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Academy Sports is paying $2.5 million to families of a serial killer's victims for illegal gun sales
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A sporting goods chain is paying the families of three people shot to death by a South Carolina serial killer $2.5 million after one of its stores sold guns to a straw buyer who gave them to the killer, a felon who couldn't legally buy the weapons. At times,...
3 die in Maine when car goes in wrong direction on turnpike, hitting 2 vehicles
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A wrong-way driver on the Maine Turnpike struck two vehicles, causing a head-on collision that killed three people, police said. Maine police said they were still working to identify the occupants of the vehicles in the Wednesday night crash in Portland. They...
Vehicle wanted in Chicago homicide crashes into Milwaukee school bus during police pursuit
MILWAUKEE (AP) — A vehicle wanted in connection with a homicide in Chicago crashed into a school bus during a police chase in Milwaukee on Wednesday, sending multiple people to area hospitals. Police in Milwaukee said in a statement that they began chasing the vehicle shortly...
Editorial Roundup: West Virginia
Charleston Gazette-Mail. November 28, 2023. Editorial: Begging your pardon, deer It turns out that West Virginia, usually in the bottom of the rest of the United States in any given statistic, is at the top of at least one list. As per usual when this happens, it’s...
Construction companies fined in connection with carpenter's death at Packers stadium
GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — Federal labor inspectors have levied fines against two construction companies in connection with a worker's death at Lambeau Field, home of the Green Bay Packers, earlier this year. Joshua Shaw, a 27-year-old carpenter with Mavid Construction, died in June...
2 men charged in Sunday shooting of suburban Chicago police officer who responded to car crash
BEDFORD PARK, Ill. (AP) — Two men have been charged in the weekend shooting that wounded a suburban Chicago police officer after he responded to a reported car crash. Raul Perez, 24, of Blue Island, faces one count each of attempted first-degree murder of a police officer,...
3 dead, 1 hospitalized in explosion that sparked massive fire at Ohio auto repair shop
HILLSBORO, Ohio (AP) — An explosion at an auto repair shop in Ohio that killed three people and sent a fourth person to a hospital sparked a massive fire that burned for hours and spewed thick, black smoke into the air. The Tuesday afternoon blast at Jimbo’s Auto Repair in...
Settlement reached in lawsuit over chemical spill into West Virginia creek
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A $500,000 settlement has been reached in a lawsuit over truck crash that sent a chemical into a West Virginia creek, according to a published report. The Kanawha County Commission will get half of that and will decide how to spend it in future meetings,...
Thick fog likely caused a roughly 30-vehicle collision on an Idaho interstate, police say
POCATELLO, Idaho (AP) — A thick layer of fog is believed to have caused a roughly 30-vehicle collision on an Idaho interstate, state police said. The collision occurred Monday morning on eastbound Interstate 86, near milepost 56, west of Pocatello, near the Pocatello Regional...
WWE Hall of Famer Tammy 'Sunny' Sytch sentenced to 17 years in prison for fatal DUI crash
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Former pro wrestler Tammy “Sunny" Sytch has been sentenced to more than 17 years in prison for drunkenly colliding with another car, killing a 75-year-old man, while her blood alcohol level was four times the legal limit, authorities in Florida said. ...
