By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Thousands of families sickened and forced from their Los Angeles homes after the nation’s largest-known natural gas leak have reached a settlement of up to $1.8 billion with a utility, attorneys said Monday. The settlement with Southern California Gas Co. and its parent company, Sempra Energy,
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By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Thousands of families sickened and forced from their Los Angeles homes after the nation’s largest-known natural gas leak have reached a settlement of up to $1.8 billion with a utility, attorneys said Monday. The settlement with Southern California Gas Co. and its parent company, Sempra Energy,
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By MARK LONG AP Sports Writer GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — According to several former players and some of their parents, ex-Florida women’s basketball coach Cam Newbauer verbally abused players, assistants and staff members. They say he created a toxic environment that athletic department officials failed to fix for years. The Alligator, a student-run paper that’s
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FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Police in Flagstaff say a man has been arrested after driving a stolen delivery truck into a mall entrance. They say nobody was injured in Monday’s incident and the suspect was being held on suspicion of theft and burglary charges. The man’s name and age weren’t immediately released. Police say the
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A United States citizen was arrested over the weekend after a Border Patrol K9 helped agents find more than $600,000 worth of cocaine that was hidden in an SUV at the Highway 86 checkpoint. The incident happened Saturday morning. According to Border Patrol, at approximately 10:36 a.m., a white 2011 Chevrolet Traverse driven by a
Continue Reading By JOHN ZENOR AP Sports Writer Bryan Harsin isn’t tipping his hand on No. 22 Auburn’s starting quarterback against LSU.T.J. Finley is a former LSU starter who transferred after the spring. Finley staked his claim on the job when he came off the bench to replace third-year starter Bo Nix and ultimately throw for the
Continue Reading By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama lawmakers are beginning a special session on a $1.3 billion prison construction plan. Gov. Kay Ivey called lawmakers back to Montgomery on Monday to vote on the proposal to build at least three new prisons and renovate others. The plan would use $400 million of
Continue Reading SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Investigators have made no arrests but say they have several promising leads in the shooting death of University of Utah football player Aaron Lowe. Salt Lake City police Chief Mike Brown said Monday they have received several tips in the house-party slaying that also left a woman injured. Meanwhile, family
Continue Reading SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Investigators have made no arrests but say they have several promising leads in the shooting death of University of Utah football player Aaron Lowe. Salt Lake City police Chief Mike Brown said Monday they have received several tips in the house-party slaying that also left a woman injured. Meanwhile, family
Continue ReadingBy Kate Sullivan and Jamie Gumbrecht, CNN President Joe Biden received his Covid-19 vaccine booster shot on Monday afternoon at the White House just days after booster doses were approved by federal health officials. “We know that to beat this pandemic and to save lives … we need to get folks vaccinated,” Biden said during
Continue ReadingCNN By Kate Sullivan and Jamie Gumbrecht, CNN President Joe Biden received his Covid-19 vaccine booster shot on Monday afternoon at the White House just days after booster doses were approved by federal health officials. “We know that to beat this pandemic and to save lives … we need to get folks vaccinated,” Biden said
Continue Reading ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — The Dallas Cowboys are missing players because of COVID-19 protocols for the third consecutive game to start the season. Linebacker Keanu Neal and defensive end Bradlee Anae are sidelined for the home opener against Philadelphia on Monday night. Eagles linebacker Davion Taylor is inactive after being listed as questionable with a
Continue Reading By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS Associated Press SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Washington State University football coach Nick Rolovich says a Cougars wide receiver was in stable condition in a hospital Monday after being shot during the weekend. Rolovich says he was awakened early Saturday with news that 22-year-old Brandon Gray had been wounded near the campus
Continue Reading SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea says North Korea has fired an unidentified projectile into the sea. The Joint Chiefs of Staff says the launch was made off the North’s eastern coast on Tuesday morning. But it gave no further details. Tuesday’s launch came three days after North Korea said it was willing to
Continue Reading SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say a California recycling company will pay $34 million for a long-running fraud scheme in which the firm illegally submitted bogus weight tickets and processed out-of-state bottles and cans to get inflated refunds for used beverage containers. Recycling Services Alliance, Inc. and its operations manager pleaded guilty earlier this month
Continue ReadingJuan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — Google celebra este lunes su 23 aniversario y, por eso, te invitamos a recorrer la historia del gigante de internet: Datos -El nombre de Google es un juego de palabras con la palabra “googol”, un término matemático que se refiere a un 1 seguido de 100 ceros (representado como 1
Continue Reading By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A federal judge on Monday ordered that all employees entering California prisons be vaccinated or have a religious or medical exemption. He is trying to head off another coronavirus outbreak like the one that killed 28 inmates and a correctional officer at San Quentin State Prison
Continue Reading OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma City-based Devon Energy Corporation and its affiliates have agreed to pay $6.15 million as part of a settlement with the federal government. The settlement announced Monday by the U.S. Department of Justice resolves allegations that Devon underpaid and underreported royalties from natural gas from federal leases in Wyoming and New
Continue Reading By KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee’s Attorney General Herbert Slatery says his office would appeal the recent federal court decisions that blocked Gov. Bill Lee’s order allowing families to opt out of school mask mandates. Slatery says he would only appeal two out of the three lawsuits filed by families and
Continue Reading By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The nation’s largest school district can immediately impose a vaccine mandate on its teachers and other workers, after all, a federal appeals panel decided Monday, leading lawyers for teachers to say they’ll ask the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene. The city’s Department of Education said the
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