Courts in Riverside County continue to be clogged with a tremendous backlog of cases, a year after hundreds of criminal cases were dismissed. News Channel 3’s John White sat down with Presiding Judge Hon. Judith Clark for a rare interview. “This is a growing convergence of issues, that sort of all came to a peak
Continue ReadingBy Sahar Akbarzai and Jeremy Dupin, CNN (CNN) — Elections in Haiti will take place when the security situation improves, Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry said in a national address on Wednesday evening. Anti-government protesters angered by the gang violence sweeping the country and deepening levels of poverty have been calling on Henry to step
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL MAROT AP Sports Writer INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Stephen Curry can already sense the momentum building inside the Golden State Warriors’ locker room. Coach Steve Kerr feels it, too. So after making no significant trade deadline additions Thursday, Curry made his first seven 3-pointers, scored 29 of his 42 points in the first half
Continue ReadingBy Nathan Hodge, Katharina Krebs and Helen Regan, CNN (CNN) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has suggested “an agreement can be reached” with the United States to release detained American journalist Evan Gershkovich, as he brought up the conviction of a “patriotic” Russian hitman in Germany. The comments came during a lengthy and at times
Continue ReadingBy NAJIB JOBAIN, WAFAA SHURAFA and KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli airstrikes killed at least 13 people in Rafah in the Gaza Strip after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected Hamas’ cease-fire terms and vowed to expand the offensive into the southern Gaza town. President Joe Biden called Israel’s military response
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press Russian President Vladimir Putin has used an interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson to urge Washington to recognize Moscow’s interests and persuade Ukraine to sit down for talks. Putin also said in the interview aired Thursday that Russia stands ready to negotiate a potential prisoner exchange that would free
Continue ReadingBy DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer HENDERSON, Nev. (AP) — The Kansas City Chiefs have been getting a chippy in practice this week as kickoff for the Super Bowl against the San Francisco 49ers approaches, culminating in a scuffle involving members of the offensive and defensive lines on Wednesday. Left guard Trey Smith, who carries
Continue ReadingBy MICHELLE L. PRICE, JONATHAN J. COOPER and GABE STERN Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Even though Donald Trump was expected to easily win Nevada’s Republican caucuses Thursday, his supporters waited in long lines to get their chance to cast their votes for the former president. At one caucus site at a Reno-area elementary
Continue ReadingCNN By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN Leesburg, Virginia (CNN) — Minutes after the special counsel report landed on Thursday afternoon, House Democrats stood and cheered for President Joe Biden as he used their annual retreat as the latest chance to make a forceful case for four more years on the job. By the time they took
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — New York prosecutors say a Brooklyn woman has been sentenced in connection with a sprawling COVID-19 fraud scheme. The 32-year-old admitted to defrauding emergency programs during the pandemic. Officials say she misused her call center job, part of a New York program meant to provide healthcare workers with isolation rooms in
Continue ReadingBy W.G. RAMIREZ Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Three of the NFL’s top running backs are approaching free agency and hoping to buck the trend of teams not being willing to spend big money at the position. Saquon Barkley, Austin Ekeler and Josh Jacobs will become free agents next month and will seek to
Continue ReadingDUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The U.S. military has conducted new airstrikes targeting Yemen’s Houthi rebels. The U.S. Central Command said Friday that American forces destroyed four explosive-loaded drone boats and seven mobile anti-ship cruise missile launchers that could target vessels in the Red Sea. It said the targets presented an imminent threat and
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If you drive down Tyler Street, you might notice one home decked out to the nines. Donned in red and gold flags, the home is where a family of devoted San Francisco 49ers fans live. Abel Rojas is a Coachella native. He has 49ers decorations everywhere: on his house, on his car, even his cat
Continue ReadingBy LEANNE ITALIE AP Lifestyles Writer NEW YORK (AP) — There was nary a sandworm in sight Thursday night on the runway of Christian Siriano. But he definitely had “Dune” on his mind as he kicked off New York Fashion Week. These people of the sand had places to go and people to see in
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Laker legend Kobe Bryant joined a roster of greats memorialized outside Crypto.com Arena today with the unveiling of a statue designed to forever celebrate his impact on the team, the sport of basketball and the city. But while one statue was unveiled Thursday, Bryant’s widow, Vanessa, said there will actually be three monuments to Kobe
Continue ReadingBy Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden forcefully rejected the suggestion that he had trouble remembering when his son, Beau, had died, as special counsel Robert Hur claimed in his scathing report released Thursday. “How in the hell dare he raise that,” a visibly angry Biden said Thursday night from the Diplomatic Reception
Continue ReadingBy ERIC TUCKER, LINDSAY WHITEHURST, ZEKE MILLER and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A special counsel report released Thursday found evidence that President Joe Biden willfully retained and shared highly classified information when he was a private citizen, including about military and foreign policy in Afghanistan, but concluded that criminal charges were not
Continue ReadingBy JOSH BOAK and SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The longstanding concerns about President Joe Biden’s age and memory intensified on Thursday after the release of a special counsel’s report investigating his possession of classified documents. The report described the 81-year-old Democrat’s memory as “hazy,” “fuzzy,” “faulty,” “poor” and having “significant limitations.”
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Teachers at College of the Desert are being asked to help identify artificial intelligence “bots” who may be enrolled in classes and boot them out of the system, as these “bots” have already cost the school tens of thousands of dollars, according to an email obtained by News Channel 3. In that email, school officials
Continue ReadingBy JOHN MARSHALL AP Sports Writer SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Sahith Theegala spent time with his parents in the players’ dining room and grabbed a bite to eat during what ended up being a long weather delay. With no room to sit in the clubhouse at TPC Scottsdale, Theegala went out to his car to
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