By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Riquna Williams, a veteran WNBA player and member of last year’s championship-winning Las Vegas Aces, has been barred from the team after her arrest on felony domestic violence charges involving a person authorities say is her spouse. A judge on Wednesday allowed Williams, 33, to be
Continue ReadingBy KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Riquna Williams, a veteran WNBA player and member of last year’s championship-winning Las Vegas Aces, has been barred from the team after her arrest on felony domestic violence charges involving a person authorities say is her spouse. A judge on Wednesday allowed Williams, 33, to be
Continue ReadingBy Web staff Click here for updates on this story FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP, New Jersey (WABC) — A New Jersey school bus monitor charged in connection with the death of a young student in a wheelchair was ordered released from custody with several conditions following a detention hearing Tuesday morning. Court documents allege 27-year-old Amanda Davila
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Pittsburgh Pirates reliever Angel Perdomo was suspended for three games and fined an undisclosed amount for intentionally throwing at the San Diego Padres’ Manny Machado. Major League Baseball on Wednesday announced the disciplinary action against Perdomo, who hit Machado in the back with a 98-mph fastball after giving up a home
Continue ReadingBy JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — The scientifically discredited practice of so-called conversion therapy, which aims to “convert” LGBTQ+ people to heterosexuality or traditional gender expectations, is now banned for minors in Michigan under legislation signed Wednesday by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. Michigan becomes the 22nd state to outlaw conversion therapy, which state
Continue ReadingSANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico’s motor vehicle division has lifted the suspension of driver’s licenses for more than 100,000 residents under new anti-poverty legislation. An agency overseeing taxation and motor vehicles announced the changes Wednesday. At least 23 other states have taken similar steps to end debt-based suspensions of driver’s licenses that can
Continue ReadingBy Web staff Click here for updates on this story NEW YORK, NY (WABC) — An EMT has been released from the hospital after being stabbed several times by a patient in an ambulance. Julia Fatum was met with cheers when she was wheeled out of Mount Sinai West on Wednesday. The 25-year-old had been
Continue ReadingBy BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer U.S. Facebook users have one more month to apply for their share of a $725 million privacy settlement that parent company Meta agreed to pay late last year. Meta is paying to settle a lawsuit alleging the world’s largest social media platform allowed millions of its users’ personal information
Continue ReadingBy BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer U.S. Facebook users have one more month to apply for their share of a $725 million privacy settlement that parent company Meta agreed to pay late last year. Meta is paying to settle a lawsuit alleging the world’s largest social media platform allowed millions of its users’ personal information
Continue ReadingBy Marnie Hunter, CNN (CNN) — It’s rare for travelers to hanker for airline food – until it’s in short supply on a 12-hour journey. Crew staffing a British Airways itinerary over the weekend from the Turks and Caicos Islands to London Heathrow were faced with a food shortage when the airline wasn’t able to
Continue ReadingBy MARIO LOBÃO and DIANE JEANTET Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — It was once Latin America’s largest landfill. Now, a decade after Rio de Janeiro closed it down and redoubled efforts to recover the surrounding expanse of highly polluted swamp, crabs, snails, fish and birds are once again populating the mangrove forest. Between
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By Rebekah Riess and Jared Formanek, CNN (CNN) — Three Marines who were found dead in a privately-owned vehicle parked outside a convenience store in Hampstead, North Carolina, on Sunday, died from carbon monoxide poisoning, according to a release from the Pender County Sheriff’s Office. The North Carolina Office of the Chief Medical Examiner on
Continue ReadingCNN By Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN Chief Medical Correspondent (CNN) — Bronny James, who on Monday suffered a cardiac arrest and was hospitalized, had a cardiac screening several months ago as part of a program for prospective NBA players, according to a source familiar with the matter. The screening included a transthoracic echocardiogram – which
Continue ReadingBy Web staff Click here for updates on this story CARSON, California (KCAL) — Hundreds of families are desperately searching for answers after the Lincoln Memorial Park cemetery in Carson suddenly closed it’s doors without notice, preventing them from visiting their loved ones for nearly a month now. Locals say that the gates were first
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL KUNZELMAN and LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A high school student who stormed the U.S. Capitol, assaulted a police officer and sat in a Senate floor chair reserved for the vice president was sentenced on Wednesday to one year in prison. Georgia resident Bruno Joseph Cua was 18 when he attacked
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — The Securities and Exchange Commission has adopted rules to require public companies to disclose within four days all cybersecurity breaches that could affect their bottom lines. Delays will be permitted if immediate disclosure poses serious national security or public safety risks. The new rules, passed by a 3-2 vote on Wednesday, also
Continue ReadingBy BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Republican Daniel Cameron says he would move quickly as Kentucky’s governor to revive a push to require some able-bodied adults to work in exchange for Medicaid health coverage. Cameron is challenging Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear this year. If he succeeds, Cameron says his administration would seek
Continue ReadingBy LARRY NEUMEISTER and JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A judge is weighing whether to revoke Sam Bankman-Fried ‘s bail after prosecutors said Wednesday that the FTX founder used the news media to harass a key witness against him and should be locked up until trial. Judge Lewis A. Kaplan didn’t immediately
Continue ReadingBy LARRY NEUMEISTER and JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A judge is weighing whether to revoke Sam Bankman-Fried ‘s bail after prosecutors said Wednesday that the FTX founder used the news media to harass a key witness against him and should be locked up until trial. Judge Lewis A. Kaplan didn’t immediately
Continue ReadingBy Web staff Click here for updates on this story LOS ANGELES (KCAL) — Two months ago no one living in an apartment complex along East Hollywood’s North Serrano Avenue would’ve expected they’d have to deal with a naked man roaming around the hallways outside of their units. “He just roams around our building to
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