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By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer Federal officials said Thursday they have referred more than 250 unruly airline passengers to the FBI for possible criminal prosecution since late 2021, including one as recently as last month, when a man tried to stab a flight attendant with a broken-off spoon. The pace of the criminal referrals

By ISABELLA O’MALLEY Associated Press A startup business that places small turbines in irrigation canals to generate electricity has raised $18.4 million to scale up its technology for carbon-free hydropower. Emily Morris, CEO and founder of Emrgy, said her inspiration for making electricity in places that some people might find unlikely was seeing water swiftly

By DAVID GINSBURG Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — For the first time in his major league career, Adley Rutschman was the focal point of a celebration at home plate that featured laughter, high-fives and the obligatory emptying of the dugout cooler on the head of the man who won the game. “It felt awesome,” Rutschman

NEW YORK (AP) — Anne Perry, the best-selling crime novelist known for her Thomas Pitt and William Monk detective series and for her own murderous past that inspired the movie “Heavenly Creatures,” has died at age 84. Perry died Monday in Los Angeles from complications of a stroke and several heart attacks, according to her

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s monthslong absence from the Senate to recover in California from shingles has become a vexing problem for Democrats who want to confirm President Joe Biden’s nominees to the federal courts. Now there is some pressure from within her party, and her state, to

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ and STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A self-proclaimed tech consultant was arrested Thursday in the stabbing death of Cash App founder Bob Lee last week in San Francisco, police said. Nima Momeni, 38, was booked on suspicion of murder, San Francisco Police Chief Bill Scott said during a

By KRYSTA FAURIA Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — “In every man, of course, a demon lies hidden — the demon of rage,” says the intellectual brother, Ivan, in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s “The Brothers Karamazov,” a theme to which the Russian novelist frequently returns. It is also a theme central to the HBO series, “Barry,” whose

By TRÂN NGUYỄN Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A man suspected of making “credible threats” against California’s Capitol after shooting a gun from his vehicle and lodging bullets in the wall of a hospital and commercial building in the suburbs of Sacramento was arrested Thursday afternoon, authorities said. The Roseville Police Department said the

By TRÂN NGUYỄN Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A “credible threat” forced California’s Assembly to cancel their Thursday session while senators evacuated to work in a new location, officials said. State senators and their staff members were notified about the threat involving the building in an email from Senate Secretary Erika Contreras. “The California

By TRÂN NGUYỄN Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A “credible threat” forced California senators out of the Capitol and into a new location for their Thursday session, officials said. State senators and their staff members were notified about the threat involving the building in an email from Senate Secretary Erika Contreras. “The California Highway

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A San Francisco supervisor says an arrest was made early Thursday in the downtown stabbing death of Cash App founder Bob Lee. San Francisco Board President Aaron Peskin said the suspect was apprehended in Emeryville, a San Francisco suburb. He was not told the suspect’s name. San Francisco police did not

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A San Francisco supervisor says an arrest was made early Thursday in the downtown stabbing death of Cash App founder Bob Lee. San Francisco Board President Aaron Peskin said the suspect was apprehended in Emeryville, a San Francisco suburb. He was not told the suspect’s name. San Francisco police did not

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Only remnants of California’s three-year drought remain after winter’s epic storms. The U.S. Drought Monitor reported Thursday that areas of drought cover less than 9% of the state, down from more than 99% at the Oct. 1 start of the water year. Those areas, in the far north and southeast, are

By KRISTINA LINNEA GARCIA Associated Press SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) — This winter’s been a hard one in Southern California. Highways flood and the rain keeps coming. Pedestrians pick their way across fallen cypress trees, around puddles on sidewalks roped off with caution tape. Between fire, flood, and drought, sometimes it feels like the end

CALGARY, Alberta (AP) — Defenseman Nikita Zadorov had his first career hat trick and the Calgary Flames ended a disappointing season with a 3-1 victory over the San Jose Sharks on Wednesday night. Calgary finished fifth in the Pacific at 38-27-17 and 93 points, a year after winning the division with 111. The Flames have

By JANIE McCAULEY AP Baseball Writer SAN FRANCSICO (AP) — Freddie Freeman provided the plate appearance of the year so far for a Los Angeles Dodgers team searching to establish an identity in 2023. Freeman fouled off nine straight pitches, Nos. 6 through 14, during a dramatic, 15-pitch, bases-loaded walk that sparked a big comeback