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A couple found the Kentucky highway shooter's remains by being bounty hunters for a week, they say
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Days after a shooter attacked an interstate and disappeared, leaving a Kentucky community scared and on guard, Fred and Sheila McCoy decided to lace up their boots for the first time in a long time and spend days in rugged terrain searching until, finally, they found a...
Police shift focus from woods to road patrols in search for Kentucky interstate shooter
Authorities shifted their strategy Tuesday while trying to track down an interstate highway shooter in Kentucky, pulling searchers from the woods to bolster patrols in communities near where the gunman opened fire, hitting a dozen vehicles and wounding five people. After searching...
Autoworkers demonstrate in Brussels to protest layoff threats across the EU industrial base
BRUSSELS (AP) — Thousands of disgruntled workers demonstrated in the Belgian capital on Monday to protest the threat of massive layoffs in a state-of-the-art Brussels car factory that stands as a symbol for key industries across the European Union that clamor for more government support in the...
Hillary Clinton takes stock of life's wins and losses in a memoir inspired by a Joni Mitchell lyric
NEW YORK (AP) — At the end of her new memoir, Hillary Clinton offers up what sounds like a far-off wish: “I hope I’m alive to see the United States elect a female president.” Turns out her book went to the printers a tad too soon. Clinton wrote that sentence before Kamala...
Germany's first hobby horsing championship gallops through Frankfurt
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Germany's first hobby horsing championship got underway in Frankfurt on Saturday, with hundreds of young riders competing in time jumping, style jumping and dressage on their wooden stick horses. Roughly 300 riders — mostly youngsters, but there are...
The church was named Good News. Hundreds of members died in a cult massacre that haunts survivors
MALINDI, Kenya (AP) — Shukran Karisa Mangi always showed up drunk at work, where he dug up the bodies of doomsday cult members buried in shallow graves. But the alcohol couldn’t numb his shock the morning he found the body of a close friend, whose neck had been twisted so severely that his head...
Takeaways from AP's report updating the cult massacre that claimed hundreds of lives in Kenya
In one of the deadliest cult-related massacres ever, the remains of more than 430 victims have been recovered since police raided Good News International Church in a forest some 70 kilometers (40 miles) inland from the Kenyan coastal town of Malindi. Seventeen months later, many in...
Takeaways from AP's story on the Ashaninka tribe's reforestation model in the Brazilian Amazon
APIWTXA VILLAGE, Brazil (AP) — The Ashaninka tribe of Amonia River live in a largely preserved area of Brazil's western Amazon rainforest. Over the past three decades, they have taken back their territory from cattle farmers and loggers, replacing pasture with fruit and timber trees, the sacred...
The Amazon's Ashaninka tribe restored their territory. Now they aim to change the region
APIWTXA VILLAGE, Brazil (AP) — It was just before dawn when the Ashaninka people, wearing long, tunic-like dresses, began singing traditional songs while playing drums and other instruments. The music drifted through Apiwtxa village, which had welcomed guests from Indigenous communities in Brazil...
Mushrooms foraged in Sweden could help research Chernobyl fallout
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Sweden's strong foraging culture could help determine how much radioactive fallout remains in the Scandinavian country 38 years after the Chernobyl nuclear explosion. The Swedish Radiation Safety Authority has asked mushroom-pickers to send samples of...
