By GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Receiver Demarcus Robinson has agreed to terms on a one-year, $5 million contract to return to the Los Angeles Rams, a person with knowledge of the deal tells The Associated Press. The person spoke on condition of anonymity Friday because Robinson has yet to sign
Continue ReadingBy GENE JOHNSON and REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A U.S. appeals court panel on Friday declined to delay Idaho’s scheduled execution next week of one of the nation’s longest-serving death row inmates. Thomas Creech was sentenced to death in 1983 for killing a fellow prison inmate, David Jensen, with a battery-filled
Continue ReadingMIAMI (AP) — Officials say a seaplane overturned Friday afternoon while trying to land near PortMiami, but no serious injuries were reported. Miami-Dade Fire Rescue says the aircraft came down in a channel between the port’s cruise ship terminals and a causeway that connects Miami to Miami Beach. The Federal Aviation Administration says the single-engine
Continue ReadingBy GENE JOHNSON and REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A U.S. appeals court on Friday declined to delay Idaho’s scheduled execution next week of one of the nation’s longest-serving death row inmates. Thomas Creech was sentenced to death in 1983 for killing a fellow prison inmate, David Jensen, with a battery-filled sock.
Continue ReadingBy TY O’NEIL, JOHN LOCHER and STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) — Kayakers have been paddling in one of the driest places on Earth after a series of record rainstorms battered California’s Death Valley and replenished Lake Manly. Park Ranger Nichole Andler said Badwater Basin at Death Valley National Park,
Continue ReadingBy ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — Hundreds of migrants were dropped off Friday at a San Diego bus stop instead of at a reception center that had been serving as a staging area because it ran out of local funding sooner than expected, showing how even the largest city on the country’s
Continue ReadingBy JEFF AMY, SHARON JOHNSON and JEFF MARTIN Associated Press ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — Police say they’ve arrested a suspect in the killing of a nursing student whose body was found on the University of Georgia campus in Athens. The 22-year-old was found dead on the campus on Thursday after a friend told police she
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A total of 17 vote centers will open throughout Riverside County this weekend for the 2024 Presidential Primary Election, the county of Riverside announced. Seventeen vote centers will open this Saturday, and an additional 131 vote centers will open next Saturday, March 2 for a total of 148 operational vote centers throughout the county.
Continue ReadingBy Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — The Odysseus lunar lander is sideways on the moon, Intuitive Machines, the company that built the vehicle, said during a news conference Friday. The revelation comes after Intuitive Machines had initially described Odysseus, also called “Odie” or IM-1, as “upright” in an update posted to the social media platform
Continue ReadingBy STEVE MEGARGEE AP Sports Writer New York Mets owner Steve Cohen doesn’t anticipate a resolving Pete Alonso’s future with the team until after the season. The 29-year-old three-time All-Star is eligible for free agency after the World Series. He hired Scott Boras as an agent last fall and avoided arbitration last month by agreeing
Continue ReadingBy HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A small balloon spotted flying high over the mountainous Western United States has been intercepted by a fighter jet over Utah. North American Aerospace Defense Command fighter pilots sent to investigate the balloon determined it was not maneuverable and did not present a threat to
Continue ReadingBy Oren Liebermann and Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — A balloon the US was tracking across the country has now left US airspace and was likely a “hobby balloon,” NORAD said in a statement Saturday. NORAD had initially intercepted the balloon with fighter jets but ultimately continued to track it through ground-based radar systems. “After
Continue ReadingBy Casey Tolan, Majlie de Puy Kamp and Kyung Lah, CNN (CNN) — A New Orleans street magician who has no fixed address, has never voted and claims to hold a world record in fork bending might seem like an unlikely candidate to be involved in a high-tech political scandal. But on Friday, Paul Carpenter
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Hauser and Tara John, CNN (CNN) — Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said his country had opened a new phase with Sweden during a joint press conference with Swedish counterpart Ulf Kristersson on Friday as Budapest prepares to ratify Stockholm’s long-delayed NATO bid. Hungary is the last member of the military alliance to
Continue ReadingBALDWYN, Miss. (AP) — Two National Guard members died after a helicopter crashed Friday afternoon during a training flight in northeast Mississippi. Prentiss County Sheriff Randy Tolar tells WTVA-TV that the aircraft went down in a wooded area near Baldwyn. The site is about 115 miles southeast of Memphis, Tennessee. The Mississippi National Guard says
Continue ReadingBy TERESA M. WALKER and RALPH D. RUSSO AP Sports Writers A federal judge has barred the NCAA from enforcing its rules prohibiting name, image and likeness compensation from being used to recruit athletes. The judge granted a preliminary injunction requested by the states of Tennessee and Virginia. The ruling undercuts what has been a
Continue ReadingBy Nick Paton Walsh, Anna-Maja Rappard, Kosta Gak and Brice Laine, CNN Kherson, Ukraine (CNN) — If one man’s story encompassed all two years of Ukraine’s war you might expect it to have ended abruptly long ago. Yet Oleksandr, 38, is somehow alive, burdened with lessons from a fight he did not predict. His prosthetic
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One person was apprehended after managing to bypass TSA security screening at the Palm Springs International Airport Thursday evening. Airport officials said the incident happened at around 5:50 p.m. A spokesperson with the TSA told News Channel 3 that a ticketed passenger walked through a body scanner that was not staffed by a TSA officer.
Continue ReadingBy JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The National Rifle Association and its longtime former leader have been found liable in a lawsuit centered on the organization’s lavish spending. A New York jury on Friday found that Wayne LaPierre misspent millions of dollars of the group’s money on pricey perks, and it ordered
Continue ReadingBy JEFF AMY, SHARON JOHNSON and JEFF MARTIN Associated Press ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — Police say they’ve taken a suspect into custody after the killing of a nursing student whose body was found on the University of Georgia campus in Athens. The 22-year-old was found dead on the campus on Thursday after a friend told
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