LOS ANGELES (AP) — Lisa Bonet has filed for divorce from Jason Momoa 18 years after the two actors became a couple. The 56-year-old Bonet filed documents to end her marriage to the 44-year-old Momoa in Los Angeles County court Monday. The petition cites irreconcilable differences as the reason for the split. The filing says
Continue ReadingBy DIANE JEANTET and DIARLEI RODRIGUES Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil has observed the anniversary of last year’s uprising in the capital when thousands of supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro stormed government buildings and called for a military intervention to remove President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva from office. Several demonstrations
Continue ReadingBy Joe Sutton, CNN (CNN) — An explosion in Fort Worth, Texas, Monday left nearly two dozen people injured and large pieces of a building littering the road in the heart of the city’s downtown area. At least 21 people were injured in the blast at the Sandman Signature Fort Worth Downtown Hotel, according to
Continue ReadingBESSEMER, Ala. (AP) — Police in Alabama said a 5-year-old boy has been killed when someone shot into a home where he was getting his hair cut. The shooting happened at about 10 a.m. Sunday in Bessemer. The Jefferson County Coroner’s officer says the child was identified as Brandon Jamal Nation, III, of Fairfield. Police
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The Riverside County District Attorney’s office today sought help from the public in identifying a woman who was murdered by the “Happy Face” serial killer 31 years ago. “Our goal is to identify this victim and provide closure to her family, wherever they may be,” Riverside County District Attorney Mike Hestrin said in a statement.
Continue ReadingBy STEVE DOUGLAS AP Sports Writer Franz Beckenbauer put himself a step ahead on the soccer field by taking a step back. The “libero” position is taken from the Italian word for “free” and describes a player who had a covering role behind a defensive line. It was not an entirely new concept to soccer
Continue ReadingBy DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — MSNBC’s Mehdi Hasan says he’s quitting the network rather than accept a demotion. The prominent Muslim journalism announced his exit on the final edition of his weekly hour on Sunday night. The network eliminated Hasan’s show without explanation during a November schedule shuffle, but said
Continue ReadingBy Cindy Von Quednow, CNN (CNN) — A man who was seen on video jumping and attacking a judge sitting behind a bench in Clark County, Nevada, last week was back in court Monday and was sentenced by the same judge for a separate incident. Deobra Redden, 30, was sentenced to 19 months to four
Continue ReadingBy LOLITA C. BALDOR, SEUNG MIN KIM and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Both the White House and Pentagon said Monday they would look into why President Joe Biden and other top officials weren’t informed for days that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin had been hospitalized. A Pentagon spokesman pointed to one reason: A
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By Paradise Afshar, Elizabeth Wolfe, Gregory Wallace and Pete Muntean, CNN (CNN) — Federal officials examining the horrifying midflight blowout of part of an Alaska Airlines aircraft’s fuselage are testing the detached piece for clues on what led up to the plane’s “explosive decompression” after the missing piece was discovered in an Oregon backyard. New
Continue ReadingBy CLAIRE RUSH, DAVID KOENIG and TOM KRISHER Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — United Airlines said Monday it found loose bolts and other “installation issues” on a part of some Boeing 737 Max 9 jets that were inspected after a mid-flight fuselage blowout on a similar Alaska Airlines jet Friday. The inspections are focused
Continue ReadingBy CLAIRE RUSH, DAVID KOENIG and TOM KRISHER Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — United Airlines said Monday it found loose bolts and other “installation issues” on a part of some Boeing 737 Max 9 jets that were inspected after a mid-flight fuselage blowout on a similar Alaska Airlines jet Friday. The inspections are focused
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A 34-year-old man who slipped into an inebriated woman’s room at the Palm Springs hotel where he worked and sexually assaulted her as she lay unconscious had his sentencing date pushed from today to late January. A Banning jury in November deliberated less than a day before finding Alejandro “Alex” Adan of Desert Hot Springs
Continue ReadingBy Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN (CNN) — A Boeing 737 Max 9 earned its certificate of airworthiness on October 25, six days before it found its home with Alaska Airlines. Over the next three months – before a terrifying midair blowout and emergency landing – it would fly more than 150 times. A few of those flights
Continue ReadingCNN, NTSB, KYLE RINKER, SAM MATTHEWS, SEAN BATES By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN (CNN) — A Boeing 737 Max 9 earned its certificate of airworthiness on October 25, six days before it found its home with Alaska Airlines. Over the next three months – before a terrifying midair blowout and emergency landing – it would fly more
Continue ReadingTOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — Five companies have agreed to pay the federal government more than $7.2 million overall to resolve claims stemming from longstanding pollution in two adjacent creeks in the Maumee River watershed in northwestern Ohio. The settlement with Ohio Refining Co., Chevron USA, Energy Transfer LLC, Pilkington North America and Chemtrade Logistics was
Continue ReadingAssociated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A crash between a minibus transporting tourists and a truck in Brazil’s northeastern state of Bahia late Sunday night left 25 dead and 6 injured. The accident happened around 10:30 p.m. local time on a highway near the city of Sao Jose do Jacuipe. Newspaper Folha de S.Paulo
Continue ReadingBy JACQUES BILLEAUD and ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs has vowed to bring accountability to a school voucher program that’s expected to top $900 million this year and update laws that allow for the nearly unfettered use of groundwater in rural areas of the drought-stricken state. The Democratic governor,
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — JuJu Watkins of No. 9 Southern California has tied a record with her eighth selection as Pac-12 freshman of the week in the first nine weeks of the season. Watkins led the Trojans (12-1, 2-1 Pac-12) in a home sweep of the Oregon schools. She scored 28 points and had a
Continue ReadingBy MARK STEVENSON Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — A campaign to save Benito the giraffe from extreme temperatures and a small enclosure in Mexico’s arid northern border city of Ciudad Juarez has finally paid off, with officials promising to move him to a more spacious animal park 1,250 miles (2,000 kilometers) to the south.
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