By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s Public Service Commission is an elected body that’s gone years without having elections because of a redistricting lawsuit. Anticipating that a court will order elections to resume, Georgia lawmakers now want to tack an extra two years on the six-year terms of four commissioners on the
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball opens formal investigation into allegations involving Shohei Ohtani and interpreter Ippei Mizuhara.
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By Mariya Knight, Anna Chernova and Darya Tarasova, CNN (CNN) — ISIS has claimed responsibility for an attack at a popular concert hall complex near Moscow Friday after assailants stormed the venue with guns and incendiary devices, killing at least 60 people and injuring 145. The terror group took responsibility for the attack in a
Continue ReadingWINNIPEG, Manitoba (AP) — Canada’s federal government and the provincial Manitoba government have agreed to spend tens of millions to help search a landfill for the remains of two slain Indigenous women. A sum of $14.7 million from each government is to go toward a search of the privately owned Prairie Green landfill north of
Continue ReadingBy MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Wyoming’s governor has vetoed a bill that would have erected significant barriers to abortion, should it remain legal in the state. The bill rejected Friday by Republican Gov. Mark Gordon would have required facilities providing surgical abortions to be licensed outpatient surgical centers, and women to
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Authorities today identified a 71-year-old motorcyclist who was injured in a crash in Palm Springs and succumbed to his injuries on his way to the hospital. He was identified by the Riverside County coroner’s office as Robert Kerman of Palm Desert. Officers responded at 9:21 p.m. Wednesday to a report of a crash at the
Continue ReadingBASTROP, Texas (AP) — Texas authorities say a school bus with more than 40 prekindergarten students has collided with a concrete truck and rolled over while returning from a field trip. Two people have died. Friday’s accident happened in the suburbs outside Austin. Texas Department of Public Safety Sgt. Deon Cockrell says another vehicle was
Continue ReadingORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — The Buffalo Bills shored up their interior offensive line depth by signing free agent Will Clapp to a one-year contract on Friday. Clapp has six seasons of NFL experience, including the past two with the Los Angeles Chargers, where he started a career-best 11 games at center last year. Clapp
Continue ReadingCHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Certain sexual assaults against a spouse will now be criminalized in West Virginia for the first time under a law signed by Republican Gov. Jim Justice. The law, signed Friday, removes marriage as a defense to first- and third-degree sexual assault. Until 1976, a married person couldn’t be charged with penetrative
Continue ReadingBy REGINA GARCIA CANO and JORGE RUEDA Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan opposition powerhouse María Corina Machado has named a substitute to her presidential bid while she fights a government ban on her running for office. The announcement came Friday after Machado faced increasing political repression from the government of President Nicolás Maduro
Continue ReadingBy DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer The FBI is telling people who were on board the Boeing 737 Max that lost a panel in midflight that they might be victims of a crime. In letters to some of the passengers, an FBI victim specialist says the case is currently under investigation by the FBI. A
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The opening night of the 2024 American Documentary and Animation Film Festival, also known as the ‘AmDocs’ was headlined with a special screening of actor Sean Penn’s film ‘Superpower.’ More than 2,000 films were reviewed for this year’s film fest, and the film fanatics we spoke to were highly anticipating Penn’s film ‘Superpower’ that captured
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Authorities said today that a 17-year-old boy was a fifth suspect in the fatal shooting of a 48-year-old man in North Palm Springs last year. The Desert Hot Springs teen was arrested Thursday evening in Palm Springs, according to the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department. He was booked into Riverside County Juvenile Hall on suspicion of
Continue ReadingBy Nicquel Terry Ellis, Chandelis Duster and Eva McKend, CNN The US House Office of Diversity and Inclusion will be dissolved as part of the government spending bill that passed Friday, the office’s director said in a statement Friday. Sesha Joi Moon said in her statement to CNN that her department will be replaced by
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The Palm Desert Food and Wine Festival team brings thousands of people a first-class culinary experience. The event, produced by Palm Springs Life magazine, is in the El Paseo shopping district in Palm Desert, California. Premier chefs from near and far will share cuisine and beverage advice and taste tests throughout the event. The festival
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News Channel 3 and the H.N. and Frances C. Berger Foundation presented another Impact Grant to a local nonprofit working to improve lives and help those in need. A $45,000 charitable gift was awarded to the ABC Recovery Center in Indio, which aims to help those with substance use disorders achieve lifelong sobriety and re-enter
Continue ReadingBy ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California’s unemployment rate is now the highest in the country, reaching 5.3% in February following new data that revealed job growth in the nation’s most populous state was much lower last year than previously thought. California lost a staggering 2.7 million jobs at the start of
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Felony charges were filed today against a 41-year-old man suspected of multiple window-smash burglaries throughout the Coachella Valley over the past two months. Charles Emmanuel Cobb of Indio was charged with one felony count each of burglary and vandalism, according to court records. He’s set to be arraigned on the charges Friday afternoon at the
Continue ReadingBy Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — A balloon recovered off the coast of Alaska had been in the ocean for “well over a year,” the Pentagon said Friday. The balloon was discovered floating in the ocean by commercial fisherman in late-February. The fishermen shared photos of the suspicious object with law enforcement, who were concerned
Continue ReadingBy COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Education Department said it has discovered a calculation error in hundreds of thousands of student financial aid applications sent to colleges this month and will need to reprocess them — a blunder that follows a series of others and threatens further delays to this
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