By Blake Ellis, Melanie Hicken and Audrey Ash, CNN (CNN) — Senators blasted the head of the US Coast Guard at a contentious hearing on Tuesday, saying she has fostered a “culture of concealment,” withheld critical information from congressional investigators and failed to hold leaders and perpetrators accountable for serious misconduct. “Our investigation has shown
Continue ReadingBy JIM SALTER Associated Press BONNE TERRE, Mo. (AP) — A man convicted of killing his former lover and her husband in what prosecutors called a fit of rage has been executed in Missouri. An official says 69-year-old David Hosier was pronounced dead Tuesday evening following a lethal injection at the state prison in Bonne
Continue ReadingSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld California’s ban on gun shows at county fairs and other public properties, deciding the laws do not violate the rights of firearm sellers or buyers. The 3-0 decision by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals overturns a federal judge’s ruling in October that blocked
Continue ReadingBy CEDAR ATTANASIO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Joey “Jaws” Chestnut, the reigning champion of the Nathan’s Famous Fourth of July hot dog eating contest, will not participate in this year’s event after signing a deal with a rival brand, organizers said Tuesday. Chestnut, 40, has long been the face — not to mention
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A judge today confirmed a June 24 trial date for a 62-year-old self-employed pool service worker accused of killing a 93-year-old woman in Palm Desert. Benjamin Cabrera Briones of Thousand Palms is scheduled to be tried on one felony count each of murder, burglary and forging a signature, according to court records. He additionally faces
Continue ReadingATLANTA (AP) — Atlanta police say one person has died after being shot on a commuter bus that then led officers on a wild and lengthy chase into the suburbs. Television news footage showed the bus barreling along in rush hour traffic and striking several vehicles. News helicopters followed the dramatic pursuit of the Gwinnett
Continue ReadingBy KEN MILLER Associated Press The family of a Texas man who died after an altercation with jailers, including one who pinned his knee to the inmate’s back, has called for a federal investigation into the practices at the jail. Anthony Johnson Jr. was a 31-year-old former Marine. He died April 21 after the altercation,
Continue ReadingBy CLAUDIA LAUER and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Hunter Biden’s legal woes are not over after his conviction on three felony firearms charges in a trial that put a spotlight on his drug-fueled past. Now, President Joe Biden’s son faces sentencing, and another criminal trial on tax charges in the
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The City of Palm Springs has recently purchased a commercial road grader to combat sandy streets due to windy weather conditions. The City Council recently approved just over $500,000 to purchase the new commercial road grader. The new machine has already proven to be a huge help to city street crews as they worked furiously
Continue ReadingBy GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. (AP) — When Sean McVay became the Los Angeles Rams’ head coach, he was told the team’s decidedly modest training complex in a back corner of the city’s outer suburbs was only a temporary arrangement. “Temporary” turned out to mean eight years. While most NFL teams
Continue ReadingBy PETER SMITH Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Even as they prepare to vote on a formal ban on churches with women pastors, delegates to the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to boot one such church from its ranks. Messengers, as voting representatives are known, voted 6,759 to 563 to oust First
Continue ReadingBy JIM SALTER Associated Press BONNE TERRE, Mo. (AP) — A man convicted of killing his former lover and her husband in what prosecutors called a fit of rage has been executed in Missouri. An official says 69-year-old David Hosier was pronounced dead Tuesday evening following a lethal injection at the state prison in Bonne
Continue ReadingCHICAGO (AP) — A 22-year-old man has entered a plea of not guilty in the fatal shooting of an off-duty Chicago police officer. Xavier L. Tate Jr. was arraigned Tuesday on charges including first-degree murder in the April 21 slaying of 30-year-old Officer Luis M. Huesca. Huesca had completed his work shift and was on
Continue ReadingBy CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Lawyers for the gunman who killed 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket say he should be exempt from the death penalty because he was 18 at the time of the attack. The Supreme Court in 2005 carved out protections against executing people under 18. Payton
Continue ReadingBy Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — When Hunter Biden was discharged from the Navy Reserve for using cocaine in 2014, his father — then-Vice President Joe Biden — wrote his family a concise message of summation. “Time to move on,” he said in an email. For the Bidens, moving on from Hunter’s issues of addiction
Continue ReadingBy SUSAN HAIGH Associated Press The commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard has tried to assure frustrated senators she is not attempting to cover up the branch’s failure to adequately handle cases of sexual assault and harassment at the service academy in Connecticut. Appearing Tuesday before a Senate investigative subcommittee, Admiral Linda L. Fagan said
Continue ReadingBy MARTHA BELLISLE Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — An off-duty security guard has been charged with second-degree murder by prosecutors who say that he fatally shot a 17-year-old six times in the back as the teen tried to return what the guard believed to be a firearm, but was actually a toy gun, to a
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — Only six to eight critically endangered vaquita marina porpoises were sighted this year in the Gulf of California. But researchers suggested Tuesday that some of the few remaining vaquitas — the world’s most endangered marine mammal — may have moved elsewhere in the Gulf, the only place in the world where
Continue ReadingBy JOHN RABY Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A hotly contested East Coast natural gas pipeline has been given the go-ahead to start operating. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s approval Tuesday comes six years after construction began on the Mountain Valley Pipeline in West Virginia and Virginia. Environmental groups, landowners and some elected officials
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The Board of Supervisors today approved two contracts with a media marketing firm totaling $356,000 to conduct summer public awareness campaigns emphasizing the penalties for illegal use of fireworks in Riverside County and the dangers of fentanyl. The board signed off on the compacts sought by the Executive Office with Fountain Valley-based 3 Olives
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