By SAMANTHA HENDRICKSON Associated Press/Report For America COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A former Ohio sheriff’s deputy testified in a murder trial Tuesday that the man he killed lifted a gun to shoot him, despite prosecutors saying the man’s gun was found on his kitchen floor with the safety mechanism engaged. Jason Meade took to the
Continue ReadingBy JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer ESPN, Fox and Warner Bros. Discovery announced plans on Tuesday to launch a sports streaming platform in the fall that will include offerings from at least 15 networks and all four major professional sports leagues. A one-stop app to view most sports should be a welcome sight for fans,
Continue ReadingBy JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer ESPN, Fox and Warner Bros. Discovery announced plans on Tuesday to launch a sports streaming platform in the fall that will include offerings from at least 15 networks and all four major professional sports leagues. A one-stop app to view most sports should be a welcome sight for fans,
Continue ReadingBy JONEL ALECCIA AP Health Writer A California cheese and dairy company is the source of a decadelong outbreak of listeria food poisoning that killed two people and sickened more than two dozen, federal health officials said Tuesday. New lab and inspection evidence linked soft cheeses and other dairy products made by Rizo-Lopez Foods of
Continue ReadingBy JONEL ALECCIA AP Health Writer A California cheese and dairy company is the source of a decadelong outbreak of listeria food poisoning that killed two people and sickened more than two dozen, federal health officials said Tuesday. New lab and inspection evidence linked soft cheeses and other dairy products made by Rizo-Lopez Foods of
Continue ReadingSCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Baltimore outfielder Austin Hays, Los Angeles Angels outfielder Taylor Ward, Houston utilityman Mauricio Dubón and New York Mets reliever Phil Bickford won their salary arbitration cases on Tuesday, giving players a 4-2 advantage with 12 cases still pending. Hays was awarded the $6.3 million he asked for over the Orioles’ proposed
Continue ReadingBy KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Nevada teachers’ group has sued to block the state from spending taxpayer money to build a baseball stadium on the Las Vegas Strip for the relocated Oakland Athletics. Strong Public Schools Nevada, a political action committee backed by the Nevada State Education Association, filed a
Continue ReadingBy KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Nevada teachers’ group has sued to block the state from spending taxpayer money to build a baseball stadium on the Las Vegas Strip for the relocated Oakland Athletics. Strong Public Schools Nevada, a political action committee backed by the Nevada State Education Association, filed a
Continue ReadingBy JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press Rap legend Jam Master Jay lay, mortally wounded, on his studio floor. One of his aides was in pain from a gunshot to the leg. Another was crying and screaming on the floor. Dashing in from an adjoining room, Randy Allen took in the bloody scene, grabbed a gun and
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The mother of a 16-year-old who died in a workplace accident at a Mississippi poultry factory is suing the companies that hired and employed him. She accuses them of failing to follow safety standards that could have prevented her son Duvan’s death. Attorneys for
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Drivers are being advised to avoid the area of the Cliffhouse in La Quinta after a water main break caused some slight flooding to roadways. Viewer video from around 3:00 p.m. shows water shooting up in the air. The La Quinta Cliffhouse is located on Highway 111, near Washington Street. The city of La Quinta
Continue ReadingBy Matt Stiles, CNN (CNN) — The US House of Representatives on Tuesday failed to impeach Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. The defeat is a setback for Republican leadership, which alleged that the agency leader committed “high crimes and misdemeanors,” including “willful and systemic refusal to comply with the law” and allegedly making
Continue ReadingBy JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Israeli forces have arrested a 46-year-old Palestinian American woman in the West Bank. Relatives say that Samaher Esmail was pulled out of bed by soldiers late Monday and they still don’t know where she is. The army says she was arrested for “incitement” on social
Continue ReadingBy JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer COSTA MESA, Calif. (AP) — Joe Hortiz is happy to partner with Jim Harbaugh to form what Los Angeles Chargers fans are hoping will be a dynamic duo. However, the Bolts’ new general manager has his limits. “Before I got the interview here, we talked about Batman and Robin,
Continue ReadingFORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) — A deputy shot and killed a man Tuesday after he took people hostage and claimed to have a bomb at a Florida bank, authorities said. The Lee County Sheriff’s Office responded to a Bank of America branch in Fort Myers shortly before noon, Sheriff Carmine Marceno said during a news
Continue ReadingREBECCA SANTANA Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House of Representatives failed in their effort Tuesday to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over the Biden administration’s handling of the southern border. The vote marked the culmination of months of examination by House Republicans as they’ve aimed to make immigration and border security a key
Continue ReadingREBECCA SANTANA Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House of Representatives failed in their effort Tuesday to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over the Biden administration’s handling of the southern border. The vote marked the culmination of months of examination by House Republicans as they’ve aimed to make immigration and border security a key
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The third annual Coachella Valley Invitational begins Wednesday with four Major League Soccer preseason games at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, with both Los Angeles teams in action. The Los Angeles Galaxy will face Charlotte FC at 11 a.m. in the day’s first game. Since ending the 2023 season with an 8-14-12 record and
Continue ReadingCNN Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — Once Mike Johnson’s speakership was merely implausible. Now it looks incompetent. The rookie Republican leader – already struggling to wield a tiny, extreme and malfunctioning majority – suffered a spectacular embarrassment on Tuesday night in a failed vote to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. The drama
Continue ReadingBy DAVE COLLINS Associated Press A witness has testified that the estranged husband of Connecticut mother-of-five Jennifer Dulos pressured him to get rid of items that would later become evidence in the investigation of her 2019 killing. Pawel Gumienny took the stand Tuesday in the trial of Michelle Troconis in Stamford, Connecticut. Troconis denies murder
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