Unemployment Benefit Applications Drop Sharply

(LONDON) — King Charles III plans to travel to France next month for British ceremonies marking the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings, while skipping the larger international event a few miles away as he continues to be treated for cancer. Charles and Queen Camilla are expected to attend a ceremony at the British Normandy Memorial at Ver-sur-Mer on June 6, Buckingham Palace said Friday.

mdash; Canadian police announced Friday they have linked the deaths of four young women nearly 50 years ago to a now-deceased U. S. fugitive who hid in Canada from the mid-1970s to the late 1990s. Alberta Royal Canadian Mounted Police Supt. Dave Hall said Friday that Gary Allen Srery might also be linked to unsolved murders and sexual assaults in Western Canada, and authorities are asking the public for more information that may link him to other unsolved cases. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] “We are now announcing that we have linked four previously unsolved homicides from the 1970s to a now deceased serial, sexual offender,” Hall said at a news conference in Edmonton, Alberta. Srery died in 2011 in a state prison in Idaho of natural causes while serving a life sentence for sexual assault. A break in the homicides in Canada came when authorities began comparing DNA of the killer with profiles on ancestry websites, which eventually lead them to a match with Srery, Hall said. Hall provided details of the four Canadian cases linked to Srery. He said that in 1976 Eva Dvorak and Patricia McQueen were both 14-year-olds living in Calgary, Alberta attending junior high.

(DENVER) — A Colorado man pleaded guilty to murder charges on Friday for starting a 2020 house fire that killed five members of a Senegalese family out of misplaced revenge for a stolen iPhone that he mistakenly tracked to the house. Kevin Bui, now 20, was a teenager at the time of the fire but prosecuted as an adult.

(NEW YORK) — A man wanted in connection with the random attack on actor Steve Buscemi on a New York City street earlier this month was arrested on an assault charge Friday, police said. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] The 66-year-old star of “Boardwalk Empire” and “Fargo” was walking in midtown Manhattan on May 8 when a stranger punched him in the face, city police said.

(RALEIGH, N. C.) — Ralph Kennedy Frasier, the final surviving member of a trio of African American youths who were the first to desegregate the undergraduate student body at North Carolina’s flagship public university in the 1950s, has died. Frasier, who had been in declining health over the past several months, died May 8 at age 85 at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida, according to son Ralph Frasier Jr.

A 22-year-old man charged with first-degree murder in the 2022 shooting of East Colfax community leader Ma Kaing was arrested Tuesday in a separate fatal shooting that Aurora police say occurred six weeks earlier. Lu Reh was in custody at the Denver County Jail on Tuesday when an Adams County district judge signed a warrant to arrest him on charges stemming from the shooting death of 44-year-old Aurora resident Ricardo Ryans, Aurora police said in a news release Friday. Police found Ryans dead from multiple gunshot wounds in an alley between the 1600 blocks of Willow and Xanthia streetsin Denver’s East Colfax neighborhood at 4:15 p.m.