A former teacher at a Christian school in Banning who had inappropriate contact with a female student was sentenced today to three months in jail and three years’ felony probation, as well as ordered to register as a sex offender. Nicholas Garrett Corl, 26, of Banning pleaded guilty last month to attempted sexual intercourse
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By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Any chance of Tiger Woods breaking par in his first official PGA Tour event in 10 months ended with one swing Thursday and a five-letter word he wasn’t afraid to say. Shank. Woods said his back began to spasm over the final few holes in
Continue ReadingBy HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A bystander captured on video tackling an armed person after a shooting at a Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl rally says a thousand other people would have done the same thing. Trey Filter says he heard shots while walking to his car with his wife
Continue ReadingBy Alaa Elassar, CNN (CNN) — Elizabeth “Lisa” Lopez-Galvan was a natural at making people laugh. She was known as the office jokester, a DJ full of life and contagious joy and a passionate music lover who brought Kansas City a burst of culture through Tejano songs. She was also an avid Kansas City Chiefs
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — In a story published January 26, 2024, about the verdict in a copyright trial involving celebrity tattoo artist Kat Von D, The Associated Press erroneously reported that jurors found that Von D’s tattoo of Miles Davis, a drawing used in the process, and a group of social media posts about it
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — In a story published January 26, 2024, about the verdict in a copyright trial involving celebrity tattoo artist Kat Von D, The Associated Press erroneously reported that jurors found that Von D’s tattoo of Miles Davis, a drawing used in the process, and a group of social media posts about it
Continue ReadingBy DAVID SHARP and NICK PERRY Associated Press AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine state police are defending their search last fall for a gunman who had just killed 18 people, saying they didn’t rush to search woods surrounding his abandoned car because they feared an ambush. It took police two days to find the body
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Now’s your chance to own a little bit of Palm Springs history. On Feb. 25, the Palm Springs Plaza Theatre Foundation will be giving away “retired” seats that haven’t already been donated to other theatre groups and non-profits. Anyone interested in taking a seat should come to the Plaza Theatre at 128 S. Palm Canyon
Continue ReadingBy MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania’s state courts agency says it never received a ransom demand as part of a cyberattack that briefly shut down some of its online services earlier this month and prompted a federal investigation. A courts agency spokesperson said Thursday that officials there never had any communication
Continue ReadingBy MARK DIDTLER Associated Press TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred says he will retire when his current term ends in January 2029. Speaking at a spring training news conference, Manfred noted he will be 70 years old and been commissioner for 14 years when his term ends on Jan. 25, 2029. The
Continue ReadingPROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A Rhode Island man was arrested Thursday and charged with using gasoline to set several fires around the exterior of a predominantly Black church in North Providence on Sunday. U.S. Attorney for the District of Rhode Island Zachary Cunha said Kevin Colantonio of North Providence was charged with maliciously damaging or
Continue ReadingBy Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN (CNN) — Second gentleman Doug Emhoff slipped into New York on Thursday for a small meeting with youth leaders selected from across the Jewish American, Muslim American and Palestinian American communities, marking the administration’s latest move in its evolving response to the Israel-Hamas war. The event, hosted by United Nations Ambassador
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Zendaya stunned Thursday at the “Dune: Part Two” world premiere in London in a silver cyborg suit. The co-star of the highly anticipated film hit the sand-strewn carpet in a silver robot suit straight from the archive of Mugler. It’s from the French fashion house’s fall/winter 1995 20th
Continue ReadingCNN By Hannah Rabinowitz, Evan Perez and Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — Special counsel David Weiss charged a former FBI informant with lying about President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden’s involvement in business dealings with Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings, undercutting a major aspect of Republicans’ impeachment inquiry into the president. Alexander Smirnov,
Continue ReadingBy Fredreka Schouten and Gloria Pazmino, CNN (CNN) — A bipartisan redistricting commission in New York approved a new congressional map Thursday that could help Empire State Democrats make slight gains in this year’s US House elections but falls well short of an electoral windfall for the party. New York is expected to be an
Continue ReadingBy John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump made his final pitch Thursday to the Supreme Court in his effort to pause a trial over the election subversion charges brought by special counsel Jack Smith. “There are overwhelming reasons why the case should not go to trial ‘in three months or less,’” Trump
Continue ReadingBy JACK DURA Associated Press A federal jury has convicted a small-town Iowa police chief of lying to federal authorities to acquire machine guns. Prosecutors say he sold the guns for his own profit. The jury convicted 47-year-old Adair Police Chief Brad Wendt of conspiring to make false statements to the federal Bureau of Alcohol,
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Desert Water Agency general manager Mark Krause will retire effective next week. Krause spent 29 years with DWA, the last eight as general manager and chief engineer. He will retire on Feb. 22. Steve Johnson, current Assistant General Manager, will replace Krause upon his retirement. “It has been a privilege to serve the public over
Continue ReadingBy EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. special envoy for Libya has sent a warning to the country’s feuding political actors: If they don’t urgently form a unified government and move toward elections the oil-rich North African nation will slide into “disintegration.” Abdoulaye Bathily told the U.N. Security Council on
Continue ReadingBy KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama death row inmate has filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of nitrogen gas execution. The lawsuit filed Thursday in federal court in Alabama alleges the January execution of Kenneth Eugene Smith by nitrogen gas was “a human experiment that officials botched miserably.” The lawsuit
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