LOS ANGELES (AP) — Golden State star Stephen Curry returned to the starting lineup on Saturday when the Warriors faced the Los Angeles Lakers. The two-time MVP missed the last three games after he sprained his right ankle late in the fourth quarter during a March 7 game against the Chicago Bulls. Curry has dealt
Continue ReadingBEIRUT (AP) — Israeli airstrikes hit several sites in southern Syria early Sunday wounding a soldier, Syrian state media reported. State news agency SANA, citing an unnamed military official, said air defenses shot down some of the missiles, which came from the direction of the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights at around 12:42 a.m. local time. The
Continue ReadingPHOENIX (AP) — The former elections director for a rural Arizona county who resigned last year because of a flap over the hand-counting of ballots has been elevated to a top electoral post for the state. Lisa Marra left her job in southeastern Arizona’s largely Republican Cochise County last year after she refused to follow
Continue ReadingWPVI, CNN By Jeff Winter, Sarah Dewberry, Michelle Watson and Braden Walker, CNN (CNN) — Andre Gordon, the man accused of killing three people in Falls Township, Pennsylvania, Saturday morning is in custody, according to police. “He’s in custody. No one else was injured,” said Trenton, New Jersey, police director, Steve Wilson. The 26-year-old suspect
Continue ReadingGRINDAVIK, Iceland (AP) — A volcano in Iceland erupted Saturday evening for the fourth time in three months, sending orange jets of lava into the night sky. Iceland’s Meteorological Office said the eruption opened a fissure in the earth about 3 kilometers (almost 2 miles) long between Stóra-Skógfell and Hagafell mountains on the Reykjanes Peninsula.
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Shortly after 11:30 p.m. Friday night Palm Springs Police responded an injury traffic collision off South Sunrise Way and Ramon Road. According to reports, the driver of a white Acura involved in the incident fled the scene before police arrived. The driver of the other vehicle suffered moderate injuries. After officers arrived on scene, they
Continue ReadingBy Mariya Knight, CNN (CNN) — Iceland’s world-famous Blue Lagoon and the nearby town of Grindavik were evacuated on Saturday following a volcanic eruption in the country’s Reykjanes Peninsula, Iceland’s public broadcaster RÚV reported. Lava appeared to be flowing rapidly towards north of the town Grindavík, just as it did during the eruption on February
Continue ReadingBy MEG KINNARD and JILL COLVIN Associated Press VANDALIA, Ohio (AP) — Former President Donald Trump claimed that he — not President Joe Biden — will protect Social Security and warned of a “bloodbath” if he loses in November as he campaigned for Senate candidate Bernie Moreno in Ohio. Trump, speaking on a wind-whipped airfield
Continue ReadingALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The police department in Albuquerque, New Mexico, says a fourth officer has resigned during an investigation into alleged wrongdoing by officers assigned to a unit charged with stopping impaired drivers. The department says investigators had been trying to schedule an interview with Nelson Ortiz, but he resigned Thursday. Ortiz joined the
Continue ReadingBy Ashley R. Williams, CNN (CNN) — Over the course of nearly a decade, a Montana ranch owner and at least five other people conspired to clone sheep and create a larger hybrid species of what is already considered the world’s largest sheep species for financial gain, according to federal prosecutors. Arthur “Jack” Schubarth, 80,
Continue ReadingCARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has become his party’s official nominee for July’s highly anticipated presidential election, which will allow him to stroll into a third consecutive term with no real competition on the horizon. That is ot unusual to Venezuela. The July 28 election has been plagued with controversy since Maduro’s
Continue ReadingBy MIKE CATALINI and RON TODT Associated Press TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — A man suspected of fatally shooting three family members in their Philadelphia-area homes Saturday was arrested in New Jersey after evading law enforcement for hours as police mobilized across two states, shutting down a parade and an amusement park and ordering some residents
Continue ReadingBy AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Maui’s mayor says he is prioritizing housing, evaluating evacuation routes and hiring more firefighters as his Hawaii community recovers from the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century. Mayor Richard Bissen outlined the steps in emotional remarks more than seven months after the Aug. 8 wildfire
Continue ReadingBy Taylor Romine, CNN (CNN) — A US Coast Guard vessel “accidentally discharged” about 500 gallons of diesel fuel off the coast of Northern California, District 11 of the military branch said in a news release. The Coast Guard Cutter Alder, a 225-foot buoy tender, was on its way to Humboldt Bay Friday morning while
Continue ReadingPORTSMOUTH, N.H. (AP) — A late-night fight at a New Hampshire diner has led to an assault charge against a former police officer and arrest warrants for two others. The New Hampshire State Police say in a news release that former Portsmouth police officer Aaron Goodwin has been charged with simple assault following the fight
Continue ReadingBy AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As Salvatore LoGrande fought cancer and all the pain that came with it, his daughters promised to keep him in the white, pitched roof house he worked so hard to buy all those decades ago. So, Sandy LoGrande thought it was a mistake when, a year after
Continue ReadingSCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Third baseman J.D. Davis and the Oakland Athletics finalized a $2.5 million, one-year contract on Saturday, a deal that allows him to earn $1 million more in performance bonuses. Davis would get $100,000 each for 250 and 350 plate appearances, $150,000 apiece for 400 and 450 and $250,000 each for 500
Continue ReadingBy MIKE CATALINI and RON TODT Associated Press TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — A gunman killed three people in their Philadelphia-area homes and then barricaded himself in a house in New Jersey’s capital city, in a string of violence that spread fear through a suburban Saturday, authorities said. The mayhem forced the cancellation of a St.
Continue ReadingLAS VEGAS (AP) — Chloe Webb scored 24 points and grabbed 15 rebounds to lead California Baptist to a 75-74 win on Saturday in the Western Athletic Conference Tournament championship game with the Lancers advancing to their first NCAA Tournament. The Lancers won the conference tournament in 2021 but were ineligible for the NCAAs because
Continue ReadingRIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro says he’s “not afraid of any trial,” a day after documents released by the Supreme Court revealed that two top military leaders said the populist plotted to remain in power after losing the 2022 election. Bolsonaro avoided commenting on the content of any of the
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