By LEA SKENE Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — Crews opened a second temporary channel on Tuesday allowing a limited amount of marine traffic to bypass the mangled wreckage of Baltimore's collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge, which had blocked the vital port's main shipping channel since its ...

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A group of South Carolina senators didn't get much clarity Tuesday as they sought answers about how $1.8 billion ended up passing through a state bank account over the past decade without anyone knowing where it came from or was ...

ATLANTA (AP) — Federal authorities have charged a U.S. Navy veteran who's accused of ramming an SUV into a barrier at the front gate of the FBI's Atlanta office. Ervin Lee Bolling faces a federal charge of destroying government property stemming from the crash that happened shortly after ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — One of the three Tacoma police officers cleared of criminal charges in the 2020 death of Manuel Ellis — a Black man who was shocked, beaten and restrained facedown on a sidewalk as he pleaded for breath — has been hired by a neighboring sheriff's office. The ...

By NICK PERRY Associated Press MEREDITH, N.H. (AP) — As more than 2 million graduating high school students from across the United States finalize their decisions on what college to attend this fall, many are facing jaw-dropping costs — in some cases, as much as $95,000. A number of ...

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer Major freight railroads will have to maintain two-person crews on most routes under a new federal rule that was finalized Tuesday in a milestone in organized labor's long fight to preserve the practice. The Transportation Department's Federal Railroad ...

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Anti-smoking groups sued the U.S. government Tuesday over a long-awaited ban on menthol cigarettes, which has been idling at the White House for months. The lawsuit is the latest effort to force the government to ban menthols, which ...

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Tesla sales fell sharply last quarter as competition increased worldwide, electric vehicle sales growth slowed, and price cuts failed to lure more buyers. The Austin, Texas, company said Tuesday that it delivered 386,810 vehicles worldwide ...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah woman who authorities say fatally poisoned her husband in 2022, then published a children's book about grief, now faces another attempted murder charge for allegedly drugging him weeks earlier on Valentine's Day. Kouri Richins, 33, is accused of killing her ...

By SEUNG MIN KIM and BRIAN SLODYSKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden's reelection campaign is raising gobs of cash. And it has an election-year strategy that, in a nutshell, aims to spend more — and spend faster. Not only has Biden aimed to show himself off as a ...

By SERKAN GURBUZ and JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — Teams of engineers are working Saturday on the intricate process of cutting and lifting the first section of twisted steel from the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge in Maryland, The bridge crumpled into the Patapsco ...

By JACK DURA Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — President Joe Biden has won North Dakota's Democratic presidential primary. The state party on Saturday announced the results of the mostly mail-in primary. The party began circulating ballots in February to voters who asked for ...

By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Lucy Pitka McCormick's relatives cooked salmon, moose, beaver and muskrat over an earthen firepit on the banks of the Chena River, just outside Fairbanks, as they honored her life. They whipped whitefish, blueberries and lard into ...

By HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Lawmakers in more than a dozen states have proposed legislation to allow spiritual chaplains in public schools, a move that proponents say will ease a youth mental health crisis, bolster staff retention and offer spiritual care ...

By DAVID A. LIEB and MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press The rapid collapse of a Baltimore bridge that was struck by large cargo ship highlighted the importance that bridges play in the daily lives of many Americans. Six construction workers who were on the bridge are presumed dead. The drivers ...

By SUSAN HAIGH Associated Press STONINGTON, Conn. (AP) — For the first time, Connecticut has allowed people to cast ballots early, in person, ahead of an election, years after almost every other state in the country offered voters that option. Saturday marks the final day of early voting ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Police in Minnesota have detained a 13-year-old girl after a shooting that left a boy hospitalized with a gunshot wound to the head. Officers responded to the shooting just before 9 p.m. Friday and found the badly wounded boy, according to St. Paul police. He is ...

By MARYCLAIRE DALE Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A Pennsylvania judge has overturned the convictions of three men imprisoned for decades in the 1997 slaying of a 70-year-old woman even though their DNA never matched that found at the scene, but they will remain in prison while a ...

LONDON, Ohio (AP) — Within 24 hours of buying his red Ford Mustang Mach-E, Liam Sawyer set off on a camping trip. Sawyer, who bought the electric SUV "because I think the technology is cool and the range is just long enough," searched ahead of time for convenient charging stations between ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia's unemployed people will need to do more to prove they are searching for jobs to collect state benefits under a new law that will take effect later this year. A controversial bill passed by the GOP-majority Legislature on the final day of the 60-day ...