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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Southern California man who once competed on the Philippines national decathlon team has agreed to plead guilty to bilking investors out of more than $28 million with a phony scheme to market cannabis vape pens, federal prosecutors announced Friday. David Joseph Bunevacz, 53, of Calabasas, agreed on Wednesday to plead
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Southern California man who once competed on the Philippines national decathlon team has agreed to plead guilty to bilking investors out of more than $28 million with a phony scheme to market cannabis vape pens, federal prosecutors announced Friday. David Joseph Bunevacz, 53, of Calabasas, agreed on Wednesday to plead
Continue Reading PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona officials have halted all fish stockings from the largest state-run hatchery because of a bacterial outbreak among its trout. The Arizona Game and Fish Department announced Friday a temporary ceasing of stockings from Page Springs Hatchery, which is north of Phoenix in Cornville. The agency said officials noticed fish deaths in
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Alejandra Ramos (CNN) — La hermana del presunto narcotraficante colombiano Dairo Úsuga, también conocido por el alias “Otoniel”, fue extraditada a Estados Unidos para enfrentar cargos de narcotráfico, anunció el viernes la Policía Nacional de Colombia. Nini Johana Úsuga David, de 40 años, está acusada de lavado de dinero para el Clan del Golfo y
Continue ReadingBy Sean Lyngaas, CNN An apparent cyberattack this week on Florida-based IT provider Geographic Solutions has disrupted unemployment and workforce benefits for thousands of people in multiple states and Washington, DC. Unemployment payments are delayed for people in Tennessee, where about 12,000 people rely on the program, and in Nebraska, according to statements from state
Continue Reading WASHINGTON (AP) — Air France-KLM has agreed to pay $3.9 million to settle charges that it falsified records about international deliveries of U.S. mail. The Justice Department said Friday that the European airline incorrectly reported when and where mail shipments arrived to avoid penalties for deliveries that were late or went to the wrong location.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Air France-KLM has agreed to pay $3.9 million to settle charges that it falsified records about international deliveries of U.S. mail. The Justice Department said Friday that the European airline incorrectly reported when and where mail shipments arrived to avoid penalties for deliveries that were late or went to the wrong location.
Continue Reading By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday signed a new state law that will stop police from arresting people for loitering for prostitution, an issue that divided sex workers and advocates during a rare nine-month delay since state lawmakers passed the bill last year. “To be clear,
Continue Reading By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Cybersecurity experts say the California Department of Justice apparently failed to follow basic security procedures on its website, exposing the personal information of potentially hundreds of thousands of gun owners. The website was designed to only show general data about the number and location of concealed
Continue Reading By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Cybersecurity experts say the California Department of Justice apparently failed to follow basic security procedures on its website, exposing the personal information of potentially hundreds of thousands of gun owners. The website was designed to only show general data about the number and location of concealed
Continue Reading LOS ANGELES (AP) — A former Southern California woman who, along with her doctor husband, billed insurers $44 million for unnecessary cosmetic surgeries was sentenced Friday to eight years in federal prison, prosecutors said. Linda Morrow, 70, also was ordered to pay $14 million in restitution. She pleaded guilty in February to conspiracy to commit
Continue Reading By JACQUES BILLEAUD Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — A judge ruled Arizona has been violating the constitutional rights of incarcerated people in state-run prisons by providing them with inadequate medical and mental health care, saying the state has known about the problem for years but refused to correct its failures. In a blistering verdict Thursday,
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The fight for abortion rights continues in the valley. Marching down San Pablo Avenue in Palm Desert, pro-choice activists wanted their message to be heard. “I just think it’s kind of ridiculous so I really wanna fight against that. The odds are already against us and it’s like, what else can we do so it’s
Continue Reading By JANET McCONNAUGHEY and MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Biden administration is proposing up to 10 oil and gas lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico and one in Alaska over the next five years. Friday’s announcement goes against the Democratic administration’s promises to end new drilling on public lands and
Continue Reading PERRY, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say a teenage girl was seriously injured when a shark attacked her off Florida’s Gulf Coast. The Taylor County Sheriff’s Office says the attack occurred Thursday afternoon off Keaton Beach. The 17-year-old girl’s family says a 9-foot shark wrapped its jaws around the girl’s thigh. The girl poked the shark
Continue Reading By JOHN MARSHALL AP Sports Writer Conference realignment in college sports has been going on since 1984, when the Supreme Court invalidated the NCAA’s national television contract for football. The conference juggling has gone through ebbs and flows through the years since, from small schools bumping up to bigger leagues to power programs switching to
Continue Reading By JOHN MARSHALL AP Sports Writer Conference realignment in college sports has been going on since 1984, when the Supreme Court invalidated the NCAA’s national television contract for football. The conference juggling has gone through ebbs and flows through the years since, from small schools bumping up to bigger leagues to power programs switching to
Continue ReadingBy Kiely Westhoff, Samantha Beech and Shawna Mizelle, CNN New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy on Friday signed two bills into law that protect out-of-state residents seeking reproductive services and reproductive health care providers. The bills, A3974 and A3975, shield health care providers from other state’s inquiries and prohibit the extradition of any person who comes
Continue Reading By BOB CHRISTIE and JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — FBI agents looking into events surrounding former President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss have subpoenaed Arizona Senate President Karen Fann, who orchestrated a discredited review of the election. A second Republican senator who has aggressively promoted the lie that
Continue Reading MEXICO CITY (AP) — The daughter of a Mexican reporter slain earlier this week in the northern Mexico border state of Tamaulipas has died of wounds suffered in the attack that killed her father. Antonio de la Cruz became the 12th journalist killed so far this year in Mexico, when a man on a motorcycle
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