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LAS VEGAS (AP) — Shey Peddy is out for the season with a ruptured right Achilles tendon, leaving the Phoenix Mercury even more short-handed in their WNBA playoff series against the Las Vegas Aces. Peedy went down in the third quarter of Game 1 on Wednesday night with a non-contact injury and did not return.
Continue ReadingBy Marlon Sorto and Caitlin Hu, CNN Nicaraguan police on Friday detained a bishop and seven other priests and seminarians, after a 16-day standoff, in an escalation of tensions between the country’s government and the Catholic Church. Police entered the headquarters of the Matagalpa diocese and arrested Bishop Rolando Álvarez and the others, authorities said
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WEST YELLOWSTONE, Mont. (AP) — Officials say a fuel tanker truck traveling in Yellowstone National Park has rolled over and spilled an estimated 4,800 gallons of gasoline. Officials were investigating whether any of the unleaded gas any entered a nearby creek. Park officials say the truck driver lost control in the accident early Friday on
Continue ReadingNEW LONDON, Conn. (AP) — Construction is set to begin on a long-awaited national museum that will honor the U.S. Coast Guard. A special keel-laying ceremony, a term that’s usually used to celebrate construction of a cutter, was held on Friday at the museum’s riverfront site in New London, Connecticut. It comes after $50 million
Continue Reading RICHMOND, Ind. (AP) — Prosecutors have filed a third attempted murder charge against a man accused of shooting an eastern Indiana police officer in the head during a traffic stop and search for possible narcotics. The Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office filed the new charge against 47-year-old Phillip Matthew Lee of Richmond for shooting at a
Continue Reading By PREDRAG MILIC Associated Press PODGORICA, Montenegro (AP) — The Montenegrin government has collapsed in a no-confidence vote that followed a rift over relations with the powerful Serbian Orthodox Church. Lawmakers voted 50-1 early Saturday to oust the government of Prime Minister Dritan Abazovic just weeks after he signed an agreement regulating the position of
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Alejandra Ramos (CNN Español) — Un nuevo apagón generalizado en Cuba provocó manifestaciones contra el Gobierno el jueves por la noche y el viernes por la madrugada en el municipio de Nuevitas, en el oriente del país, en la primera protesta registrada desde el incendio masivo en las instalaciones de combustible de Matanzas, que destruyó
Continue Reading By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer The family of the late actor Bill Paxton has agreed to settle a wrongful death lawsuit against a Los Angeles hospital and the surgeon who performed his heart surgery shortly before he died in 2017, according to a court filing Friday. The suit, filed against Cedars-Sinai Medical Center more
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Muggy conditions continue across the Coachella Valley this Friday. An influx of moisture continues to create hot and uncomfortable conditions through the weekend, with dew point temperatures likely to remain in the 60s and 70s. Thunderstorms will be possible Saturday, especially in areas of higher elevation. KESQ This summer’s monsoon conditions have been more intense
Continue Reading Alejandra Ramos (CNN) — Se emitió una alerta de tormenta tropical desde Port Mansfield, Texas hasta Boca de Catan, México, según el Centro Nacional de Huracanes. Las alertas están asociadas con un sistema que el Centro Nacional de Huracanes ha designado como Ciclón Tropical Potencial Cuatro, ubicado en el sur del Golfo de México, a
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The Southern California Gas Company announced today the construction of an advanced hydrogen generation system, the first of its kind, at the SunLine Transit Agency. “SunLine has been pioneering hydrogen technologies for nearly three decades and partnering with SoCalGas on this project continues the momentum necessary to make hydrogen fueling accessible to the public,” said
Continue ReadingBy Annie Grayer, Jamie Gangel and Gloria Borger, CNN Rep. Liz Cheney, the vice chair of the January 6 House select committee, told ABC on Friday that the panel still wants to hear directly from former Vice President Mike Pence. “Look, he played a critical role on January 6. If he had succumbed to the
Continue Reading By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A high-ranking representative from the Biden administration is set next week to make his first official trip to India since the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Amid tensions over India’s neutral stance on the invasion that began in late February, the U.S. wants the meetings to
Continue Reading By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal appeals court has cleared the way for a lawsuit to proceed against guards and officials at a privately run north Louisiana jail where an inmate died with a fractured skull in 2015. The lawsuit includes allegations that guards at Monroe’s Richwood Correctional Center sometimes
Continue ReadingBy Jen Christensen, CNN At first it was Covid. Now it’s monkeypox. Organizers of a free concert at an upcoming LGBTQ festival known as Southern Decadence in New Orleans have canceled the concert due to the threat of monkeypox. The larger six-day festival September 1-5 will continue as planned, as it always has since 1973
Continue ReadingCNN By Katherine Dillinger, CNN A Los Angeles County resident’s death has been attributed to monkeypox, the county Department of Public Health said Monday, the first known death from the virus in the US. The department and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed the link and said the person had a severely
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An algal bloom in Lake Elsinore prompted the state today to issue a “danger alert,” applying to all recreational activity, which officials said should be discontinued until further notice. According to the California Water Resources Control Board, the bloom that appeared last week was confirmed to contain cyanobacteria, posing a potential health threat to people
Continue Reading SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — A man who shot one classmate to death and wounded three others five years ago in a Washington state high school, apologized to his victims before he was sentenced to 40 years in prison. Caleb Sharpe, who was 15 at the time of the 2017 shootings at Freeman High School, pleaded
Continue Reading SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A California inmate who confessed to killing 13 people in a matter of months during the early 1970s has died of natural causes at age 75, state prison officials said Friday. Herbert W. Mullin’s victims ranged in age from 4 to 73 and included a priest he killed in a confessional
Continue ReadingBy Adam Wollner, CNN After a whirlwind past few weeks, the end of the midterm primary season is in sight. Over the next four weeks, the remaining seven states on the calendar will complete their primary elections, locking in the Senate, House and gubernatorial landscape for the fall. (Louisiana, which uses a majority-vote system where
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