Headline News from The Associated Press
AP Headline News - May 17 2024 11:00 (EDT)
8P News. I'm Jackie Quinn. In Kentucky, the world's top golfer, Scotty Sheffler, has teed off at the PGA Championship. It comes hours after he was arrested and taken to jail for a traffic incident in which a police officer was injured. Our Rita Foley reports. Masters Champion Scotty Sheffler was arrested by Louisville, Kentucky police this morning on his way to the PGA Championship. ESPN says he did not follow police orders while in a traffic jam. He's going to jail and it ain't nothing you can do about. This was after a pedestrian was struck and killed, hit by a bus while crossing the road. The police report says a detective had to be hospitalized after being dragged by Sheffler's vehicle. Severe thunderstorms hit southeastern Texas for the second time this month. At least four people were killed. Houston Fire Chief San Peña on KTRK says three of the deaths were from falling trees. Falling trees caused two of the fatalities. One was a crane accident as well that that was blown over by the by the wind of the strong winds. Nearly one million customers have no power in the Houston area. Flood waters and warnings are still up from Texas to central Alabama. French police have shot and killed a man armed with a knife and a metal bar suspected of setting a fire that damaged a synagogue in the Normandy region. This is this situation in France. Rabbi Shamuel LeBacke says they have security and are always on guard for an anti-Semitic attack. This you see it's up at six o'clock in the morning. We don't know when it can happen is we have this scared Slovak Prime Minister Robert Ficos undergone another operation two days after being shot multiple times. A suspected assailant has been arrested. A 96-year-old Korean War veteran today gets his purple heart. Seven decades after Earl Meyer was injured in a mortar attack. This is AP News. I'm Pepsi Kell and this is Marcus in a minute. Stops are drifting near the record as Wall Street heads to the finish of another winning week. This in 2-500 was flat in the first hour of training Friday. The benchmark indexes on track for a fourth straight week of gains. The Dow was up 40 points. That's less than one-tenth of a percent. A day after briefly topping 40,000 for the first time. The Nasdaq composite was little changed. Treasure eels held relatively steady in the bond market. GameStop sank another 26% giving up more of its huge gains from early this week. The struggling video game seller says it plans to sell up to 45 million shares of stock in order to raise cash. GameStop also said it would report a loss of up to $37 million for its recently ended quarter. That's you tell New York. Trucks carrying badly needed aid for the Gaza Strip rolled across that newly built U.S. floating pier in the enclave for the first time. I'm Jackie Quinn AP News. An official message from Medicare A new law is helping me save more money on prescription drug costs. Maybe you can save too. With Medicare's extra help program my premium is zero and my out-of-pocket costs are low. Who should apply? Single people making less than $23,000 a year or married couples who make less than $31,000 a year. Even if you don't think you qualify, it pays to find out. Go to ssa.gov/extrahelp. Paid for by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Because you want to hear bacon and eggs on your outdoor griddle, not the scraping of rust. Introducing the Weber Slate Rust-Resistant Griddle. Stays ready, not rusty. With a carbon steel cooktop pre-seasoned and ready to cook on right out of the box. The Weber Slate heats evenly edge-to-edge up to 500 degrees. All you'll hear is the gasp of amazement from friends and family when you serve the food. Cooking with the Weber Slate Rust-Resistant Griddle just sounds delicious and tastes even better. Summer is meant to be easy. It's meant to be savored. So don't spend your summer day waiting in line for ice coffee. Satisfy your ice coffee craving in your own kitchen with Nespresso. Create consistently delicious ice coffee that's never watered down at the touch of a button. This summer, make summer memories with limited-edition Virtual Pop Plus Pantone Mandarin Orange to cool even the hottest days. Be your own barista, making exceptional ice coffee at home with Nespresso. Meant to be ice, meant to be simple. Visit Nespresso.com [MUSIC PLAYING]