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VALLEJO, Calif. (AP) — A San Francisco Bay Area city will pay the mother of a 21-year-old man shot and killed by police in 2017 nearly $3 million to settle a wrongful death and federal civil rights lawsuit. The family of Angel Ramos filed the lawsuit against the city of Vallejo as well as Vallejo
Continue ReadingBy Pierre Bairin, Natacha Bracken, Sharon Braithwaite and Antonia Mortensen, CNN The diplomatic fallout between France and Italy over a stranded migrant ship in the Mediterranean Sea is far from over. The French government on Thursday suspended a deal to take 3,500 asylum-seekers currently in Italy, as Paris criticized the newly appointed right-wing Italian government
Continue Reading By THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The new U.S. House majority is still undetermined, but one thing is clear: The majority party’s margin will be narrow. With a number of races closer than expected, here is a look at some notable contests that had not yet been called by Thursday night. COLORADO 3rd
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Thursday, November 10th marks 247 years since the United State Marine Corps was established. Locally, veterans and service members across the Coachella Valley are honoring those who dedicated and continue to dedicate their lives to service. “Anybody that’s been in the Marine Corps will tell you, your life changes when you become a Marine,” said
Continue Reading By STEFANIE DAZIO and EUGENE GARCIA Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A dive boat captain pleaded not guilty Thursday in federal court for a second time to manslaughter in the fiery deaths of 34 people trapped below deck on his burning vessel three years ago off the Southern California coast. A federal grand jury
Continue Reading By STEVE MEGARGEE AP Sports Writer MILWAUKEE (AP) — Two of the more notable games on Friday’s college basketball schedule are taking place on an aircraft carrier and in a baseball stadium. No. 2 Gonzaga will face Michigan State on the flight deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln in the San Diego harbo r to
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By BETH HARRIS The Los Angeles Dodgers have declined their $16 million option on two-time All-Star Justin Turner. The team also said Thursday it extended qualifying offers to two All-Stars, shortstop Trea Turner and left-handed pitcher Tyler Anderson. Also not receiving a qualifying offer for the second straight year was Clayton Kershaw. As a result,
Continue Reading LOS ANGELES (AP) — A company owned by a billionaire Chinese real estate developer was convicted Thursday of paying more than $1 million bribes to a Los Angeles city councilmember for help in getting a downtown project approved. Shen Zhen New World I LLC was found guilty of eight counts of honest services wire fraud,
Continue ReadingBy LIBBY SMITH Click here for updates on this story DENVER (KCNC) — Christina Rich is a breast cancer survivor. It’s a moniker she never expected, but she wears it proudly. “When I found the lump and went into my nurse, she said, ‘Ah, you’re young. It’s probably nothing, but let’s get it checked out,’”
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By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson is recommending his state increase public school funding as he prepares to leave office. The Republican governor on Thursday detailed his budget proposal to a legislative panel. The recommendations come days after Republican Sarah Huckabee Sanders was elected the state’s next
Continue Reading By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Abortion rights supporters secured another win Thursday as voters in Montana rejected a ballot measure that would have forced medical workers to intercede in the rare case of a baby born after an attempted abortion. The result caps a string of ballot defeats, months after the Supreme
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A man accused in a shooting in Twentynine Palms was arrested while making a court appearance for an unrelated case a day later. The shooting happened Wednesday at around 10:00 a.m. Deputies initially responded to the area of Sunset Drive and North Star Avenue and found a man who was shot several times. The victim
Continue ReadingBy Jen Christensen, CNN A new study estimates that 1 in 50 deaths of otherwise healthy children under age 5 around the world is due to a common virus that’s currently surging in the US: respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV. And in high-income countries, 1 in 56 babies who are born on time and are
Continue Reading By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana’s Supreme Court says a white man whose murder conviction in the killing of a Black man was vacated because he killed himself while his appeal was pending should not have been legally exonerated. Thursday’s ruling reverses lower court rulings that vacated the conviction of Kenneth
Continue Reading By JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — A key question hangs over the more than 600,000 ballots left to be tallied in Arizona: Do they look like the state’s late-counted 2020 ballots that overwhelmingly went to Republicans or break down more like the 2018 midterms, when Democrats won most of them? The answer
Continue Reading By JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — A key question hangs over the more than 600,000 ballots left to be tallied in Arizona: Do they look like the state’s late-counted 2020 ballots that overwhelmingly went to Republicans or break down more like the 2018 midterms, when Democrats won most of them? The answer
Continue Reading By JULIE WATSON Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — The mother and grandfather of an 11-year-old California girl who was allegedly tortured and starved for years have been arrested and charged with murder, while her grandmother faces abuse charges. Leticia McCormack, 49, and her parents pleaded not guilty to the charges Wednesday in Superior Court
Continue Reading By JULIE WATSON Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — The mother and grandfather of an 11-year-old California girl who was allegedly tortured and starved for years have been arrested and charged with murder, while her grandmother faces abuse charges. Leticia McCormack, 49, and her parents pleaded not guilty to the charges Wednesday in Superior Court
Continue Reading By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer Elon Musk is warning Twitter employees to brace for “difficult times ahead” that might end with the collapse of the social media platform if they can’t find new ways of making money. Workers who survived last week’s mass layoffs are facing harsher work conditions and growing uncertainty about their
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By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer Elon Musk is warning Twitter employees to brace for “difficult times ahead” that might end with the collapse of the social media platform if they can’t find new ways of making money. Workers who survived last week’s mass layoffs are facing harsher work conditions and growing uncertainty about their
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