The harm reduction team with DAP Health is helping to prevent overdoses at the Coachella music festival. On Friday, the organization provided naloxone and fentanyl test strips to festivalgoers near the convention center in Palm Springs, near the buses to the Empire Polo Grounds. Naloxone is a medication that can rapidly reverse an overdose. Neil
Continue ReadingBy LEKAN OYEKANMI and ACACIA CORONADO Associated Press BRENHAM, Texas (AP) — A Texas semitrailer driver rammed a stolen 18-wheeler through the front of a public safety building where his renewal for a commercial driver’s license had been rejected, killing one person and injuring 13 others, authorities said Friday. The intentional crash into the single-story
Continue ReadingBy DAVID SHARP Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine Gov. Janet Mills has signed into law a bill restricting paramilitary training in response to a neo-Nazi who wanted to create a training center for a “blood tribe.” The measure allows the attorney general to file for a court injunction to stop paramilitary training that’s
Continue ReadingBy ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge in Delaware has refused to throw out a federal gun case against Hunter Biden, rejecting the president’s son’s claim that he is being prosecuted for political purposes as well as other arguments. U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika’s ruling increases the
Continue ReadingBy MATT BROWN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump’s visit to a Chick-fil-A restaurant location in Atlanta near the campuses of prominent historically black colleges and universities electrified conservative media at a moment when Republicans hope to make inroads with Democrats’ most committed voting bloc. The widely shared moment was days in the making,
Continue ReadingMEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Anthony Davis started for the Los Angeles Lakers against the Memphis Grizzlies on Friday night after missing a game because of a left eye contusion. Davis, the Lakers’ second-leading scorer at 24.5 points a game and leading rebounder at 12.6, left in the first half Sunday against Minnesota after taking a
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — A new report by the Mexican government says the country is facing a dire shortage of fentanyl for medical use, even as Mexican cartels pump out tons of the illicit narcotic. The paradox was reported Friday in a study by Mexico’s National Commission on Mental Health and Addictions. The study did
Continue ReadingZEBALLOS, British Columbia (AP) — An orphaned killer whale stranded in a remote Vancouver Island lagoon is proving difficult for rescuers to catch. An official at the site says the capture operation is in the “demobilization stage” after an unsuccessful attempt to rescue the 2-year-old orca that began before dawn. Ehattesaht First Nation Chief Simon
Continue ReadingQUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani police are searching for gunmen who killed eight people after abducting them from a bus on a highway in the country’s southwest, a police official said Saturday. Earlier, the same attackers killed two people and wounded six in another car they forced to stop. According to the police official, the
Continue ReadingPHOENIX (AP) — A guilty plea by the leader of an offshoot polygamous sect near the Arizona-Utah border is at risk of being thrown out due to an unmet condition of his deal that hinged on whether others charged in the case also would plead guilty. Under the terms of Samuel Bateman’s deal, prosecutors can
Continue ReadingBy Helen Regan and Rhea Mogul, CNN (CNN) — The world’s biggest election kicks into gear next week when the first ballots are cast in India’s mammoth national polls, considered the most consequential in decades with the potential to shape the country’s future. Nearly 1 billion people are eligible to decide whether to grant Prime
Continue ReadingBy TERRY SPENCER Associated Press WELLINGTON, Fla. (AP) — Prince Harry scored a goal in a charity polo match as his wife, Meghan, and cameras for a Netflix miniseries looked on. Harry played in a Florida match on Friday to benefit his charity, Sentebale. It provides assistance to children and young adults in the southern
Continue ReadingDALLAS (AP) — Federal prosecutors say a Dallas anesthesiologist has been convicted for injecting a nerve-blocking agent and other drugs into bags of intravenous fluid at a surgical center where he worked, which led to the death of a coworker and caused cardiac emergencies for several patients. A jury convicted 60-year-old Raynaldo Riviera Ortiz Jr.
Continue ReadingBy JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Two New York City police officers involved in the fatal shooting of Kawaski Trawick inside his Bronx apartment five years ago will not face internal discipline. The city’s police commissioner, Edward Caban, announced his decision Friday, writing in a statement that the officers “acted within the
Continue ReadingBy JOHN HANNA Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The governor of Kansas has vetoed a proposed ban on gender-affirming care for minors, a measure to require more reporting from abortion providers and what she says is a vague bill making it a crime to coerce someone into having an abortion. Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s
Continue ReadingBy CAROLYN THOMPSON and JIM MUSTIAN Associated Press BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A federal jury has convicted a former U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent of obstruction of justice and lying to federal agents. But jurors on Friday also acquitted Joseph Bongiovanni of a charge he improperly wiped his DEA cellphone. And the jury failed to
Continue ReadingBy NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press Former President Donald Trump is turning to one of his favorite themes, the specter of immigrants improperly voting in federal elections. House Speaker Mike Johnson on Friday came to the former president’s Florida compound to announce that he would introduce a bill to stop those who are not citizens from
Continue ReadingBy STEVE REED AP Sports Writer AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — Max Homa figures if he can conquer the mental task of playing well in a group with Tiger Woods for 36 holes at the Masters, he can accomplish pretty much anything in golf. That includes winning his first major championship. Homa was tied for the
Continue ReadingBy GABE STERN and RIO YAMAT Associated Press/Report for America LAS VEGAS (AP) — The mother of a Nevada inmate who died a year ago after he was beaten by corrections officers has filed a lawsuit accusing prison staff of conspiring with the coroner’s office in Las Vegas to cover up the death. Annette Walker
Continue ReadingBy BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Republican lawmakers in Kentucky have removed any role for the Democratic governor in filling a U.S. Senate vacancy. The GOP supermajority Legislature on Friday easily overrode Gov. Andy Beshear’s veto of the measure. The legislation calls for a special election to fill any Senate vacancy from
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