CORRECTION: The California Highway Patrol issued a correction to its news release. Police now say drugs and/or alcohol did not appear to have been a factor in the crash. The article has been updated with this new information Two people from Twentynine Palms were killed in a crash Monday morning in Landers. The crash happened
Continue ReadingNEW BUFFALO, Mich. (AP) — A 911 call center is taking some responsibility for an Amtrak train derailment last week in Michigan. Berrien County says it misidentified a crossing and contacted a different railroad to warn that a car was stuck on tracks. The Amtrak train with 200 passengers crashed into the empty car and
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY and AYANNA ALEXANDER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A divided federal appeals court on Monday ruled that private individuals and groups such as the NAACP do not have the ability to sue under a key section of the federal Voting Rights Act, a decision that contradicts decades of precedent and could
Continue ReadingBy RAHMAT MIRZA and EDNA TARIGAN Associated Press LHOKSEUMAWE, Indonesia (AP) — Almost 1,000 Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar have arrived by boat in Indonesia’s northernmost province of Aceh in the last six days. They included five groups with women and children who were afloat for days. One batch of more than 240 people was twice
Continue ReadingBy JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Authorities have accused a Houston attorney of using work-related visits to a county jail to smuggle in legal paperwork laced with ecstasy and synthetic marijuana to inmates. Ronald Lewis was free on bond Monday after being arrested last week at the Harris County Jail in Houston
Continue ReadingBy EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi man who was struck and killed by a police SUV in March has now received a funeral and burial attended by family and friends. Dexter Wade was originally buried in a pauper’s grave without police or other officials notifying the 37-year-old Black man’s
Continue ReadingBy EVENS SANON Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Authorities in Haiti have arrested a new suspect in the July 2021 slaying of President Jovenel Moïse. Defense attorney Jimmy Jean-Baptiste told The Associated Press on Monday that Jacmel mayor Macky Kessa was detained but has not been charged. He said Kessa is being held in
Continue ReadingBy MARK THIESSEN Associated Press Retired Navy Capt. Don Walsh, an explorer who in 1960 was part of a two-man crew that made the first voyage to the deepest part of the ocean in the Mariana Trench has died. He was 92. His daughter Elizabeth says he died Nov. 12 at his home in Myrtle
Continue ReadingKINGMAN, Ariz. (AP) — For the second time in nearly four months, officials in a northwestern Arizona county narrowly rejected a proposal to hand count all ballots in the 2024 election cycle rather than using electronic tabulating equipment. The 3-2 vote on Monday by the Mohave County Board of Supervisors against the proposal came a
Continue ReadingBy Fredreka Schouten, CNN (CNN) — A federal appeals court on Monday ruled against a key tool used to enforce the Voting Rights Act – likely setting up another Supreme Court showdown over one of the nation’s landmark civil rights laws. In a ruling that springs from an Arkansas redistricting case, the 8th US Circuit
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By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles judge ruled Monday that there is enough evidence for A$AP Rocky to stand trial on charges that he fired a gun at a former friend and collaborator on the streets near a Hollywood hotel in 2021. Superior Court Judge M.L. Villar made
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press ST. THOMAS, Virgin Islands (AP) — Alvaro Cardenas Torre’s 23 points helped San Jose State defeat Hampton 71-52 at the Paradise Jam on Monday. Cardenas Torre shot 9 for 16, including 4 for 8 from beyond the arc for the Spartans (4-2). Tibet Gorener scored 15 points and Myron Amey Jr.
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — State authorities were investigating Monday after a California Highway Patrol officer shot and killed a man over the weekend in the middle of a Los Angeles area freeway during a struggle recorded on video. Sunday afternoon’s deadly encounter occurred after the highway patrol responded to multiple
Continue ReadingBy Chris Boyette and Holly Yan, CNN (CNN) — From New Hampshire to Oregon, researchers are trying to figure out what’s causing an infectious respiratory disease among dogs that has turned deadly in rare cases. The mysterious illness is described as an “atypical canine infectious respiratory disease,” the Oregon Department of Agriculture said in a
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO, Calif. (AP) — Dalph Panopio scored 13 points as CSU Bakersfield beat Sacramento State 75-71 at the SoCal Challenge on Monday. Panopio added five rebounds for the Roadrunners (3-2). Kaleb Higgins scored 13 points and added five assists. Cameron Wilbon finished with 12 points. Brandon Betson led the
Continue ReadingBy MARY CLARE JALONICK and BARBARA ORTUTAY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A Senate committee has issued bipartisan subpoenas to the CEOs of Discord, Snap and X, demanding that the heads of the three companies testify at a December hearing on protecting children online. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin and Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — State authorities were investigating Monday after a California Highway Patrol officer shot and killed a man over the weekend in the middle of a Los Angeles area freeway during a struggle recorded on video. Sunday afternoon’s deadly encounter occurred after the highway patrol responded to multiple
Continue ReadingBy WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is celebrating his 81st birthday by joking repeatedly about his advanced age. At the same time, the White House is strongly defending his stamina and playing down polling suggesting that the issue could cost him votes during next year’s election. Biden is the oldest
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles judge ruled Monday that there is enough evidence for A$AP Rocky to stand trial on charges that he fired a gun at a former friend and collaborator on the streets near a Hollywood hotel in 2021. Superior Court Judge M.L. Villar made
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — Gun battles between police and armed civilians in Cuernavaca, Mexico, have left nine dead, including two police officers. The Cuernavaca security agency said Monday that two other police officers were wounded in shootouts that began after a convoy of gunmen opened fire on people who were drinking the in street and
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