Desmond Ricks was released from prison last May when new tests showed that bullets recovered from the body didn't match the gun that was presented as the weapon in the slaying. He and the Innocence Clinic at University of Michigan law school made a remarkable claim, accusing Detroit police of switching bullets. The Michigan attorney general's office agreed that Ricks qualified for compensation. Judge Michael Talbot signed off on the payment, although Ricks believes he's entitled to an additional $216,000 and plans to appeal. Ricks, 51, told The Associated Press that he feels "blessed" to be free and plans to use some of the money to start a construction business and help boys who live without fathers. "I love to fix things: sand wood, lay carpet, pour cement," Ricks said. "I never had a male figure in my life. I want to teach kids you don't have to go through bad things to learn that some things are bad for you. My mission ...

Email Play ABCNews.com WATCH  Apple users spent nearly $1B on apps between Christmas and New Year's Apple announced today that it will be investing $350 billion in the U.S. economy over the next five years, creating more than 20,000 jobs. In a  news release , the company also said it would make a $38 billion tax payment to the U.S. as required by recent changes to the tax law. Apple said this would be the largest tax payment of its kind. "We believe deeply in the power of American ingenuity, and we are focusing our investments in areas where we can have a direct impact on job creation and job preparedness. We have a deep sense of responsibility to give back to our country and the people who help make our success possible," CEO Tim Cook said in the release. Apple slashes iPhone battery replacement cost by $50 amid criticism Apple said it would focus on three areas: direct employment by Apple; spending and investment with its domestic suppl...

Video Plant employees win million-dollar Powerball jackpot 166 coworkers who went in on the lottery ticket are sharing the winnings. Employees at a Missouri company hit a $1 million Powerball prize after pooling their money together to buy tickets — but will each get just a few thousand dollars after they split the winnings between 166 people. Peggy Lunsford, who works at U.S. Tool, which makes materials and tools used to manufacture aircraft, in Farmington, organized the group effort and collected $2 from coworkers who wanted to take a shot at winning the $300 million Powerball jackpot in December,  FOX2 St. Louis  reported Tuesday. “Each department has a lead that gets together and gets their people’s money together. And then I helped [Lunsford] at the end with making sure the claim forms were filled out correctly, everybody’s driver’s license were filled out correctly,” Michelle Kemp, the company’s payroll supervisor, said. “Then we did take...

next Image 1 of 2 HONG KONG –   A Hong Kong court has sentenced democracy activist Joshua Wong to three months in jail in a contempt case stemming from the 2014 "Umbrella Movement" protests. The 21-year-old Wong was among activists who learned their punishment in Hong Kong's High Court on Wednesday. Wong and another defendant were remanded into custody. The others received suspended sentences. Wong had pleaded guilty last year for failing to comply with a court order to clear out of a protest camp during the 79-day gathering in the semiautonomous Chinese city. Wong gained global attention for helping lead the protests while still a teenager. He and other leaders of the protests are appealing their sentences in a separate case. The judge who heard their appeals on Tuesday will issue a ruling on a later date.

Pope Francis met on Tuesday with survivors of priests who sexually abused them, wept with them and apologized for the “irreparable damage” they suffered, his spokesman said. The pontiff also acknowledged the “pain” of priests who have been held collectively responsible for the crimes of a few, Vatican spokesman Greg Burke told reporters at the end of the day. Francis dove head-first into Chile’s sex abuse scandal on his first full day in Santiago that came amid unprecedented opposition to his visit: Three more churches were torched overnight, including one burned to the ground in the southern Araucania region where Francis celebrates Mass on Wednesday. Police used tear gas and water cannons to break up an anti-pope protest outside Francis’ big open-air Mass in the capital, Santiago. Despite the incidents, huge numbers of Chileans turned out to see the pope, including an estimated 400,000 for his Mass, and he brought some inmates to tears with an emotional vis...

Video US allies meet on North Korean nuke threat Amb. Bolton offers insight on if anything will come from 20-nation gathering in Vancouver. President Trump’s national security adviser, H.R. McMaster, secretly traveled to San Francisco over the weekend for a meeting on North Korea’s nuclear weapons program, Fox News has confirmed. According to sources, McMaster met with officials from South Korea and Japan, including Shotaro Yachi, the director of the Japanese national security council. Video Countries to discuss enforcing sanctions against North Korea During the meeting, the group discussed the newly-resumed communications between North Korea and South Korea. They also agreed that these renewed communications – and agreement for North Korea to send athletes to the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea next month -- are diversions and have no effect on North Korea leader Kim Jong Un’s nuclear weapons program, the sources said. All sides ...

Video North Korea's Winter Olympic demands: Cheerleaders, dance troupe North and South Korea met for the first time in more than two years to discuss the North's participation in the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics. Here's are the details surrounding the meeting and odd requests made from the North. Kim Jong Un’s rumored ex-girlfriend and the leader of the regime’s only all-girl music group appeared at the meeting between the North and the South on Monday — one of the few images of Hyon Song Wol in public after years of speculation she was executed by the despot’s firing squad. Hyon, the leader of the Moranbong Band, joined the four-member delegation Monday as part of the the talks to bring a 140-member art troupe to the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang. Hyon Song Wol attended Monday's meeting with the South Korean delegation. She was rumored to be Kim Jong Un's ex-girlfriend.   (AP) But before her unexpected appearance Monday...