The Coachella Valley Firebirds were not Calder Cup champions this year but they continue to earn recognition for their incredible inaugural season. The latest honor: the team is named 2022-23 recipient of the American Hockey League President’s Award for Team of the Year. President’s Awards are given to an American Hockey League team and/or player
Continue ReadingBy JILL COLVIN and BRIAN SLODYSKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump’s mounting legal woes are burning through cash, leading his campaign to request a refund from a supportive super PAC and launch a new legal defense fund to help cover costs. His political action committee, Save America, is expected to disclose
Continue ReadingBy ANWARULLAH KHAN and RIAZ KHAN Associated Press KHAR, Pakistan (AP) — The Islamic State group on Monday claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing in Pakistan that killed at least 54 people including five children at a pro-Taliban cleric’s rally in one of the worst attacks in the country in recent years. IS, known as
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By Leo Stallworth Click here for updates on this story OXNARD, California (KABC) — A Southern California couple married for 66 years recently renewed their vows in an unexpected place and they wouldn’t have had it any other way. Jesse Cirino and his wife Marylou met at the University of Arizona and the rest is
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By Leticia Juarez Click here for updates on this story GLENDALE, California (KABC) — A herd of unlikely heroes will be helping Glendale clear the dried-up hillsides this summer. They may not look like it, but Glendale’s 300 newest goats are ready for fire season. All that dried-up vegetation that grew on hillsides after this
Continue ReadingBy Leticia Juarez and ABC7.com staff Click here for updates on this story HOLLYWOOD, California (KABC) — A security guard was beaten to death in an altercation outside a popular nightclub in Hollywood, prompting a search for up to 11 suspects, police said. The incident happened around 2 a.m. Sunday outside the Dragonfly club near
Continue ReadingBY DREW COSTLEY and ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — A hellish and historic 31-day run of temperatures cracking 110 degrees (43 degrees Celsius) in Phoenix appeared headed for a welcome end on Monday, as monsoon rains moved through the region from Mexico. The relief wasn’t all that great — the day’s highs were
Continue ReadingMUNCIE, Ind. (AP) — Police say a shooting that killed one person and wounded 17 others early Sunday in a central Indiana city unfolded at a block party attended by hundreds of revelers as police were calling the venue’s owner to shut down the gathering. Muncie Police Chief Nathan Sloan said Monday that no arrests
Continue ReadingBy SAM MEDNICK Associated Press NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — Neighboring nations are levying economic sanctions over a coup last week that toppled one of the West’s last democratic partners against West African extremists, and families in one of the world’s poorest nations could pay the price. In the capital of Niger, many people live in
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By Allison Morrow, CNN New York (CNN) — The Securities and Exchange Commission asked Coinbase to halt trading on all cryptocurrencies except for bitcoin before it sued the company in June, Coinbase’s chief executive told the Financial Times. The SEC’s request left Coinbase, America’s largest crypto exchange, with no choice but to take the matter
Continue ReadingBy KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — The discovery of a whale carcass in Hong Kong waters Monday sparked an outpouring of grief on social media, with many comments blaming the mammal’s death on sightseers. Many residents speculated that the dead mammal was the same whale that had been attracting groups of sightseers
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Southern California tends to experience its worst air quality over the summer and also during wildfire season. During a morning workout in Palm Springs, coaches decided to run light walk-through drills instead of a full on field work with the Palm Springs High School football team due to air quality. Viewers are sending in images that show
Continue ReadingSofía Benavides (CNN Español) — El presidente de El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, y el productor de la película “Sound of Freedom”, Eduardo Verástegui, firmaron un convenio para unificar esfuerzos y combatir la explotación infantil, así como la rehabilitación de víctimas de ese delito, informaron en una declaración ante la prensa tras una reunión. El mandatario
Continue ReadingBy SCOTT McFETRIDGE Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Another day, another billion dollar lottery jackpot. At least, that’s how it seems ahead of Tuesday night’s Mega Millions drawing for an estimated $1.05 billion top prize. It’s a huge sum of money, but such giant jackpots have become far more common, with five prizes
Continue ReadingBy SCOTT McFETRIDGE Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Another day, another billion dollar lottery jackpot. At least, that’s how it seems ahead of Tuesday night’s Mega Millions drawing for an estimated $1.05 billion top prize. It’s a huge sum of money, but such giant jackpots have become far more common, with five prizes
Continue ReadingBy SEAN MURPHY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma House has voted to override Gov. Kevin Stitt’s veto of a bill to extend existing agreements with Native American tribes on the sale of tobacco for another year. As a result, any tribe with an existing agreement on tobacco sales can opt to extend
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By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN (CNN) — Before Alix Dorsainvil was kidnapped with her child in Haiti, the American nurse described Haitians as a “resilient people” who are “full of joy and life and love.” Her comments came in a video on the website of El Roi Haiti, the Christian humanitarian aid organization for which she
Continue ReadingBy ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — The property manager of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate made his first court appearance on Monday on charges in the classified documents case against the former president but did not enter a plea because he has not found a Florida-based attorney to represent
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Paul Reubens, the actor and comedian whose character Pee-wee Herman became a cultural phenomenon through films and TV shows, has died. He was 70. Reubens died Sunday night after a six-year struggle with cancer that he did not make public, his publicist said in a
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Paul Reubens, the actor and comedian whose character Pee-wee Herman became a cultural phenomenon through films and TV shows, has died. He was 70. Reubens died Sunday night after a six-year struggle with cancer that he did not make public, his publicist said in a
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