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YUBA CITY, Calif. (AP) — Meet Percy, the police rabbit. Yes, that’s fur real. Some bunny — also known as Officer Ashley Carson — found a lost rabbit last year in the middle of Percy Avenue in Yuba City, California. Carson scurried back to the police station and handed the rabbit over to animal control,
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By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Federal regulators say railroads need to re-examine how they assemble their trains. The call comes after string of derailments in recent years that were partly caused by the way empty and loaded cars were mixed together with locomotives. Heavy cars at the back of a
Continue Reading By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press The family of a Native American woman who went missing from her home on the Navajo Nation pleaded with the man accused of assaulting her and taking her pickup truck, asking during a court hearing Friday that he tell them where he left Ella Mae Begay so they could
Continue Reading SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — The executive director for a Northern California police union who was charged with attempting to illegally import synthetic opioids from India and other countries has been fired from her job, officials said Friday. Joanne Marian Segovia, who was the executive director of the San Jose Police Officers’ Association, was arrested
Continue Reading By JULIE WATSON and LISA BAUMANN Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — California officials want federal disaster aid for the state’s salmon fishing industry, they said Friday following the closure of recreational and commercial king salmon fishing seasons along much of the West Coast due to near-record low numbers of the iconic fish returning to
Continue Reading By JULIE WATSON and LISA BAUMANN Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — California officials want federal disaster aid for the state’s salmon fishing industry, they said Friday following the closure of recreational and commercial king salmon fishing seasons along much of the West Coast due to near-record low numbers of the iconic fish returning to
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Sofía Benavides (CNN) — Investigadores de Rusia acusaron formalmente a Evan Gershkovich, periodista detenido de The Wall Street Journal, por espionaje, informaron este viernes los medios estatales rusos. También añadieron que él negó los cargos. “La investigación del FSB (Servicio Federal de Seguridad de Rusia) acusó a Gershkovich de espionaje en interés de su país.
Continue Reading Alejandra Ramos (CNN) — El médico forense del condado de Los Ángeles reveló los resultados de la autopsia Coolio más de seis meses después de que el rapero de “Fantastic Voyage” fuera encontrado inconsciente en una casa de Los Ángeles. El informe enumera los efectos del fentanilo, la heroína y la metanfetamina como la causa
Continue Reading By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Cannabis regulators have halted operations at several outdoor pot farms and processing facilities on a stretch of former fruit orchards in north-central Washington state after testing found high levels of chemicals related to a dangerous pesticide used decades ago. The sweeping action announced Thursday night by the
Continue Reading CRYSTAL BAY, Nev. (AP) — A Denver-based real estate firm has acquired the Cal Neva Resort & Casino at Lake Tahoe, a historic hotel-casino built along the California-Nevada line in 1926 and once owned by Frank Sinatra but has been shuttered for 10 years. McWhinney, which owns properties in a half-dozen states including Texas and
Continue ReadingBy Sam Fossum While China and Russia have strengthened ties since the Kremlin’s brutal invasion of Ukraine, the US has not seen evidence that China has provided systemic material support to the Kremlin as Russian President Vladimir Putin and his government look for avenues to evade Western sanctions and backfill its military, according to senior
Continue ReadingBy Chris Boyette and Brian Fung, CNN The State University System of Florida Board of Governors has banned the social media app TikTok, along with some other software, applications, and developers, from use on university-owned devices “due to the continued and increasing landscape of cyber threats.” In a memo sent to state university system presidents
Continue ReadingBryan Mena, CNN The latest monthly jobs report showed that US hiring slowed in March but remained robust, with gains in service-providing businesses like bars and restaurants, but weakness in construction and manufacturing. Leisure and hospitality fueled last month’s growth in payrolls, a trend that has held firm since the economy started its recovery from
Continue Reading By JOHN MARSHALL AP Sports Writer TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — Matias Maccelli charges across the blue line and stops so abruptly near the right circle that the defender skates right past. Without appearing to even glance back, he slips a pass between two defenders right on the tape of a trailing teammate. An athletic move,
Continue ReadingBy FRANK BAJAK Associated Press Award-winning Bolivian journalist Harold Olmos, who led Associated Press operations in Venezuela and Brazil, has died at age 78. Olmos fled his coup-convulsed homeland more than four decades ago. His gentlemanly manner belied a remarkable tenacity and he was a role model for AP journalists in South America. He had
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By SEAN MURPHY and HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press A Biden administration proposal to forbid outright bans on transgender athletes sparked outrage from conservative leaders while also angering trans rights activists who note schools could still prevent some athletes from participating on teams that align with their gender identity. The proposed rule, which still faces a
Continue Reading By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — An Iranian opposition activist who U.S. authorities said was the target of two thwarted kidnapping or murder plots urged a federal judge in New York on Friday to hand a tough prison sentence to a woman who unwittingly funded one of the planned attacks. Masih Alinejad,
Continue Reading By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — An Iranian opposition activist who U.S. authorities said was the target of two thwarted kidnapping or murder plots urged a federal judge in New York on Friday to hand a tough prison to a woman who unwittingly funded one of the planned attacks. Masih Alinejad, a
Continue Reading By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Palestinian militants carried out a pair of attacks on Friday, killing three people and wounding at least seven as tensions soared after days of fighting at Jerusalem’s most sensitive holy site. Earlier in the day, retaliatory Israeli airstrikes had hit Lebanon and the Gaza Strip, sparking fears
Continue ReadingBy KPTV Staff Click here for updates on this story NORTH PLAINS, Oregon (KPTV) — A local woman is collecting gently used shoes this weekend to help others in need. North Plains resident Valerie Webb is Mrs. Oregon America and an ambassador for the nonprofit Soles4Souls. The organization takes shoes that would otherwise go to
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