SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A pipeline operator and two subsidiaries agreed Friday to plead guilty to negligently discharging oil off the Southern California coast in connection with a pipeline break that covered beaches with blobs of crude. The U.S. attorney’s office in Los Angeles said in a statement that Houston-based Amplify Energy and two
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By Laura Ly, CNN A union representing about 2,000 Philadelphia School District employees said Friday it has averted a strike by reaching a tentative contract agreement just three days before the start of the school year. In a news release, local 32BJ SEIU officials said the new deal achieves “historic” wage increases, millions of dollars
Continue ReadingBy Jacob Lev, CNN The Instagram account set up to provide updates on injured Little Leaguer Easton Oliverson posted Friday that Easton was out of surgery and that doctors were “happy with the outcome.” “We couldn’t be more thrilled to let everyone know that his surgery went perfect,” the post said. The 12-year-old had surgery
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By JANIE McCAULEY AP Baseball Writer OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Actually, Greg Weissert got a good night’s sleep. Which might be hard to believe, given what happened hours earlier in his major league debut. With his immediate family and a few friends having flown cross-country to be there, the New York Yankees reliever hit a
Continue Reading By SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Republican leaders in Virginia said Friday they want to change the law so the state no longer follows California’s stringent rules for vehicle emissions. Virginia is currently on a path toward adopting California’s new rules for transitioning to zero-emission vehicles because of 2021 legislation that involved
Continue Reading By Hannah Sarisohn, CNN A Ring doorbell camera captured the attempted abduction of a 6-year-old girl from the front of her house Tuesday in Hamilton, Ohio, according to court documents and the security camera footage obtained by CNN. The video shows the girl standing next to a garbage can at the curb of a front
Continue Reading PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona Supreme Court throws initiative expanding voting and rolling back GOP election law changes off November ballot.
Continue Reading By EVENS SANON and DÁNICA COTO Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A soccer field that was paid for but never built. A school that diverted resources from its students. A mayor who ran city hall out of his mother’s home and avoided property taxes. Officials say these and dozens of other alleged acts of
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By BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — A voter initiative rolling back Republican-backed election law changes and expanding voting access will not appear on the November ballot, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled Friday, issuing a final death knell after an on-again off-again series of court rulings. The high court decision upholds a lower court
Continue Reading By BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — A voter initiative rolling back Republican-backed election law changes and expanding voting access will not appear on the November ballot, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled Friday, issuing a final death knell after an on-again off-again series of court rulings. The high court decision upholds a lower court
Continue Reading OJAI, Calif. (AP) — A young mountain lion was struck and killed by a vehicle in Southern California early Friday, just weeks after his brother was fatally hit on another freeway, according to the National Park Service. The 2-year-old male cougar, named P-90, was killed on a highway in Ventura County, more than 75 miles
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson Londres (CNN Business) — Rusia quema un valor estimado de US$ 10 millones de gas natural al día cerca de su frontera con Finlandia, dicen los analistas, incluso cuando amenaza con empujar a Europa a una crisis energética durante el invierno mediante la restricción de las exportaciones a Alemania y otros países. El
Continue Reading PHOENIX (AP) — A Phoenix police officer who worked full time but fraudulently collected pay at second job as an investigator for the state will avoid jail time. The Office of the Arizona Attorney General announced Friday that 51-year-old Carl Ramirez was sentenced this week to 18 months of probation. The sentence was part of
Continue Reading By MICHAEL R. BLOOD Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — California legislators and Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office are discussing a possible compromise over the future of the state’s last operating nuclear power plant that could allow operator Pacific Gas & Electric to seek federal funds for a longer lifespan for the reactors. The tentative proposal
Continue Reading By MICHAEL R. BLOOD Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — California legislators and Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office are discussing a possible compromise over the future of the state’s last operating nuclear power plant that could allow operator Pacific Gas & Electric to seek federal funds for a longer lifespan for the reactors. The tentative proposal
Continue Reading SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (AP) — A former Air Force sergeant who was linked to an anti-government extremist movement and in 2020 attacked law enforcement officials amid protests over the killing of George Floyd has been sentenced to life in prison without parole in the killing of a Northern California sheriff’s sergeant. Steven Carrillo, 33, pleaded
Continue Reading By GILLIAN FLACCUS Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Federal regulators on Friday issued a final environmental impact statement that supports the demolition of four massive dams on Northern California’s Klamath River to save imperiled migratory salmon. The staff’s recommendation, which largely echoes an earlier draft opinion, tees up a vote on the roughly $500
Continue Reading SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (AP) — A former Air Force sergeant who was linked to an anti-government extremist movement and in 2020 attacked law enforcement officials amid protests over the killing of George Floyd has been sentenced to life in prison without parole in the killing of a Northern California sheriff’s sergeant. Steven Carrillo, 33, pleaded
Continue Reading CNN, WFAA By Ashley Strickland, CNN It’s time to go back to the moon. Almost 50 years after the last Apollo mission ventured to the lunar surface, NASA has established a program that promises to land humans on unexplored lunar regions and eventually the surface of Mars — and it all begins with Artemis I.
Continue ReadingÁngela Reyes Haczek (CNN) — Relámpagos dramáticos, fenómenos climáticos extremos, espectáculos de hielo y escenas sublimes del Sol son algunas de las imágenes impresionantes preseleccionadas para el concurso Weather Photographer of the Year 2022. Las 22 imágenes, de las que se ofrece una selección en la galería de arriba, muestran algunos de los momentos más
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