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By The Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — Tyler McGhie’s 24 points helped UCSD defeat CSU Northridge 83-62 on Thursday. McGhie was 9 of 16 shooting (6 for 13 from 3-point range) for the Tritons (15-7, 9-1 Big West Conference). Bryce Pope scored 22 points, shooting 7 for 17 (5 for 12 from 3-point range)
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press This week’s new streaming entertainment releases include the launch of the final season of “Curb Your Enthusiasm” on Sunday, Donald Glover starring as a spy in the new TV series “Mr. & Mrs. Smith” and a documentary on Run-D.M.C. airing on Peacock. The National Geographic’s “Genius” anthology series this time focuses
Continue ReadingBy DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Hardly a day goes by without news of another set of layoffs or business failure in journalism, an industry in the midst of a decades-long decline that has only seemed to accelerate lately. The news website The Messenger, in business for less than a year,
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A local non-profit dedicated to preventing child abuse and restoring children and families in crisis raised more than $200,000 at their “Power of One” luncheon at Bighorn Golf Club on Thursday. Olive Crest celebrated locals they call “champions of hope” who have made a difference by donating their time, knowledge, and money and have even fostered
Continue ReadingBy MEGAN JANETSKY and FERNANDA PESCE Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Guillermo Barraza buzzes with a nervous energy as he watches himself transform. Hands delicately paint stripes of bright pink eyeshadow onto Barraza’s angular face as newscasters and makeup crews bustle around him. Tonight, in a small studio set in the heart of Mexico
Continue ReadingBy JULIE WATSON and HAVEN DALEY Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — More storms, rising seas and huge waves are taking their toll on California’s iconic piers that have dotted the Pacific coast since the Gold Rush, posing the biggest threat yet to the beach landmarks that have become a quintessential part of the landscape.
Continue ReadingBy JULIE WATSON and HAVEN DALEY Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — More storms, rising seas and huge waves are taking their toll on California’s iconic piers that have dotted the Pacific coast since the Gold Rush, posing the biggest threat yet to the beach landmarks that have become a quintessential part of the landscape.
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (AP) — Derin Saran’s 17 points helped UC Irvine defeat Cal Poly 73-59 on Thursday. Saran also contributed four steals for the Anteaters (16-6, 9-1 Big West Conference). Devin Tillis scored 15 points while going 7 of 9 from the field, and added nine rebounds. Kobe Sanders
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By David McKenzie and Sarah Dean, CNN Freetown, Sierra Leone (CNN) — When it comes to chimpanzee toddlers, girls rule. Skippy climbs with her hands and feet into the forest canopy, swinging through the spindly vines. The boys: they prefer to cuddle with their human carer. They are all orphans, rescued from across Sierra Leone and
Continue Reading CNN By David McKenzie and Sarah Dean, CNN Freetown, Sierra Leone (CNN) — When it comes to chimpanzee toddlers, girls rule. Skippy climbs with her hands and feet into the forest canopy, swinging through the spindly vines. The boys: they prefer to cuddle with their human carer. They are all orphans, rescued from across Sierra Leone
Continue ReadingPUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. (AP) — Punxsutawney Phil’s winter weather forecast will be announced sometime after sunrise Friday in Gobbler’s Knob, the scene of the largest and best known Groundhog Day celebration in the United States. The annual event is a tongue-in-cheek ritual in which Phil’s handlers, members of a club with roots in the late 19th
Continue ReadingBy PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Few saw this coming. A year ago, most economists envisioned a bleak 2023 for the United States. The economy, they warned, seemed sure to falter, probably sinking into a recession, with employers adding barely 100,000 jobs a month on average, enough to keep up with population
Continue ReadingBRISBANE, Australia (AP) — Australian police came to the aid of a three-year-old boy after he became trapped inside a claw machine at a surbuban shopping mall. Queensland Police shared a video of the unusual rescue on social media on Thursday, which shows the toddler sitting inside the glass-walled box filled with plush toys, blissfully
Continue ReadingCLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) — Fire officials say a small plane has crashed into a home at a Florida mobile home park, killing several people aboard the plane and in the home. There’s no immediate word on the exact number of people killed. Authorities say the single-engine Beechcraft Bonanza V35 reportedly went down at about 7
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Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Una región de la Luna que está en el centro de una nueva carrera espacial internacional porque puede contener hielo de agua podría ser menos acogedora de lo que se pensaba, encontró una nueva investigación. El interés en el polo sur lunar se disparó el año pasado, cuando la misión
Continue ReadingBy BROOKE SCHULTZ Associated Press/Report for America It was a passionate student letter in 2020 that caused the Southern York County school board to reconsider its logo: a Native American man, representing the “Warriors.” Though the conversation had come up before in the suburban district located in southern Pennsylvania, 2020 was a turning point of
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Update 2/2/24 12:55 p.m. Gene Autry Trail is back open Update 2/2/24 11:50 a.m. N Indian Canyon is back open. Original Report East Vista Chino Road, Gene Autry Trail, and N. Indian Canyon Drive were all shut down Friday morning through the Whitewater Wash due to flooding. The first of the major traffic arteries, N.
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Residents across the Coachella Valley dealt with rain and flooding brought on by Thursday’s storm. Cathedral City resident Jerry Meza noticed water had accumulated on streets that thend to flood when it rains in his neighborhood. “Horizon Road, Adelina, and Vista Chino, they kind of all three merge together and create sort of like a
Continue ReadingTEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — Brandon Angel and Maxime Reynaud posted double-doubles and Michael Jones hit five 3-pointers and scored 18 as Stanford rallied to beat Arizona State 71-62 on Thursday night. Angel totaled 19 points and 10 rebounds, notching his first double-double of the season for the Cardinal (11-9, 6-4 Pac-12 Conference). Reynaud finished with
Continue ReadingBy KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s military said North Korea has fired multiple cruise missiles into waters off its western coast, extending a provocative series of weapons tests in the face of deepening tensions with the United States, South Korea and Japan. The launches came hours after state media
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