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By ANNE M. PETERSON AP Sports Writer Oregon has introduced Dan Lanning as its new head football coach. The Ducks hired Lanning from Georgia, where he had been the defensive coordinator. He replaces Mario Cristobal, who went last week to Miami. The 35-year-old will be a first-time head coach after spending the last four years
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SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A former Orange County sheriff’s deputy is accused of throwing scalding water on a mentally ill inmate who didn’t receive medical treatment for his burns for more than six hours. The county district attorney’s office says Guadalupe Ortiz is charged with two felony battery counts for the alleged April attack
Continue Reading SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — The head of a teachers union says a fundraising event that featured teachers on their hands and knees fetching dollar bills between periods of a junior hockey league game in South Dakota should not have happened. The so-called “Dash For Cash” event in Sioux Falls Saturday night was a competition
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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — The head of a teachers union says a fundraising event that featured teachers on their hands and knees fetching dollar bills between periods of a junior hockey league game in South Dakota should not have happened. The so-called “Dash For Cash” event in Sioux Falls Saturday night was a competition
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By Ed Lavandera, Ashley Killough and Theresa Waldrop, CNN That Breeana Glisson and her two children are still alive after a tornado tore through Dawson Springs, Kentucky, on Friday night seems like a miracle. With tornado sirens wailing, Glisson wrapped her daughter, 2, and son, 4, in her arms in her bed — the most
Continue ReadingBy Sandee LaMotte, CNN “I’ve been praying for somebody to save me, no one’s heroic … And my life don’t even matter, I know it, I know it … They say every life precious but nobody care about mine …” When American hip hop artist Logic sang his hit song “1-800-273-8255” on MTV’s Video Music
Continue Reading By WILL GRAVES AP Sports Writer PITTSBURGH (AP) — Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker Devin Bush says he’s still the same player he was before a knee injury cut short his 2020 season. Bush has struggled at times this fall for the Steelers, but says he’s made tremendous strides in his third NFL season. Bush had one
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NEW YORK (AP) — A New York state judge has been convicted of conspiracy, obstruction of justice and making a false statement to a federal agent. The verdict against State Supreme Court Justice Sylvia Ash was returned Monday in Manhattan federal court. Ash was accused of taking steps over multiple months to obstruct an investigation
Continue Reading NEW YORK (AP) — A New York state judge has been convicted of conspiracy, obstruction of justice and making a false statement to a federal agent. The verdict against State Supreme Court Justice Sylvia Ash was returned Monday in Manhattan federal court. Ash was accused of taking steps over multiple months to obstruct an investigation
Continue ReadingBy Madeline Holcombe, CNN As they swung from the skies, knocked out intergalactic super-villains and strutted away from an explosion with the perfect quip, we all probably thought the same thing: How would the Marvel superheroes fare in their old age? No? Well, a team of researchers in Australia did. An article published Monday in
Continue Reading By NOAH TRISTER AP Baseball Writer Roland Hemond, whose 70-year career in baseball included three Executive of the Year awards as general manager of the Chicago White Sox and Baltimore Orioles, has died. He was 92. The Arizona Diamondbacks announced Hemond’s death Monday. Hemond was Chicago’s GM from 1970-85 and served in the same role
Continue Reading By NOAH TRISTER AP Baseball Writer Roland Hemond, whose 70-year career in baseball included three Executive of the Year awards as general manager of the Chicago White Sox and Baltimore Orioles, has died. He was 92. The Arizona Diamondbacks announced Hemond’s death Monday. Hemond was Chicago’s GM from 1970-85 and served in the same role
Continue Reading MEXICO CITY (AP) — Families of missing Mexicans have simulated one of the many clandestine burial sites dotting the country, dumping dirt and rock on part of the capital’s massive plaza and digging it away to reveal demands for the government to act. Holding photos of their missing loved ones and shovels, members of three
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Brandun Lee continues his rise as one of the top prospects in the sport of boxing. Making his Showtime Championship Boxing debut on Saturday night at Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, the 22-year-old La Quinta native improved to 24-0 after his knockout win over Juan Heraldez. WELCOME TO THE SHOW @Brandun_Lee 😳The rising ⭐
Continue ReadingBy Ryan Nobles, Holmes Lybrand and Zachary Cohen, CNN William Walker, who was the top commander for Washington, DC’s National Guard and responsible for troop deployment in support of law enforcement overwhelmed on January 6, met Monday with the House select committee investigating the attack on the US Capitol, a source familiar with his appearance
Continue Reading THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — Court authorities in northern Greece have jailed three people pending trial over an attack on a high school principal by vigilantes opposing virus restrictions. Another 8 suspects were released late Monday on condition that they present themselves regularly at their local police station and keep 400 meters (yards) away from schools.
Continue Reading By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee judge has heard testimony and watched a gruesome crime scene video during a sentencing hearing for a former death row inmate. The video was entered into evidence in the case of Pervis Payne, who received the death penalty for the 1987 killings of a
Continue Reading By JIM MUSTIAN Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Ronald Greene’s mother chastised Louisiana state lawmakers Monday for not acting quickly enough to hold state troopers accountable for her son’s deadly 2019 arrest, saying the Black motorist’s death at the end of a high-speed chase was a “murder” that’s been covered up, sugarcoated and
Continue ReadingBy Jen Christensen and Amir Vera, CNN Covid-19 cases among children are on the rise yet again, according to a report from the American Academy of Pediatrics published Monday. New cases reported among children last week were up nearly 24% over the previous week, the report said. For the week ending December 9, there were
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Update 12/14/21 6:50 p.m. All mandatory evacuation orders have been downgraded to warnings in the El Dorado burn scar areas, except for Oak Glen, police announced Tuesday evening. “All areas except Oak Glen will be reduced from an Evacuation Order to an Evacuation Warning as of 7 pm tonight, December 14th. Oak Glen will remain
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