By COLLEEN SLEVIN and TIM SULLIVAN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Renee Good loved sparkles and laughter and any excuse for a celebration. She loved pretty much everyone she met, and was late for pretty much everything. "She had this way of making you feel special and loved that I ...

By JESSICA HILL Associated Press Auburn, Calif. (AP) — Former MLB pitcher Daniel Serafini was sentenced Friday to life in prison without the possibility of parole in the 2021 shooting of his wife's parents during a burglary at their home by Lake Tahoe, authorities said. Serafini, 51, ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Alberto Carvalho, the superintendent of Los Angeles public schools in the nation's second-largest district, was put on paid leave Friday, two days after the FBI served search warrants at his home and the district's headquarters. Authorities have not provided details of the ...

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The 911 call came in at 6:32 a.m. on Thursday: Two "suspicious" men wearing dark clothing were lingering inside a Columbia University residential building. But when New York Police Department officers were dispatched to the scene, they ...

DURHAM, N.Y. (AP) — Shoppers in upstate New York earlier this month turned up a rare find while perusing a local antique store this month: tucked next to a cookie jar made in the shape of a chicken was a live owl resting peacefully on a shelf. The state Department of Environmental ...

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer ChatGPT maker OpenAI has received $110 billion in funding from Amazon, SoftBank and Nvidia, putting the technology company's pre-money valuation at $730 billion. Amazon is leading the trio of tech heavyweights in commitments, putting up $50 billion, ...