RESERVE, La. (AP) — A chemical manufacturing plant west of New Orleans has agreed to pay a $480,000 federal fine and install equipment to stop the release of a cancer-causing chemical from a storage tank and pipe. The Advocate reports the consent agreement between DuPont and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency was filed Sept. 25.
Continue ReadingBy Daniel Dale, CNN Washington (CNN) — Rinse and repeat. As Election Day approaches, former President Donald Trump keeps telling the same lies at event after event – many about immigration, but many others about a variety of additional topics. Here is a fact check of 18 false claims in his Tuesday remarks at his Mar-a-Lago
Continue ReadingLAS VEGAS (AP) — Federal investigators say an electrical system malfunctioned, the autopilot quit and some radio communications were disrupted aboard a Frontier Airlines plane shortly before the pilots made a fiery but safe emergency landing in Las Vegas earlier this month. No one among the 190 passengers and seven crew members was injured Oct.
Continue ReadingLAS VEGAS (AP) — Federal investigators say an electrical system malfunctioned, the autopilot quit and some radio communications were disrupted aboard a Frontier Airlines plane shortly before the pilots made a fiery but safe emergency landing in Las Vegas earlier this month. No one among the 190 passengers and seven crew members was injured Oct.
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — The World Health Organization says more than 8 million people were diagnosed with tuberculosis last year. That’s the highest number recorded since the U.N. health agency began keeping track. The agency’s new report was released Tuesday. It also says that TB has likely returned to being the world’s leading infectious disease killer
Continue ReadingAssociated Press A former principal at a Christian boarding school in Missouri that closed in March amid abuse allegations has been charged with sex crimes involving a former student. Court records show that Craig Wesley Smith Jr. was charged in September with forcible sodomy and attempted forcible rape. He is accused of forcing a teenage
Continue ReadingAP Science Writer It’s as if Mother Nature shut off the rain faucet in the United States in October. More than 100 cities across the nation are reporting their driest October so far. In June, less than 12% of the US was in drought. Now it’s nearly half and growing. Meteorologists say the country is
Continue ReadingDIVIDE, Colo. (AP) — A human-caused fire has destroyed the house where it started, leading to the evacuation of about 700 other homes as flames burned in a wooded subdivision in the central Colorado mountains. Teller County Sheriff Jason Marksell says some rain fell early Tuesday, helping to slow the blaze in the Highland Lakes
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The Palm Springs City Council held a ribbon cutting ceremony for the brand new playground at Demuth Park. It’s the first upgrade the playground has had in nearly three decades. Jeffrey Bernstein, the Mayor of Palm Springs, says this project has been in the works for years. “This has been a long time coming,” said
Continue ReadingCNN By Jennifer Agiesta, Ariel Edwards-Levy and Edward Wu, CNN (CNN) — In the critical Southwest battlegrounds of Arizona and Nevada, Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump run near even in the race for the White House, according to new CNN polls conducted by SSRS. The findings come as large numbers of
Continue ReadingAP Hockey Writer Expansion is on the table for the six-team Professional Women’s Hockey League, and executives aren’t placing limitations on which North American markets they’ll consider in a bid to add as many as two franchises for the 2025-26 season. The only certainty is a vision of the timing being right to build on
Continue ReadingCalMatters If Californians vote to approve a rent control measure on the ballot, thousands of Berkeley tenants could immediately see new limits on how much their landlords can raise their rent each year. “Families who are living in units that aren’t right for them will have a chance to move without losing their affordability,” said
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Teri Garr, the quirky comedy actor who rose from background dancer in Elvis Presley movies to co-star of such favorites as “Young Frankenstein” and “Tootsie,” has died. She was 79. Garr died Tuesday of multiple sclerosis “surrounded by family and friends,” said publicist Heidi Schaeffer. Garr battled other health
Continue ReadingAssociated Press MONT-TREMBLANT, Quebec (AP) — A Quebec nationalist party says it will work with other opposition parties in Canada’s Parliament to topple Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s minority government. Trudeau’s Liberals have only 153 seats in the 338-seat House of Commons and must rely on an opposition party to pass legislation. With the parliamentary election
Continue ReadingAssociated Press TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albanian opposition activists have blocked major roads around the country for several hours, demanding that the government be replaced by a technocratic caretaker Cabinet before next year’s parliamentary election. Lawmakers led hundreds of opposition supporters in rallies at the main entrance to the capital, Tirana, and at five other
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine tried unsuccessfully Tuesday to persuade a federal judge not to send him to jail, calling him “bro” and insisting he never meant to violate the terms of his probation from a felony conviction. Judge Paul A. Engelmayer in Manhattan ordered him detained for at least two
Continue ReadingBy Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump on Tuesday defended his controversial Madison Square Garden rally, telling supporters that the event was “an absolute lovefest” and that it was “my honor to be involved.” The former president’s comments come amid backlash over disparaging and divisive remarks at his Sunday event in New York City,
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Update: Indian Canyon Drive and Gene Autry Trail were reopened Tuesday morning. Original Post: Gene Autry Trail and Indian Canyon Drive were shut down at the Whitewater Wash in Palm Springs due to low visibility caused by strong winds Monday. Both roadways remained closed to all traffic Tuesday morning. Drivers can use alternate routes including
Continue ReadingAssociated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A federal judge in Pennsylvania is throwing out a lawsuit by six Republican congressmen over how to count votes from members of the military and others who cast ballots from overseas. U.S. District Judge Christopher Conner on Tuesday ruled against their request that elections officials be ordered to take
Continue ReadingBy Lauren Fox and Sarah Ferris, CNN (CNN) — A lot has changed for Jim Jordan since he lost his speakership bid last October. In the year since, Jordan has been traveling the country and trying to make inroads with colleagues who once told him they couldn’t back him for House Republicans’ top job. And if
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