SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Dusty Baker is back for a third stint with the San Francisco Giants. The longtime manager will return as a special adviser to baseball operations and work on both the baseball and business sides, the team announced Thursday. “I’ve enjoyed my stops at various places but I’m happy to be back
Continue ReadingPANAMA CITY (AP) — UCLA junior Omar Morales of Mexico opened with a 1-under 69 on Thursday and shared the lead with Santiago de la Fuente of Mexico and Jose Arzu of Guatemala after one round of the Latin America Amateur. Morales hit the opening tee shot in the U.S. Open last year at Los
Continue ReadingBy ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A California judge says a nearly 65-year-old law does not give the state permission to borrow the billions of dollars it would need to build a large water project, a decision that could threaten a key source of funding for a controversial plan backed by Gov.
Continue ReadingSAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (AP) — The family of a California college student who vanished nearly three decades ago sued the school on Thursday, alleging it caused Kristin Smart’s murder through negligence. Smart, then 19, disappeared from California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo on the state’s scenic Central Coast over Memorial Day weekend
Continue ReadingSAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (AP) — The family of a California college student who vanished nearly three decades ago sued the school on Thursday, alleging it caused Kristin Smart’s murder through negligence. Smart, then 19, disappeared from California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo on the state’s scenic Central Coast over Memorial Day weekend
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Jurors deadlocked today in the trial of a former Los Angeles police officer suspected of fatally shooting a developmentally disabled man and critically wounding the victim’s parents at the Corona Costco. Salvador Alejandro Sanchez, 33, of Corona, is charged with voluntary manslaughter and two counts of assault with a semiautomatic firearm. He additionally faces sentence-enhancing
Continue ReadingCOSTA MESA, Calif. (AP) — Former Tennessee Titans coach Mike Vrabel was among two candidates on Thursday who interviewed for the Los Angeles Chargers opening. The Chargers also announced earlier in the day that former Stanford University coach David Shaw interviewed, bringing the total number to 11. The Chargers are looking for a coach and
Continue ReadingKANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Jackson County Executive Frank White has vetoed an ordinance that would have put a 3/8th-cent sales tax renewal on the April ballot. The sales tax renewal would fund sports stadiums for the Kansas City Chiefs and the Kansas City Royals. White says the proposed sales tax would take about $2
Continue ReadingBy GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer LA QUINTA, Calif. (AP) — Zach Johnson embraced the pressure of being the U.S. Ryder Cup captain last year, even if the experience didn’t go the way anybody on his team hoped. A few months later, Johnson is past all the pressure and the second-guessing — and those newly
Continue ReadingBy Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge on Thursday declined to shut down Michigan’s state-level prosecution of pro-Trump fake electors who tried to subvert the 2020 election. One of the fake electors charged in the case, Clifford Frost, had argued that the federal judge needed to intervene because the case was politically tainted and brought
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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, was charged today with assault on a peace officer and other offenses. Alejandro Munoz, 31, was arrested Sunday following a Banning Police Department investigation. Along with the
Continue ReadingBy SAMANTHA HENDRICKSON Associated Press/Report for America COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A transgender candidate vying for a seat in the Republican-majority Ohio House is now cleared to run after her certification was called into question for omitting her former name on circulating petitions. The Mercer County Board of Elections chose not take up a vote
Continue ReadingDES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A judge has sentenced an Iowa man to 65 years in prison for killing two students at a Des Moines alternative school and injuring the program’s founder. A judge on Thursday sentenced 19-year-old Preston Walls to consecutive terms. A jury convicted Walls in September of second-degree murder, voluntary manslaughter and
Continue ReadingBy KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is accusing the estranged wife of a special prosecutor she hired of trying to obstruct her criminal election-interference case against former President Donald Trump and others by seeking to question her in the couple’s divorce proceedings. A motion filed last week
Continue ReadingBy Alison Main and Arit John, CNN Hanover, New Hampshire (CNN) — 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang endorsed US Rep. Dean Phillips’ bid for president while campaigning with the Minnesota Democrat here Thursday. “In this time of need, only one person decided to place his country above his professional aspirations, put his conviction above
Continue ReadingCOSTA MESA, Calif. (AP) — Former Stanford University coach David Shaw interviewed for the Los Angeles Chargers opening. The Chargers announced the interview on Thursday. He is the 10th candidate to interview. Shaw did not coach last season and was an NFL Network analyst. He was also a frequent presence around UCLA practices since his
Continue ReadingBy FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Hunter Biden has agreed to appear before House Republicans for a private deposition next month, ending months of defiance from the president’s son, who had insisted on testifying publicly. The House Oversight Committee announced Thursday that the two parties have agreed for Hunter Biden to sit for
Continue ReadingBy JONATHAN MATTISE, ADRIAN SAINZ and KRISTIN M. HALL Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A new layer of ice formed over parts of Tennessee on Thursday after a deadly storm blanketed the state in snow and sent temperatures plummeting earlier this week — part of a broader bout of bitter cold sweeping the country
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press Federal health officials are expanding a warning about salmonella poisoning tied to charcuterie meat snack trays sold at Sam’s Club and Costco stores. At least 47 people in 22 states have been sickened in the outbreak linked to Busseto brand and Fratelli Berreta brand meat trays. Ten people have been hospitalized,
Continue ReadingBy ASTRID SUÁREZ Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombian prosecutors say three people have been jailed in the kidnapping and killing of a Hmong American comedian and activist who was found dead near Medellín after going out to meet a woman he reportedly met on social media. The Prosecutor’s Office said in a statement
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