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By JENNIFER O’MAHONY Associated Press PUERTOLLANO, Spain (AP) — In Spain, the dream of an emissions-free future for heavy industry starts with a rugged Castilian hillside covered in solar panels, and ends with an ice-cold beer. When the beer will be available, and how much it will cost, depends on an intervening rollout of green
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The Birds were blanked in Bakersfield on Friday night, falling 3-0 to the Condors. The only silver lining in the loss is that Calgary lost as well. The Wranglers fell at Abbotsford 4-1. With Friday’s results, the fight for first place in the Pacific Division is still alive. It all comes down to the final
Continue Reading BEIJING (AP) — The Chinese Basketball Association has ordered an investigation into a championship round game that ended with a last-minute, come-from-behind win following a series of turnovers. The investigation points to continuing suspicions about wide-spread corruption in Chinese sports, with the nation’s top-flight professional soccer league particularly hard-hit. In Friday’s Game 3 of the
Continue Reading By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — China’s senior official overseeing Hong Kong’s affairs says that protests are not the only way for people to express their views, weeks after the city’s strict protest rules sparked controversy while signaling Beijing’s vision for the financial hub. Xia Baolong, director of the Hong Kong and
Continue Reading By MARI YAMAGUCHI and FOSTER KLUG Associated Press WAKAYAMA, Japan (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida was evacuated unharmed Saturday after someone threw an explosive device in his direction while he was campaigning at a fishing port in western Japan, officials said. Police wrestled a suspect to the ground as screaming bystanders scrambled to
Continue ReadingBy Zoe Sottile, CNN The Wienermobile is becoming a Weddingmobile — at least for a few days. The iconic Oscar Mayer Wienermobile will be briefly transformed into the “Wienermobile of Love” in Las Vegas, according to a news release from the meat brand. Hot-dog-loving couples will be able to elope at the Wienermobile, and be
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Charlie Reiter is headed North. The former Palm Desert standout earned a full year of exemption on the PGA TOUR Canada circuit after winning a 72-hole qualifier at nearby Soboba Springs in San Jacinto. Congrats to @charles_reiter on his win and exemption on @PGATOURCanada this summer! Reiter (-15) beat out fellow desert native Kyle K (-14) by
Continue Reading BEIJING (AP) — China says it carried out a successful ground-based mid-course missile interception test. The Defense Ministry says the operation was carried out late Friday night and achieved “the desired test objective.” It says the test was “defensive in nature and not targeted against any country.” It said the test was conducted within Chinese
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By JANIE McCAULEY AP Baseball Writer OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Francisco Lindor took a couple of monster swings and the erratic Oakland pitching staff did plenty to help in a big night by the New York Mets. Lindor hit a grand slam and a three-run double to match his career high of seven RBIs, powering
Continue ReadingBy Stefano Pozzebon, CNN Hundreds of families in Colombia are facing a choice: abandon their homes and livelihoods, or face the devastation of a predicted volcanic eruption in the coming weeks. The Nevado del Ruiz volcano, one of Colombia’s highest peaks, sits in a densely populated farming area and is infamous for claiming the lives
Continue Reading By STEVE PEOPLES and ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — As a new election season begins, the Republican Party is struggling to navigate the politics of abortion. Allies for leading presidential candidates concede that their hardline anti-abortion policies may be popular with the conservatives who decide primary elections, but they could ultimately alienate
Continue ReadingBy Laura Paddison, Nadine Schmidt and Inke Kappeler, CNN Germany’s final three nuclear power plants close their doors on Saturday, marking the end of the country’s nuclear era that has spanned more than six decades. Nuclear power has long been contentious in Germany. There are those who want to end reliance on a technology they
Continue Reading By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida was evacuated unharmed after an explosion at a western port on Saturday, NHK television reported, and a suspect was apprehended for allegedly throwing the explosive. Kishida was visiting the Saikazaki port in Wakayama prefecture to cheer his ruling party’s candidate in a
Continue Reading By DAN GREENSPAN Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Yan Gomes homered twice, Ian Happ had four hits and three RBIs, Cody Bellinger scored in his return to Los Angeles and the Chicago Cubs beat the Dodgers 8-2 on Friday night. The Cubs got three of their five homers in the eighth inning to pull
Continue Reading By BERNIE WILSON AP Sports Writer SAN DIEGO (AP) — Rowdy Tellez swatted two balls deep into the right field seats at Petco Park, which is a great sign for the Milwaukee Brewers. Tellez homered twice and drove in four runs and Christian Yelich also connected and had one of Milwaukee’s six doubles to lead
Continue ReadingBy Nick Paton Walsh, Natalie Gallón, Brice Lainé and Carlos Villalón, CNN Darién Gap, Colombia and Panama (CNN) — There is always a crowd, but it can feel very lonely. To get closer to freedom, they have risked it all. Masked robbers and rapists. Exhaustion, snakebites, broken ankles. Murder and hunger. Having to choose who
Continue Reading By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — With a bagpiper playing “The Bells of Dunblane” and a few runners looking on, families of those killed in the Boston Marathon bombing marked the 10th anniversary of the tragedy early Saturday by slowly walking together to the memorial sites near the finish line and laying wreaths.
Continue ReadingBy Jeremy Herb and Sean Lyngaas, CNN Jack Teixeira, wearing a green t-shirt and bright red gym shorts with his hands above his head, walked slowly backward toward the armed federal agents outside his home in North Dighton, Massachusetts, who took him into custody on charges of leaking classified documents. The carefully choreographed arrest of
Continue ReadingBy Emi Jozuka and Junko Ogura, CNN Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida was evacuated unharmed Saturday after an explosion at a venue where he was giving an outdoor speech. Video footage released by Japan’s public broadcaster NHK showed members of the public fleeing and a man being arrested following the explosion. The footage showed multiple
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By Raja Razek and Steve Almasy, CNN Former Seattle SuperSonics star Shawn Kemp is facing one count of first-degree assault in a shooting last month outside a mall in Tacoma, Washington, according to the Pierce County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office. Kemp, 53, was first arrested hours after the March 8 incident in what online court records
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