September 9, 2024 5:59 pm
(AP) – Norfolk Southern’s board has confirmed that the railroad’s CEO Alan Shaw is under investigation for potential ethical lapses. A spokeswoman for the Atlanta-based railroad declined to offer any additional details Monday about the nature of the allegations against Shaw, who has been CEO since May 2022. Shaw has been under tremendous pressure. First, he had to deal with the worst railroad disaster in the past decade after a Norfolk Southern train derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, in February 2023. Then this year, he had to fight to keep his job after activist investor Ancora Holdings tried to take control of the railroad and reform its operations, starting with firing Shaw. (Photo: AP)
September 9, 2024 5:16 am
ATLANTA (AP) — Kamala Harris steps on to the presidential general election debate stage for the first time Tuesday. But the vice president and Democratic nominee has plenty of debate experience to draw on as she takes on former President and Republican nominee Donald Trump. Longtime political observers of Harris describe her debate approach as obviously influenced by her years as a prosecutor and attorney general in California. She views the events much like a jury trial, trying to win the argument on the merits but also ensure that viewers walk away with key impressions. That means mastering the moment to get viral clips but also having a command of the facts and communicating a broader narrative.
September 9, 2024 5:15 am
LONDON, Ky. (AP) — A grueling manhunt stretches into a third day Monday for a suspect in an interstate shooting that struck 12 vehicles and wounded five people in Kentucky. Authorities are vowing to keep up a relentless search as the stress level remains high in a rural area where some schools canceled classes. Authorities have searched a rugged area of southeastern Kentucky since Saturday evening. That’s when a gunman began shooting at drivers on Interstate 75 near London, a small city of about 8,000 people. The search was temporarily suspended once darkness fell Sunday night, but is set to resume Monday. Joseph A. Couch has been named a suspect in the shooting.
September 9, 2024 5:19 am
ATLANTA (AP) — The mother of a student in class with the boy accused of killing four people in a Georgia high school shooting says a warning to school officials shows the shooting could have been prevented. Rabecca Sayarath says administrators at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, didn’t do enough to protect students. She said Sunday that “the school failed them.” Sayarath’s daughter says administrators appeared to be looking for Colt Gray, the 14-year-old charged with four counts of murder, before the gunfire began. Others are declining to blame school or law enforcement. Democratic U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock of Georgia said Sunday that he won’t “referee or second-guess” the response.
September 9, 2024 5:22 pm
MEDIA, Pa. (AP) — John and Matthew Gaudreau were remembered as loving brothers and husbands who put family above hockey and everything else at their tearful funeral, a week and a half after they died when they were struck by a suspected drunken driver while riding bicycles in their home state of New Jersey. Widows Meredith and Madeline Gaudreau described their husbands as attached at the hip throughout their lives. John was 31 and Matthew 29. Meredith revealed she was pregnant with the couple’s third child. Madeline is also due to give birth to their first child in December. (Photo: AP)
September 9, 2024 2:14 am
NEW YORK (AP) — James Earl Jones, who overcame racial prejudice and a severe stutter to become a celebrated icon of stage and screen has died. He was 93. His agent, Barry McPherson, confirmed Jones died Monday morning at home. Jones was a pioneering actor who eventually lent his deep, commanding voice to CNN, “The Lion King” and Darth Vader. Working deep into his 80s, he won two Emmys, a Golden Globe, two Tony Awards, a Grammy, the National Medal of Arts, the Kennedy Center Honors and was given an honorary Oscar and a special Tony for lifetime achievement. In 2022, a Broadway theater was renamed in his honor. (Photo: AP)
September 9, 2024 12:52 pm
LONDON (AP) — Kate, the princess of Wales, says she has completed chemotherapy and will return to some public duties in the coming months. The 42-year-old wife of Prince William is expected to undertake a light program of engagements until the end of the year. Kate announced in March that she was being treated for an undisclosed type of cancer. Kate attended a ceremonial birthday parade for her father-in-law King Charles III in June, and the following month presented the men’s winner’s trophy at the Wimbledon tennis championships. (Photo: AP)
September 8, 2024 5:20 am
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — A bridge collapsed and a bus was swept away by flooding as more rain fell on Vietnam from a former typhoon that has caused 59 deaths in the Southeast Asian country. Vietnam’s state media said nine people died during the typhoon and 50 others died during the consequent floods and landslides. Several rivers remained dangerously high. A passenger bus carrying 20 people was swept into a flooded stream in Cao Bang province, and landslides were blocking rescuers. In Phu Tho province, rescue operations were continuing after a steel bridge over the engorged Red River collapsed. Thirteen people were missing. Yagi earlier caused 20 deaths in the Philippines and four in China.
September 8, 2024 6:50 am
MOSINEE, Wis. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump posted a warning on his social media site threatening to jail those “involved in unscrupulous behavior” this election, which he said would be under intense scrutiny. Trump wrote late Saturday: “WHEN I WIN, those people that CHEATED will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the Law, which will include long term prison sentences so that this Depravity of Justice does not happen again.” He again sowed doubt about the integrity of the election, even though cheating is incredibly rare. Trump’s post comes just days before his first — and likely only — debate against Vice President Kamala Harris.
September 8, 2024 6:47 am
A relative of the Georgia high school shooting suspect says the teenager’s mother called the school before the killings. Annie Brown, the suspect’s aunt, told the Washington Post that his mother called Apalachee High School about 30 minutes before the Wednesday shooting to warn them of an emergency involving her son. Brown has confirmed the reporting to The Associated Press but declined to comment further. Her nephew, 14-year-old Colt Gray, has been charged with murder over the fatal shooting of two students and two teachers. His father, Colin Gray, is accused of second-degree murder for providing his son with a semiautomatic AR 15-style rifle. Their attorneys declined to immediately seek bail during their first court appearance on Friday.
