Headline News from The Associated Press
AP Headline News - Apr 11 2024 15:00 (EDT)
AP News, I'm Ed Donahue. His family says O.J. Simpson has died. He was a star football player. He was a TV sportscaster and an actor. But in the 1990s, he was known for being a murder defendant, eventually acquitted of killing his ex-wife and her friend. Simpson was later found liable in a civil trial. AP senior football writer Rob Matty reports O.J. Simpson was 76. He had been dealing with cancer. And there was some talk about him going in hospice. I know that he had denied it, but he's 76 years old. And although the NFL community hasn't been in contact, a direct contact with him for a long time since those murder charges. And there have been a lot of people who know of the illness and thought that this was something that was going to be inevitable sooner rather than later. A decade after the murder trial, a jury convicted Simpson of armed robbery and other felonies for stealing from memorabilia dealers in Las Vegas. He served nine years in prison. Ipe Misohara, the former longtime interpreter for Los Angeles Dodger star Shohei Otani, is being charged with federal bank fraud. U.S. Attorney Martin Estrada says Misohara liked to gamble. "The evidence we've gathered over the past few weeks has demonstrated that in total Mr. Misohara stole over $16 million from Mr. Otani's account in order to pay for these illegal sports bets." Misohara served as Otani's interpreter after Otani came to the U.S. in 2018 to play baseball. Estrada also says Misohara lied to the bank to access the account. Days after a New York judge expanded a gag order on Donald Trump to curtail inflammatory speech, the former president tested its limits by disparaging two key witnesses in his upcoming criminal hush money trial as liars. Ukraine's parliament passed a controversial law that will govern how the country calls up new soldiers at a time when it needs to replenish depleted forces. This is AP News. A court in Vietnam sentenced real estate tycoon Trang Mylan to death. The 67-year-old chair of real estate company Van Tingpat was accused of fraud, amounted to $12.5 billion, nearly 3% of the country's 2022 GDP. She illegally controlled the Saigon Joint Stock Commercial Bank between 2012 and 2022, siphoning off funds through thousands of ghost companies and bribes. To government officials, state media and express reports Lan allowed 2,500 loans that resulted in losses of $27 billion to the bank and must compensate the stock commercial bank. I'm Charles D'Litesma. Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Anne Walsh Bradley announced she will not seek another term, setting up a high-stakes fight for control of the battleground state's highest court. Bradley is part of the court's 4-3 liberal majority in Wisconsin. I'm Ed Donahue, AP News. At Arizona State University, we've made online education better, smarter, and more personalized, so you can go further in your aspiring field. I decided to pursue medicine once I realized that ASU did have the online program for biological sciences. You're still required to learn the same curriculum. You're still being tested on the same content that anyone would be tested on in person. The comprehensiveness of the program prepared me so well for medical school. Explore over 300 programs at asuonline.asu.edu.