LOS ANGELES (AP) — Last weekend’s four NFL divisional round playoff games averaged 40.0 million viewers on television and digital platforms, the highest on record dating back to 1988. The viewer average is a 7% increase over last year and a 5% jump from two years ago. Sunday night’s game between the Kansas City Chiefs
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Charles Osgood, who anchored “CBS Sunday Morning” for more than two decades, was host of the long-running radio program “The Osgood File” and was referred to as CBS News’ poet-in-residence, has died. He was 91. CBS reported that Osgood died Tuesday at his home in New Jersey
Continue ReadingBy JACK DURA Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A North Dakota judge has denied a requested temporary block on a part of the state’s revised abortion laws so that doctors can perform the procedures to save a patient’s life or health. They argue a provision that allows the procedure in life-saving or “serious health
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FARM, Tac/Quila, Front Porch and Clandestino are now Certified Autism Centers (CAC). The Palm Springs restaurants were awarded this designation after the owners, Liz and Mark Ostoich, and the majority of their employees received autism-awareness training from the International Board of Credentialing and Continuing Education Standards (IBCCES.) “We had over 80 percent of the front
Continue ReadingBy ALBERT AJI and OMAR AKOUR Associated Press DAMASCUS (AP) — Syria’s foreign ministry has condemned recent presumed Jordanian airstrikes against suspected drug traffickers on Syrian territory, including one last week that killed women and children. In response, Jordan has accused the Syrians of failing to take action to halt smuggling across the border. The
Continue ReadingBy FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The IRS wants to rewrite its complicated letters to taxpayers and speak to people in plain English. The federal tax collector is rewriting and sending out commonly received notices ahead of the 2024 tax filing season as part of its new “Simple Notice Initiative.” “Redesigned notices will
Continue ReadingBy SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Public universities would be prohibited from giving preferential treatment in admissions to applicants who are related to alumni or donors under a bill that has sailed out of the Virginia Senate. The measure passed the General Assembly’s upper chamber Tuesday on a 39-0 vote. It now
Continue ReadingBy Andy Rose and Christina Zdanowicz, CNN (CNN) — Former CBS journalist Charles Osgood, an award-winning newsman known for his work on radio and television, died Tuesday at his home in New Jersey, CBS News reported. He was 91. Osgood was the anchor of the network’s venerable “CBS Sunday Morning” program from 1994 to 2016, succeeding
Continue ReadingPARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron has told top athletes he hopes that France will reach the top five of the Paris Olympics medal table, but he doesn’t want to put “excessive pressure.” He says France will have a record delegation of about 800 Olympic and Paralympic athletes when the games begin in July.
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press The Associated Press national player of the week in women’s basketball for Week 11 of the season: COTIE MCMAHON, Ohio State The 6-foot sophomore wing from Centerville, Ohio, scored a career-high 33 points and added 12 rebounds to help the Buckeyes beat No. 2 Iowa in overtime. The win was Ohio
Continue ReadingNEW ORLEANS (AP) — The manslaughter retrial for the man who fatally shot New Orleans Saints star Will Smith almost eight years ago has been delayed after an alternate juror dropped out. Twelve jurors and two alternates were chosen Monday for the trial against 36-year-old Cardell Hayes. But one of the alternate jurors said they
Continue ReadingBy PAT EATON-ROBB Associated Press Prosecutors attempting to link a Connecticut woman to the disappearance of her boyfriend’s estranged wife say items from Hartford trash receptacles show the connection between defendant Michelle Troconis and the victim. The case was the subject of a TV movie titled “Gone Mom.” Prosecutors presented evidence Tuesday that included a
Continue ReadingBy PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) — Former U.S. Rep. George Santos says he doesn’t plan to vote in next month’s special election to fill his now vacant seat in Congress. The disgraced New York Republican, who became only the sixth lawmaker in history to be expelled from the U.S. House of
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former Houston Rockets guard Kevin Porter Jr. has reached a plea deal in a New York City domestic assault case that will keep him out of jail if he completes a court-ordered treatment program and stays out of trouble. Porter, 23, pleaded guilty Tuesday to
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former Houston Rockets guard Kevin Porter Jr. has reached a plea deal in a New York City domestic assault case that will keep him out of jail if he completes a court-ordered treatment program and stays out of trouble. Porter, 23, pleaded guilty Tuesday to
Continue ReadingBy DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico legislators are holding a public hearing on a bill that seeks to prohibit discrimination against certain hairstyles in the racially diverse U.S. territory, sparking a heated debate. While local government officials argue that federal and local laws already ban such discrimination, Puerto
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — LeBron James will miss the Los Angeles Lakers’ game against the Clippers on Tuesday night because of left ankle pain. It will be the fifth game he has missed this season. The Lakers are 2-2 in his absence. “Just trying to be proactive with his ankle,” said Lakers coach Darvin Ham,
Continue ReadingBy SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish legislators have started debating a long-delayed bill to approve Sweden’s bid to join NATO, in a step that could remove a major hurdle for the previously nonaligned Nordic country’s entry into the military alliance. Turkey, a NATO member, has been dragging its feet on ratifying
Continue ReadingVANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Canadian authorities say that three people have died in a heli-ski helicopter crash. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police in west-central British Columbia said Tuesday that seven people were aboard. Three people were killed and four others were badly injured. Terrace Royal Canadian Mounted Police said the aircraft was one of
Continue ReadingATLANTA (AP) — Rapper YFN Lucci has pleaded guilty to a gang-related charge after reaching a deal with prosecutors nearly three years after he was indicted on murder, gang and racketeering charges in Atlanta. The rapper, whose given name is Rayshawn Bennett, was one of a dozen people charged in a wide-ranging indictment targeting alleged
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