Update from Riverside County Sheriff’s Department: At 11:28 p.m., deputies were dispatched to the 47000 block of Dune Palms Road regarding an assault with a deadly weapon. Upon arrival, deputies searched the area but were unable to locate any evidence of a shooting. After a review of video surveillance, deputies determined there was not a
Continue ReadingBy JOHN RABY AP Sports Writer CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — College athletes who were denied the chance to play immediately after transferring a second time can return to competition, for now. A federal judge in West Virginia issued a 14-day temporary restraining order Wednesday against the NCAA. The order comes after seven states filed a
Continue ReadingBy JANIE McCAULEY AP Sports Writer BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — One is a small-town girl from Spain’s northern coast whose family once owned a world champion cow and today supplies milk for much of the country and parts of Europe. The other is a well-traveled city girl from Barcelona with deep basketball pedigree as her
Continue ReadingBy DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer Federal investigators say the tail of a JetBlue plane struck a Colorado runway during takeoff last year when the captain quickly pointed the jet’s nose upward to get airborne and avoid a head-on crash with a plane preparing to land on the same runway. The National Transportation Safety Board
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft has experienced a computer glitch that’s causing a bit of a communication breakdown between the 46-year-old probe and its mission team on Earth. Engineers are currently trying to solve the issue as the aging spacecraft explores uncharted cosmic territory along the outer reaches of the
Continue ReadingBy CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A new report finds that operator error likely caused a medical helicopter to break apart mid-air and crash during a training exercise in New York last year, killing both men on board. The Mercy Flight helicopter was on its second training run of the day when
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer Medication abortion is the preferred method of ending pregnancy in the U.S. Mifepristone is one of the two drugs used and it will go in front of the U.S. Supreme Court next year. States have imposed bans or restrictions or seek to limit abortions after Roe v. Wade was
Continue ReadingBy MONIKA SCISLOWSKA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The new Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk and his Cabinet members have taken office after being sworn in by the country’s president. The ceremony in Warsaw on Wednesday marked the end of eight tumultuous years of rule by a national conservative party, Law and Justice. President
Continue ReadingMEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Officials say an After School Satan Club will begin offering activities to children at a Tennessee elementary school following Christmas break. News outlets report The Satanic Temple plans to host the club at Chimneyrock Elementary School in Cordova. An announcement on Tuesday said it will begin meeting on Jan. 10 in
Continue ReadingBy JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press GILBERT, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina’s top education official plans to ask lawmakers for $5 million next to put a digital map of every school in the state online and make those maps immediately available on police officers’ mobile devices as they respond to a shooting or other emergency. Education
Continue ReadingCNN By Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — Before a group of supportive lawyers entered the Oval Office for a photo-op with then-President Donald Trump in December 2020, they were given a clear instruction, according to one attendee: Don’t get Trump’s hopes up about overturning the election. One attorney, Jim Troupis, toed the line. He’d just
Continue ReadingBy FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House is pushing toward a vote Wednesday to formally authorize the impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden as Republicans rally behind the charged process despite lingering concerns among some in the party that the investigation has yet to produce evidence of misconduct by the president. The
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — BP says its former chief executive has been denied a payout of 32.4 million pounds, or $41 million, after he was found to have misled the company over his past relationships with colleagues. Bernard Looney resigned in September after acknowledging he had not been “fully transparent” in his disclosures about his work
Continue ReadingBy LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albania’s Constitutional Court has blocked, at least temporarily, the ratification by lawmakers of a contentious deal that Tirana signed with Rome to process some asylum applications of migrants arriving in Italy by sea in Albania instead. The court’s chief judge, Olta Zacaj, said the court would hold a
Continue ReadingBy STEPHEN GROVES, LISA MASCARO and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Top Biden administration officials labored Wednesday to try to reach a last-minute deal for wartime aid for Ukraine by agreeing to Senate Republican demands to bolster U.S.-Mexico border policies, with urgency setting in as Congress prepared to depart Washington with the impasse
Continue ReadingBy STEPHEN GROVES, LISA MASCARO and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Top Biden administration officials labored Wednesday to try to reach a last-minute deal for wartime aid for Ukraine by agreeing to Senate Republican demands to bolster U.S.-Mexico border policies, with urgency setting in as Congress prepared to depart Washington with the impasse
Continue ReadingBy DAVE COLLINS Associated Press A lawyer for Michael Cohen, the fixer-turned-foe of former President Donald Trump, appears to have cited court rulings that do not exist in a legal filing seeking to have Cohen’s post-prison supervision end early, according to a federal judge in New York who is threatening penalties. U.S. District Judge Jesse
Continue ReadingBy Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump’s lawyers compared special counsel Jack Smith to the Grinch in a court filing Wednesday for trying to expedite the appeals process in one of his criminal cases, saying that prosecutors are trying to disrupt their holiday travel plans and to “disenfranchise” voters in 2024. Earlier this week,
Continue ReadingBy BRIAN WITTE Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland Gov. Wes Moore says he believes a new lease agreement with the Baltimore Orioles at Camden Yards is “imminent,” as an end-of-the year deadline approaches. Moore spoke to reporters Wednesday after a meeting of the state’s Board of Public Works, which would need to approve
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer Medication abortion is the preferred method of ending pregnancy in the U.S. Mifepristone is one of the two drugs used and it will go in front of the U.S. Supreme Court next year. States have imposed bans or restrictions or seek to limit abortions after Roe v. Wade was
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