LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ lawyer says the searches of his properties were ‘excessive’ and that the music mogul is innocent.
Continue ReadingBy STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Southern California police department has been handcuffed by Lego after the toy company asked the agency to stop adding Lego heads to cover the faces of suspects in images it shares on social media. The Murrieta Police Department has been using Lego heads and emojis
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Police announced the arrest Tuesday of a second suspect in connection with robberies this past October at the Gucci Store in Palm Desert. The Riverside County Sheriff’s Office said an additional theft occurred at the same business on the afternoon of Feb. 12. The circumstances were also similar to the robberies back in October. Isaiah
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Two former officials of a Massachusetts veterans home where at least 76 people died during the COVID-19 pandemic will avoid jail time in the case. Bennett Walsh, the former superintendent of the Veterans’ Home in Holyoke, and Dr. David Clinton, its former medical director, settled their criminal
Continue ReadingSPARKS, Nev. (AP) — The city of Sparks has agreed to a $525,000 settlement with a former police officer who filed a lawsuit in 2021 accusing the city of violating his free speech rights by suspending him for contentious comments he posted on his private social media account. George Forbush, a 20-year veteran of the
Continue ReadingBy Piper Hudspeth Blackburn and Simone Pathe, CNN (CNN) — North Carolina pastor Mark Harris has won the Republican nomination for North Carolina’s 8th Congressional District, making him the likely next member of Congress from this red district some five years after his apparent victory in an earlier House election was thrown out over ballot
Continue ReadingMOSCOW (AP) — Russian officials persisted Tuesday in saying Ukraine and the West had a role in last week’s deadly Moscow concert hall attack despite vehement denials of involvement by Kyiv and a claim of responsibility by an affiliate of the Islamic State group. Without offering any evidence, Alexander Bortnikov, head of the Federal Security
Continue ReadingBy HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Iowa attorney general’s office said it is still working on an audit of its victim services that has held up emergency contraception funding for victims of sexual assault. Attorney General Brenna Bird, a Republican, paused the funding while awaiting the results of the audit
Continue ReadingHARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A federal court has dismissed an attempt by conservative Pennsylvania lawmakers to overturn automatic voter registration, along with lawmakers’ other challenges to actions designed to boost voter access. Pennsylvania U.S. District Judge Jennifer Wilson wrote in her decision Tuesday that the lawmakers did not have legal standing in their filing. The
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JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. (AP) — An Army helicopter crashed at a military base in Washington state during a routine training exercise, sending the two pilots to a hospital. Joint Base Lewis-McChord told The News Tribune Tuesday that what the person called an “aviation mishap” on Monday night involved a U.S. Army AH-64E Apache helicopter
Continue ReadingBy JORGE RUEDA Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela’s main opposition coalition says that electoral authorities didn’t let the group register its presidential candidate as the deadline passed, in what it calls the latest blow to democracy in the South American country. Omar Barboza, a representative of the U.S.-backed Unitary Platform coalition, says that
Continue ReadingCNN By Aaron Pellish, Eva McKend and Gregory Krieg, CNN (CNN) — Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. named attorney and tech entrepreneur Nicole Shanahan as his running mate Tuesday at a rally in Oakland, California. “I’m so proud to introduce to you the next vice president the United States, my fellow lawyer, a
Continue ReadingBy CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have been promoting their health care agenda during an appearance in Raleigh, North Carolina. It’s the final stop on Biden’s tour of battleground states after his State of the Union address. Biden on Tuesday said Democrats like him
Continue ReadingBy KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Advocates for adult victims of childhood sexual abuse say they will ask Louisiana’s Supreme Court to reconsider a ruling that wiped out 2021 legislation giving them a renewed opportunity to file damage lawsuits. The ruling bucked a trend. Advocates say 24 other states have laws that
Continue ReadingCNN By Devan Cole, Jen Christensen, Tierney Sneed and Dan Berman, CNN (CNN) — A majority of Supreme Court justices appeared skeptical Tuesday of the idea of a nationwide ban or new limits on mifepristone, the primary drug used for medication abortions. The case was the first abortion-related hearing since the court reversed Roe v.
Continue ReadingSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Golden State Warriors hired Kimberly Veale on Tuesday to be senior vice president of marketing and communications for their new WNBA franchise that begins play in 2025. Veale spent seven years in the WNBA with the Seattle Storm and Chicago Sky. She has been with the Warriors for the last
Continue ReadingOAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Left-hander T.J. McFarland was acquired by the Oakland Athletics from the Los Angeles Dodgers on Tuesday for cash and was added to the 40-man roster. The 34-year-old agreed to a minor league contract with the Dodgers on Jan. 26 and had a 1.35 ERA in seven spring training games. He made
Continue ReadingBy TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon says a controversial policy that allows service members to be reimbursed for travel if they or a family member have to go out of state for reproductive health care — including abortions — was only used 12 times from June to December of last year.
Continue ReadingBy STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Southern California police department has been handcuffed by Lego after the toy company asked the agency to stop adding Lego heads to cover the faces of suspects in images it shares on social media. The Murrieta Police Department has been using Lego heads and emojis
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A 24-year-old man who was thrown off a balcony after witnesses spotted him swimming naked in the pool of an apartment complex has been sentenced to 10 years in prison. Tracy Marquis Rose of Palm Springs pleaded guilty March 12 to one felony count each of attempted murder, assault with a gun, vandalism and being
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