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CORRECTION: An earlier version of this article stated that CVUSD was going to distribute backpacks on Friday. Friday’s event will be the Twenty-Nine Palms Band of Mission Indians donating backpacks to the district The Twenty-Nine Palms Band of Mission Indians will donate 700 backpacks full of supplies to the The Coachella Valley Unified School District
Continue ReadingBEIRUT Lebanese security officials and the militant Hezbollah group say a truck belonging to Hezbollah overturned on a mountain road near Beirut and was followed by a shooting that left two people dead. Lebanese troops cordoned off the truck filled with large boxes in the Christian town of Kahaleh on the highway that links Beirut
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW SELIGMAN AP Sports Writer EVANSTON, Ill. (AP) — Northwestern athletic director Derrick Gragg criticized assistant football coaches and staff members for wearing shirts supporting fired coach Pat Fitzgerald at practice. Gragg called the shirts “inappropriate, offensive and tone deaf” given the hazing and abuse scandal engulfing the football program and other teams. Gragg
Continue ReadingBy BEN FINLEY Associated Press The U.S. government will settle a lawsuit with conservation groups and commit to releasing more endangered red wolves into North Carolina. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service had mostly stopped releasing captive-bred wolves in 2015. Eastern North Carolina is the only place in the world where they roam wild. The
Continue ReadingSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A lawmaker in the Bahamas has been charged with sexual assault and issuing death threats in a case involving a 35-year-old woman. Kirk Cornish said in a statement that the allegations are “totally false” and that he would prove his innocence. He was arrested on Wednesday and released on
Continue ReadingBy JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee is facing a lawsuit over a congressional redistricting map that carved up Democratic-leaning Nashville to help Republicans flip a seat in last year’s elections. In a federal lawsuit filed Wednesday, a variety of civil rights groups and voters say the redistricting tactic has violated the
Continue ReadingBy AUDREY MCAVOY and JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press KAHULUI, Hawaii (AP) — A wildfire tore through the heart of Maui on Wednesday with alarming speed and ferocity, destroying dozens of homes and businesses in a historic tourist town, killing at least six people and injuring at least two dozen others, and forcing panicked residents
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By Royston Jones, Christina Zdanowicz, AnneClaire Stapleton, CNN (CNN) — American Lindsay Shiver, accused of conspiring to kill her husband with two co-defendants in the Bahamas, was granted bail of $100,000 by a Bahamian Supreme Court justice on Wednesday. She will be outfitted with an electronic monitoring device and must comply with an 8 p.m.
Continue ReadingBy Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN New York (CNN) — Orange juice futures are hitting record highs because of bad weather and a nasty citrus disease. That could mean higher prices at the grocery store. In recent weeks, prices in the OJ futures market have topped $3 per pound. Around this time last year, prices were hovering
Continue ReadingBy BASSEM MROUE and KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian President Bashar Assad has slammed Turkey and blamed Ankara for the uptick in violence in his war-torn country. Assad also insisted on the withdrawal of Turkish forces from Syria. Assad spoke in an interview on Wednesday with Sky News Arabia. it was his
Continue ReadingBy OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Jesalyn Harper, the only full-time code enforcement officer for the small, agricultural city of Reedley in California’s Central Valley, was responding to a complaint about vehicles parked in the loading dock of a cold-storage warehouse when she noticed a foul smell and saw a garden
Continue ReadingBy OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Jesalyn Harper, the only full-time code enforcement officer for the small, agricultural city of Reedley in California’s Central Valley, was responding to a complaint about vehicles parked in the loading dock of a cold-storage warehouse when she noticed a foul smell and saw a garden
Continue ReadingBy HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer Robbie Robertson, The Band’s lead guitarist and songwriter who in such classics as “The Weight” and “Up on Cripple Creek” mined American music and folklore and helped reshape contemporary rock, died Wednesday at 80. Robertson died surrounded by family in Los Angeles “after a long illness,” publicist Ray Costa
Continue ReadingBy SEUNG MIN KIM and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Gun safety groups are joining together to endorse President Joe Biden in 2024, as the president continues to push for stricter gun laws as a major part of his political platform that was all but unthinkable for Democrats even a few years ago.
Continue Reading By Mark Morales and Jean Casarez, CNN (CNN) — A Suffolk County judge sided with prosecutors and ruled Gilgo Beach murders suspect Rex Heuermann must provide a DNA sample, according to a court ruling filed Wednesday. “The Court finds that contrary to the defendant’s contentions, there is probable cause to believe that the defendant committed
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW SELIGMAN AP Sports Writer EVANSTON, Ill. (AP) — Pat Fitzgerald’s presence was hard to miss even if he was nowhere near the field on Wednesday. Some Northwestern assistants and staff members paid tribute to the longtime coach and former Wildcats star linebacker who was fired last month amid a hazing scandal. They wore
Continue ReadingBy HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer Video review for double bounces and certain other rulings will be making its Grand Slam tennis debut when main-draw competition begins at the U.S. Open later this month. Players in singles, doubles and mixed doubles at Flushing Meadows will get three challenges per set for things such as whether
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By LINDSAY WHITEHURST and SAM METZ Associated Press PROVO, Utah (AP) — An armed Utah man accused of making violent threats against President Joe Biden was shot and killed by FBI agents hours before the president landed in the state Wednesday, authorities said. Special agents were trying to serve a warrant on the home of
Continue ReadingBy MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s president has dissolved the National Assembly, or lower house of parliament, a first step in the countdown to a general election by mid-November. This year there’s a twist, however, in the election timeline. A delay until the spring is possible if Pakistan’s election commission opts for
Continue ReadingBy SUDHIN THANAWALA Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A lawsuit accuses a Georgia doctor of using too much force and decapitating a woman’s baby after it became stuck during delivery. Attorneys for the baby’s mother and father said at a news conference in Atlanta that the suit was filed Wednesday. It accuses Dr. Tracey St.
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