Dan Bylsma is officially back in the NHL. After we reported Bylsma would be the next head coach for the Seattle Kraken on Monday, the 53-year-old was formally introduced in Seattle on Tuesday. “I think coaching in the National Hockey League is an extreme honor and privilege, and it’s a partnership with the organization and
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Cathedral City High School was placed on a lockout due to a police investigation. The lockout was lifted shortly before 2:30 p.m. The Cathedral City Police Dept. told News Channel 3 that they responded to a call of a threat to the high school. Officers cleared the school with nothing located. CCHS parents were sent
Continue ReadingBy RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Josh Gibson became Major League Baseball’s career leader with a .372 batting average, surpassing Ty Cobb’s .367, when Negro Leagues records for more than 2,300 players were incorporated Tuesday after a three-year research project. Gibson’s .466 average for the 1943 Homestead Grays became the season
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL R. SISAK, JENNIFER PELTZ, ERIC TUCKER and JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Attorneys in Donald Trump’s hush money trial have finished their closing arguments after a marathon day in court. A prosecutor told jurors that Trump engaged in a conspiracy “to hoodwink voters” in 2016. Meanwhile, a defense lawyer branded
Continue ReadingBy JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has condemned the removal of Confederate statues. Kennedy said Friday that he had a “visceral reaction against” the destruction of monuments honoring southern leaders from the Civil War. Kennedy commented in response to a question about removing monuments during
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Closing arguments in Donald Trump’s historic hush money trial have conclude. It was the final opportunity for prosecutors and defense lawyers to convince the jury of their respective cases before deliberations begin. Arguments lasted all day Tuesday, even stretching into the evening hours, with jury deliberations starting as early as Wednesday.
Continue ReadingJOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africans began voting Wednesday in an election seen as their country’s most important in 30 years, and one that could put their young democracy in unknown territory. At stake is the three-decade dominance of the African National Congress party, which led South Africa out of apartheid’s brutal white minority rule in
Continue ReadingBy John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — A neighbor of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito called police in 2021 following an exchange with the jurist’s wife, claiming that someone needed to “make her stop,” according to a report Tuesday in the New York Times. “Somebody in a position of authority needs to talk to her and make her
Continue ReadingBy MANUEL RUEDA Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombian insurance company Sura has announced that it will withdraw from the nation’s health system because the resources it receives from Colombia’s government to manage more than 5 million patients, are not enough to cover its growing costs. Opposition leaders in Colombia regretted the company’s decision
Continue ReadingBy Michael Rios and Caitlin Stephen Hu, CNN (CNN) — Haiti’s Transitional Presidential Council has tapped former Prime Minister Garry Conille to return to the position during the government’s transition period, council president Edgard Leblanc Fils said Tuesday. Conille was chosen by consensus after the council conducted hearings of candidates, Leblanc Fils said. Conille briefly
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) — Rapper and singer Sean Kingston on Tuesday waived his right to fight extradition in a California court and agreed to be turned over to authorities in Florida, where he and his mother are charged with committing more than a million dollars worth of fraud.
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) — Rapper and singer Sean Kingston on Tuesday waived his right to fight extradition in a California court and agreed to be turned over to authorities in Florida, where he and his mother are charged with committing more than a million dollars worth of fraud.
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An ambulance was requested in Whitewater today after a vehicle drove off the I-10 roadway. The incident occurred at 1:25 p.m. Tuesday, according to California Highway Patrol traffic records. The driver, a 50-year-old man, was traveling westbound when his Toyota Prius went off the right shoulder west of Haugen-Lehmann Way near Mile Marker 22, landing
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Closing arguments in Donald Trump’s historic hush money trial have begun, giving prosecutors and defense lawyers one final opportunity to convince the jury of their respective cases before deliberations begin. Arguments are expected to last all day Tuesday, even stretching into the evening hours, with jury deliberations starting as early as
Continue ReadingALABAMA (38-18) Coach: Patrick Murphy (1,304-393 in 27 years overall; 1,276-373 in 26 years at Alabama). Last WCWS appearance: 2023. National titles: 1 (2012). Road to Oklahoma City: Won Tuscaloosa Regional: beat USC Upstate 1-0, beat Southeastern 6-3 (9 inn.), beat Southeastern 12-2 (5 inn.). Won Knoxville Super Regional: lost to Tennessee 3-2, beat Tennessee
Continue ReadingBy ERIC HE Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Giants first baseman LaMonte Wade Jr. will miss at least four weeks with a left hamstring strain, the team announced Tuesday. Wade, who is batting .333 with two home runs this season, has been a regular at the top of the Giants’ lineup. He re-aggravated the
Continue ReadingPORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Officials say a staff member with an Oregon medical care nonprofit was killed when the team he was traveling with was fired upon in Ethiopia. Medical Teams International spokesperson Karen Kartes Piatt said in a news release Monday that Mustefa Alkisim was a Medical Teams driver traveling in what she described
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL R. SISAK, JENNIFER PELTZ, JILL COLVIN and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s lawyers and Manhattan prosecutors made their final pitches Tuesday to jurors who will decide whether the Republican will be the first former U.S. president convicted of a crime, squaring off over the strength of the
Continue ReadingBy JERRY BEACH Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Freddie Freeman hit a two-run homer in the 10th inning, and the Los Angeles Dodgers snapped a five-game losing streak by defeating the New York Mets 5-2 on Tuesday in the opener of a doubleheader. Los Angeles trailed 2-0 before Freeman hit an RBI single in
Continue ReadingBy Samantha Waldenberg, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden will attend a June fundraiser with former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that will be hosted by former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, a source familiar told CNN. Bill Clinton participated in March’s fundraiser with Biden and former President Barack Obama at
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