DALLAS (AP) — More than 60 veterans of World War II took off Friday from Dallas to France, where they will take part in ceremonies marking the 80th anniversary of D-Day. The group ranges from 96 to 107 years old, according to American Airlines, which is flying them first to Paris. The flight is one of several that are taking veterans to France for the commemoration. The group will take part in a wreath-laying ceremony at Suresnes American Cemetery, visit the Eiffel Tower and join in a daily ceremony known as le Ravivage de la Flamme, which honors fallen French service members at the Arc de tri ..read more

Two people have died in a crash in Colchester that took place during a high-speed police pursuit. Three more people who were in the crashed vehicle are being detained. The crash took place shortly after 7:30 p.m. on East Lakeshore Drive. Burlington Police Chief Jon Murad said late Friday night that employees of a rental car company reported being threatened at gunpoint earlier in the evening by four people inside a white sport utility vehicle. Those reports came from Main Street near the Church Street and South Winooski Avenue intersections. There were no reports of gunfire. The chief said off ..read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — A man who fatally shot four law enforcement officers with an assault rifle a month ago acted alone and was solely responsible for all casualties, police in North Carolina’s largest city said Friday. “At this point in the investigation, it has been determined there was one shooter and no friendly fire,” Charlotte-Mecklenburg Deputy Police Chief Tonya Arrington told reporters. Four other officers were also wounded in the April 29 incident in a residential neighborhood, the deadliest shooting against law enforcement officers since 2016, when a sniper killed five officers at ..read more

(NewsNation) — Alcohol deaths increased steadily over the past decade, with sharp rises during the pandemic years, according to a report published last week. Overall, the national alcohol death rate has risen 70% in the past decade, accounting for 51,191 deaths in 2022, up from 27,762 deaths in 2012, the KFF analysis found. Over the past decade, alcohol death rates grew the fastest among people aged 26 to 44, American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) people and women, according to the report ..read more

STAMFORD, Conn. (WTNH) -- A judge has sentenced Michelle Troconis to 20 years in prison, suspended after 14 and 1/2 years, for her role in the death and disappearance of Connecticut mother Jennifer Farber Dulos. Troconis faced up to 45 years in prison and up to $45,000 in fines. Troconis was found guilty in March of conspiracy to commit murder, two counts of conspiracy to commit tampering with physical evidence, two counts of tampering with physical evidence and one count of hindering prosecution in the second degree. What's next in the Jennifer Farber Dulos case? Schoenhorn said there were 64 ..read more

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — SeaWorld San Diego has announced a baby dolphin that was found stranded on the beach in Cardiff with severe injuries has defied all odds and is making a miraculous recovery. The SeaWorld San Diego rescue team responded to reports of a stranded male dolphin calf on Cardiff Beach in mid-January 2024. After rescuing the dolphin, the team found it was only a few months old and had a broken jaw in three places and head trauma. Taco Bell’s Big Cheez-It Crunchwrap Supreme, Tostada to make nationwide debut In the ocean, they around found throughout the world in offshore and co ..read more

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The ambush shooting death of a Minneapolis police officer has stunned a department that has struggled to fill its ranks since the murder of George Floyd and the ensuing turmoil. Officer Jamal Mitchell's death Thursday came days after the fourth anniversary of Floyd's killing by a city officer, which sparked sometimes violent unrest across the country and forced a reckoning with police brutality and racism. Minneapolis became ground zero for the “defund the police” movement, and while that didn’t succeed in eliminating the city's police department, the force remains well belo ..read more

Vulnerable House Republicans are treading carefully around the bombshell conviction of former President Trump, showing a wariness to wade into the prickly debate over hush money, a porn star and the integrity of a once-treasured criminal justice system that Trump has vilified. While GOP leaders and a long list of rank-and-file Republicans — including a number of front-liners — have raced to Trump’s defense following the guilty verdict on all counts in his New York hush money trial, more than half of the 17 House Republicans representing districts won by President Biden in 2020 have so far rema ..read more

NEW YORK (AP) — A former top U.S. agricultural official cast Sen. Bob Menendez as a villain at his bribery trial Friday, saying he tried to stop him from disrupting an unusual sudden monopoly that developed five years ago over the certification of meat exported to Egypt. A Manhattan federal court jury heard the official, Ted McKinney, recount a brief phone call he received from the Democrat in 2019 soon after New Jersey businessman Wael Hana was granted the sole right to certify that meat exported to Egypt from the United States conformed to Islamic dietary requirements. Hana, who is on trial ..read more

WASHINGTON (AP) — Marian Shields Robinson, the mother of Michelle Obama who moved with the first family to the White House when son-in-law Barack Obama was elected president, has died. She was 86. Mrs. Robinson's death was announced by Michelle Obama and other family members in a statement that said “there was and will be only one Marian Robinson. In our sadness, we are lifted up by the extraordinary gift of her life.” She was a widow and lifelong Chicago resident when she moved to the executive mansion in 2009 to help care for granddaughters Malia and Sasha. In her early 70s, Mrs. Robinson in ..read more