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By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer General Motors says it expects its portfolio of electric vehicles to turn a profit in North America by 2025 as it boosts battery and assembly plant capacity to build over 1 million EVs per year. CEO Mary Barra used the pledge to kick off the company’s investor day event
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By Shimon Prokupecz, CNN Lt. Mariano Pargas, the acting police chief on the day of the Robb Elementary School massacre, has resigned from the Uvalde Police Department, Mayor Don McLaughlin said Thursday afternoon. Pargas’ resignation comes ahead of a rare Saturday “special meeting” that was called by the city to decide his fate. His resignation
Continue Reading By JOHN ANTCZAK and AMY TAXIN Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Authorities have arrested a 22-year-old driver on suspicion of attempted murder after he veered into the wrong lane and struck dozens of Los Angeles County sheriff’s academy recruits running in formation. Nicholas Joseph Gutierrez was arrested Wednesday for investigation of attempted murder on
Continue Reading WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawyers: Jailed WNBA star Brittney Griner has begun serving sentence in Russian penal colony, is ‘trying to stay strong.’
Continue ReadingBy Jacqueline Howard, CNN A growing measles outbreak in Columbus, Ohio, has sickened more than a dozen unvaccinated children and hospitalized nine of them, and local public health officials are seeking assistance from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “We asked the CDC for assistance and they will be sending two epidemiologists at
Continue ReadingBy Betsy Webster Click here for updates on this story KANSAS CITY, Missouri (KCTV) — A rising high school basketball star could be sidelined during her important junior year because her school didn’t have enough players to field a team. Now, she’s caught in the crosshairs of state rules that would punish her for going
Continue Reading By Cheri Mossburg, Josh Campbell, Alaa Elassar and Andy Rose, CNN The man who was arrested for allegedly driving a vehicle into a group of law enforcement recruits in Whittier, California, was released from jail Thursday night, but the sheriff’s department insists they did not make a mistake. Nicholas Joseph Gutierrez, 22, was released from
Continue ReadingBy WCCO STAFF Click here for updates on this story MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota (WCCO) — Minnesota nurses say they aren’t getting anywhere in negotiations with hospitals and they may authorize another strike. In September, members of the Minnesota Nurses Association went on a three-day strike. After that, they said they were hopeful they could get back
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By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Krispy Kreme will pay nearly $1.2 million in back wages and damages to workers to resolve overtime pay violations under a settlement announced Thursday by the U.S. Department of Labor. The payments will go to 516 workers in multiple locations for what the labor department described as “widespread and
Continue ReadingBy CBSLA STAFF Click here for updates on this story CALIFORNIA (KCAL, KCBS) — Negotiations to end a strike by University of California teaching assistants, graduate student instructors, tutors and readers has entered a seventh consecutive day. Details on Wednesday’s negotiations were not immediately available. Unions representing the striking workers on Wednesday called for speakers
Continue ReadingBy Paulina Aguilar Click here for updates on this story PORTLAND, Oregon (KPTV) — Some bad luck for a Canadian couple after someone broke into their car and stole their belongings while they were staying at a hotel in southwest Portland. Abby Paterson and her husband David had exchanged vows in Napa Valley, California, and
Continue Reading By GILLIAN FLACCUS Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — U.S. regulators approved a plan Thursday to demolish four dams on a California river and open up hundreds of miles of salmon habitat that would be the largest dam removal and river restoration project in the world when it goes forward. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s
Continue Reading By GILLIAN FLACCUS Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — U.S. regulators approved a plan Thursday to demolish four dams on a California river and open up hundreds of miles of salmon habitat that would be the largest dam removal and river restoration project in the world when it goes forward. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s
Continue ReadingCNN, CNN BUSINESS By Clare Duffy and Oliver Darcy, CNN Business Another employee exodus appears to be underway at Twitter as many workers rejected Elon Musk’s terms for staying with the company, choosing instead to depart, according to multiple current and former employees. As the deadline approached for Twitter employees to respond to Elon Musk’s
Continue ReadingBy Evan Sobol, Christian Colón, Marcy Jones and Rob Polansky Click here for updates on this story ENFIELD, Connecticut (WFSB) — An Enfield man was charged after his child died from fentanyl last year. Police said officers responded to a home on North Maple Street in Enfield on Nov. 22, 2021 to investigate the untimely
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By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian airstrikes have targeted Ukraine’s energy facilities as the first snow of the season fell in Kyiv. The freezing weather on Thursday is a harbinger of the hardship to come if Moscow’s missiles keep taking out Ukraine’s power and gas plants. Separately, the United Nations announced
Continue Reading By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian airstrikes have targeted Ukraine’s energy facilities as the first snow of the season fell in Kyiv. The freezing weather on Thursday is a harbinger of the hardship to come if Moscow’s missiles keep taking out Ukraine’s power and gas plants. Separately, the United Nations announced
Continue Reading By AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As more Americans struggle with depression and anxiety, the cast of “The West Wing” teamed up with the Biden administration on Thursday to share a simple message: you are not alone. Actor Bradley Whitford, who played the role of the president’s deputy chief of staff on the
Continue Reading By The Associated Press KANSAS CITY (7-2) at LOS ANGELES CHARGERS (5-4) Sunday, 8:20 p.m. EST, NBC FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK NFL LINE: Chiefs by 5 1/2. AGAINST THE SPREAD: Chiefs 4-5; Chargers 5-4. SERIES RECORD: Chiefs lead 66-58-1. LAST MEETING: Chiefs beat Chargers 27-24 on Sept. 15 in Kansas City. LAST WEEK: Chiefs beat Jaguars 27-17;
Continue Reading By LYNN ELBER AP Television Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Robert Clary, a French-born survivor of Nazi concentration camps during World War II who played a feisty prisoner of war in the improbable 1960s sitcom “Hogan’s Heroes,” has died. He was 96. Clary died during the night Wednesday of natural causes at his home in
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