LOS ANGELES (AP) — Reliever Joe Kelly appears to be switching uniform numbers after finalizing his $8 million, one-year contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers on Monday, opening No. 17 for Shohei Ohtani. Kelly was listed as No. 99 by the Dodgers on Monday, then No. 58 and then without a number. The team said
Continue ReadingBy LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Hunter Biden pushed back Monday against gun charges filed against him, challenging the case on multiple fronts as unconstitutional and politically motivated days after he was hit with new tax charges. His defense attorney argued the gun case should be tossed out because an appeals court has
Continue ReadingBy LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Hunter Biden pushed back Monday against gun charges filed against him, challenging the case on multiple fronts as unconstitutional and politically motivated days after he was hit with new tax charges. His defense attorney argued the gun case should be tossed out because an appeals court has
Continue ReadingBy JAKE BLEIBERG Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — Texas prosecutors have dropped murder charges against two people in the fatal stabbing of a 23-year-old Seattle woman as a trial continues with a third defendant. The 2020 killing of Marisela Botello-Valadez drew international attention last year when two women arrested in her killing cut off their
Continue ReadingNEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — A person briefly hung a Palestinian flag from a Hanukkah menorah in a public area, prompting widespread condemnation and a police investigation. The unidentified person scaled the menorah at a public green near the Yale University campus during a nearby pro-Palestinian rally Saturday and lodged a Palestinian flag between the
Continue ReadingBy MJ Lee, CNN (CNN) — Several family members of US citizens believed to have been taken hostage by Hamas had asked to attend a Hanukkah reception at the White House Monday night but never received invitations, the father of a 19-year-old missing Israeli American told CNN. Ruby Chen, whose son Itay is a reservist
Continue ReadingGAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Florida formally announced Los Angeles Chargers assistant Will Harris as the team’s secondary coach Monday. The 36-year-old Harris replaces Corey Raymond, who was fired two days after the Gators ended the season with a fifth consecutive loss and missed a bowl for just the third time since 1990. Defense was the
Continue ReadingBy ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — A judge has formally dismissed misdemeanor charges against former Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder in the Flint water scandal. Snyder’s police record and booking photo must be destroyed. The dismissal was expected. The Michigan Supreme Court turned down a last-gasp appeal from state prosecutors weeks ago, ending criminal
Continue ReadingBy Manu Raju and Morgan Rimmer, CNN Senators are growing increasingly pessimistic that they will strike a year-end deal on immigration in order to greenlight aid to Ukraine — with Republicans saying that a high-profile Tuesday visit by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will do nothing to change their demands that US border policy be dealt
Continue ReadingBy Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — Biden administration officials held a lengthy meeting Monday with a group of key stakeholders to discuss a recent rise in antisemitism in the wake of Hamas’ October 7 attacks against Israel, CNN has learned. A few dozen Jewish leaders met with White House Coordinator for the Middle East Brett
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BROWN and AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A Montana woman who police say repeatedly drove through a group of religious demonstrators allegedly told a clerk at a nearby convenience store that she was upset members of the group were expressing racist views, the clerk says. One person was struck
Continue ReadingLAS VEGAS (AP) — A man shot and killed a woman and two children and critically wounded a third child Monday before fatally shooting himself at a Las Vegas apartment complex, authorities said. What police described as a murder-suicide took place just five days after three professors were fatally shot by a lone gunman at
Continue ReadingBy Helen Regan, CNN (CNN) — Tran Phuong Thao worries for the health of her husband as she takes care of their 2-year-old son who was only two weeks old when the environmental lawyer was detained for tax evasion in 2021. Weak from a hunger strike, Danh Dinh Bach is serving a 5-year sentence on
Continue ReadingBy SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin’s top Republican lawmakers says they are done negotiating with the Universities of Wisconsin over a deal that would have given the university system’s employees a pay raise and paid for the construction of a new engineering building in exchange for reductions in staff positions focused
Continue ReadingBy JOSEPH B. FREDERICK, JENNIFER PELTZ and JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Firefighters are searching a mound of rubble after a six-story corner of a Bronx apartment building has collapsed, leaving apartments exposed like a stack of shelves. There are no reports of injuries as of early evening Monday. But authorities say
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The Coachella Valley Firebirds signed goaltender Cale Morris to a professional tryout agreement (PTO). Morris, 27, has posted a 7-4-1 record in 13 games played this season for the Firebirds’ ECHL affiliate, the Kansas City Mavericks. Check Out Our Firebirds Section for More Coverage The Larkspur, CO native has appeared in 21 AHL games and 57 ECHL
Continue ReadingBy MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico is bracing for the possibility that a bonanza in oil income for the nation’s No. 2 oil producing state will end if the world’s thirst for oil falters. A Monday forecast for state government income includes a windfall from the oil and natural
Continue ReadingBy Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — The remarkably well-preserved skull of a gigantic pliosaur, a prehistoric sea monster, has been discovered on a beach in the county of Dorset in southern England, and it could reveal secrets about these awe-inspiring creatures. Pliosaurs dominated the oceans at a time when dinosaurs roamed the land. The unearthed
Continue ReadingBy COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press Three Chilean nationals have been arrested in connection with a series of burglaries of mansions and other high-end homes in suburban Detroit and across Michigan. The charges were announced Monday by Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel who said the three are suspected in eight break-ins after they arrived in the
Continue ReadingBy COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press Three Chilean nationals have been arrested in connection with a series of burglaries of mansions and other high-end homes in suburban Detroit and across Michigan. The charges were announced Monday by Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel who said the three are suspected in eight break-ins after they arrived in the
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