PAGE, Ariz. (AP) — The superintendent of the Page Unified School District who resigned after allegedly making a racist remark at a board meeting last week now intends to stay on the job. Larry Wallen resigned Sunday but notified the district early Tuesday that he changed his mind. The district posted the brief announcement on
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FRISCO, Texas (AP) — The Dallas Cowboys have placed defensive lineman Brent Urban and cornerback Maurice Canady on injured reserve. Both players will be sidelined at least three games. Urban has a triceps injury. Canady is dealing with a concussion from Dallas’ last game, a 35-29 overtime victory against New England on Oct. 17. The
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The California Labor Commissioner’s Office announced today that it has cited a Southern California grocery chain for failing to pay or delaying supplemental paid sick leave to 240 workers affected by COVID- 19 at 38 stores, including four stores in Riverside County. Bodega Latina, which does business as El Super, was cited $1,164,500 after an
Continue Reading SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah will retire jersey No. 22 during its game against UCLA on Saturday to honor Ty Jordan and Aaron Lowe, friends and teammates who died nine months apart. The No. 22 will be the first jersey retired in program history. Jordan died at 19 in an accidental shooting on Christmas
Continue Reading SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah will retire jersey No. 22 during its game against UCLA on Saturday to honor Ty Jordan and Aaron Lowe, friends and teammates who died nine months apart. The No. 22 will be the first jersey retired in program history. Jordan died at 19 in an accidental shooting on Christmas
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By JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — State election officials told a congressional committee they’ve received graphic threats to their safety since the 2020 election and warned that pressure on election workers is a threat to democracy. The bipartisan group of state election officials told a Senate panel Tuesday that experienced election administrators
Continue Reading By JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — State election officials told a congressional committee they’ve received graphic threats to their safety since the 2020 election and warned that pressure on election workers is a threat to democracy. The bipartisan group of state election officials told a Senate panel Tuesday that experienced election administrators
Continue Reading By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — President Joe Biden is campaigning in Northern Virginia for Democrat Terry McAuliffe in a governor’s race that looks to be extremely tight just a week before Election Day. Biden carried Virginia by a comfortable 10 percentage points just last fall, but his approval ratings have been
Continue Reading By ACACIA CORONADO Report for America/ Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Voting rights advocates have filed a new lawsuit in federal court over Texas’ newly redrawn congressional district maps. The lawsuit, filed by Texas voters and voting advocacy organization Voto Latino, claims the maps dilute the vote of communities of color. The GOP-drawn map
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Ángela Reyes (CNN) — Las personas que padecen ciertas condiciones de salud que hacen que estén moderada o gravemente inmunodeprimidas podrían necesitar una cuarta dosis de una vacuna de ARNm contra el covid-19, según los Centros para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades de Estados Unidos (CDC, por sus siglas en inglés). Los CDC autorizaron
Continue Reading NEW YORK (AP) — Comedian Mort Sahl has died. He was 94. Sahl helped pioneer a new, socially minded kind of comedy after World War II. During an era when many comedians dressed in tuxedos and told mother-in-law jokes, Sahl faced his audience wearing slacks, a sweater and an unbuttoned collar and carrying a rolled-up
Continue Reading By JAY COHEN and STEPHEN WHYNO AP Sports Writers CHICAGO (AP) — Florida Panthers coach Joel Quenneville says he’ll meet with NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman on Thursday to discuss his involvement in the Chicago Blackhawks’ sexual abuse scandal. Quenneville is among those named in a report detailing how the Blackhawks mishandled allegations that an assistant
Continue Reading By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Some Native Hawaiians are objecting to President Joe Biden’s choice for U.S. attorney in the 50th state, saying Clare Connors treated dozens of elders like criminals when her office prosecuted them for blocking a road while protesting the construction of a telescope in Hawaii. The protesters consider
Continue Reading By MELINDA DESLATTE Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana is ending its statewide indoor mask mandate after emerging from its latest and worst coronavirus spike of the pandemic and seeing a sharp decline in new COVID-19 infections. Gov. John Bel Edwards announced the decision Tuesday. It marks one of the first mask mandates
Continue Reading davidw (CNN) — Un equipo de rescate de Colorado tiene un consejo simple para los excursionistas perdidos o para cualquier otra persona que pueda encontrarse varada en las montañas: contesta tu teléfono. El equipo de Búsqueda y Rescate de Lake County (LCSAR, por sus siglas en inglés), dice que la semana pasada recibió un reporte
Continue ReadingCNN, KNXV, WJLA By Isaac Dovere and Jeremy Herb, CNN “I am a hunter — and I think you should be hunted,” a woman can be heard saying in a voicemail left for Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs in September. “You will never be safe in Arizona again.” Or there’s the man who spit,
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The city of San Diego is honoring a Palm Springs teacher who was named a 2022 California State Teacher of the Year. On Tuesday, the San Diego City Council voted to proclaim October 26 as “Nichi Aviña Day” in the city of San Diego. Nichi Aviña is a teacher at Cielo Vista Charter School in Palm
Continue Reading By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Prince Andrew’s lawyer has asked a New York judge to keep sealed a 2009 legal agreement that he says can protect Andrew against a lawsuit’s claims that he sexually assaulted an American woman when she was under 18. The request was made in court papers late
Continue Reading Alejandra Ramos Barreda Abu Dhabi, Emiratos Árabes Unidos (CNN Business) — Un pequeño grupo de individuos ultrarricos podría ayudar a resolver el hambre en el mundo con solo una fracción de su patrimonio neto, dice el director del Programa Mundial de Alimentos (PMA) de las Naciones Unidas. Los multimillonarios deben “dar un paso al frente
Continue Reading By JOCELYN GECKER Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A California police officer has been convicted of assault with a firearm in the 2018 fatal shooting of an unarmed mentally ill man in a wealthy San Francisco suburb. A jury in Contra Costa County agreed Tuesday that Officer Andrew Hall was guilty of the charge
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