MAYFIELD, Ky. (AP) — Night-shift workers were in the middle of the holiday rush, cranking out candles at Mayfield Consumer Products, when a tornado closed in on the factory and the word went …
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By BRUCE SCHREINER and DYLAN LOVAN
Associated Press | 12/13/21 |
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Long after he was killed, Myrtle Green-Burton wouldn't let anyone wear her 17-year-old son's high school track team jacket.
James Earl Green, an aspiring Olympic …
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By LEAH WILLINGHAM
Associated Press/Report for America | 12/13/21 |
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House panel investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection is set to recommend contempt charges against former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows on Monday as …
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By MARY CLARE JALONICK
Associated Press | 12/13/21 |
MAYFIELD, Ky. (AP) — Judy Burton's hands shivered as she gazed up at what had been her third-floor apartment. She could see her clothes still hanging in the closet, through the building's …
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By CLAIRE GALOFARO
AP National Writer | 12/13/21 |
WASHINGTON (AP) — Luci Baines Johnson recalls December 1967 as a hectic time in her father's White House.
Her sister Lynda, the eldest of President Lyndon B. Johnson' s two children, was …
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By DARLENE SUPERVILLE
Associated Press | 12/13/21 |
MAYFIELD, Ky. (AP) — A monstrous tornado, carving a track that could rival the longest on record, ripped across the middle of the U.S. in a stormfront that killed dozens and tore apart a candle factory, crushed a nursing home, derailed a train and smashed an Amazon warehouse.
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By BRUCE SCHREINER and JIM SALTER
Associated Press | 12/11/21 |
CHICAGO (AP) — Jussie Smollett's conviction for lying to police about a racist, homophobic attack came nearly three years after his report of a horrifying hate crime quickly became part of a …
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By DON BABWIN and SARA BURNETT
Associated Press | 12/10/21 |
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is looking to close his two-day virtual Summit for Democracy on Friday by shining a spotlight on the importance of election integrity, countering …
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By AAMER MADHANI and COLLEEN LONG
Associated Press | 12/10/21 |
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court ruled Thursday against an effort by former President Donald Trump to shield documents from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at …
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By ERIC TUCKER and ZEKE MILLER
Associated Press | 12/10/21 |
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Bob Dole, who overcame disabling war wounds to become a sharp-tongued Senate leader from Kansas, a Republican presidential candidate and then a symbol and celebrant of his dwindling generation of World War II veterans, died Sunday. He was 98.
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By JOHN HANNA and CALVIN WOODWARD
Associated Press | 12/5/21 |