DEWHURST, Wis. (AP) — A crash at a western Wisconsin highway intersection involving a semitrailer and a van has reportedly killed nine people. KSTP reports the Clark County sheriff’s office told the station nine people died in the Friday accident. The sheriff’s office didn’t return messages from The Associated Press. The Wisconsin State Patrol referred
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Ottawa Senators forward Parker Kelly was suspended for two games without pay by the NHL on Friday for an illegal check to the head against Los Angeles defenseman Andreas Englund. Kelly was assessed a minor penalty for an illegal check to the head with 3:35 left in the Senators’ 4-3 overtime
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A Thousand Palms man on death row for multiple murders died in prison at the age of 40. Juan Inzunza, who was serving a condemned sentence at San Quentin Rehabilitation Center, died on Thursday while receiving care at an outside medical facility, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation announced on Friday. The department said
Continue ReadingBy SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press Famous for being the spot where a spacecraft purportedly crashed in 1947, Roswell, New Mexico, is a mecca for people fascinated by extraterrestrial phenomenon. It’s only fitting that the city’s police force has uniform patches that are out of this world. They feature a flying saucer, two tiny aliens
Continue ReadingBy NICHOLAS RICCARDI and JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press Former President Donald Trump has met with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, a conservative populist whose crackdowns in Hungary have sparked criticism that he’s eroding that country’s democracy. Trump and Orbán have a longstanding relationship, and their meeting Friday comes as Hungary has had conflicts with the
Continue ReadingBy GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — LeBron James is sitting out the Los Angeles Lakers’ meeting with Milwaukee on Friday night due to his injured left ankle. The 39-year-old James will miss his ninth game of the season when the Lakers host the Bucks. Los Angeles is 4-4 without the top
Continue ReadingBy MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer WWE has struck a deal with Prime, the beverage brand of YouTube stars Logan Paul and KSI, that will see its logo featured on the center of a WWE wrestling ring mat, a first for the sports entertainment company. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed. As part
Continue ReadingLA GRULLA, Texas (AP) — Authorities in Texas say a helicopter has crashed along the U.S-Mexico border. Texas Department of Public Safety Lt. Christopher Olivarez says the crash happened Friday in the small town of La Grulla. He did not provide further details and referred questions to U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Officials did not
Continue ReadingBy Michael Williams, CNN Washington (CNN) — President Joe Biden on Friday took his pitch for a second term to the crucial battleground state of Pennsylvania, contrasting himself with his predecessor in what was effectively his first rally of the 2024 general election campaign. Biden’s speech in the Philadelphia suburbs was essentially an abridged version
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Katherine Piccinini advances to the general election for U.S. House in California’s 10th Congressional District.
Continue ReadingBy STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Former federal prosecutor Nathan Hochman has advanced to a runoff against Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón, one of the country’s most progressive prosecutors. Gascón and Hochman will compete in November in the race to lead an agency that prosecutes cases in the most populous
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Tom Silva advances to the general election for U.S. House in California’s 7th Congressional District.
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — Democrat Lateefah Simon advances to the general election for U.S. House in California’s 12th Congressional District.
Continue ReadingBy Sebastian Shukla, Alex Marquardt and Tim Lister, CNN (CNN) — A multi-country prisoner exchange that might have freed Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny was being discussed and progressing when he died last month, multiple sources have told CNN, and included the direct involvement of a Russian oligarch, Roman Abramovich. A two-year stop-start process exploring
Continue ReadingBy JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press MIAMI, Florida (AP) — A veteran prosecutor in Miami has quit after a judge found that state investigators manipulated witnesses by providing conjugal visits and other favors to jailhouse informants in exchange for their testimony in a high-profile death penalty case against a local gang leader. Michael Von Zamft has
Continue ReadingBy AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Local officials in Hawaii plan to open an office that will speed up Maui County’s notoriously slow processing of building permits to help the town of Lahaina to recover from last year’s deadly wildfire. County officials told a community meeting in Lahaina that a County Expedited Permitting
Continue ReadingINDIAN WELLS, Calif. (AP) — Top-ranked Iga Swiatek moved on at the BNP Paribas Open with a 6-3, 6-0 victory over power-hitting Danielle Collins on Friday. Swiatek improved to 15-2 this season and earned her fifth straight win over the 30-year-old American, who previously announced that she intends to retire after the season. The two
Continue ReadingBy GRAHAM LEE BREWER Associated Press Hard-line Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia wore a T-shirt to Thursday night’s State of the Union address that carried a seemingly simple message: Say Her Name. She borrowed the phrase from Black racial justice activists who have been calling attention to the extrajudicial deaths of Black women
Continue ReadingBy FRANK BAJAK AP Technology Writer BOSTON (AP) — Microsoft says it is still trying to evict the elite Russian government hackers who broke into the email of senior company executives in November and have since been trying to breach customer networks with stolen access data. In a blog and a regulatory filing Friday, Microsoft
Continue ReadingBy Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — A federal agency in charge of cybersecurity discovered it was hacked last month and was forced to take two key computer systems offline, an agency spokesperson and US officials familiar with the incident told CNN. One of the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s affected systems runs a program
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