The Ninth Annual All Valley Mayors, County and Tribal Chairpersons Luncheon is taking place Friday in Indian Wells. All nine valley mayors, county supervisor and tribal chairs will be in attendance. According to the Greater Coachella Valley Chamber, the event will “address a comprehensive range of topics crucial to [the] thriving business community.” Topics such
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — The federal government would ban in-game advertising and bets on college athletes under a sports betting regulation bill proposed by two northeastern legislators. Rep. Paul Tonko of New York and Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut introduced the bill Thursday. It’s designed to address what they say are the
Continue ReadingAssociated Press DOVER, Del. (AP) — Police dispatchers in Delaware’s capital city are being lauded for helping direct rescuers to a boat foundering in the English Channel thousands of miles away. Dispatchers for the city of Dover found themselves at the center of an international rescue effort last month after receiving a call from an
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By Rae Daniel Click here for updates on this story KANSAS CITY (KSHB) — UMKC’s First Gen Den is a place where sophomore Alexia Jaime and freshman Jasmine Galeas visit often. “We’re all just hanging out, studying together,” Jaime said. “It’s a place for all first-gen students to be able to have resources and access
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Miami high schools produced 17 players on NFL rosters opening weekend, most of any city. Las Vegas was second with 16, followed by Bradenton, Florida, with 15. Atlanta and Detroit each had 14. Despite having two of the top three cities, Florida finished second to Texas among states. Texas had 190
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CNN By Brynn Gingras and Carolyn Sung, CNN (CNN) — Justin Timberlake pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of driving while impaired in a deal with Suffolk County, New York prosecutors on Friday in connection with an incident from earlier this year. Sag Harbor Village Justice Carl Irace sentenced Timberlake to 25 hours of community
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By Paris Flannigan Click here for updates on this story PATTERSON, Louisiana (KATC) — Hurricane Francine caused widespread damage in South Louisiana, especially in St. Mary Parish, with flooding, debris, and power outages. A Patterson neighborhood may have gotten the worst of it. A video sent in from ABC News captured the neighborhood, which now
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By Abeer Salman, Kareem Khadder, Lauren Izso, Kara Fox, Sana Noor Haq and Mohammad Al Sawalhi, CNN (CNN) — At least 18 people, including United Nations staff, were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a UN school-turned-shelter in the Nuseirat camp in central Gaza on Wednesday, according to the Gaza Civil Defense and hospital officials.
Continue ReadingValeria Ordóñez Ghio (CNN Español) — La directora encargada de la Penitenciaria del Litoral, María Daniela Icaza, murió este jueves en un atentado armado mientras se dirigía en un vehículo a su domicilio, confirmó a CNN el Servicio de Atención a Personas Privadas de la Libertad de Ecuador (SNAI). Ahora puedes seguirnos en WhatsApp Channel En un
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles Sparks are still looking to the future. They had hoped to return to the WNBA playoffs this season for the first time since 2020, but will have to wait until next year. With a league-worst mark of 7-30, the Sparks have been eliminated from playoff contention. They take
Continue ReadingATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s railway company says a train stationmaster has been suspended after allegedly giving an order that would have placed two passenger trains on a head-on collision course on the same stretch of track on Athens’ suburban railway. The company, Hellenic Train, said the train drivers and another stationmaster at a different
Continue ReadingAssociated Press KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — A military court in Congo has convicted 37 people, including three Americans, on charges of taking part in a coup attempt and sentenced them to death. The defendants, who also included a Briton, Belgian, Canadian and several Congolese, can appeal the verdict on charges that included terrorism, murder and
Continue ReadingBOULDER, Colo. (AP) — A man accused of being involved in several hit-and-run crashes and then driving onto the football field at the University of Colorado has been arrested. Boulder police say the crashes were reported Thursday evening. Witnesses tried to stop the driver from leaving, and one person was almost struck by the pickup
Continue ReadingAssociated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The University of Wisconsin administration has published a new policy that requires school leaders remain maintain neutral viewpoints in their public statements. Universities of Wisconsin President Jay Rothman released the policy Friday. It states that university leaders such as chancellors, provosts, deans and department chairs should talk only about
Continue ReadingBISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A Canadian man has pleaded guilty to federal crimes for shootings at electrical substations and an oil pipeline in the Dakotas that caused $1.7 million in damages. Cameron Monte Smith pleaded guilty Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Bismarck, North Dakota, to two counts of destruction of an energy facility —
Continue ReadingCalMatters John Vaesau was counting on the $200 he was entitled to by law upon leaving Folsom State Prison in June 2023, after 33 years. He was surprised when he received none of it. “They just threw me out like a piece of garbage,” Vaesau said. “Like after all that time, it was nothing to
Continue ReadingBy Katie Lobosco, CNN Washington (CNN) — The Biden administration said Friday that it has finalized tariff hikes on certain Chinese-made products that the president first announced in May. The tariff rate will go up to 100% on electric vehicles, to 50% on solar cells and to 25% on electrical vehicle batteries, critical minerals, steel,
Continue ReadingBy David Wright, CNN (CNN) — A super PAC with Republican ties is running digital ads in Michigan promoting the Jewish faith of Kamala Harris’s husband and touting the vice president’s support for Israel in an apparent play to undercut Harris with the battleground state’s large Arab American population amid ongoing political fallout over the
Continue ReadingOMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Police in Nebraska’s largest city are reevaluating their use of some no-knock search warrants after an unarmed Black man was killed by an officer while executing a no-knock warrant. The Omaha World-Herald reports that Deputy Police Chief Scott Gray says the use of standard entry no-knock warrants was suspended pending a
Continue ReadingSofía Benavides (CNN Español) — El gobierno de Venezuela rechazó este jueves las restricciones anunciadas por el gobierno de Estados Unidos en contra de 16 funcionarios venezolanos y las señaló como “medidas coercitivas unilaterales, ilegitimas e ilegales”. El viernes, llegaron nuevas reacciones, esta vez del CNE (controlado por el chavismo) y del ALBA, bloque de países
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