ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The Minnesota Wild have fired coach Dean Evason and assistant Bob Woods. General manager Bill Guerin announced the moves. Guerin did not say who would be replacing Evason on an interim basis. The Wild have lost 14 of their first 19 games this season. Evason was nearly a quarter of
Continue ReadingBy Jake Tapper, CNN (CNN) — C.J. Rice could soon be a free man. Rice, whose case and ineffective representation in court we told you about on CNNand in a cover story in The Atlantic in October 2022, was granted a petition for writ of habeas corpus on Monday by Judge Nitza I. Quiñones Alejandro, United
Continue ReadingBy CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Niger’s junta says it has signed a decree revoking a 2015 law that was enacted to curb the smuggling of international migrants traveling through a key migration route in Niger en route to Europe. A government circular issued on Monday noted that all those convicted under
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — New York cannabis regulators have approved a deal to settle lawsuits that have blocked recreational marijuana shops from opening. The state’s Cannabis Control Board approved the settlement on Monday. It still needs a judge’s approval before if can take effect. The deal would lift a court order that has blocked the
Continue ReadingPHOENIX (AP) — A Texas border crossing was closed to vehicles Monday, and traffic at an Arizona crossing was limited to shift more resources to illegal entries, U.S. authorities said in the latest sign of how fast-changing migration routes are challenging the government to keep up. Customs and Border Protection said it was closing one
Continue ReadingPHOENIX (AP) — A Texas border crossing was closed to vehicles Monday, and traffic at an Arizona crossing was limited to shift more resources to illegal entries, U.S. authorities said in the latest sign of how fast-changing migration routes are challenging the government to keep up. Customs and Border Protection said it was closing one
Continue ReadingBy Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — The federal judge overseeing Donald Trump’s election subversion case in Washington, DC, denied the former president’s effort to subpoena records from the House select committee that investigated the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol. Trump’s attorneys had claimed in their motion to subpoena records from the committee,
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A 44-year-old woman was arrested after being accused of kidnapping a 9-year-old girl while she was playing in the front yard of a home in Twentynine Palms. The incident was reported on the afternoon of Nov. 20. According to the Morongo Basin Sheriff Station, as the 9-year-old was outside, a woman grabbed her and forcefully
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — For a year, New York’s Adult Survivors Act suspended the usual legal deadlines to give sexual assault victims one last chance to file lawsuits over misconduct that occurred years or decades ago. By the time the law expired last week, more than 3,700 legal claims had been filed, with many of
Continue ReadingBy Fredreka Schouten, CNN (CNN) — Billionaire Ken Langone plans to meet with former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley next week, becoming the latest prominent Republican donor to publicly weigh backing her White House bid. Langone, a Home Depot co-founder, said he has not decided whether to throw his financial support behind Haley in the 2024 GOP
Continue ReadingSALEM, S.C. (AP) — Authorities say an 83-year-old woman has died after she fell through rotting floorboards in a century-old South Carolina house and down a well shaft the owner didn’t know was there. Oconee County Coroner Karl Addis says it took rescuers nearly four hours Sunday to get the women’s body out of the
Continue ReadingBy MEG KINNARD Associated Press BLUFFTON, S.C. (AP) — Nikki Haley drew a record crowd on Monday as she campaigned in her home state of South Carolina. Officials at a satellite campus of the University of South Carolina said around 2,500 people gathered for the event. Half that number watched from video screens outside the
Continue ReadingBy AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — U.S. Navy officials say they will discuss how they plan to remove a large aircraft from an environmentally sensitive Hawaii bay after it overshot a runway last week. The Navy has placed two temporary floating barriers around the P-8A aircraft at its resting spot in the shallow
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer BRUSSELS (AP) — U.S Secretary of State Antony Blinken will return this week to the Middle East for the third time since Israel’s war with Hamas began last month to explore further extensions of the cease-fire agreement in Gaza. That’s according to a senior State Department official who spoke
Continue ReadingBy TOM WITHERS AP Sports Writer CLEVELAND (AP) — Browns star defensive end Myles Garrett did not suffer any structural damage to his left shoulder in Sunday’s game at Denver, a positive development for a Cleveland team rocked by major injuries all season. Garrett, who has 13 sacks for Cleveland’s top-ranked defense, got hurt during
Continue ReadingPORT WASHINGTON, Wis. (AP) — A local Wisconsin official who posted a selfie with his marked ballot on Facebook during the April 2022 election has had a felony charge against him dropped. Fifty-two-year-old Mequon-Thiensville School Board member Paul Buzzell had faced maximum penalties of 3 1/2 years behind bars and $10,000 in fines. Ozaukee County
Continue ReadingBy JILL COLVIN and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump threatened over the weekend to reopen the contentious fight over the Affordable Care Act after failing to repeal it while in the White House, saying he is “seriously looking at alternatives” if he wins a second term. Trump’s comments drew
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A former Marine Corps sergeant was sentenced today to nearly four years in federal prison for lying about attempting to help two foreign terrorist organizations. Jason Fong, 26, of Irvine pleaded guilty March 23 to making a false statement involving international terrorism after a mistrial was declared in his trial in January. U.S. District Judge
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Six hiking areas across Riverside County that had been closed due to heightened fire danger were reopened today. According to the Riverside County Fire Department, fire Chief Bill Weiser received approval from the Riverside County Board of Supervisors to immediately re-open Eagle Canyon/Tin Mine east of Corona, Steel Peak north of Lake Elsinore, Bautista Canyon
Continue ReadingBy JILL LAWLESS and NICHOLAS PAPHITIS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A diplomatic spat has erupted between Greece and Britain after the U.K. canceled a planned meeting between Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Greek premier Kyriakos Mitsotakis. Mitsotakis angrily accused Sunak of trying to avoid discussing the contested Parthenon Marbles. Mitsotakis is visiting London and
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