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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The family of a transgender volleyball player has added a South Florida school district as a defendant in a federal lawsuit that challenges a 2021 state law banning transgender girls from playing on female sports teams. Attorneys for the family filed an amended complaint Thursday that adds the Broward School
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The First Baptist Church of Indio opened its doors almost 100 years ago. One of the church members says they watched churches open and close over the years. Before Jan. 18, 1924, church members would meet at various members’ homes. In the Spring of 1924, Reverend Jones combined his congregation with the Community Methodist church
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court agreed Friday to review lower-court rulings that make it harder for cities in the western United States to prevent people from sleeping on the streets when there aren’t enough beds in homeless shelters. The justices will hear an appeal from the city of Grants Pass, in southwest Oregon, that
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El Buró de Supervisores del Condado de Riverside aprobó una propuesta para destinar $72 mil dólares para centros de cuidado infantil para el cuarto distrito al que pertenece el Valle de Coachella, ya que dichos centros se han visto afectados por varios factores como la pandemia del COVID-19 y la inflación. La institución “First 5
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En la corte de Indio ya inició la selección del jurado de un juicio que enfrentará un sujeto acusado de matar a balazos a un hombre al que luego metió a un carro y lo incendio en julio del 2022 en Thermal. Según la investigación Héctor Ruiz estaba celoso porque el hoy occiso Jesús Hernandez
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En la corte de Indio el juez sentencio dos años en libertad probatoria a Stephen Cunninham que se metió a la casa de su vecino ubicada cerca de las calles Magnesia Falls y Deep Canyon en Palm Desert en agosto del 2022 mientras le gritaba a la mujer que saliera o que tumbaría la puerta,
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El Distrito del Cuidado de la Salud del Desierto informo que se enfocará en tres prioridades como parte de su plan estratégico para los próximos dos años con la finalidad de brindar acceso al cuidado de salud general, acceso a los servicios de salud mental y los impactos de la mala calidad del aire y
Continue ReadingBy LOUIS PATRICK OKAMBA Associated Press BRAZZAVILLE, Republic of Congo (AP) — The United Nations says widespread floods in the Republic of Congo have pushed hundreds of thousands of people to be in urgent need of assistance. Unusually heavy rainfall has caused nine of the countries 12 departments to be affected with floods damaging health
Continue ReadingSALEM, Oregon (AP) — Oregon’s Supreme Court is keeping former President Donald Trump on the primary ballot in that state. The court on Friday wouldn’t take up a lawsuit seeking to disqualify Trump under a rarely used constitutional provision prohibiting those who “engaged in insurrection” from holding office. The state court said it will wait
Continue ReadingBy ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Elmore Nickleberry, a longtime Memphis sanitation worker who participated in the pivotal 1968 strike that brought the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to the city where the civil rights leader was killed, has died at age 92. An obituary by R.S. Lewis and Sons Funeral Home
Continue ReadingHARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A former Pennsylvania defense attorney who used to work as a county prosecutor has been sentenced to jail for preying on vulnerable clients for sex. The attorney general’s office says that between 2018 and 2022, Corey Kolcharno demanded sexual acts or materials in exchange for providing legal work. Prosecutors say he
Continue ReadingBy Rob Kuznia, Scott Bronstein and Donie O’Sullivan, CNN (CNN) — When Bob Bartelsmeyer accepted the job as the elections director of a sprawling rural county in Arizona last spring, it seemed like the perfect move. It was a step up professionally in a place where the Trumpian values of the community matched his own.
Continue ReadingCNN By Rob Kuznia, Scott Bronstein and Donie O’Sullivan, CNN (CNN) — When Bob Bartelsmeyer accepted the job as the elections director of a sprawling rural county in Arizona last spring, it seemed like the perfect move. It was a step up professionally in a place where the Trumpian values of the community matched his
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN BARRY AP Fashion Writer MILAN (AP) — Hot off the Taylor Swift’s red-carpet triumph for Gucci in glittering green, the Italian brand’s creative director Sabato De Sarno plunged into his menswear debut on the first day of Milan Fashion Week with somewhat shimmery, slightly subversive classics. De Sarno’s second runway collection since being
Continue ReadingBy Nicole Goodkind, CNN New York (CNN) — Citigroup will lay off 20,000 employees over the next two years, CFO Mark Mason said Friday. The reduction comes after the company reported a $1.8 billion net loss for the fourth quarter of 2023, its worst quarter in 15 years. The bank expects the reduction in headcount
Continue ReadingSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A well-known former legislator in Puerto Rico who is popular with conservatives has been found guilty of federal charges related to corruption. María Milagros “Tata” Charbonier was indicted in 2020 on charges including conspiracy and money laundering involving federally funded programs. She also was charged with obstruction of justice,
Continue ReadingBy KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The biggest banks in the country posted strong profits last year, helped by higher interest rates and a strong economy, despite having to deal with the lingering industry costs of last year’s banking crisis that caused the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank.
Continue ReadingBy Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — The Oregon Supreme Court on Friday declined to hear a bid to remove former President Donald Trump from the 2024 ballot based on the 14th Amendment’s “insurrectionist ban,” saying it’s waiting for the US Supreme Court to rule on the issue. The ruling comes after Colorado and Maine kicked
Continue ReadingBy LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer “Oppenheimer” and “Barbie” will face off at yet another awards ceremony this season, at the Producers Guild Awards where they were among the 10 films nominated for the top prize. The Producers Guild of America announced its nominations for the coveted Darryl F. Zanuck Award, its equivalent of the
Continue ReadingBy CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Federal prosecutors said Friday that they will seek the death penalty against a white supremacist who killed 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket. Payton Gendron, 20, is already serving a sentence of life in prison with no chance of parole after he pleaded guilty to
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