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BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Authorities recovered the bodies of four people on Sunday from the wreckage of a small plane that crashed in southern Montana. The bodies were taken to the state morgue in Billings and autopsies were planned Monday to identify the victims, Yellowstone County Sheriff Mike Linder said. The single-engine Cessna 182 crashed […]

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico forward Carlton Bragg Jr. has been dismissed from the Lobos basketball team following his arrest on suspicion of driving while intoxicated and possession of less than an ounce of marijuana. Coach Paul Weir released a statement late Sunday, hours after Bragg’s arrest, saying the embattled player needed to focus […]

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (AP) — Two General Motors employees driving new 2020 Corvette Stingrays apparently had a need for speed. The pair were clocked going about 100 mph (160 kph) on a public road in Bowling Green, news outlets reported citing Kentucky State Police. The speed limit was 45 mph (72 kph). Alexander Thim, 27, […]

The bushfires have devastated huge tracts of forest and bushland and may have killed as many as a billion native birds, mammals and reptiles, including up to 30% of the koala population.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — A stabbing rampage by a male suspect has left eight people injured near downtown Colorado Springs in attacks that were apparently carried out at random, police said Monday. The suspect was restrained by some of his victims and arrested before dawn by officers, police said in a statement. Some of […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is leaving in place the public nudity convictions of three women who removed their bathing suit tops on a New Hampshire beach as part of a campaign advocating for the rights of women to go topless. The justices declined on Monday to review a state court decision that found […]

PORT WASHINGTON, Wis. (AP) — The push to remove up to 209,000 registered voters from the polls in Wisconsin heads back to court on Monday for a hearing on whether the state elections commission is in contempt for not immediately purging the voters as ordered last month. The commission asked appeals courts to put the […]

It’s Oscar-nomination morning. That means devoting a bit of time to that most delightful Oscars tradition: complaining about the snubs.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday left in place the conviction of a Massachusetts woman who sent her boyfriend text messages urging him to kill himself. Michelle Carter is serving a 15-month sentence after being convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the 2014 death of her boyfriend, Conrad Roy III. A judge determined that […]

Facebook says that it is banning “deepfakes,” those high-tech doctored videos and audios that are essentially indistinguishable from the real thing. That’s excellent news — an important step in the right direction.(Disclosure: Over the past five years, I have served on several occasions as an informal adviser to Facebook.) But the company didn’t go quite far […]

The opening gambits by Boeing's new boss show the risks Dave Calhoun is willing to take to reset the deeply troubled planemaker.

Residents on the northern end of the Puget Sound region woke up to as much as 9 inches of snow Monday morning — along with school closures and power outages. More snow is expected to fall Monday and Wednesday nights. But this is not going to be like last February, when the snow piled up for […]

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks rose in early trading Monday as investors looked ahead to the signing of an initial trade deal with China and the potential for future talks. The world’s largest economies are expected to sign the “Phase 1” trade agreement on Wednesday. It is being viewed as an opening to future […]

All Times EST COLLEGE FOOTBALL College Football Championship: LSU vs. Clemson at New Orleans, 8 p.m. NBA Most Read Stories 22 more shutdowns: The end of 2019 brings a rash of Seattle-area restaurant closures Seahawks GM John Schneider returns home to Green Bay on the verge of maybe his greatest feat Is Seattle's booming restaurant […]

The 1977 original "Star Wars," now known as "Star Wars: Episode IV — A New Hope," was nominated in 10 categories but lost Best Picture to "Annie Hall," something some "Star Wars" fans are still bitter over.

Only five women in history have been nominated for the director Oscar. Greta Gerwig was the most recent with "Lady Bird" in 2017, and she was seen as the most likely female director to land a nomination this year, for "Little Women."

CEDARTOWN, Ga. (AP) — Body camera video showing the moment an officer in Georgia was hit by a train while on duty has been released by police. Polk County police officer Andy Anderson suffered a concussion, six broken ribs, a broken elbow and a broken shoulder bone in the collision near Rockmart on Tuesday, news […]

Woodward and Hexcel are merging in an all-stock deal that would create one of the largest suppliers in the aerospace and defense industry. The companies say the tie-up will allow them to create more efficient aircraft that will reduce emissions, a big hurdle for the aerospace industry. The new company, called Woodward Hexcel, will generate […]

BANGKOK (AP) — An Austrian BASE jumper was rescued in southern Thailand on Monday after being stuck for hours almost 200 meters (yards) above the ground when his parachute became snagged on the rocky side of a cliff. Nearby residents of Phattalung province spotted 28-year-old Johannes Grasser dangling by his parachute cords at about 8:30 […]

STRASBOURG, France (AP) — Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont will attend his first session as a member of the European Parliament on Monday despite facing an arrest warrant against him in Spain. The former Catalan president and new EU legislator is bent on using the parliament to continue his political fight for an a independent Catalonia […]

TAGAYTAY, Philippines (AP) — Clouds of ash blew far north of the Philippines’ Taal volcano, reaching Manila, the country’s bustling capital, and forcing the shutdown of its main airport after lava gushed out of the mountain on Monday. Thousands of villagers were fleeing to safety, but officials say the number could swell to hundreds of […]

NEW DELHI (AP) — The head of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party in the state of West Bengal has threatened to shoot and jail people who protest a new citizenship law that has triggered a month of nationwide demonstrations. Dilip Ghosh, a member of India’s Parliament and the president of […]

LONDON (AP) — Philosopher Roger Scruton, one of Britain’s most prominent conservative thinkers, has died aged 75. Scruton’s family said in a statement that he died Sunday after a six-month battle with cancer. A graduate of Cambridge University and long-time lecturer at the University of London’s Birkbeck College, Scruton carved out a role as a […]

MADRID (AP) — Twenty-two Cabinet ministers took their oaths Monday to join Spain’s new coalition government, a first in a country dominated until recently by two main parties taking turns in power. King Felipe VI presided over the short ceremony, which marked the inauguration of an administration led by Socialist leader and Prime Minister Pedro […]

HONOLULU (AP) — Two weeks in Hawaii brought rain, unusually strong wind, playoffs and two players who thought victory was out of reach until the winner’s lei was draped around their necks. Cameron Smith was the latest Sunday at the Sony Open. He might have been even more surprised than Justin Thomas, who got a […]