By GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) — The Los Angeles Rams will host the San Francisco 49ers in the NFC championship game. The matchup is the resumption of an NFC West rivalry that has been tilted heavily in the 49ers’ favor for the past six meetings, all won by San Francisco. The
Continue Reading By DAVID A. LIEB and CAMILLE FASSETT Associated Press State and local governments reported more than $117 billion of revenue losses in the first year of the coronavirus pandemic. That’s according to an Associated Press analysis of newly available data. But those shortfalls proved less severe than originally feared. Many of those same governments are
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By DAVID A. LIEB and CAMILLE FASSETT Associated Press State and local governments reported more than $117 billion of revenue losses in the first year of the coronavirus pandemic. That’s according to an Associated Press analysis of newly available data. But those shortfalls proved less severe than originally feared. Many of those same governments are
Continue Reading NEW YORK (AP) — Police say a Virginia man has been arrested for drunkenly crashing a car into Taylor Swift’s New York City apartment building and trying to gain entry. Thirty-one-year-old Morgan Mank was arrested shortly after 3 a.m. Thursday. Police say he drove the wrong way on Franklin Street in the Tribeca neighborhood, where
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By Amanda Watts and Paul P. Murphy, CNN The bridge that collapsed Friday had an “overall condition” rating of “poor,” according to the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation website that tracks bridges across the state. The bridge was built in 1970, was 447 feet long, and made of a steel rigid frame, the website says. The
Continue Reading LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) — The city of Long Beach is preparing to start what it calls critical repairs to the historic ocean liner Queen Mary, which has been a tourist attraction and hotel in Long Beach harbor for decades. The ship will remain closed until the work estimated to cost $5 million is completed.
Continue ReadingOpinion by Brian Deese for CNN Business Perspectives The Covid-19 pandemic has laid bare the vulnerabilities in America’s domestic manufacturing base. The nation’s reliance on globally fragmented supply chains has led to shortages of everything from personal protective equipment to semiconductors to shipping containers. And these supply weaknesses have been a primary driver of elevated
Continue ReadingBy Fredreka Schouten, CNN Republican lawmakers in Arizona are pushing a raft of major changes to the state’s voting laws, including a controversial bill that would empower legislators to reject election results. The proposal, sponsored by more than a dozen Republican lawmakers, also seeks to overhaul several established election procedures in the battleground state. It
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Germán Padinger (CNN) — La crisis en Ucrania es el clásico caso de una incógnita conocida: sabemos que no sabemos qué pretende hacer el presidente de Rusia, Vladimir Putin, mientras acumula tropas en la frontera ucraniana. Así, ¿qué tan inminente es la amenaza de una guerra a gran escala y cómo sería? Algunos temores parecen
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DERBY, England (AP) — Wayne Rooney has turned down the chance to interview for the manager’s position at former club Everton. Rooney started his playing career at Everton and had a second spell at Goodison Park before retiring. He says he was approached via his agent and thought long and hard before declining the opportunity
Continue Reading By KEN MAGUIRE AP Sports Writer A leading English rugby club has joined the ranks of professional sports teams rebranding themselves away from offensive Native American imagery. Exeter Chiefs are keeping their nickname — inspired by the region’s Celtic history — but are replacing their logo after critics complained that headdresses and “tomahawk chop” chants
Continue Reading By DAMIAN J. TROISE AP Business Writer Stocks wobbled in morning trading on Wall Street Friday and are still on track for another week of losses to continue a miserable opening to the year. The S&P 500 fell 0.1%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.4% and the Nasdaq was unchanged. Investors are anxiously watching
Continue ReadingBy Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business Airlines have canceled thousands of flights this weekend as a powerful winter storm packing strong winds and many inches of snow is set to envelop major cities on the East Coast. According to FlightAware, nearly 5,000 flights within, into or out of the United States were canceled through Saturday and
Continue Reading By JOHN ZENOR AP Sports Writer College basketball blue bloods No. 12 Kentucky and No. 5 Kansas meet in the biggest matchup involving a Southeastern Conference team this weekend. Most of the weekend’s action is part of the Big 12/SEC Challenge. That includes No. 1 Auburn hosting Oklahoma and fourth-ranked Baylor visiting slumping Alabama. The
Continue ReadingBy Anneken Tappe, CNN Business Worries over soaring prices and the Omicron variant of the coronavirus soured Americans’ views of the economy in January. US consumer sentiment in January fell nearly 5% to the lowest level since November 2011, the University of Michigan’s consumer sentiment survey showed Friday. Survey respondents felt worse about both the
Continue ReadingBy LEZLA GOODEN Click here for updates on this story WATERBURY, Connecticut (WFSB) — Waterbury Public Schools is making sure that its staff are receiving necessary Narcan training for their students after a Hartford student died from a Fentanyl overdose. Dozens of staff members learned how to properly use the Narcan nose spray medication. They
Continue ReadingBy AUDREY WEIL Click here for updates on this story VANCOUVER, Washington (KPTV) — social media challenge is causing problems in Vancouver because it calls for people to kick in doors of unsuspecting homeowners. Police say this happened at least seven times in one neighborhood in under an hour Wednesday night. Matthew Trimble said a
Continue ReadingBy Kate Sullivan and Maegan Vazquez, CNN President Joe Biden on Friday touted his administration’s efforts to strengthen the nation’s infrastructure in Pittsburgh on Friday, hours after a bridge in the city collapsed. Hours before the President was set to travel to to Steel City, a snow-covered bridge collapsed and left several people injured. No
Continue ReadingCNN By Kate Sullivan, CNN President Joe Biden will proceed with his planned trip to Pittsburgh on Friday to talk about strengthening the nation’s infrastructure hours after a bridge collapsed not far from where he is scheduled to deliver remarks, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said. The White House is in touch with state
Continue ReadingBy SARAH HURWITZ Click here for updates on this story PORTLAND, Oregon (KPTV) — Portland businesses continue to get hit with vandalism and burglaries. Local advocacy group Bricks Need Mortar recently surveyed 110 Portland businesses on this growing issue. It found nearly 63% have been vandalized or broken into in the last year and a
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