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By JACK THOMPSON Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Paul George and Terance Mann each scored 26 points and the Los Angeles Clippers beat the Phoenix Suns 116-107 on Thursday night in the final NBA game before the All-Star break. Kawhi Leonard added 16 points, all in the second half, and nine rebounds. Ivica Zubac and
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By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press LIMA, Ohio (AP) — Thousands of miles from the front lines, a sprawling manufacturing plant in the small midwestern city of Lima, Ohio, is playing a critical role in the effort to arm Ukraine as it fends off the Russian invasion. Owned by the Army and operated by General
Continue Reading LOS ANGELES (AP) — A person was taken into custody Thursday in connection with the shootings of two Jewish men outside synagogues in Los Angeles this week that investigators believe were hate crimes, police said. The violence set off fear among the city’s Jewish community as police increased patrols around houses of worship and officials
Continue Reading LOS ANGELES (AP) — Drew Peterson scored a career-high 30 points and USC set a season-high for points as the Trojans blew out California, 97-60 on Thursday night. USC led by as many as 40 points in the final minutes of the game and the 37-point margin of victory is its largest in Pac-12 Conference
Continue Reading By DAVID KLEPPER and STEPHEN McGRATH Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Facebook allowed an exiled Moldovan oligarch with ties to the Kremlin to run ads calling for protests and uprisings against the pro-Western government, even though he and his political party were on U.S. sanctions lists. The ads featuring politician and convicted fraudster Ilan Shor
Continue Reading By DAVID KLEPPER and STEPHEN McGRATH Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Facebook allowed an exiled Moldovan oligarch with ties to the Kremlin to run ads calling for protests and uprisings against the pro-Western government, even though he and his political party were on U.S. sanctions lists. The ads featuring politician and convicted fraudster Ilan Shor
Continue Reading SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Dillon Jones finished with 13 points and 13 rebounds to power Weber State to a 52-49 victory over Sacramento State on Thursday night. Steven Verplancken Jr. scored 12 points on 5-of-9 shooting for the Wildcats (14-13, 9-5 Big Sky Conference).. Alex Tew recorded 11 points. Zach Chappell had 17 points and
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By PIYUSH NAGPAL Associated Press MORIGAON, India (AP) — Standing outside the local police station in her village in northeast India, 19-year-old Nureja Khatun is anxious. Cradling her 6-month-old baby in her arms, she has been waiting to catch a glimpse of her husband before the police take him away to court. Nearly an hour
Continue Reading By JOHN MARSHALL AP Basketball Writer TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Azoulas Tubelis missed a couple shots, got frustrated with a foul call and booted the ball into the student section. Arizona’s leading scorer spent the rest of the first half on the bench. The rest of the Wildcats ran past Utah to get a bit
Continue ReadingBy Haley Britzky and Oren Liebermann, CNN Inside a sprawling factory just off the President Biden Expressway in downtown Scranton, Pennsylvania, the future arsenal of Ukraine’s war effort is being forged, one red hot artillery shell at a time. Running full-tilt, as it was on a recent January morning, the Scranton Army Ammunition Plant churns
Continue ReadingCNN By Haley Britzky and Oren Liebermann, CNN Inside a sprawling factory just off the President Biden Expressway in downtown Scranton, Pennsylvania, the future arsenal of Ukraine’s war effort is being forged, one red hot artillery shell at a time. Running full-tilt, as it was on a recent January morning, the Scranton Army Ammunition Plant
Continue Reading By The Associated Press PROVO, Utah (AP) — Brandin Podziemski had 26 points a Santa Clara beat BYU in Provo for the first time since 1972, topping the Cougars 81-74 on Thursday night. Podziemski had 12 rebounds for the Broncos (20-8, 8-5 West Coast Conference). Keshawn Justice added 19 points while going 6 of 9
Continue Reading LAS VEGAS (AP) — Alyssa Brown scored 17 points and grabbed 12 rebounds, Desi-Rae Young had a double-double and No. 23 UNLV clinched its second straight Mountain West Conference regular-season championship, beating San Jose State 77-60 on Thursday night. Brown made all eight of her shot attempts, while Young scored 16 points and had 10
Continue Reading By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Shares slipped in Asia on Friday after benchmarks on Wall Street had their biggest drop in four weeks as investors registered disappointment over an inflation reading that came in hotter than expected. Oil prices and U.S. futures also declined after the S&P 500 fell 1.4% Thursday
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The Agua Caliente band of Cahuilla Indians held a special re-naming today of a hill at the Thousand Palms Oasis Preserve where native artifacts were discovered. The hill was renamed Mumawet to pay respect to tribal ancestors and traditions. Several native artifacts, including Cahuilla pottery, were recently discovered in the area many of them fully
Continue Reading By BERNIE WILSON AP Sports Writer SAN DIEGO (AP) — Mitchell Saxen had 17 points and 10 rebounds, and Aidan Mahaney added 13 points for the No. 17 Saint Mary’s Gaels, who didn’t score in the last 7:05 yet held off hobbled but determined San Diego 62-59 Thursday night for their 14th win in 15
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It’s a major milestone in the rehabilitation and expansion of the fire station in downtown Coachella. “We’re about a month and a half ahead of schedule on the $7.3 million renovation expansion of our fire station here in downtown Coachella,” said Coachella Mayor Steven Hernandez. “It’ll be a facility that’s a little bit more of just accommodating
Continue ReadingSPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Kaylynne Truong hit 7 of 9 3-pointers and scored 21 points, B rynn Maxwell added four 3-pointers and 17 points and No. 20 Gonzaga rolled to a 69-58 win over Pacific on Thursday night. Truong hit three 3-pointers in an early 13-0 run that gave Gonzaga a 17-3 lead. With Maxwell
Continue ReadingBy Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN Justice Department prosecutors in Washington, DC, have taken over the corruption investigation into Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. State prosecutor Kent Schaffer, who is separately investigating Paxton, told CNN in an interview that the Justice Department notified him of the change. The yearslong corruption investigation had, until now, been under the
Continue Reading LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Southern California motorcycle club founder who killed three people in 1980 has been ordered to be released this week, following a terminal cancer diagnosis, prosecutors said Thursday. Thomas Maniscalco, 77, has been incarcerated for nearly 40 years after his 1994 conviction on three counts of second-degree murder, with enhancements for
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