A convicted felon accused of stabbing a 35-year-old Banning man during a street confrontation, then hitting a police officer with a brick while trying to get away, pleaded not guilty today to assault on a peace officer and other offenses. Alejandro Munoz, 31, was arrested last week following a Banning Police Department investigation. Along with
Continue ReadingBY JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — A trial underway in U.S. court is providing a possible glimpse into Hawaii’s underworld. Prosecutors say Honolulu businessman Michael Miske Jr. led a violent organized crime ring responsible for killings, kidnappings, drug trafficking, extortion, money laundering and chemical weapons attacks. They say Miske killed the best
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By The Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — Flash floods inundated homes and overturned cars in San Diego on Monday afternoon as torrential rain swept through a large swath of the U.S., toppling trees and overflowing streets across California. Early morning flooding hit the town of Guerneville, north of San Francisco, where a creek overflowed
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — Flash floods inundated homes and overturned cars in San Diego on Monday afternoon as torrential rain swept through a large swath of the U.S., toppling trees and overflowing streets across California. Early morning flooding hit the town of Guerneville, north of San Francisco, where a creek overflowed
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — Flash floods inundated homes and overturned cars in San Diego on Monday afternoon as torrential rain swept through a large swath of the U.S., toppling trees and overflowing streets across California. Early morning flooding hit the town of Guerneville, north of San Francisco, where a creek overflowed
Continue ReadingBy JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A bill to define antisemitism in Georgia law stalled in 2023 over how the measure should be worded. But now it’s moving ahead, backed by a heavy Republican push to support Israel in its war with Hamas and Jewish Georgians reporting a surge in bias incidents. The
Continue ReadingISLAMABAD (AP) — A U.N. report says the Taliban are restricting Afghan women’s access to work, travel and health care if they are unmarried or don’t have a male guardian, a mahram. The Taliban have banned women from education, most jobs and public spaces since seizing control of Afghanistan in 2021. In its latest quarterly
Continue ReadingBy STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate negotiators are laboring to win support for a deal on border policy as they enter what could be a pivotal stretch for a painstakingly negotiated compromise that could open the door for Republican support to replenish U.S. wartime aid for Ukraine. A core group of negotiators
Continue ReadingBy Ted Barrett, Morgan Rimmer, Lauren Fox and Clare Foran, CNN Senate GOP Whip John Thune said on Monday that the price tag for the border security provisions in a national security package that negotiators are working to finalize could rise above the $14 billion President Joe Biden initially requested for border security. “That’s being discussed,” Thune
Continue ReadingBy KATHLEEN FOODY and TODD RICHMOND Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — A man shot and killed 8 people at three locations in the Chicago suburbs and remains loose, authorities said Monday, while neighbors were left on edge as the hunt for the suspect continued. Police in Will County and the city of Joliet said they
Continue ReadingBy Andrew Carey, Ivana Kottasová, Jessie Gretener and Maria Kostenko, CNN (CNN) — Ukraine has rejected suggestions by Slovakia’s new Prime Minister Robert Fico that it will need to cede territory to Russia to end the war. “There can be no compromise on territorial integrity, neither for Ukraine, nor for Slovakia, nor for any other
Continue ReadingPHILADELPHIA (AP) — A fifth suspect has been ordered to stand trial in an ambush shooting that killed a 14-year-old and wounded several other teenagers outside a Philadelphia high school after a football scrimmage in 2022. A judge ruled Monday that there was enough evidence to hold 17-year-old Dayron Burney-Thorn for trial in the September
Continue ReadingBy AnneClaire Stapleton and Adam Pourahmadi, CNN (CNN) — An Iranian protester with a mental health condition will be executed on Tuesday over the death of a local official during Iran’s 2022 mass demonstrations, his lawyer Amir Raesian said Monday. Writing on X, Raesian said he received a notification from the Tehran General and Revolutionary Court that
Continue ReadingBy Nic F. Anderson, CNN (CNN) — A man wanted in connection with the 1991 killing of his wife was extradited earlier this month from Costa Rica, putting an end to his more than three decades on the run, officials said in a news conference Monday. Jose Lazaro Cruz was arrested in Costa Rica in
Continue ReadingBy Alex Marquardt, CNN (CNN) — Israel has proposed that Hamas senior leaders could leave Gaza as part of a broader ceasefire agreement, two officials familiar with the ongoing international discussions told CNN. The extraordinary proposal, which has not been previously reported, comes as Israel has struggled to achieve its stated goal of completely destroying Hamas. Despite its nearly four-month war in Gaza, Israel
Continue ReadingBy BRENDAN FARRINGTON Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — When Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis first took office in 2019, he surprised many with actions indicating he’d be a much more moderate leader than anticipated: He corrected a decades-old racial injustice, took the side of medical marijuana supporters over GOP leaders and hired a liberal Democrat
Continue ReadingBy JANIE McCAULEY AP Sports Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Before the Golden State Warriors returned to the practice floor Monday following an extended break to grieve, they gathered to watch a tribute a world away in Serbia, where two teams in Belgrade celebrated beloved former coach and player Dejan Milojević. The Warriors assistant coach
Continue ReadingBy SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN and KEN RITTER Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A federal judge is being asked to issue a stop-work order on a $10 billion transmission line being built through a remote southeastern Arizona valley to carry wind-generated electricity to customers as far away as California. A 32-page lawsuit filed on Jan.
Continue ReadingBy SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN and KEN RITTER Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A federal judge is being asked to issue a stop-work order on a $10 billion transmission line being built through a remote southeastern Arizona valley to carry wind-generated electricity to customers as far away as California. A 32-page lawsuit filed on Jan.
Continue ReadingBy DYLAN LOVAN Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The Kentucky gun shop that sold the AR-15 used to kill five people at a Louisville bank is facing a lawsuit from survivors and families of the victims. The civil suit filed Monday in Louisville alleges River City Firearms should have been more suspicious of the
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