July 31, 2025 5:17 am
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian authorities say a Russian drone and missile attack on Ukraine’s capital killed at least six people including a 6-year-old boy. A Kyiv official said Thursday that at least 52 other people were wounded in the attacks. The official said that the number was likely to rise. A large part of a nine-story residential building collapsed after it was struck. Rescue teams were at the scene to search for people trapped under the rubble. Western leaders have accused Putin of dragging his feet in U.S.-led peace efforts in an attempt to capture more Ukrainian land.
July 31, 2025 5:15 am
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A man newly hired as a schoolteacher in Arkansas has been arrested in the killings of a couple in front of their children at Devil’s Den State Park. Arkansas State Police arrested the man at a Springdale barbershop Wednesday and charged him with two counts of capital murder. Police would not discuss a motive. Authorities had pleaded with the public to look through their photos from weekend visits to the park to help find the attacker. Clinton David Brink and Cristen Amanda Brink were found dead Saturday on a walking trail at Devil’s Den. The Springdale district said the man was hired for the upcoming school year and had not yet met any families or students at the school.
July 31, 2025 5:18 am
NEW YORK (AP) — Authorities say the man who killed four people at a Manhattan office building bought the rifle he used in the attack and the car he drove across country from his supervisor at a Las Vegas casino. Police say Shane Tamura fatally shot four people in the building that houses the National Football League’s headquarters on Monday before killing himself. New York police said Wednesday that Tamura’s supervisor at the Horseshoe Las Vegas legally bought the AR-15-style rifle he sold to Tamura for $1,400. Police said a search of Tamura’s Las Vegas apartment turned up a psychiatric medication and other drugs that had been prescribed to him. Police say he believed he had a brain disease linked to contact sports and accused the NFL of hiding the dangers of playing.
July 31, 2025 5:18 am
CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) — A Colorado dentist has been convicted of murder in the poisoning death of his wife and sentenced to life in prison without possible parole. Jurors found James Craig guilty of first-degree murder on Wednesday. Prosecutors had accused Craig of repeatedly poisoning his wife Angela Craig, including by lacing her smoothies, over 10 days in 2023. When those attempts failed, prosecutors said, James Craig gave her a final dose of cyanide as she was hospitalized in suburban Denver. Craig stood in a hushed courtroom as the jury delivered guilty verdicts on murder and other charges. Afterward, the court heard emotional statements from the victim’s relatives before the judge sentenced Craig to life in prison.
July 31, 2025 2:11 pm
(AP) Delta Air Lines says a flight from Salt Lake City to Amsterdam was hit by serious turbulence, sending 25 people to hospitals and forcing the flight to divert to Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. The airline says that first responders met the flight Wednesday evening. One passenger said people who weren’t wearing seat belts were thrown about the cabin. The plane was carrying 275 customers and a 13-member crew. Delta says seven crew members were treated at hospitals and released, as were customers who shared their status with the airline. Delta is cooperating with the National Transportation Safety Board on an investigation.
July 31, 2025 2:43 pm
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump plans to reestablish the Presidential Fitness Test for American schoolchildren. The program was created in 1966 and had children run and perform situps, pullups or pushups and a sit-and-reach test. It changed in 2012 to focus more on individual health than athletic feats. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt says Trump wants to promote healthy active lifestyles for future generations. Trump plans to sign an order later Thursday reestablishing the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition. He’ll be joined at the White House event by a number of prominent athletes, including some who’ve faced controversy such as Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker, and retired New York Giants linebacker Lawrence Taylor.
July 30, 2025 2:10 am
UPMC, a world-renowned health care provider and insurer, and GoHealth Urgent Care, one of the fastest growing, customer-centric health care companies, announce the unveiling of 81 UPMC-GoHealth Urgent Care locations across Pennsylvania and West Virginia. This new joint venture supports expanded access to life-changing medicine and on-demand care. The UPMC-GoHealth Urgent Care locations incorporate advances in technology and operations, while providing the same premiere health care that people know and trust from UPMC. The new UPMC-GoHealth partnership creates a digital and physical front door to connect patients to care within the robust network of trusted UPMC physicians and specialists. It also brings more ambulatory services, such as primary care, women’s health, orthopedics and radiology, closer to communities that need them.a world-renowned health care provider and insurer. In Pennsylvania, the UPMC-GoHealth Urgent Care network incorporates former MedExpress, UPMC Urgent Care and UPMC Express Care locations. In West Virginia, all former MedExpress locations are now UPMC-GoHealth Urgent Care centers. For locations, hours and more information, visit www.gohealthuc.com/upmc.
July 30, 2025 5:56 pm
Attorney General Dave Sunday announced on Wednesday that a Greene County woman pleaded guilty to kidnapping and aggravated assault involving two victims in 2022, as well as her role in covering up a double murder days earlier. Shawna Smith pleaded guilty to kidnapping, aggravated assault, and conspiracy for the Feb. 14, 2022, incident at a Waynesburg home. She also pleaded guilty to tampering with evidence and obstruction for helping to conceal shell casings from a double murder committed by her boyfriend, Cortland Rogers, two weeks earlier. In accordance with a plea agreement, Smith, 26, of Waynesburg, will serve 10 to 20 years in state prison. Rogers previously pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree murder and was sentenced to serve life in prison for killing Kevin Williford and Judy Hunter on Feb. 1, 2022. Two weeks later, Smith and Rogers lured two victims into a nearby home and held the victims at gunpoint for several hours. The female victim was assaulted and suffered multiple injuries from being punched, kicked, and stomped on repeatedly.
The murder victims were found the same day Rogers and Smith perpetrated the kidnapping.
July 30, 2025 3:31 pm
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve is leaving its key short-term interest rate unchanged for the fifth time this year, brushing off repeated calls from President Donald Trump for a cut. The Fed’s decision Wednesday leaves its key short-term rate at about 4.3%, where it has stood after the central bank reduced it three times last year. Chair Jerome Powell has said the Fed would likely have cut rates already if not for Trump’s sweeping tariffs. Powell and other Fed officials say they want to see how Trump’s duties on imports will impact inflation and the broader economy. Two Fed governors dissented in favor of a cut.
July 29, 2025 8:52 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy expanded at a surprising 3% annual pace from April through June, bouncing back at least temporarily from a first-quarter drop that reflected disruptions arising from President Donald Trump’s trade wars. The Commerce Department reported Wednesday that America gross domestic product — the nation’s output of goods and services — rebounded after falling at a 0.5% clip from January through March. The first-quarter drop was mainly caused by a surge in imports — which are subtracted from GDP — as businesses scrambled to bring in foreign goods ahead of Trump’s tariffs. Economists had expected 2% second-quarter growth.
