By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street rose Tuesday to take a bit of the edge off another losing month. The S&P 500 gained 26.98, or 0.6%, to 4,193.80, a day after clawing back a bigger chunk of its loss for October. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 123.91, or
Continue ReadingBy BRIAN SLODYSKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Mike Johnson does not typically mention one aspect of his work before being elected to Congress. He was once chosen to be the dean of a small Baptist law school. But the school ultimately collapsed without enrolling students or opening its doors. The episode is a reminder
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A 41-year-old man was convicted again today of murder and other felony charges in connection to the financially motivated killing of a Palm Springs retiree in 2008. Daniel Garcia was convicted of one felony count each of murder, conspiracy to commit a crime, using the personal identity information of another to obtain credit, and using
Continue ReadingBy Jonathan Greco Click here for updates on this story OKLAHOMA COUNTY, Oklahoma (KOCO) — Oklahoma County deputies arrested a 29-year-old man who was found passed out in his car at a green light with his child in the back seat over the weekend. The sheriff’s office released body camera video of the arrest, showing
Continue ReadingMOSCOW (AP) — Russian state agency Tass says a Russian court has ordered a Russian-American journalist to remain in jail ahead of trial rather than be released to house arrest. Alsu Kurmasheva, an editor for the U.S. government-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s Tatar-Bashkir service, was taken into custody on Oct. 18. She faces charges of
Continue ReadingBy JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Internal emails shown at Donald Trump’s civil fraud trial reveal that when he tried to buy the Buffalo Bills in 2014, investment bankers doubted the NFL would allow it but encouraged him to stay in the running. The internal emails were aired in court on Tuesday.
Continue ReadingBy Jonathan Greco Click here for updates on this story OKLAHOMA CITY (KOCO) — Police are investigating after shots were fired early Tuesday morning into a northwest Oklahoma City home. The incident happened shortly before 6 a.m. in a neighborhood on Western Avenue between Hefner and Britton roads. Police told KOCO 5 that the drive-by
Continue ReadingBy Meg Tirrell, CNN (CNN) — When the first gene therapy for the rare, debilitating disease Duchenne muscular dystrophy was conditionally approved earlier this year, it was hailed as a seminal moment for patients and their families — an opportunity to try to slow the progression of a disease that robs kids of their ability
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By MARTHA BELLISLE Associated Press TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — Five weeks into the trial against three Tacoma, Washington, police officers charged in the 2020 death of Manny Ellis and prosecutors had to convince the judge to let their breathing expert tell the jury what happens to a person who is held face down with pressure
Continue ReadingBy LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The second person to receive a transplanted heart from a pig has died, nearly six weeks after the highly experimental surgery, his Maryland doctors announced Tuesday. Lawrence Faucette, 58, was dying from heart failure and ineligible for a traditional heart transplant when he received the genetically
Continue ReadingVIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) — A power company’s plans for an enormous offshore wind farm off Virginia’s southeast coast have received key federal approval. Dominion Energy got what’s called a favorable “record of decision” on Tuesday from the federal regulators. They had reviewed the project’s potential impact on the environment, among other factors. Dominion is
Continue ReadingBy PAT GRAHAM AP Sports Writer Deion Sanders wants someone to reimburse his team for the items that went missing from the Colorado locker room while the Buffaloes played No. 20 UCLA at the Rose Bowl over the weekend. His suggestion? The NCAA. Maybe the Rose Bowl, too. “That don’t make no sense when you’re
Continue ReadingBy PAT GRAHAM AP Sports Writer Deion Sanders wants someone to reimburse his team for the items that went missing from the Colorado locker room while the Buffaloes played No. 20 UCLA at the Rose Bowl over the weekend. His suggestion? The NCAA. Maybe the Rose Bowl, too. “That don’t make no sense when you’re
Continue ReadingBy NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Lawyers sparred Tuesday over former President Donald Trump’s relationship with the mob that attacked the Capitol, an important point in a Colorado lawsuit seeking to bar him from the 2024 ballot under the rarely used “insurrection” clause of the Constitution. Still to come: arguments over whether the
Continue ReadingBy Lucy Nelson Click here for updates on this story CACHE COUNTY, Utah (KSTU) — A Cache County man uses his skills as a mechanic to give a special Christmas gift to some families in his community. Since 2016, Jason Hansen has been repairing used cars to give them to families who need an updated
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By Bob Evans Click here for updates on this story BOUNTIFUL, Utah (KSTU) — A beloved World War II veteran and Utah resident is being remembered by family and friends as a man who loved his country after his recent death. Jury Toone of Bountiful died just before his 99 birthday while being surrounded by
Continue ReadingRALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — More elevator riders in North Carolina soon won’t see the eyes of the state labor commissioner staring back at them. Commissioner Josh Dobson had followed longtime predecessor Cherie Berry’s practice of printing his photo onto elevator inspection certificates. But Dobson told WRAL-TV his photo is being eliminated to make way for
Continue ReadingOpinion by Celia Wexler (CNN) — The Catholic Church’s Synod on Synodality, covered by major media outlets across the globe, ended on October 29 without much to show for itself. Defined by the church as a meeting of bishops, the synod included for the first time a sprinkling of lay people to attend, including 54 women,
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