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KEY LARGO, Fla. (AP) — Officials say deputies in the Florida Keys fatally shot an off-duty federal law enforcement officer in what appears to be a “suicide by cop.” The Monroe County Sheriff’s Office says 48-year-old Lane Morgan Caviness was killed at a Key Largo home Wednesday morning following reports of an intoxicated, armed suicidal
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom nominates state Supreme Court Associate Justice Patricia Guerrero as next chief justice.
Continue Reading EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) — Authorities say a house explosion that reverberated across a neighborhood in the southern Indiana city of Evansville left three people injured and damaged dozens more homes. Evansville Fire Chief Mike Connelly says a total of 39 houses were damaged by the explosion at around 1 p.m. Wednesday. He says the department
Continue Reading By AHMED AL-HAJ Associated Press SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Heavy rains lashing Yemen’s capital of Sanaa, which dates back to ancient times, have collapsed 10 buildings in the Old City. The country’s Houthi rebels said on Wednesday that at least 80 other buildings have been heavily damaged in the rains. The rebel culture minister said
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Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Cuando el gobernador Ron DeSantis suspendió abruptamente al fiscal electo de Tampa la semana pasada, no lo hizo en un despido nocturno ni lo enterró en un comunicado de prensa de las 5 de la tarde del viernes. Más bien, DeSantis convocó a los periodistas y a las cámaras para un
Continue Reading By GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — When Brett Neilon looks around Southern California’s locker room, the Trojans’ sixth-year center sees a few teammates who were with him all the way from the heights of a Pac-12 title to the depths of this storied football program’s worst season in 30 years. Neilon
Continue Reading By JAMES MacPHERSON Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Former Miss America Cara Mund says her concern about the erosion of abortion rights prompted her independent bid for the U.S. House in her home state of North Dakota. Mund is running against the odds in the deeply conservative state, but says the U.S. Supreme Court’s
Continue Reading By CLARENCE ROY-MACAULAY Associated Press FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — Sierra Leone’s vice president says there have been fatalities amid clashes between antigovernment protesters and police in the capital. Demonstrators on Wednesday called for President Julius Maada Bio to step down. Tensions have been rising in the West African country over the rising cost of
Continue ReadingBy Evan Perez, CNN Justice Correspondent Some Justice Department officials believe the department should provide a public statement about the unprecedented search of former President Donald Trump’s home and club in Florida, a view that so far hasn’t changed the silence from the top. Attorney General Merrick Garland has tightly limited the Justice Department’s public
Continue Reading Germán Padinger (CNN Español) — Las relaciones entre Colombia y Venezuela, vecinos a lo largo de un frontera de 2.341 kilómetros, están estancadas desde hace años, especialmente desde que el expresidente colombiano Iván Duque lanzara una campaña de cerco diplomático para buscar la salida del cuestionado presidente de Venezuela Nicolás Maduro del poder. Por estos
Continue ReadingBy Tierney Sneed President Joe Biden’s White House has until mid-October to decide if he wants to assert executive privilege and hinder an effort to obtain testimony from former President Donald Trump about Trump’s pressure campaign to get a then-top FBI agent fired. US District Judge Amy Berman Jackson set the October 14 deadline at
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Riverside County is expected to receive more than $100,000 from a settlement announced today with the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Co. over allegations of unlawful hazardous waste disposal at eight California hotels, the District Attorney’s Office announced today. Under the settlement, the hotelier will pay a total of $400,000 in civil penalties, along with $100,000 to fund
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The Associated Press Stocks are closing at three-month highs on Wall Street as investors cheered a report showing inflation cooled more than expected in July. The S&P 500 jumped 2.1% Wednesday on expectations that slower inflation will mean the Federal Reserve won’t hike interest rates as much as feared. Technology stocks, cryptocurrencies and other investments
Continue Reading PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Sesame Place has announced the implementation of diversity and inclusion training for its employees following a $25 million class-action lawsuit alleging multiple incidents of discrimination after outcry sparked from a video of a costumed character snubbing two 6-year-old Black girls went viral online. The Sesame Street-themed park, operated by SeaWorld Parks, in
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A 30-year-old Desert Hot Springs man accused of possessing child pornography pleaded guilty to a felony charge today. Robert Earl Adams III was charged with one felony count of possessing matters depicting a minor in a sexual act. He pleaded guilty to the charge Wednesday morning at the Larson Justice Center in Indio and has
Continue Reading Alejandra Ramos (CNN) — Un jurado de seis mujeres y cuatro hombres fue seleccionado el miércoles en la demanda de Vanessa Bryant contra el condado de Los Ángeles por las horribles fotografías tomadas del fatal accidente de helicóptero que mató a su esposo Kobe, su hija Gianna y otras siete personas. Las declaraciones de apertura
Continue ReadingBy Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN Business General Motors is selling three years of OnStar service as a $1,500 “option” on all Buick and GMC vehicles, as well as on Cadillac Escalade SUVs. But this is an option you can’t refuse. A three-year OnStar subscription is now simply standard equipment on all these models, GM spokesman Patrick
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A 37-year-old woman suspected of fatally shooting a man in Coachella pleaded not guilty today to murder and other counts. Cindy Gicela Parra was also charged with assault with a deadly weapon to cause great bodily harm and inflicting corporal injury on a spouse. She pleaded not guilty to all counts Wednesday afternoon at
Continue ReadingBy Frank Pallotta, CNN Business Disney+ just got more expensive. Unless you’re willing to watch ads. The Disney+ new ad-supported subscription tier will debut in the US on December 8 at a cost of $7.99 a month, the company announced on Wednesday. If that price point looks familiar, it should. That’s what consumers are paying
Continue Reading By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER and PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writers WASHINGTON (AP) — Consumers struggling with skyrocketing prices for food, gas, autos and rent got a tantalizing hint of relief last month, when prices didn’t budge at all from June after 25 straight months of increases. With gas prices continuing to fall, inflation is probably slowing
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