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CARSON, Calif. (AP) — A Southern California police officer who was a hero of the 2017 Las Vegas mass shooting died Wednesday when his motorcycle was hit by a car on a Los Angeles-area highway, authorities said. Manhattan Beach Police Officer Chad Swanson was likely heading to work when the collision happened shortly after 5
Continue ReadingBy STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minnesota county has agreed to pay a $12.2 million settlement to a man who was jailed on suspicion of drunken driving but ended up losing both his hands — allegedly due to inaction of officials in the county jail. Terrance Dwayne Winborn’s attorneys say he spent
Continue ReadingHOLYOKE, Mass. (AP) — Authorities say the baby of a pregnant woman who was shot in the western Massachusetts city of Holyoke following a fight on a downtown street was delivered at a hospital and died. The Hampden District Attorney’s Office says the woman, who was not involved in the fight, was shot Wednesday while
Continue ReadingBy TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Florida prosecutors have charged rapper YNW Melly with witness tampering ahead of his retrial on double murder charges. Broward County prosecutors say in documents released Wednesday that the rapper used fellow members of the Blood street gang to ensure a key witness did not testify
Continue ReadingBy Chris Isidore and Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN New York (CNN) — General Motors and Ford are laying off almost 900 additional workers between them, blaming the expansion of the strike announced by the United Auto Workers union at those companies on Friday. General Motors said it was laying off 164 workers at stamping plants in
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Rocío Muñoz-Ledo (CNN) — No hay nada particularmente nuevo en el hardware del Pixel 8, el smartphone de última generación de Google. Es por eso que la compañía ha promocionado con fuerza su nuevo software que incorpora tecnología de inteligencia artificial y que, según la empresa, fue creado específicamente para el “primer teléfono de la
Continue ReadingBy Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — It’s been a fantastic week for fans of funny animal photos. Fat Bear Week is underway, with public voting starting Wednesday after the event was nearly a casualty of a US government shutdown, and now the UK-based Comedy Wildlife Photo Awards has revealed its 2023 shortlist. The public’s help
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN and ALICIA FERNÁNDEZ Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is leading a U.S. delegation to Mexico on Wednesday to discuss shared security issues, including trafficking of the synthetic opioid fentanyl, arms trafficking and soaring migration. The latest round of the High-Level Security Dialogue brings together Blinken,
Continue ReadingBy CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press/Report for America PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon officials have identified the victims who lost their lives after a small plane precipitously dropped out of the sky and crashed through the roof of a home on Tuesday. Police in Newberg, a small city about 25 miles southwest of Portland, said 20-year-old
Continue ReadingBy JOSH DUBOW AP Pro Football Writer SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — When the San Francisco 49ers dealt a bevy of draft picks to Carolina last October for Christian McCaffrey, some skeptics asked whether they overpaid for a running back in a passing league. Nearly 12 months later, coach Kyle Shanahan can’t even imagine what
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Our dew points today are fairly similar to yesterday, albeit slightly lower. Our relative humidity levels are also on their way down with most valley cities seeing values below 15%. While our humidity levels remain low, there remains an elevated risk for fire weather conditions across the Southland. Winds today on the valley floor are
Continue ReadingBy KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal judge has rejected an adult entertainment group’s lawsuit against a Louisiana law requiring sexually explicit websites to verify the ages of their viewers. The law passed in 2022 subjects such websites to damage lawsuits and state civil penalties as high as $5,000 a day.
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By VALERIE GONZALEZ Associated Press McALLEN, Texas (AP) — The Biden administration announced it waived 26 federal laws in South Texas to allow border wall construction on Wednesday, marking the administration’s first use of a sweeping executive power employed often during the Trump presidency. The Department of Homeland Security posted the announcement on the U.S.
Continue ReadingBy VALERIE GONZALEZ Associated Press McALLEN, Texas (AP) — The Biden administration announced it waived 26 federal laws in South Texas to allow border wall construction on Wednesday, marking the administration’s first use of a sweeping executive power employed often during the Trump presidency. The Department of Homeland Security posted the announcement on the U.S.
Continue Reading Luis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN Español) — El Inter Miami visita este miércoles al Chicago Fire en partido correspondiente de la Major League Soccer (MLS). Y casi probablemente Lionel Messi volverá a ausentarse del equipo. El astro argentino no disputa un partido de fútbol desde el 20 de septiembre, cuando fue reemplazada en el minuto
Continue ReadingBy Allison Morrow, CNN New York (CNN) — In their opening statements to a newly sworn-in jury in Manhattan federal court on Wednesday, lawyers laid out previews of their cases, offering two divergent narratives for the collapse of Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto empire. Assistant US Attorney Thane Rehn painted a picture of a villainous, greedy businessman
Continue Reading Juan Pablo Elverdin (CNN Español) –La FIFA anunció este miércoles que el Mundial 2030 se disputará en seis países de tres continentes. Uruguay, Argentina y Paraguay albergarán tres partidos y el resto del torneo se jugará en España, Portugal y Marruecos. Luego de que los dirigentes de la Conmebol anunciaran que los tres primeros partidos
Continue ReadingBALTIMORE (AP) — The Orioles may be Big Shots this year, but they’ll try to stay out of the Piano Man’s way this weekend. Baltimore announced that Game 1 of the AL Division Series at Camden Yards is scheduled for just after 1 p.m. Saturday. Then it will be time for the Orioles and Texas
Continue Reading Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Se avecina un cambio drástico en EE.UU., ya que un fuerte frente frío traerá la primera dosis de otoño el fin de semana y hará que las temperaturas desciendan hasta 19°C. El enfriamiento es una buena noticia para millones de personas del sur que han soportado un verano boreal brutalmente caluroso
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By Jason Hanna and Morayo Ogunbayo, CNN (CNN) — An 11-year-old youth football player has been arrested on suspicion of shooting and wounding two fellow players at practice in Florida on Monday night, authorities said. The child shot two 13-year-olds at a recreation complex in Apopka, just outside Orlando, after a fight between them during
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