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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A former energy company executive from Los Angeles pleaded guilty Tuesday in a $15 million scheme to defraud investors in phony business arrangements for services to oil and gas companies in North Dakota, federal prosecutors said. Joey Stanton Dodson was chairman of Citadel Energy Partners when he began raising money from
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Typical temperatures for the date are being felt across the Coachella Valley this afternoon. An average high for Palm Springs is 103°. Temperatures will cool into the mid-90s around 9:00 p.m. High pressure is building which will lead to peak temperatures near 108° on Wednesday and approaching 110° on Thursday in the low desert. Offshore winds will aid in
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By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A prosecutor in South Carolina has decided not to charge two police officers in the fatal shooting of a Black man who lunged at them with a broken piece of wood after family members warned them the victim was mentally ill. Solicitor Byron Gipson said the
Continue Reading By BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The Arizona Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that state courts can keep juror identifies secret, rejecting a challenge from a southern Arizona journalist who argued that the right to observe trials included access to the names of jurors who decide the fate of people charged with crimes.
Continue Reading By FELICIA FONSECA Associated Press FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Calmer winds and cooler temperatures Tuesday allowed firefighters across the U.S. West to get a better handle on blazes that have forced hundreds of people from their homes. As red flag warnings expired and winds died down in northern Arizona, firefighters took advantage of the weather
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Alexandra Ferguson Londres (CNN Business) — Los millonarios están saliendo en masa de Rusia desde la invasión a Ucrania y las sanciones de Occidente al país. Se espera que este año abandonen el país casi tres veces más millonarios rusos que en 2019, el año anterior a la pandemia, según un informe de Henley &
Continue Reading SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The Center for Biological Diversity has sued the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, accusing it of not protecting an endangered shrub once thought to be extinct that grows in some areas of the U.S. and British Virgin Islands. The shrub known as marrón bacora can grow up to 10
Continue Reading By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Prosecutors have urged a federal judge to convict a Confederate flag-toting man and his son of storming the U.S. Capitol to stop Congress from certifying President Joe Biden’s 2020 electoral victory. U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden didn’t immediately issue a verdict Tuesday after hearing attorneys’ closing arguments
Continue ReadingBy Matt Egan, CNN Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden is drawing up a surtax on Big Oil that would seek to rein in the industry’s skyrocketing profits at a time when gasoline prices are at record highs. Wyden, an Oregon Democrat who chairs the Senate Finance Committee, is floating a 21% surtax on the excess profits
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By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Railroad contract talks remain deadlocked after more than two years of negotiations, so President Joe Biden will likely soon have to appoint a board to help settle the dispute. The National Mediation Board determined Tuesday that mediation isn’t working in the joint talks that cover
Continue Reading By JOHN MARSHALL AP Sports Writer TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — Kyler Murray whipped passes around the practice field, showed off quickness dancing around cones, shared a few laughs with teammates. Arizona’s quarterback still doesn’t have the long-term contract extension he’s seeking, but was a full-go for one of the Cardinals’ final mandatory offseason workouts. “There’s
Continue ReadingBy Sandee LaMotte, CNN At least 13 infants died in the past dozen years while lying in a Fisher-Price Infant-to-Toddler Rocker or Newborn-to-Toddler Rocker, the US Consumer Product Safety Commission and Fisher-Price announced. “Just three years ago, this agency oversaw the recall of the Fisher-Price Rock ‘n Play after a staggering number of infant deaths.
Continue Reading By AMY BETH HANSON and MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press RED LODGE, Mont. (AP) — Yellowstone National Park officials say over 10,000 visitors — all but one group of backpackers — had evacuated the park by Tuesday as it evaluates damage from massive flooding. Superintendent Cam Sholly said the visitors were asked to leave after roads
Continue Reading By JANIE McCAULEY AP Sports Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — When Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson and emotional, do-everything teammate Draymond Green began Golden State’s climb nearly a decade ago, they were still relatively young and each establishing themselves in their careers. At far different stages of their respective basketball journeys and lives now all these
Continue Reading CNNEspañol sjv (CNN Español) — La Justicia argentina investiga el ingreso al país de un avión de bandera venezolana y de cinco ciudadanos iraníes que integran su tripulación, de acuerdo con los documentos a los que accedió CNN. El juez federal Federico Villena ordenó este lunes retener durante 72 horas los pasaportes de los tripulantes
Continue ReadingBy Gregory Krieg, CNN South Carolina Republican voters on Tuesday split on two US House incumbents who defied former President Donald Trump, renominating Rep. Nancy Mace but souring on Rep. Tom Rice, the first of the 10 House Republicans who voted for Trump’s impeachment last year to fall in a primary. State Rep. Russell Fry,
Continue Reading CHINO HILLS, Calif. (AP) — A man accused of torturing, raping and disfiguring a woman who was held captive in his Southern California home for six months pleaded not guilty to 10 charges, prosecutors said Tuesday. Peter McGuire, 59, of Chino Hills entered pleas Monday to charges including kidnapping, mayhem and sodomy by use of
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A former Indio resident pled guilty to federal charges for his role in a Ponzi scheme that defrauded investors of more than $15 million. Joey Stanton Dodson, 58, formerly of Indio and now residing in the Hollywood Dell neighborhood of Los Angeles, engaged in a scheme between November 2012 and May 2015 to defraud investors
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By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A government advisory panel Tuesday endorsed a second brand of COVID-19 vaccine for school-age children and teens. The Food and Drug Administration’s outside experts voted unanimously that Moderna’s vaccine is safe and effective enough to give kids ages 6 to 17. If the FDA agrees,
Continue Reading By AAMER MADHANI, ZEKE MILLER and ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will make his first trip to the Middle East next month with visits to Israel, the occupied West Bank and Saudi Arabia. The White House on Tuesday announced the outline of Biden’s July 13-16 Middle East trip. The decision
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