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ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — The Los Angeles Angels acquired third baseman Gio Urshela from the Minnesota Twins in exchange for minor league right-hander Alejandro Hidalgo on Friday. Urshela batted .285 with 13 homers and 64 RBIs while playing a career-high 144 games in his only season with the Twins, who acquired him from the Yankees
Continue ReadingBy Blake Ellis and Melanie Hicken, CNN Shipping giant Maersk has settled a lawsuit filed by a former US Merchant Marine Academy student who says she was raped while working on the company’s ship when she was 19 years old. The company’s US subsidiary Maersk Line, Limited (MLL) announced the settlement with USMMA graduate Hope
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The Associated Press Stocks ended higher on Wall Street but still wound up with weekly losses after several days of bumpy trading. Some retailers posted big gains after reporting surprisingly strong quarterly results and giving investors encouraging forecasts. Gap, Ross Stores and Foot Locker all rose sharply. Energy stocks fell along with crude oil prices.
Continue Reading By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California said Friday it had recovered all of the 2.7 million jobs it lost at the start of the pandemic, a moment that normally would celebrate the end of a downturn but instead was tempered by signs of a wobbly economy amid layoffs in the state’s
Continue Reading By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California said Friday it had recovered all of the 2.7 million jobs it lost at the start of the pandemic, a moment that normally would celebrate the end of a downturn but instead was tempered by signs of a wobbly economy amid layoffs in the state’s
Continue Reading NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Friday: Ross Stores Inc., up $9.66 to $107.59. The discount retailer reported strong third-quarter earnings and revenue. Williams-Sonoma Inc., down $8.02 to $122.37. The seller of cookware and home furnishings warned investors that inflation and weaker demand could hurt its business. Foot
Continue ReadingBy JOHN LAURITSEN Click here for updates on this story DAWSON, Minnesota (WCCO) — Seventh grade can be a challenging time as kids are adjusting to a new school. For 13-year-old Thatcher Johnson — enrolled in the Dawson-Boyd district — it became a bit more challenging when he developed alopecia, an autoimmune disease that causes
Continue Readingby Reuters Used-car retailer Carvana Co. is cutting 1,500 jobs, or 8% of its workforce, the company said on Friday, amid waning demand for used cars on the back of sky-high prices and supply shortages. Demand for used cars has been negatively impacted by hybrid-working models and higher costs caused by rising interest rates, as
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By ERIC TUCKER and MICHAEL BALSAMO WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Merrick Garland named a special counsel on Friday to oversee the Justice Department’s investigation into the presence of classified documents at former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate as well as key aspects of a separate probe involving the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection and efforts to undo the 2020
Continue Reading By DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers A late-afternoon rally on Wall Street helped stocks close higher Friday, though the major indexes still wound up finishing lower for the week after several days of bumpy trading. The S&P 500 rose 0.5% after wavering between small gains and losses for much of the
Continue Reading By JANIE McCAULEY AP Baseball Writer OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Longtime executive Billy Beane is stepping away from the day-to-day operations of the Oakland Athletics to become the senior advisor to owner John Fisher. David Forst will lead baseball operations, maintaining his title of general manager. “This is really as much as me taking on
Continue ReadingBy CBS13 STAFF Click here for updates on this story SACRAMENTO (KOVR) — An arrest has been made after a Sacramento Fire Department trailer that was carrying strong chemicals was stolen. The fire department said on Thursday that the trailer was stolen in the south Sacramento area. Authorities were extra concerned due to the hazardous
Continue ReadingBy CBS3 Staff Click here for updates on this story PHILADELPHIA (KYW) — Philadelphia police are searching for the shooter involved in killing a sanitation worker who was on the job. The fatal shooting happened along the 3300 block of Tudor Street near Rowland Avenue in the city’s Mayfair neighborhood on Friday. Police are in
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By Ella Nilsen and Ivana Kottasová, CNN With just hours left to go to reach an international climate agreement, US climate envoy John Kerry has tested positive for Covid-19 at the United Nations’ COP27 climate summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, his spokesperson Whitney Smith said. Smith said in a statement that Kerry is “experiencing mild
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Alejandra Ramos (CNN) — Funcionarios de Estados Unidos y Rusia se reunirán en Egipto del 29 de noviembre al 6 de diciembre para discutir un acuerdo clave de control de armas nucleares. Las reuniones sobre el Nuevo Tratado START —el único acuerdo existente que regula los dos arsenales nucleares más grandes del mundo— se producen
Continue Reading By BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The board overseeing a southeastern Arizona county whose Republican leaders hoped to recount all the Election Day ballots is set to meet Friday to certify the results of last week’s election, a move the other 14 counties will follow and that will trigger a recount in at
Continue Reading Germán Padinger (CNN Español) — Cuando el árbitro toque el silbato este domingo y las selecciones de Qatar y Ecuador den inicio formal al Copa Mundial de Fútbol 2022, habrá gente malviviendo, peleando y muriendo en trincheras en Ucrania, a la espera de un invierno entre la guerra y el frío extremo. Cuando Inglaterra e
Continue Reading By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The Trump Organization’s former chief financial officer has testified that Eric Trump hiked his pay by $200,000 after an internal audit spurred by Trump’s 2016 election found that he had been scheming to dodge taxes on lavish corporate perks. The raises boosted Allen Weisselberg’s annual
Continue Reading By DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers Stocks were mostly higher on Wall Street Friday afternoon, though major indexes remained on pace to finish lower for the week after several days of bumpy trading. The S&P 500 rose 0.4% as of 3:27 p.m. Eastern. The benchmark index had traded as high as
Continue ReadingBy Kaitlyn Hart Click here for updates on this story IDAHO FALLS (eastidahonews.com) — An Idaho Falls man who escaped from police custody and led officers on a high-speed chase was sentenced Wednesday. Peter Andrew Lewis, 42, was given a unified sentence of 35 years in prison by District Judge Bruce Pickett. He will not
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