By NICK PERRY and KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press THORNTON, N.H. (AP) — An experienced hiker who had accomplished the “Triple Crown” of challenging cross-country trails died in New Hampshire’s White Mountains during a solo hike in brutal conditions, including single-digit temperatures, harsh winds and waist-deep snow. Christopher Roma, 37, was an expert hiker who ran
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — Health officials in Southern California are warning people to avoid eating raw oysters from parts of Mexico after more than 200 people recently fell ill with suspected cases of norovirus. The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health has reported more than 150 suspected cases of gastrointestinal illness linked to raw
Continue ReadingPHOENIX (AP) — It’s no joke. A federal agency is discouraging humorous and quirky messages that could distract or confuse drivers on highways and freeways across the country. The Federal Highway Administration recently released an updated 1,100-page manual that spells out how signs and other traffic control devices are regulated. In it, the agency strongly
Continue ReadingBy GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer LA QUINTA, Calif. (AP) — Sam Burns shot the best round of his life with “RTR” shaved into the side of his head. The acronym for “Roll Tide Roll” was the LSU product’s follicular punishment for losing a bet with Justin Thomas. Alabama sophomore Nick Dunlap apparently took it
Continue ReadingBALTIMORE (AP) — Maryland state prosecutors say four Baltimore police officers who fired three dozen shots at an armed man during a foot pursuit in November won’t face criminal charges. Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown announced the decision Friday. He said the officers acted in self-defense after 27-year-old Hunter Jessup fired seven shots in their
Continue ReadingBy Carlos Suarez and Denise Royal, CNN (CNN) — The former chair of the Florida Republican Party will not be charged with sexually assaulting a woman, but authorities will seek to charge him with video voyeurism, the Sarasota Police Department announced Friday. In a news release from the department, officials said an investigation into the
Continue ReadingBy SONIA PÉREZ D. Associated Press GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemalan President Bernardo Arévalo’s new administration says it will make addressing widespread extortion its top security priority. Interior Minister Francisco Jiménez, a security expert who has previously held the position, explained that Guatemala’s extortion problem is different from that in some neighboring countries. Only about
Continue ReadingBy FRANK BAJAK AP Technology Writer BOSTON (AP) — Microsoft says state-backed Russian hackers broke into its corporate email system and accessed accounts of members of the company’s leadership team, as well as those of cybersecurity and legal employees. In a blog post Friday, Microsoft said the intrusion began in late November and was discovered
Continue ReadingBy FOSTER KLUG Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan has landed a spacecraft on the moon, an attempt at the world’s first “pinpoint lunar landing.” Saturday’s milestone puts Japan in a club previously occupied by only the United States, the Soviet Union, India and China. A raft of countries and companies are also plotting moon
Continue ReadingBy Hilary Whiteman, CNN Brisbane, Australia (CNN) — On the edge of a dark, suburban park in Brisbane, teams of volunteer toad-catchers gather around Gary King as he shoves another squirming specimen into a cooler box. “Who’s got some more?” asks King, a local leader of this year’s Great Cane Toad Bust, a small and
Continue ReadingBy JOHN O’CONNOR Associated Press SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — A federal judge has reinstated Illinois basketball star Terrence Shannon Jr., who had been suspended from the team since he was charged with rape in Kansas. U.S. District Court Judge Colleen Lawless found that the university had violated Shannon’s civil rights. The judge noted that Shannon
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Months before Donald Trump’s defiant turn as a witness at his New York civil fraud trial, the former president came face-to-face with the state attorney general who is suing him when he sat for a deposition last year at her Manhattan office. Video made public
Continue ReadingBy Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — Anti-abortion advocates gathered in Washington, DC, on Friday for the annual March for Life — the second since the Supreme Court overturned federal abortion protections. Attendees who convened on the National Mall on a cold, snowy day said with Roe v. Wade overturned, they’re now looking to states to
Continue ReadingBy AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press Nearly all the copies of a small-town Colorado newspaper were stolen from newspaper racks on the same day the Ouray County Plaindealer published a story about charges being filed over rapes alleged to have occurred at an underage drinking party at the police chief’s house while the chief was
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — Guild members of the Los Angeles Times walked off the job Friday to protest what it says are imminent layoffs, the first newsroom union work stoppage in the newspaper’s 143-year history. The paper’s journalists and their supporters rallied in an LA civic center park, chanting and waving signs that read, “Don’t
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — Guild members of the Los Angeles Times walked off the job Friday to protest what it says are imminent layoffs, the first newsroom union work stoppage in the newspaper’s 143-year history. The paper’s journalists and their supporters rallied in an LA civic center park, chanting and waving signs that read, “Don’t
Continue ReadingBy Kevin Liptak and MJ Lee, CNN Washington (CNN) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu explained to President Joe Biden in a phone call Friday that the public comments he made a day earlier — in which he appeared to reject the idea of creating a Palestinian state — were not meant to foreclose that
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A sprinkler malfunction damaged a giant mural of the legendary Janet Jackson that took 14 hours to paint in downtown Palm Springs. On Thursday, Southern California artist Amanda Harris-Gibbs spent 14 hours painstakingly creating a chalk mural of five-time GRAMMY®️ Award-winning Rock and Roll Hall of Fame®️ Inductee Janet Jackson. The massive 13’ x 13’ chalk
Continue ReadingBy ACACIA CORONADO and JAKE BLEIBERG Associated Press UVALDE, Texas (AP) — A Texas prosecutor has convened a grand jury to investigate the Uvalde school shooting that killed 21 people, multiple media have reported. Uvalde County District Attorney Christina Mitchell told the San Antonio Express-News for a report published Friday that a grand jury has
Continue ReadingBy LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s lawyer on Friday renewed a mistrial request in a New York defamation case against the former president, saying that an advice columnist who accused him of sexually abusing her in the 1990s spoiled her civil case by deleting emails from strangers who threatened her
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