By 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,
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Update 2/6/24 The Palm Springs Aerial Tramway will reopen on Wednesday following storm-related road repairs. The tramway is opening a day early, as the closure was expected to last until Thursday. Original Report 2/5/24 The Palm Springs Aerial Tramway was set to be closed Monday, Feb. 5 through Wednesday, Feb. 7 for storm-related road repairs. A statement
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Border Patrol agents arrested two people in two separate events over the weekend on Interstate 10. The first incident happened on Friday when agents stopped a white sedan traveling east on Interstate 10. The driver pulled over on the side of the road, the driver was questioned and admitted to being in the country illegally,
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Actor Gina Carano on Tuesday sued Lucasfilm and its parent The Walt Disney Co. over her 2021 firing from “ The Mandalorian,” saying she was let go for expressing right-wing views on social media. The lawsuit Carano filed with help from X, formerly Twitter, in
Continue ReadingBy JOHN HANNA Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A reporter for a weekly Kansas newspaper that police raided last year is suing its hometown and local officials, saying the raid caused her physical and mental health problems. Marion County Record reporter Phyllis Zorn is seeking $950,000 in damages in the federal lawsuit she filed
Continue ReadingBy JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — An op-ed piece that dubbed a Detroit suburb “America’s jihad capital” is being condemned by two Democratic state lawmakers, who described it as “racist and Islamophobic” in a resolution presented Tuesday. Introduced by state Rep. Alabas Farhat and House Floor Leader Abraham Aiyash, the measure calls
Continue ReadingBy WAYNE PARRY Associated Press UNION, N.J. (AP) — New testimony in the case of a fatal cargo ship fire in New Jersey sheds some light on whether it could have been prevented. A crew member of the Italian-owned Grande Costa D’Avorio says he saw smoke coming from a seaport vehicle being used to push
Continue ReadingEL SEGUNDO, Calif. (AP) — Former Ottawa Senators coach D.J. Smith was hired as an assistant coach by the Los Angeles Kings on Tuesday. General manger Rob Blake said Monday the Kings were looking to hire an assistant coach from outside the organization after Jim Hiller was named interim coach. Hiller was promoted last Friday
Continue ReadingBy EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Attorneys for a public school advocacy group say Mississippi is violating its own constitution with a law that would put public money into grants for private schools. They made the argument Tuesday to three justices of the state Supreme Court. One attorney representing the state
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — The slow-moving atmospheric river that was finally moving out of California on Wednesday unleashed record rainfall, triple-digit winds and hundreds of mudslides. Here is the historic storm by the numbers: ___ DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES In four days, downtown Los Angeles got soaked by more than 8 inches (20 cm) of rain
Continue ReadingBy JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer ESPN, Fox and Warner Brothers 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 DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — For most of the past six years, Patrick Mahomes has had to manufacture the chip that he carries on his shoulder, because the Kansas City Chiefs have been so good for so long that they were almost always expected to win. That is no longer
Continue ReadingBy JONEL ALECCIA AP Health Writer Officials in Ecuador have named a likely source of contaminated ground cinnamon used in fruit pouches tied more than 400 cases of lead poisoning in U.S. children. Carlos Aguilera, a cinnamon processing company, supplied the spice added to WanaBana and other applesauce pouches sent to the U.S. That’s according
Continue ReadingBy FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The IRS is poised to take in hundreds of billions of dollars more in overdue and unpaid taxes than previously anticipated, according to new analysis released Tuesday by the Treasury Department and the IRS. Tax revenues are expected to rise by as much as $561 billion from
Continue ReadingBy RUSS BYNUM Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — All of Georgia’s members of Congress have signed a letter that supports studying another round of deepening the shipping channel to the Port of Savannah. Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock’s office Tuesday released a copy of the letter sent to top-ranking lawmakers on the House and Senate
Continue ReadingBy KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee legislative staffer has been placed on leave after Democratic state Rep. Justin Jones said the staffer yelled at him in a hallway. Jones said Tuesday that he filed a complaint against the staffer last month following an incident that took place outside his legislative
Continue ReadingBy TOM ODULA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Marauding hyenas have killed a man and wounded two people near a university outside the Kenyan capital, prompting hundreds of students from the school to block streets to protest what they called a lack of security. One of the wounded was a student at Kenya’s Multimedia
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The Palm Springs Art Museum will begin a month of free weekly night sessions Thursday to celebrate Black History Month. The first event, “Sugar Shack: A Jazz-Inspired Night Sessions,” will get underway at 5:30 p.m. Thursday in the main museum at 101 North Museum Way. It will feature music from Hope Diamond and her
Continue ReadingBy BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Fifteen years ago, bourbon barons poured whiskey out on the Kentucky Capitol steps to protest a looming tax increase on the spirits industry. On Tuesday, industry leaders reassembled at the statehouse to toast the bourbon sector’s record-setting growth, Kentucky’s bourbon industry pumps $9 billion into the
Continue ReadingBy DYLAN LOVAN Associated Press Federal investigators say a Tennessee man who said the U.S. “is being invaded” planned to travel to the southern border with a stockpile of weapons. A federal complaint against Paul Faye says he intended to commit acts of violence against U.S. border agents. Faye was arrested in Tennessee on Monday.
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