By Rebekah Ludman Click here for updates on this story 10/29/24 (LAPost.com) — The Dodgers may win their second World Series Championship in five years when they face the New York Yankees for Game 4 Tuesday evening at Yankee Stadium. The Dodgers took a 3-0 lead in the World Series Monday night with a 4-2
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The man who was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for attacking the husband of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi with a hammer in their California home was given a life term without the possibility of parole on Tuesday following a separate state trial. A San Francisco jury
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By Joaquin Caballero, CNN en Español (CNN) — A man has died and up to nine other people are missing after a 10-story hotel collapsed in Argentina. The 10-story Dubrovnik hotel in the city of Villa Gessell, about 230 miles (370 kilometers) from the capital Buenos Aires on the Atlantic coast, collapsed early on Tuesday
Continue ReadingSofía Benavides (CNN Español) — El Gobierno de Guatemala confirmó este martes que detectó el primer caso de gusano barrenador que afecta el ganado, por lo que ha declarado Estado de emergencia de sanidad animal en todo el país. “Tenemos un caso confirmado de gusano barrenador en el Departamento de Izabal”, dijo Maynor Estrada, ministro
Continue ReadingBy Jasmine Jose Click here for updates on this story 10/29/24 (LAPost.com) — Newsom wants to pump more money into California’s film and TV tax breaks to boost Hollywood and create jobs. The plan aims to increase funding for the program that’s been raking in billions for the state since 2009. Research shows each tax
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — A woman who owned a New York City day care center where a toddler died after ingesting fentanyl has pleaded guilty to federal drug charges. The plea came more than a year after the September 2023 death of 22-month-old Nicholas Dominici. Grei Mendez entered the guilty plea in Manhattan on Tuesday
Continue ReadingAssociated Press/Report for America FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — A judge in Virginia has accepted a guilty plea in what prosecutors say was an elaborate double-murder scheme involving a Brazilian au pair, an IRS agent, a pediatric nurse and a man who had been lured into their home with promises of rough sex. Juliana Peres Magalhães
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By Marielle Mohs Click here for updates on this story MINNETONKA, Minnesota (WCCO) — A former three-time Grand Slam tennis pro is working to grow the game in the Twin Cities, and is being recognized on a national stage for her efforts. Felicia Raschiatore is the tennis manager at Williston Fitness Center in Minnetonka. She’s
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Francis Ford Coppola will receive the 50th AFI Life Achievement Award, the American Film Institute announced Tuesday. Coppola, who recently released his long-in-development epic “Megalopolis,” will be presented with the award in a gala tribute at Los Angeles’ Dolby Theatre on April 26. The 85-year-old filmmaker will be the 50th recipient
Continue ReadingBy Cole Premo Click here for updates on this story DETROIT LAKES, Minnesota (WCCO) — A community is in mourning after a Minnesota missionary was killed abroad. Vineyard Church in Detroit Lakes says it was notified on Friday that Beau Shroyer died in the African nation of Angola. According to the church, he was the
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Sharp Click here for updates on this story SACRAMENTO, California (KOVR) — Two people were hit while traveling on West Sacramento roads Monday, one on a bicycle and one on a scooter. West Sacramento police say, just before 2:30 p.m., a semi-truck hit a man on his bicycle near Industrial and Stone boulevards.
Continue ReadingAP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Film productions often wrestle with shifts in the weather, the threat of the crew going into overtime or the fading of a day’s light. Less common are concerns over the cast slipping off the top of a blimp. But that was one of the quirks of making “Grand
Continue ReadingAssociated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — For the first time since 1938, children in Des Moines, Iowa, will go trick-or-treating on Halloween. Going door-to-door for candy on All Hallows’ Eve has long been commonplace throughout the country. But not in Des Moines, where Iowa’s capital city took a different approach more than seven decades
Continue ReadingBy Kurtis Ming, Kevin Wing Click here for updates on this story SACRAMENTO, California (KOVR) — A Sacramento family has spent years searching for grandparents’ graves, and now they have learned that the Catholic Diocese of Sacramento moved their remains but cannot give the family the exact location. The family contacted Call Kurtis to look
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A 2025 trial date was confirmed today for a 32-year-old man accused in a fatal shooting in Cathedral City. Along with a murder charge, Jose Ernesto Martinez of Desert Hot Springs is facing sentence-enhancing allegations including discharging a firearm causing great bodily injury and using a weapon in commission of a crime. Martinez’s trial was
Continue ReadingAssociated Press CALI, Colombia (AP) — U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged delegates at a major biodiversity summit to follow through on pledges to help save global biodiversity and for the private sector to come on board. Guterres spoke at a U.N. biodiversity summit underway since Oct. 21 in Colombia. His comments came a day after
Continue ReadingAssociated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Counties in Philadelphia’s suburbs are being asked to reject the mail-in ballot applications of hundreds of voters in what the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania said are illegal challenges. The challenges question the voter’s residence based on a supposed match with a U.S. Postal Service change-of-address database. Diane
Continue ReadingAssociated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The U.S. government has chosen winning bids to develop wind power off New England in the first commercial sale for floating offshore wind on the Atlantic coast. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management held a lease sale and selected nearly $22 million in winning bids Tuesday for four lease
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Pennsylvania voters are expected to play a pivotal role in the Nov. 5 general election, with control of the White House and both chambers of Congress and the state Legislature hanging in the balance. With its 19 electoral votes, the commonwealth is the largest prize among the battleground states and
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s Truth Social is now worth more than Elon Musk’s X. That’s thanks to a recent run-up in the shares of the parent company of the former president’s social media platform. Trump Media & Technology Group is now valued at over $10 billion after its shares more than
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