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By DAVE CAMPBELL AP Sports Writer MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — School-switching has never been more prevalent in college basketball thanks to the NCAA relaxing transfer rules and granting an extra year of eligibility from the pandemic season. An Associated Press review of rosters in the six major conferences and four programs ranked in the AP Top
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Police are searching for a suspect in an armed bank robbery in Palm Springs. The robbery happened at the Citibank on the 1600 block of E Palm Canyon at around 4 p.m. The suspect is described as a Hispanic male, who was wearing a black hat, multi-gray gator mask, grey long shirt, blue jeans. Police
Continue ReadingBy Carolyn Gusoff Click here for updates on this story HEMPSTEAD, New York (WCBS) — Yet another consequence of the pandemic has been school blood drives being cancelled, and that’s having a big impact on the nation’s supply. CBS2’s Carolyn Gusoff spoke with Hempstead students who brought back a drive on Thursday with high hopes.
Continue ReadingBy Web Staff Click here for updates on this story BALTIMORE, Maryland (WJZ) — A helicopter has crashed in Bel Air, according to the Harford County’s Sheriff’s Office. The crash occurred in the 2000 block of Calvary Road on Wednesday, deputies said on Twitter. There are no reports of injuries at this time. WJZ Chopper
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Dyer Click here for updates on this story MIAMI, Florida (WFOR) — In an effort to combat the housing crisis in Miami, on Thursday Miami Mayor Francis Suarez, along with city commissioners, announced they are working together to create more affordable options through two initiatives. First, they’ll be helping relieve the burden of
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By STEPHEN WADE AP Sports Writer BEIJING (AP) — Beijing’s Winter Olympics remind us of how everything in China is big, bigger — and even bigger. Think of famous landmarks like Tiananmen Square, the Forbidden City, the Great Wall, the Three Gorges Dam, and dozens of high-end malls in Beijing. China has thousands of years
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By The Associated Press Sting is selling every song he wrote. The British singer-songwriter is selling his music catalog to Universal Music Publishing Group. The company didn’t disclose the price when it announced the deal on Thursday. Sting is the latest in a line of music stars who are selling their catalogs to investors who
Continue Reading LAKE FOREST, Calif. (AP) — Orange County sheriff’s deputies have shot and killed a man they say charged at them with a knife after a nearly three-hour standoff. It happened shortly before 3 a.m. Thursday in Lake Forest. Authorities say deputies were answering a report that a truck had struck several parked cars but when
Continue ReadingBy Manu Raju and Ted Barrett, CNN American consumers are feeling the squeeze from inflation — as are Senate Democrats facing voters in nine months. The Senate’s most vulnerable Democrats are all calling on the Biden administration to do more to address the pain consumers are feeling from the cost of rising goods — and
Continue Reading LOS ANGELES (AP) — A wildfire fanned by gusty Santa Ana winds has burned two homes in Southern California and another has scorched hills on the coast as the region swelters in a winter heat wave. A fire in the Los Angeles suburb of Whittier broke out Thursday afternoon and gutted two homes but firefighters
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Luis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN Español) — Costa Rica eligió este domingo presidente en una segunda vuelta en la que, como en los comicios de febrero, se registró un alto índice de abstención. Según el último corte de resultados preliminares del Tribunal Supremo Electoral, con el 98,15% de las juntas procesadas, Rodrigo Chaves es el
Continue ReadingBy Holmes Lybrand and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN A deputy attorney general in Virginia resigned Thursday after Facebook posts resurfaced in which she called rioters who had stormed the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, “patriots” and made reference to the “deep state.” Monique Miles, a now-former deputy for Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares, is the
Continue ReadingBy Priscilla Alvarez, CNN Since Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott deployed thousands of personnel to the US-Mexico border, the operation has been slammed as overtly political and a waste of resources by Democratic lawmakers and even some of the National Guard members participating in the mission. Last March, Abbott, who’s up for reelection, launched “Operation
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By Amir Vera and Tina Burnside, CNN A select committee of the Louisiana House of Representatives will investigate the death of Ronald Greene in state police custody and “who knew what and when” during the two years it took for videos of incident to be released, according to Speaker Clay Schexnayder. The announcement from Schexnayder
Continue Reading By GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Les Snead really doesn’t mind if the public and the media think he’s a risk-taker whose decade as the Rams’ general manager is defined by his eagerness to mortgage Los Angeles’ future for big-name stars of the present. Snead feels the Rams’ reputation is a
Continue Reading By GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Les Snead really doesn’t mind if the public and the media think he’s a risk-taker whose decade as the Rams’ general manager is defined by his eagerness to mortgage Los Angeles’ future for big-name stars of the present. Snead feels the Rams’ reputation is a
Continue Reading CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — Virginia’s women’s basketball game at No. 3 Louisville has been canceled due to mechanical and aircraft staffing issues. The Atlantic Coast Conference made the announcement less than two hours before Thursday night’s scheduled tipoff. The Cavaliers will forfeit the contest. Virginia is the league’s only winless team in conference play. The
Continue ReadingCNN By Darya Tarasova, Sharon Braithwaite, Kara Fox, Katya Krebs and Tim Lister, CNN Russia blasted Western countries and media for spreading a “large-scale disinformation campaign” over a possible Russian invasion of Ukraine, saying Friday that they were doing so “to divert attention from their own aggressive actions.” The Russian Foreign Ministry statement comes just
Continue Reading By BRIAN MAHONEY AP Basketball Writer In swapping James Harden for Ben Simmons, the Brooklyn Nets decided they needed to act now as they slide down the standings. The Los Angeles Lakers didn’t do the same. A number of deals were made Thursday before the NBA’s trade deadline, topped by the blockbuster between the Nets
Continue Reading By BRIAN MAHONEY AP Basketball Writer In swapping James Harden for Ben Simmons, the Brooklyn Nets decided they needed to act now as they slide down the standings. The Los Angeles Lakers didn’t do the same. A number of deals were made Thursday before the NBA’s trade deadline, topped by the blockbuster between the Nets
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