, Colo. (AP) — A second teen pleaded guilty on Wednesday in the death of a 20-year-old driver who was hit in the head by a rock that crashed through her windshield in suburban Denver last year. Under a plea deal with prosecutors, Nicholas Karol-Chik, 19, pleaded guilty to...
Police are unsure why a woman was in the wrong lane in a Georgia highway crash that killed 4
GARFIELD, Ga. (AP) — Investigators remain unsure why a woman was driving in the wrong lane in a head-on crash of two vehicles that killed four people in southeastern Georgia. Georgia state troopers said Tuesday that the people who died in the crash were Shyneice Sanders, 30, of San...
Waymo is latest company under investigation for autonomous or partially automated technology
DETROIT (AP) — The U.S. government's highway safety agency has opened another investigation of automated driving systems, this time into crashes involving Waymo's self-driving vehicles. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration posted documents detailing the probe on its...
Today in History: May 14, state of Israel is proclaimed
Today in History Today is Tuesday, May 14, the 135th day of 2024. There are 231 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On May 14, 1948, according to the current-era calendar, the independent state of Israel was proclaimed in Tel Aviv...
Van driver dies in rear-end crash with bus on I-74, several others are lightly injured
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The driver of a van died Monday after crashing into the back of a charter bus that was stopped in traffic on Interstate 74 near Shelbyville, Indiana, authorities said. Several other people have minor injuries, said Indiana State Police Sgt. John Perrine....
