FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — Jaedon LeDee scored 15 of his 22 points in the first half and No. 19 San Diego State routed Fresno State 73-41 on Saturday night. San Diego State (21-7, 10-5 Mountain West Conference), which scored a season low 63 points in a five-point loss at Utah State, has won three of
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Change is in store for Xavier College Preparatory High School The high school has announced their new principal, Jeff Howard is set to begin work next month. School officials say he comes from Denver, Colorado where he served as principal at a Christian high school there. He also has previously worked in other roles teaching English and
Continue ReadingBy JOSH DUBOW AP Sports Writer MORAGA, Calif. (AP) — Mitchell Saxen scored 20 points and No. 18 Saint Mary’s won its 15th straight game to wrap up at least a share of the West Coast Conference regular-season title with a 88-62 victory over San Diego on Saturday night. The Gaels (23-6, 14-0) have the
Continue ReadingBy BARRY HATTON Associated Press LISBON, Portugal (AP) — The official two-week campaign period before Portugal’s early general election began on Sunday, with the country’s two moderate mainstream parties once again expected to collect the most votes but with the expected rise of a populist party potentially adding momentum to Europe’s drift to the right.
Continue ReadingBy RAF CASERT Associated Press WESTROZEBEKE, Belgium (AP) — Across the EU, those battling climate change and defending the environment feel they are ever more on the defensive. A few years ago, the 27-nation bloc agreed its Green Deal with the intention of making the continent carbon-neutral by 2050. Now, one environmental program after another
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By Gregory Krieg, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump won South Carolina’s Republican presidential primary Saturday, further tightening his grip on the nomination and leaving his last remaining major rival, Nikki Haley, to consider her dwindling options. The former president has swept all GOP nominating contests to date, first beating the field by large margins in Iowa and
Continue ReadingBy SUSAN HAIGH Associated Press BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) — It’s been nearly four months since a judge tossed out the results of a Democratic mayoral primary in Connecticut’s largest city due to allegations of ballot stuffing, sending voters repeatedly back to the polls and thrusting Bridgeport into an unflattering national spotlight. Many frustrated local voters
Continue ReadingBy CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A severe lack of affordable housing has prompted Oregon lawmakers to consider chipping away at a 1970s law that made the state a national leader in leveraging land use policy to prevent suburban sprawl and conserve nature and agriculture. The so-called urban growth boundary, a sacred
Continue ReadingBy REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — For nearly 50 years, Idaho’s prison staffers have been serving Thomas Eugene Creech three meals a day, checking on him during rounds and taking him to medical appointments. This Wednesday, some of Idaho’s prison staffers will be asked to kill him. Barring any last-minute stay, the
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press FULLERTON, Calif. (AP) — De’Sean Allen-Eikens’ 20 points helped Cal State Northridge defeat Cal State Fullerton 65-60 on Saturday night. Allen-Eikens also contributed five rebounds for the Matadors (18-11, 9-8 Big West Conference). Dionte Bostick scored 18 points while shooting 6 for 14 (2 for 5 from 3-point range) and 4
Continue ReadingBy Alli Rosenbloom and Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — No commercials, some f-bombs and plenty of time for acceptance speeches. The 30th annual Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards were held Saturday at the Shrine Auditorium & Expo Hall in Los Angeles, and the show streamed live globally on Netflix – a first for the
Continue ReadingBy Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Pedro Pascal is not one to deliver a status quo award show acceptance speech, and we couldn’t be happier about it. True to form, when he won the award for outstanding actor in a drama series for HBO’s “The Last of Us” at the SAG Awards on Saturday, he
Continue ReadingFRISCO, Texas (AP) — Dante Sealy scored his second career goal, finding the net in the fourth minute of second-half stoppage time to rally FC Dallas to a 2-1 victory over the San Jose Earthquakes in a season opener on Saturday night. San Jose jumped out to a 1-0 lead just six minutes into the
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) — Austin Patterson had 20 points in Sacramento State’s 66-63 win over Montana State on Saturday night. Patterson’s layup with 27 seconds left gave Sacramento State a 64-60 lead. Emil Skytta’s split a pair of free throws to stretch the Hornets’ lead to 65-60 with 20 seconds remaining.
Continue ReadingBy Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN (CNN) — Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley’s pitch to her home state’s primary voters – including arguments about her relative fitness for the presidency and her electability in November – largely failed to win over the conservative, MAGA-friendly electorate, according to the results of CNN’s exit poll for South Carolina’s Republican presidential
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The Palm Springs Police Department announced that N. Indian Canyon is once again open between Sunrise Parkway and Palm Springs Station Road. The department said it was closed due to flooding. The other wash roads, including Gene Autry Trail and Vista Chino, are all open, but some water is still flowing through the roadways causing
Continue ReadingBy YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Polls opened Sunday in Belarus’ tightly controlled parliamentary and local elections that are set to cement the steely rule of the country’s authoritarian leader despite calls for a boycott from the opposition, which dismissed the balloting as a “senseless farce.” President Alexander Lukashenko has ruled Belarus
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By Jamiel Lynch and Dalia Faheid, CNN (CNN) — The suspect in the killing of an Augusta University College of Nursing student on the University of Georgia campus in Athens did not attend school at the campus and did not know the victim, authorities said Friday. The killing of Laken Hope Riley, a junior on
Continue ReadingPaulina Nares (CNN Español) — El Ejército de Venezuela evacúa a 384 personas de la mina Bulla Loca, tres días después del derrumbe que dejó al menos 16 muertos. La Fuerza Armada Nacional Bolivariana de Venezuela (FANB) inició este viernes la evacuación de la mina ilegal de Bulla Loca, ubicada en la localidad de La
Continue ReadingBy Heather Chen, CNN (CNN) — A Hello Kitty theme park in Tokyo has been forced to close for the day after it received a “terror threat,” its operator said. Sanrio Puroland, also known as Hello Kitty Land, is located in Tama New Town in north Tokyo. In a statement published on the park’s official
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