VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Residents in the western Canadian city of Fort Nelson, British Columbia, are being allowed to return home after more than 4,700 were evacuated from the community for more than two weeks due to wildfires. The Northern Rockies Regional Municipality and the Fort Nelson First Nation jointly rescinded their evacuation orders
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — Mike Tyson was recovering Monday after falling ill a day earlier during a flight from Miami to Los Angeles, his representatives said. The 58-year-old boxing legend “became nauseous and dizzy due to an ulcer flare up 30 minutes before landing” on Sunday, his publicist’s office said in a statement. “Thankfully Mr.
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — Mike Tyson was recovering Monday after falling ill a day earlier during a flight from Miami to Los Angeles, his representatives said. The 58-year-old boxing legend “became nauseous and dizzy due to an ulcer flare up 30 minutes before landing” on Sunday, his publicist’s office said in a statement. “Thankfully Mr.
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By Mohammad Al Sawalhi, Abeer Salman, Kareem Khadder, Sarah El Sirgany and Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN Rafah, Gaza and Jerusalem (CNN) — Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday an airstrike that killed dozens of people at a camp for displaced Palestinians in Rafah, Gaza, was a “tragic error.” “Despite our best effort not to harm
Continue ReadingBy BERNIE WILSON AP Sports Writer SAN DIEGO (AP) — Bill Walton might have been the ultimate San Diegan. While he went away to play basketball at UCLA and the bulk of his NBA career, he never missed a chance to celebrate his hometown. Long after his playing days ended, the Hall of Famer was
Continue ReadingAssociated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Chinese state media says at least four people have been reported dead in a building collapse in the eastern province of Anhui. A section of a 10-unit apartment block in the city of Tongling fell onto its occupants shortly after noon on Monday, leading to an hourslong search for
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Van Sant, CNN (CNN) — A Virginia company will pay a $7,500 civil penalty after being fined by the Department of Justice over a discriminatory job posting. According to the DOJ, in March of 2023, Arthur Grand Technologies Inc., an information technology services firm based in Ashburn, Virginia, posted a job advertisement for a business
Continue ReadingBy Christopher Lamb and Sharon Braithwaite, CNN (CNN) — Pope Francis allegedly told Italian bishops to not permit gay men to train for the priesthood, with two Italian newspapers claiming that the 87-year-old pontiff made a homophobic slur in a closed-door meeting last week. Citing sources from inside the meeting, the Corriere della Sera and
Continue ReadingBy KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — International donors meeting in Brussels say they will commit 7.5 billion euros, about $8.1 billion, in both grants and loans to support Syrians battered by war, poverty, and hunger for the rest of this year and beyond. The pledges surpassed the modest $4.07 billion that the United
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press Reaction from the basketball world to the death Monday of Bill Walton: ___ “My very close friend, fellow Bruin and NBA rival Bill Walton died today. And the world feels so much heavier now. On the court, Bill was a fierce player, but off the court he wasn’t happy unless he
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We’re following a deadly I-10 crash in Chiriaco Summit. It happened shortly after 3:30 p.m. Sunday on the Westbound side of the freeway near Hayfield Road. We have learned that a 40-year-old man from Mecca died in the crash. The coroner identified the man as Sergio Guzman Ramirez. CHP says Guzman Ramirez, who was driving
Continue ReadingBy MELANIE LIDMAN, TIA GOLDENBERG and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday that a “tragic mistake” was made in an Israeli strike in the southern Gaza city of Rafah that set fire to a camp housing displaced Palestinians and, according to local officials, killed at least
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By RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Shohei Ohtani says he lost sleep after his translator was accused of stealing millions of dollars from the two-way baseball star. Ippei Mizuhara was fired by the Los Angeles Dodgers after the season opener on March 21 when a federal gambling investigation became public. Mizuhara
Continue ReadingAZUSA, Calif. (AP) — An 81-year-old man who investigators say terrorized a Southern California neighborhood for years with a slingshot has been arrested, police said. While conducting an investigation, detectives “learned that during the course of 9-10 years, dozens of citizens were being victimized by a serial slingshot shooter,” the Azusa Police Department said in
Continue ReadingAZUSA, Calif. (AP) — An 81-year-old man who investigators say terrorized a Southern California neighborhood for years with a slingshot has been arrested, police said. While conducting an investigation, detectives “learned that during the course of 9-10 years, dozens of citizens were being victimized by a serial slingshot shooter,” the Azusa Police Department said in
Continue ReadingCHICAGO (AP) — A man who spent 12 years in prison fora Chicago murder based in part on testimony from a legally blind eyewitness is suing the city and the police department. A judge convicted Darien Harris in 2014 in connection with a fatal shooting at a South Side gas station in 2011. He was
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — An American quarry company has rejected the Mexican president’s campaign of criticisms and closures, and his offer to buy its property on the Caribbean coast. In July, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador offered to buy Alabama-based Vulcan Materials’ Caribbean coast property for about $385 million following a years-long dispute. It said
Continue ReadingBy Nic F. Anderson and Holly Yan, CNN (CNN) — A suspect accused of stabbing a man through a McDonald’s drive-through window and then stabbing a woman inside the restaurant was arrested last month on suspicion of assaulting a family member, court records show. Massachusetts police are also investigating whether the assailant at the McDonald’s
Continue ReadingMEGAN JANETSKY Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — The number of heat-related howler monkeys deaths in Mexico has risen to 157, the government said, with a tragically small number of the primates treated or recovering. Meanwhile, an animal park in northern Mexico confirmed it has received reports that at least a hundred parrots, bats and
Continue ReadingCNN By Kevin Dotson, Steve Almasy and Eric Levenson, CNN (CNN) — Bill Walton, the basketball Hall of Fame center who won two national titles at UCLA, two NBA championships in Portland and Boston and later put the “color” in color commentator, died Monday following a prolonged battle with cancer, the NBA announced. Walton was
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