By JAMIE STENGLE and KENDRIA LaFLEUR Associated Press FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — The 97-year-old Texan known for her push to make Juneteenth a national holiday has been given the keys to her new home. Opal Lee’s new house is built on the same tree-lined corner lot in Fort Worth that her family was driven
Continue ReadingBy JOHN ANTCZAK Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A weekend of commencement ceremonies at a half-dozen California universities was underway Friday with no immediate sign of the major campus protests against the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza that have led to clashes with police and numerous arrests. Officials appealed for the graduates to be celebrated
Continue ReadingBy JOHN ANTCZAK Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A weekend of commencement ceremonies at a half-dozen California universities was underway Friday with no immediate sign of the major campus protests against the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza that have led to clashes with police and numerous arrests. Officials appealed for the graduates to be celebrated
Continue ReadingCLEVELAND (AP) — Cleveland’s City Hall will remained closed to the public through at least Monday, as officials in Ohio’s second-largest city continued to grapple with the effects of a ransomware attack. City operations have been hampered all week by the threat first detected Sunday. State and federal authorities are investigating. After shutting down most
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A 39-year-old woman who fatally shot her husband during a dispute at their Coachella home was convicted today of murder. An Indio jury deliberated less than a day before finding Cindy Gicela Parra Hernandez guilty of the 2022 slaying of Francisco Lopez. Along with murder, jurors convicted Hernandez of assault with a deadly
Continue ReadingTORONTO (AP) — A court document filed this week shows Austrian-Canadian auto parts billionaire Frank Stronach is accused of sexually assaulting three different complainants in alleged incidents that took place in Toronto and Aurora, Ontario. The document says the alleged incidents took place in 1980, 1986 and last year. The charges that were announced last
Continue ReadingBy GERALD IMRAY and MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South African President Cyril Ramaphosa was reelected by lawmakers for a second term on Friday after his African National Congress party struck a dramatic late coalition deal with the main opposition and other parties. Ramaphosa won convincingly in a vote against
Continue ReadingBy TOM NOUVIAN Associated Press PARIS (AP) — The water quality of the Seine river in Paris is raising concerns ahead of the upcoming Olympic and Paralympic Games. The collective “Eau de Paris”, responsible for collecting data for the city of Paris, published results on Friday showing high levels of E. coli and enterococci bacteria,
Continue ReadingBy DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer A Boeing 737 Max suffered damage to parts of the plane’s structure after it went into a “Dutch roll” during a Southwest Airlines flight last month, U.S. investigators said Friday. The incident happened as the jet cruised at 34,000 feet from Phoenix to Oakland, California, on May 25, but
Continue ReadingBy DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer A Boeing 737 Max suffered damage to parts of the plane’s structure after it went into a “Dutch roll” during a Southwest Airlines flight last month, U.S. investigators said Friday. The incident happened as the jet cruised at 34,000 feet from Phoenix to Oakland, California, on May 25, but
Continue ReadingBy JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Madison Square Garden is going back to the dogs. The Westminster Kennel Club has announced that its storied dog show is returning next year to the Garden for the first time since 2020. For reasons including the coronavirus pandemic, the annual dog show has since been
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The Palm Springs Surf Club is open daily from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. now through Labor Day offering locals and visitors a place to enjoy a variety of recreational water activities. Daily admission cost is $40 for adults and $20 for children ages 12 and under. The site features a lazy river, five water
Continue ReadingBy EDGAR H. CLEMENTE Associated Press TUXTLA GUTIERREZ, Mexico (AP) — A family of six, including three children, were killed by gunmen in the southern Mexico border state of Chiapas. The mayor of the Chiapas town of Pantelho said the killings occurred there Friday. It was the latest in a string of mass killings in
Continue ReadingBy TERRY TANG Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Supporters of over two dozen alleged victims of civil rights violations at the hands of Phoenix police plan to speak out Friday, a day after the release of a scathing U.S. Justice Department report outlining a pattern of excessive force and racial discrimination. Jarrett Maupin, a Phoenix
Continue ReadingBy ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Around an hour after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a ban on bump stocks, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul wrongly said a gunman who carried out a racist massacre in her hometown of Buffalo had used the gun accessory that can allow semiautomatic rifles to shoot
Continue ReadingAUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Mainers are going to decide in November whether to adopt a new flag, but the state needs to settle on a design first. Secretary of State Shenna Bellows announced Friday a contest in which anyone can submit a proposed design. However it must be based on the state’s first flag, featuring
Continue ReadingBy KIM CHANDLER and JIM MUSTIAN Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama jury has convicted a state trooper of sexually assaulting an 11-year-old girl. An Associated Press investigation found Christopher Bauer landed the trooper job even after he was kicked out of the FBI’s New Orleans office amid earlier claims he raped a
Continue ReadingBy STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks hung around their record levels on Friday as Wall Street remained relatively quiet following another slide in Europe. The S&P 500 edged down by less than 0.1%, marking the first time this week where it did not set an all-time high. The Dow
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN BARRY AP Fashion Writer MILAN (AP) — Milan Fashion Week of mostly menswear previews has opened with two co-ed collections, underlining that the old calendar rules no longer apply. The week usually reserved for menswear is a lighter one, featuring just 20 runway shows and allowing time for reflection amid the usual hubbub.
Continue ReadingBy ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Around an hour after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a ban on bump stocks, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul wrongly said a gunman who carried out a racist massacre in her hometown of Buffalo had used the gun accessory that can allow semiautomatic rifles to shoot
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