Author: Associated Press

2 are killed when powered parachute aircraft flips while landing

NICHOLASVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Authorities say two people died when a powered parachute aircraft flipped while landing in Kentucky. The Jessamine County Sheriff’s office says the small aircraft crashed Sunday in Nicholasville. That’s south of Lexington. Sheriff Kevin Grimes says the man and woman aboard were both killed. The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating. The agency says early information…

Erik and Lyle Menendez are a step closer to leaving prison, but freedom won’t come quickly

By STEFANIE DAZIO, JAIMIE DING and CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press

  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Erik and Lyle Menendez still have a long way to go before they can walk out of prison, even though the Los Angeles County district attorney has recommended their life-without-parole sentences be thrown out and the brothers be resentenced and immediately eligible for parole. The brothers, convicted in the 1989 killings of their parents at…

Funding dispute stalls Kentucky law meant to help adults caring for young relatives

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Child welfare advocates cheered when Kentucky lawmakers passed a bill last spring to support adults willing to step up at desperate times to care for young relatives who endured suspected abuse or neglect at home. Their joy has turned to frustration as the new law, which was supposed to take effect in July, became entangled in…

Kentucky mom pleads guilty to fatally shooting her 2 sons

SHEPHERDSVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky woman pleaded guilty Wednesday to fatally shooting her two young sons last year. Tiffanie Lucas entered guilty pleas to murder charges in Bullitt County Court, news outlets reported. She had previously entered a not guilty plea by reason of insanity and was scheduled to stand trial in December before changing her plea. Sentencing is…

Chiefs acquire three-time All-Pro wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins from the Titans, AP source says

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The two-time defending Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs are acquiring three-time All-Pro wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins from the Tennessee Titans, replenishing a position group that has been ravaged by injuries, a person familiar with the deal told The Associated Press on Wednesday. The person spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because the…

Georgia authorities investigating a dock gangway collapse that killed 7 on a historic island

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Georgia authorities said Sunday they are investigating the “catastrophic failure” of a dock gangway that collapsed and killed seven people on an island off the state’s Atlantic seacoast, where crowds gathered for a celebration by the island’s tiny Gullah-Geechee community of Black slave descendants. “It is a structural failure. There should be very, very little maintenance…

Trump works the fry station and holds a drive-thru news conference at a Pennsylvania McDonald’s

By MICHELLE L. PRICE and MARC LEVY Associated Press

FEASTERVILLE-TREVOSE, Pa. (AP) — Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump manned the fry station at a McDonald’s in Pennsylvania on Sunday before staging an impromptu news conference, answering questions through the drive-thru window. As reporters and aides watched, an employee showed Trump how to dunk baskets of fries in oil, salt the fries and put them into boxes using a scoop….

A father and son are both indicted on murder charges in a mass school shooting in Georgia

ATLANTA (AP) — A grand jury in Georgia has indicted a father and son in a mass shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder. A Barrow County deputy court clerk confirms both were indicted on Thursday. Colt Gray is charged with 55 counts, including murder, aggravated assault and cruelty to children. The 14-year-old’s father, Colin Gray, faces 29 counts, including…

Liam Payne, former One Direction member, dies at 31 in Argentina hotel fall

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Former One Direction singer Liam Payne, 31, was found dead after falling from a third-floor hotel balcony in Buenos Aires on Wednesday, local officials told Argentine media. Alberto Crescenti, head of the state emergency medical system, said on Argentina’s Todo Noticias TV channel that Payne fell into a courtyard of the Casa Sur Hotel in…