By DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers Wall Street closed out a solid November with a broad market rally Wednesday after the head of the Federal Reserve said the central bank could soon begin easing up on its aggressive interest rate increases aimed at taming inflation. Fed Chair Jerome Powell, speaking at
Continue ReadingBy Devan Cole, CNN A judge in Ohio has ordered conservative activists Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman to spend 500 hours registering low and middle-income voters in the Washington, DC, area as punishment for carrying out a voter suppression campaign during the 2020 election. Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court Judge John Sutula sentenced Wohl and
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By JOHN MARSHALL AP Basketball Writer TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Arizona coach Tommy Lloyd knew there was talent on his roster. He wasn’t exactly sure how good the team would be. The former longtime Gonzaga assistant had a similar view of last year’s team and that one turned out to be pretty good, running all
Continue ReadingBy Web staff Click here for updates on this story LOS ANGELES (KCAL) — The widow of slain El Monte Police Sgt. Michael Paredes and her attorney are scheduled to announce legal action against L.A. County District Attorney George Gascón and the county Tuesday over the sergeant’s shooting death in June. The D.A. faced criticism
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Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — La derrota de Irán en el Mundial de Fútbol ante Estados Unidos fue recibida con celebraciones en Teherán y otras ciudades iraníes este martes por la noche, mientras los manifestantes festejaban la salida del país del torneo como un golpe al régimen gobernante. La nación fue eliminada del torneo en Qatar
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GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — The prominent Guatemalan investigative newspaper “El Periodico” has announced it is stopping its print edition, after the government arrested the paper’s president. José Rubén Zamora was arrested in July on a charge of money laundering. All of the paper’s reporters have been let go, and it is not clear how it
Continue Reading RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota’s attorney general has announced that he has filled a position to coordinate efforts from state, tribal and local law enforcement agencies, as well as nonprofit organizations, to tackle alarming rates of Indigenous people going missing or having their deaths remain unsolved. The attorney general’s office has put a
Continue Reading SAN DIEGO (AP) — Nine Navy sailors received minor injuries in a fire aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, military officials said Wednesday. The blaze broke out Tuesday morning as the aircraft carrier was conducting routine operations about 30 miles (48.28 kilometers) off the coast of Southern California, the Navy said in a statement. “The fire
Continue ReadingBy Brisa Colón Click here for updates on this story SANTA CRUZ, California (KSBW) — West Cliff Drive in Santa Cruz is a popular 2.5-mile stretch along the ocean. Tourists, locals, and dogs walk and bike along the stretch by the thousands every week. But visitors on Sunday had to walk in the street to
Continue Reading By JOE McDONALD Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — State media report former Chinese President Jiang Zemin has died at age 96. Jiang led China out of isolation after the army crushed the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests in 1989. He supported economic reforms that led to a decade of explosive growth. State media say Jiang died
Continue ReadingBy Zach Rael Click here for updates on this story OKLAHOMA CITY (KOCO) — An Oklahoma lawmaker wants to lower the age to legally carry firearms. Republican State Rep. Jim Olsen wants to change the age from 21 to 18 years old. It is already getting pushback from Democratic lawmakers. Democrats said expanding gun access
Continue Reading By KIM CHANDLER and JEFF MARTIN Associated Press WETUMPKA, Ala. (AP) — Tornadoes damaged numerous homes, destroyed a fire station, briefly trapped people in a grocery store and ripped the roof off an apartment complex in Mississippi, while two people died as a tree crunched their mobile home in Alabama, authorities said Wednesday. The National
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El Departamento de Salud informó que en el Condado de Riverside las hospitalizaciones de enfermos de coronavirus sobrepasaron los 200 y se ha complicado con la llamada “Tridemia” que es la combinación de coronavirus, influenza y el virus respiratorio RSV. El hospital de Rancho Mirage es el que reporta el más alto número de pacientes
Continue ReadingBy WESH Staff Click here for updates on this story ORLANDO, Florida (WESH) — Seminole deputies have released bodycam video from wedding where food was allegedly laced with weed. The Orlando caterer accused of serving marijuana-laced food at a wedding is being sued by one of the guests. Earlier this year, Seminole County authorities released
Continue ReadingBy Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN Business Lordstown Motors, a startup company building electric pickups in a former General Motors factory, is ready to deliver its first production-model pickup trucks, the company said. The announcement comes about 18 months after the company had warned, in a regulatory filing, that it could go out of business and, shortly
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By Nicole Chavez and Rikki Klaus, CNN The killing of Shanquella Robinson is being investigated as a femicide, an unfamiliar term for many in the United States as this gender-motivated crime has not been defined by US legislation despite being a global issue. Robinson, a 25-year-old former student at Winston-Salem State University in North Carolina
Continue ReadingBy J.D. MILES Click here for updates on this story NORTH TEXAS (KTVT) — The clock is ticking for school districts to apply for a grant that would pay for state of the art panic alarms inside schools. It may have been the only part of the emergency response to the Uvalde school massacre that
Continue Reading By TOM DAVIES and ARLEIGH RODGERS Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana’s Republican attorney general on Wednesday asked the state medical licensing board to discipline an Indianapolis doctor who has spoken publicly about providing an abortion to a 10-year-old rape victim who traveled from Ohio after its more-restrictive abortion law took effect. The complaint alleges
Continue ReadingBy Kim Dacey Click here for updates on this story BALTIMORE (WBAL) — It was a case that shook Baltimore to its core — an off-duty police sergeant was shot during an attempted robbery outside his home in northeast Baltimore. On Monday, one of the men charged with the crime was sentenced to 40 years
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Después de una excelente investigación de mas de dos meses, la policía arrestó a dos sujetos acusados de vandalizar más de 40 negocios. Se trata de Brett Wellard y Chance Sawyer quienes fueron detenidos después de una persecución policíaca que terminó en la calle Bob Hope; al revisar el vehículo la policía encontró la pistola
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