La Quinta senior wide receiver Calvin Miller won play of the week for week 2 of the season. Miller earned the most votes over the weekend for his sensational catch in the team’s win on Thursday over Carter. Be sure to stay with Sports Director Blake Arthur and Bailey Arredondo throughout the season for complete coverage
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SAN DIEGO (AP) — A member of the San Diego Zoo’s African penguin colony has been fitted with orthopedic footwear to help it deal with a degenerative foot condition. The 4-year-old penguin named Lucas has lesions on his feet due to a chronic condition known as bumblefoot, which covers a range of avian foot problems,
Continue Reading By MICHAEL TARM AP Legal Affairs Writer CHICAGO (AP) — Two more accusers have taken the witness stand at R. Kelly’s child pornography and solicitation of minors trial in federal court in Chicago. Their testimony Monday brings to three the total number of accusers to have testified so far in the case. The prosecution cited
Continue ReadingCNNEspañol sjv (CNN Español) — La sorpresa del US Open no llegó por una salida (y un retiro) de Serena Williams, sino por la sorpresiva victoria de un colombiano a uno de los mejores tenistas del mundo. Daniel Elahi Galán, de 26 años, derrotó a Stefanos Tsitsipas, cuarto sembrado del Grand Slam de Nueva York.
Continue Reading OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — A 12-year-old boy was held Monday on suspicion of shooting and wounding another student at a school in east Oakland, authorities said. Reports of a shooting sent officers to Madison Park Academy in the Sobrante Park neighborhood about 1:30 p.m., police said. They found a 13-year-old boy with a gunshot wound,
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By ALANIS THAMES AP Sports Writer MIAMI (AP) — Chris Martin has exceeded the Los Angeles Dodgers’ expectations since they traded for him in late July. The well-traveled reliever inherited a bases-loaded jam in the bottom of the 10th inning and got the final two outs as the NL-West leading Dodgers defeated the Miami Marlins
Continue Reading By BERNIE WILSON and JOHN WAWROW AP Sports Writers SAN DIEGO (AP) — San Diego State football coach Brady Hoke said Monday he didn’t know star punter Matt Araiza had been accused of participating in the gang rape of a 17-year-old girl at an off-campus party in October until a civil lawsuit was filed last
Continue Reading By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS and MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves says he is declaring a state of emergency after excessive rainfall worsened problems in a water treatment plant in the capital city. Water pressure is low in much of Jackson. Reeves says the state will distribute drinking water
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By Meron Moges-Gerbi, CNN Sixty high schools across the United States have started offering Advanced Placement courses on African American studies amid the nationwide upheaval over race-based curriculum. The College Board, a non-profit organization, announced a pilot program in February and courses began this month with the start of the school year. The curriculum will
Continue Reading SAN MATEO, Calif. (AP) — A resident of a San Francisco Bay Area senior citizens home died after being mistakenly served dishwashing liquid as drinking juice, the home said. Three residents of Atria Park Senior Living Facility in San Mateo, about 20 miles (32 kilometers) south of San Francisco, were taken to the hospital after
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During a busy fire season, fire departments from different cities are called to help assist in times of need. Cal Fire crews responded to a fire on Tyler Street in Coachella on Monday, with some help from the Palm Springs Fire Department. “We sent out one engine and I believe they were requesting you know,
Continue Reading LOS ANGELES (AP) — A former Southern California man who convinced troubled girls as young as 12 to perform masochistic acts and urged one to become his sex slave pleaded guilty Monday to a federal charge, prosecutors said. Matthew Christian Locher, 31, pleaded guilty to one count of sexual exploitation of a child for the
Continue Reading LOS ANGELES (AP) — A former Southern California man who convinced troubled girls as young as 12 to perform masochistic acts and urged one to become his sex slave pleaded guilty Monday to a federal charge, prosecutors said. Matthew Christian Locher, 31, pleaded guilty to one count of sexual exploitation of a child for the
Continue Reading By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Serena Williams has won her match in the first round of the U.S. Open. Williams beat Danka Kovinic 6-3, 6-3 under the lights in Arthur Ashe Stadium. Williams is a 23-time Grand Slam champion who turns 41 next month and has said she is ready
Continue ReadingBy Steve Almasy, CNN Serena Williams, playing in what is likely the final tennis tournament of her storied career, opened singles play with a 6-3, 6-3 victory over Danka Kovinić in the first round of the US Open at Arthur Ashe Stadium. Williams will open doubles play with her sister Venus on Wednesday. Williams will
Continue Reading By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has called the leaders of two U.S. veterans groups assisting Afghans who have fled from the country on the eve of the one-year anniversary of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. The White House said Biden on Monday spoke to the leaders of the veterans-led
Continue Reading By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Russia has faced technical problems with Iranian-made drones acquired from Tehran this month for use in its war with Ukraine. That’s according to Biden administration officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the U.S. intelligence assessment. They did not detail the “numerous failures.” They
Continue Reading SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A California woman who recruited three teenage girls for prostitution, plying them with alcohol and drugs while advertising them online for sex acts, was sentenced Monday to 17 years and seven months in federal prison. Dawniel Santangelo, 44, of Stockton, recruited the girls, ages 15, 16 and 17, for prostitution in
Continue ReadingCNN, KPHO, KTVK, WHO-DT, KCCI, WCCO By Andrew Kaczynski and Em Steck, CNN Arizona Republican Senate nominee Blake Masters removed language from his website following his primary win that included the false claim that the 2020 election was stolen from former President Donald Trump, along with a section arguing the country would be better off
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California lawmakers on Monday advanced a nation-leading measure that would give more than a half-million fast food workers more power and protections, over the objections of restaurant owners who warn it would drive up consumers’ costs. The bill would create a new 10-member Fast Food Council with equal numbers of workers’ delegates and
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