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By Celina Tebor and Christina Maxouris, CNN (CNN) — A New York gynecologist who was accused by a woman of secretly using his own sperm to impregnate multiple patients died in an aircraft crash Sunday. Morris Wortman, 72, of Rochester, New York, died when the experimental aircraft he was a passenger in crashed into a
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By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer JetBlue is trying to improve its chances of buying Spirit Airlines over government objections. On Thursday, JetBlue announced it had agreed to sell Spirit’s holdings at New York’s LaGuardia Airport to Frontier Airlines. The sale, however, is conditioned on JetBlue being able to complete its proposed $3.8 billion purchase
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SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A man was acquitted Thursday of intentionally setting a fire that spread over 36 square miles (93 square kilometers) and burned more than a dozen cabins in remote Southern California canyons five years ago. After a monthlong trial, a jury deliberated for a little more than a day before finding
Continue Reading By Madeline Holcombe, CNN (CNN) — Mars is making its live streaming debut, and the show will reveal the red planet in a whole new light. On Friday, the European Space Agency is set to stream on YouTube an hour of the first live images directly from Mars, according to statement from the agency. The
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An 18-year-old man who participated in a vehicle-to-vehicle shooting in Thermal pleaded guilty to felony charges and was immediately sentenced to three years of formal probation. Landon Harvey Torres of Thermal pleaded guilty Wednesday at the Larson Justice Center to four felony counts of attempted murder and one felony count each of shooting at a
Continue Reading By CLIFF BRUNT AP Sports Writer OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Jordy Bahl made the most of an opportunity she missed last year. The sophomore threw a five-hitter with 11 strikeouts to help two-time defending national champion Oklahoma defeat Stanford 2-0 Thursday in its Women’s College World Series opener. Bahl was Oklahoma’s ace last season, but
Continue Reading By JACK THOMPSON Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Corbin Carroll had a two-out, two-run single in the ninth inning and the Arizona Diamondbacks beat the Colorado Rockies 6-5 on Thursday to tie the idle Los Angeles Dodgers for a share of the NL West lead. Gabriel Moreno walked with one out against Pierce Johnson (0-2),
Continue ReadingBy Madeline Holcombe, CNN (CNN) — The US Food and Drug Administration has finalized guidance on the maximum amount of inorganic arsenic that can be in apple juice. The announcement that came Thursday reconfirmed the level at 10 parts per billion that the agency first proposed in 2013. The goal of the guidance is to
Continue ReadingCNN By Andrew Kaczynski, CNN (CNN) — Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis is attacking former President Donald Trump for “turning the country over to [Dr. Anthony] Fauci in March 2020” but DeSantis was praising the chief public health official at the same time in previously unreported quotes, saying Fauci was “really, really good and really,
Continue Reading By TRÂN NGUYỄN Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A California bill that would force Big Tech companies to pay media outlets for posting and using their news content cleared another critical hurdle Thursday. The measure is among hundreds of bills that passed in the state Senate and Assembly this week before Friday — the
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Police arrest a suspect in a deadly hit-and-run crash that occurred over a year ago in Palm Springs. On Friday, May 27, San Jacinto resident Jesse Fleury, 39, was struck and killed on E Palm Canyon Drive near S Broadmoor Drive. Police said the driver fled the scene in a red Porsche 911, which investigators
Continue Reading By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America LEXINGTON, Miss. (AP) — There are 32 school districts in Mississippi still under federal desegregation orders, the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division’s assistant attorney general said Thursday. Enforcing the open desegregation orders fit into a broader body of civil rights work launched in Mississippi that is
Continue Reading By Chris Boyette, CNN (CNN) — Police in Austin, Texas, said a man contacted them and admitted to killing two people, which led authorities to investigate his possible involvement in up to 10 other killings. Raul Meza Jr., 62, called police on May 24 and confessed to killing his 80-year-old roommate, Jesse Fraga, and implicated
Continue ReadingBy Hannah Rabinowitz and Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — An Army veteran was sentenced to three years in prison Thursday after being convicted of seditious conspiracy in connection with the Oath Keepers’ sprawling plot to stop the certification of Joe Biden’s 2020 victory, which culminated in the January 6, 2021, riot at the US Capitol.
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Air quality around the Coachella Valley as of 3 p.m. was ‘good’. Still, a Windblown Dust Advisory is in effect through 6 a.m. Friday as winds strengthen again this evening. Credit: MGN Image Id: 581219 Gusty winds will be present once again tonight, but weaker than yesterday and for a shorter period of time. Winds
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Alexandra Ferguson Washington (CNN) — Tanto el Senado como la Cámara de Representantes aprobaron un proyecto de ley para bloquear el programa de condonación de préstamos estudiantiles del presidente Joe Biden, que promete cancelar hasta US$ 20.000 de deuda a millones de prestatarios, pero que ha sido bloqueado por los tribunales. El proyecto de ley
Continue Reading By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — More lengthy delays could be in store for Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft, which is designed to ferry astronauts to and from the International Space Station and compete with SpaceX’s Crew Dragon. Boeing had been working toward a late July launch of the first crewed Starliner test flight. But “we did
Continue ReadingBy Samantha Delouya and Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN (CNN) — Shares of Lululemon jumped after the market closed on Thursday, buoyed by stronger than anticipated quarterly results reflecting a jump in sales in China and beyond. The athleisure retailer said its net revenue rose by 24% to $2 billion between the first quarter of 2022 and
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By TRÂN NGUYỄN, ADAM BEAM and SOPHIE AUSTIN SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California lawmakers have advanced more than a dozen bills aiming to address the fentanyl crisis, including some that would impose harsher prison sentences for dealers, ahead of a critical deadline this week. Legislators in the Assembly and Senate debated measures on Wednesday as
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