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By Ashley Strickland, CNN Investigating the site of an ancient river delta, the Perseverance rover has collected some of the most important samples yet on its mission to determine if life ever existed on Mars, according to NASA scientists. A few of the recently collected samples include organic matter, indicating that Jezero Crater, which likely
Continue ReadingBy KPTV Staff Click here for updates on this story BOARDMAN, Oregon (KPTV) — Oregon’s last coal-fired power plant is no more. Portland General Electric knocked down the facility in Boardman on Thursday. Around 10 a.m., demolition crews imploded the nearly 700-foot tall stack and boiler. It took just seconds for the facility to come
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By CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles police on Thursday arrested two teenage boys in connection with the death of a 15-year-old girl who overdosed in a restroom at her high school after buying pills possibly laced with fentanyl on campus, authorities said. Police served a search warrant around 8:30 a.m.
Continue Reading By BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The candidates seeking Arizona’s top K-12 education post sparred in a debate over critical race theory, services for LGBTQ youth and whether students are safe and learning as they should. The at-times contentious debate featuring Republican Tom Horne and current Superintendent of Public Education Kathy Hoffman, a
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Sofía Benavides (CNN Español) — El Congreso de Perú, con una votación de 94 a favor, 14 en contra y 8 abstenciones, aprobó este jueves una moción de censura contra el ministro de Transportes y Comunicaciones, Geiner Alvarado López, con el argumento de su supuesta “falta de idoneidad” para el ejercicio del cargo. En Perú,
Continue Reading By AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Dr. Suzy Fitzgerald remembers looking out the windows as wildfire flames surrounded the hospital where she worked. “We had fire in all three directions,” Fitzgerald recalled. “I thought, ‘Oh gosh, this is serious. We need to get these people out.’” Fitzgerald helped with the evacuation of 122
Continue ReadingCNN, WBZ, WHDH, WCVB, WEAR, AP By Steve Contorno, CNN By arranging to fly two planes of migrants onto the tony island of Martha’s Vineyard on Wednesday, Gov. Ron DeSantis has thrust Florida into an escalating battle between red state leaders and the Biden administration over the US-Mexico border and once again put himself at
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N Indian Canyon is now back open at the Whitewater Wash off the I-10, the city of Palm Springs announced on Thursday. The road was closed for several days due to flooding from last week’s storm. Get the News Channel 3 app here.
Continue ReadingBy Eric Bradner, Omar Jimenez and Donald Judd, CNN Republicans in Wisconsin have in recent weeks hammered Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes on crime, casting the Democratic nominee to take on GOP Sen. Ron Johnson as “dangerous” as they seek to reach the small swath of suburban voters who could decide one of the nation’s most
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By MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Average long-term U.S. mortgage rates climbed over 6% this week for the first time since the housing crash of 2008, threatening to sideline even more homebuyers from a rapidly cooling housing market. Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac reported Thursday that the 30-year rate rose to 6.02% from
Continue Reading By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer Boeing is stuck with more than 100 planes that it can’t deliver to Chinese airlines, so it’s going to resell some of those planes to other customers. Company officials said Thursday they have waited long enough for permission to deliver new Boeing 737 Max jets to China, and they
Continue Reading By MATT OTT and GLENN GAMBOA Associated Press Outdoor gear company Patagonia says “the earth is now our only shareholder” after transferring the company’s ownership from founder Yvon Chouinard and his family to two nonprofits established to fight climate change. In a letter posted on the 50-year-old company’s website Wednesday night, Chouinard said Patagonia would
Continue ReadingBy Gabe Swartz Click here for updates on this story CLINTON, Missouri (KCTV) — A single-vehicle crash involving a truck pulling a stock trailer containing two horses occurred Wednesday in Clinton, Missouri. Clinton Missouri Police said it appeared the driver of the truck, 68-year-old Gary Shuey, of Peculiar, Missouri, had a sudden medical emergency causing
Continue ReadingBy Angela Dewan, CNN An analysis of Pakistan’s devastating floods has found “fingerprints” of the human-made climate crisis on the disaster, which killed more than 1,500 people and destroyed so much land and infrastructure it has plunged the South Asian nation into crisis. The analysis, published Thursday by the World Weather Attribution initiative, was unable
Continue ReadingBy Darleene Powells Click here for updates on this story GARDEN GROVE, California (KCAL) — Julian Labunog looked unsure as to why the Bell Intermediate School mascot was talking to him – then it unveiled itself to be his own mother, come home early after being deployed overseas for more than a year. U.S. Army
Continue Reading By Kimberly Richardson, CNN Our four-legged friends don’t drive gas-guzzling SUVs or use energy-sucking appliances, but that doesn’t mean they don’t have a climate impact. In fact, researchers have showed that pets play a significant role in the climate crisis. But what do Barkley and Whiskers have to do with our warming planet? It’s the
Continue ReadingBy KCAL Staff Click here for updates on this story LONG BEACH, California (KCAL) — Long Beach City College professor Dr. Kashara Moore was fired Wednesday night after the college’s Board of Trustees voted 3-2 to let her go due to allegations that she elbowed a student in June. Moore was caught on video during
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Riverside County reported four new confirmed or probable monkeypox cases today, raising the overall number to 252. Last week, the number of cases in the county was 223, up from 197 the previous week. Fill Out Riverside County’s Monkeypox Vaccine Interest Form Here A total of 121 probable or confirmed monkeypox cases have been
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By DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers Stocks gave up more ground Thursday, leaving major indexes on Wall Street deeper in the red for the week. The S&P 500 fell 1.1% after another wobbly day of trading. The benchmark index is now down 4.1% for the week following the biggest pullback for
Continue Reading By DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers Stocks gave up more ground Thursday, leaving major indexes on Wall Street deeper in the red for the week. The S&P 500 fell 1.1% after another wobbly day of trading. The benchmark index is now down 4.1% for the week following the biggest pullback for
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