By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — The Republican-led Kentucky Senate has voted to grant the right to collect child support for unborn children. The measure would allow a parent to seek child support up to a year after giving birth to cover pregnancy expenses. The legislation won Senate passage on a 36-2
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is hailing the arrest of a California man accused of smuggling illicit air coolants into the United States, saying the apprehension is the first of its kind and a sign of vigorous enforcement of initiatives to combat climate change. Michael Hart of San Diego
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is hailing the arrest of a California man accused of smuggling illicit air coolants into the United States, saying the apprehension is the first of its kind and a sign of vigorous enforcement of initiatives to combat climate change. Michael Hart of San Diego
Continue ReadingPHILADELPHIA (AP) — A Philadelphia man has been released from prison after his conviction in a poolroom slaying almost a half-century ago was overturned following recantation of a key witness. Seventy-seven-year-old William Franklin was convicted in a 1976 slaying, but The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that an informant said before his 2020 death that he had
Continue ReadingBy RANDALL CHASE AP Business Writer WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Attorneys for Meta Platforms and several of its current and former leaders, including founder Mark Zuckerberg, are asking a Delaware judge to dismiss a shareholder lawsuit alleging the company has deliberately failed to protect users of its social media platforms from human trafficking and child
Continue ReadingBy RANDALL CHASE AP Business Writer WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Attorneys for Meta Platforms and several of its current and former leaders, including founder Mark Zuckerberg, are asking a Delaware judge to dismiss a shareholder lawsuit alleging the company has deliberately failed to protect users of its social media platforms from human trafficking and child
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico City’s drought and water shortage is so bad that one of the capital’s rainwater catchment basins has caught fire, scorching 75 acres of dried-up vegetation. The catchment basins, like the one that burned Tuesday on the city’s northwest side, are meant to hold excess water from storm drains. Normally, they
Continue ReadingBy JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press A Texas fire chief whose small town was among the hardest hit last week by historic blazes sweeping across the Panhandle died Tuesday while fighting a house fire, authorities said. The house fire that Fritch Fire Chief Zeb Smith, 40, responded to wasn’t caused by a wildfire, but Smith had
Continue ReadingBy Fredreka Schouten, CNN (CNN) — Kim Ogg, the Democratic district attorney in Harris County, Texas, is raising alarms about voting procedures there after she was turned away from the polls early Tuesday morning because her ballot had already been cast. In a statement posted on X, Harris County Clerk Teneshia Hudspeth said that Ogg’s life
Continue ReadingBy EVENS SANON, JOSHUA GOODMAN and DÁNICA COTO Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti’s prime minister landed in Puerto Rico on Tuesday, answering a key question on the minds of all Haitians ever since armed gangs plunged the long-suffering Caribbean nation into near anarchy: Where in the world is he? The embattled Ariel Henry,
Continue ReadingCOSTA MESA, Calif. (AP) — Linebacker Eric Kendricks was released by the Los Angeles Chargers on Tuesday, a move that frees up $6.5 million in salary cap space. Kendricks signed a two-year deal with the Chargers last season after eight years with the Minnesota Vikings. He played in 15 games, including 14 starts, and was
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL R. BLOOD AP Political Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Several prominent House Democrats are jostling to fend off Republican former baseball star Steve Garvey in the yearlong battle to fill the U.S. Senate seat once held by the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein, with two slots on California’s November ballot at stake in Tuesday’s
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Desert Hot Springs Mayor Pro Tem Jan Pye was honored on Tuesday by the Riverside County Board of Supervisors as Woman of the Year in the Fourth Supervisorial District. 4th District Supervisor Manuel Perez selected Jan Pye for this honor as part of Riverside County’s commemoration of International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month. During
Continue ReadingSYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — A former producer of raw milk cheese has pleaded guilty to charges related to a deadly outbreak of listeria. Federal prosecutors say Johannes Vulto and his New York-based Vulto Creamery each pleaded guilty to one misdemeanor count of causing the introduction of adulterated food into interstate commerce in federal court in
Continue ReadingPHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona bill that would have made it a crime for noncitizens to enter the state through Mexico at any location other than a port of entry has been vetoed by Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs. The Republican-controlled Legislature approved the measure late last month along party lines. Arizona has emerged as a
Continue ReadingBy MARK ANDERSON AP Sports Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — Domination is the key word in women’s college basketball this season from Caitlin Clark’s transformative assault on the record book to top-ranked South Carolina’s statement-making 29-0 record. Just as dominant is what the Pac-12 Conference has accomplished, going out on a high note before 10
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A mobile home was destroyed by a fire Tuesday morning in Cathedral City. The fire happened at around 11:30 a.m. at the Tramview Mobile Home Park at 67920 E Palm Canyon Drive. The fire spread to one mobile home park and some nearby trees. The Cathedral City Fire Department, with assistance from the Palm Springs
Continue ReadingBy Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN (CNN) — More than 6 in 10 of North Carolina primary voters say that they’d consider former President Donald Trump fit for the presidency if he’s convicted of a crime, according to the initial results of CNN’s exit poll of Republican primary voters in the state, with slightly over half of
Continue ReadingATHENS, Greece (AP) — Backlash by the Orthodox Church of Greece against a landmark law allowing same-sex civil marriage in the country has intensified. A regional bishopric has imposed a religious ban on two local lawmakers who backed the reform, and urged them to repent. Church authorities on the northwestern island of Corfu accuse the
Continue ReadingKANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Missouri Supreme Court will not hear an appeal from a former Missouri detective convicted in the 2019 shooting death of a Black man. The state Supreme Court on Tuesday denied former Kansas City detective Eric J. DeValkenaere’s motion to hear his case. The Western District Missouri Court of Appeals
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