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By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Monthly health insurance premiums for roughly 1.7 million people in California will go up an average of 9.6% next year — the largest increase in five years — but state officials said many consumers won’t feel those hikes because taxpayers will pay for them. The federal
Continue ReadingBy LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A gynecologist who sexually abused vulnerable and trusting patients for over two decades at prestigious New York hospitals cried before he was sentenced Tuesday to 20 years in prison by a federal judge who called his crimes unprecedented. The sentence for Robert Hadden, 64, was a
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday vacated the military conviction of Bowe Bergdahl, a former U.S. Army soldier who pleaded guilty to desertion after he left his post and was captured in Afghanistan and tortured by the Taliban. The ruling from U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton
Continue ReadingBy Giri Viswanathan, CNN (CNN) — From eczema to hay fever, kids with allergic conditions might be on track to develop others down the road, a new study finds. The study, published in the journal Pediatrics, looked at the electronic medical records of nearly 220,000 children in the US who were screened between 1999 and
Continue ReadingGREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — Prosecutors have filed charges against the driver of a minivan that crashed into a building in Wisconsin. The crash toppled much of its brick facade and left much of its roof sagging precariously. The Brown County District Attorney’s office charged the 29-year-old Green Bay woman Tuesday with reckless driving, bail
Continue ReadingPARIS (AP) — Ensconced in a glass cage lined with bamboo shoots, the first panda ever born in France bid ‘’adieu’’ to the French zoo where it grew up and set off Tuesday for its new home in China. Named Yuan Meng, the 120-kilogram (264-pound) panda peered out of the cage as staff at the
Continue ReadingHONOLULU (AP) — A boat that washed ashore in Hawaii last week has been identified as belonging to a California mariner who ran into trouble while sailing from San Diego to Guadalupe, Mexico, seven months ago. The U.S. Coast Guard confirmed the owner of the boat sent a distress call on Dec. 12, 2022, KHON-TV
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Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — El registro a la casa de Rex Heuermann en Long Island concluyó después de que los investigadores encontraran “muchas pruebas” en relación con los asesinatos en serie de Gilgo Beach, dijo este martes el fiscal de distrito del condado Suffolk, Ray Tierney. “Prácticamente hemos terminado con la búsqueda”, dijo Tierney a
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A relentless ridge of high pressure is not ready to give up on the Desert Southwest just yet. The dome of hot air will continue to deliver above-normal temperatures for the remainder of the week. The clockwise flow of the high pressure is feeding moisture from the southeast into Southern California. We’ve been feeling the
Continue ReadingBy Steve Contorno and Kit Maher, CNN (CNN) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is making additional cuts to his presidential campaign staff, two senior campaign officials told CNN, shrinking his payroll by more than a third as he continues to reboot his struggling White House bid. The cuts come after the Republican candidate promised to
Continue ReadingALBANY, Ga. (AP) — A man who has been jailed in Georgia for 10 years awaiting trial for a 2013 drive-by shooting that killed two people and injured others will have to keep waiting for a verdict. A Dougherty County jury was dismissed Monday after being unable to reach a verdict in Maurice Jimmerson’s long-delayed
Continue ReadingBy JACK DURA Associated Press Three more men charged in connection with an alleged international fentanyl ring have been sentenced this month to decades in federal prison. A federal judge in North Dakota sentenced Daniel Vivas Ceron to 27 years in prison, Jason Berry to 24 years in prison and Xuan Nguyen to 22 years
Continue ReadingBy PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — In the final months of the Trump administration, a new plan to seal off the United States’ southern border started gaining steam: a floating water barrier to discourage migrants from trying to cross from Mexico. The idea never materialized. But three years later, Texas Republican
Continue ReadingBy PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — In the final months of the Trump administration, a new plan to seal off the United States’ southern border started gaining steam: a floating water barrier to discourage migrants from trying to cross from Mexico. The idea never materialized. But three years later, Texas Republican
Continue ReadingBy ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — A government watchdog group is asking federal regulators to investigate a $500,000 contribution to a super PAC backing Miami Mayor Francis Suarez’s presidential bid by a shop selling artificial flowers. The nonpartisan group Campaign Legal Center says it filed the complaint with the Federal Election Commission
Continue ReadingBy Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter (CNN) — Conservative legal activist Leonard Leo is refusing to provide Democratic lawmakers with information regarding his interactions with Justice Samuel Alito, who attended a luxury fishing trip with him in 2008 and took a ride on a private jet owned by a conservative hedge fund manager.
Continue ReadingBy LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A Colorado businessman convicted of fraudulently siphoning hundreds of thousands of dollars from an online fundraiser to build a wall along the U.S. southern border has been sentenced to five years and three months in prison. Timothy Shea was sentenced Tuesday in Manhattan federal court after
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The first affordable housing project in Palm Springs in more than a decade is nearing completion, but not without challenges. City leaders Monday approved millions more in funding to address cost overruns and supply chain issues plaguing the construction of The Monarch Apartment Homes. City council unanimously approved an additional $2.2 million, bringing the total
Continue ReadingBy JANIE HAR Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The former college student charged with murder in the stabbing deaths of two people and attempted murder of a third in a Northern California university town has not showered in the nearly three months he’s been in jail, goes days without eating and believes he will
Continue ReadingBy SCHUYLER DIXON AP Pro Football Writer There’s a new No. 1 on the to-do list at training camp as the Dallas Cowboys once again start their pursuit of the playoff breakthrough that has eluded them for 27 years. Owner/general manager Jerry Jones and company did manage to scratch one thing off the list Tuesday.
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