Palm Springs city council plans to start conversations about extending its forty five day Cannabis Moratorium to ten months and fifteen days. The Council could vote Thursday to extend the moratorium for new cannabis dispensaries while considering bigger changes for an industry some council members think has become oversaturated and unsustainable. News Channel 3’s Peter
Continue ReadingBy STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are drifting lower Monday as Wall Street’s wild recent moves calm a bit. The S&P 500 was 0.1% lower in its first trading after careening from months of sharp losses to its best week of the year. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was
Continue ReadingBy SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Four men have been charged over the theft of an 18-carat gold toilet from Blenheim Palace, the sprawling English mansion where British wartime leader Winston Churchill was born. The toilet, valued at $5.95 million, was the work of Italian conceptual artist Maurizio Cattelan. It was part of
Continue ReadingBy WAYNE PARRY Associated Press OCEAN CITY, N.J. (AP) — Offshore wind power company Orsted is trying to get out of a $300 million guarantee it agreed to pay New Jersey in the event it failed to build its first wind farm off the state’s coast. Last Tuesday, the Danish firm scrapped its Ocean Wind
Continue ReadingBy GARY GERARD HAMILTON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — “The Family Chantel” star Pedro Jimeno, who is recently divorced from Chantel Everett, says the “damage is done” and “it’s not going to be any reconciliation in the future.” The drama will play out on the upcoming fifth and final season of the hit TLC
Continue ReadingBy BRENDAN FARRINGTON Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The Florida Legislature returned to the Capitol on Monday for a special session that will allow lawmakers to express their support for Israel, while giving Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis some talking points as he campaigns for president. Lawmakers are expected to consider new sanctions against Iran,
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — U.S. regulators are warning drivers to steer clear of aftermarket decals used to embellish a car’s logo on the center of its steering wheel. Such metal or plastic emblems are typically adorned with rhinestones or other decorations and attached to the steering wheel with an adhesive back. The National Highway Traffic
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — Reliever Blake Treinen’s 2024 club option was exercised Monday by the Los Angeles Dodgers. The complicated option’s price appeared to be $1 million because of shoulder surgery he had last November. The 35-year-old right-hander has been limited to five major league innings since the start of the 2022 season as the
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press GREENBELT, Md. (AP) — A trial has started for a former top Baltimore prosecutor charged with perjury. During opening statements on Monday for Marilyn Mosby’s trial, a federal prosecutor accused the former Baltimore state’s attorney of lying about the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on her finances to improperly access funds from
Continue ReadingBy BASSAM HATOUM Associated Press RMEISH, Lebanon (AP) — The military wing of Palestinian group Hamas says it fired 16 rockets from Lebanon into northern Israel, triggering Israeli airstrikes on the Lebanese side of the border. The exchange of fire came as Lebanon’s militant group Hezbollah said its fighters attacked at least three Israeli military
Continue ReadingHEMPSTEAD, Texas (AP) — Authorities outside of Houston are searching for the people responsible for a shooting at a large college homecoming event that left seven wounded. The Waller County Sheriff’s Office says gunfire broke out around 10 p.m. Sunday night at a Prairie View A&M University homecoming party near the school’s campus. That’s about
Continue ReadingBy Nimi Princewill, CNN (CNN) — Somali authorities have declared an emergency after heavy rains triggered floods across the country that have left thousands trapped and many others displaced from their homes. The heavy rain in the East African country follows several years of drought and successive failed rainy seasons that have triggered a humanitarian
Continue ReadingBy FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Albania has agreed to temporarily give shelter to thousands of the migrants who reach Italy while Italian authorities process their asylum bids. The deal was announced on Monday after Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni met in Rome with Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama. Italy will pay for the
Continue ReadingBy SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press BEAR, Del. (AP) — President Joe Biden — perhaps the nation’s biggest Amtrak fan — headed to Delaware on Monday to tout new federal investments for trains on the heavily trafficked Northeast Corridor. The president visited Bear, Delaware, to announce more than $16 billion in new funding that will
Continue ReadingBy MELINA WALLING and JOHN LOCHER Associated Press GANADO, Ariz. (AP) — Growing up in Ganado, a small town in Navajo Nation in eastern Arizona, Nikyle Begay always wanted to visit their grandmother’s sheep. Begay’s parents had grown up raising livestock, and their dad had always wanted to raise sheep and cattle, but it was
Continue ReadingBy JAMES POLLARD Associated Press/Report for America An exotic wildlife preserve owner who gained notoriety on the popular Netflix series “Tiger King” plead guilty Monday to animal trafficking and money laundering, the U.S. Justice Department announced. Bhagavan “Doc” Antle oversaw the sale or purchase of cheetah cubs, lion cubs, tigers and a juvenile chimpanzee that
Continue ReadingBy TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer MIAMI (AP) — LeBron James couldn’t help but notice the new floor in Miami on Monday, the one with the word “Culture” splashed across midcourt and with team president Pat Riley’s long mantra painted in each of the lanes. James and the Los Angeles Lakers were the first opponent
Continue ReadingCHULA VISTA, Calif. (AP) — A 15-year-old boy was arrested in connection with a shooting that injured four people inside a restaurant south of San Diego last month, police said. The youth was taken into custody Friday evening, the Chula Vista Police Department said in a press release on Saturday. “Due to his age, no
Continue ReadingCHULA VISTA, Calif. (AP) — A 15-year-old boy was arrested in connection with a shooting that injured four people inside a restaurant south of San Diego last month, police said. The youth was taken into custody Friday evening, the Chula Vista Police Department said in a press release on Saturday. “Due to his age, no
Continue ReadingBy MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — James Corden may be off TV screens after leaving CBS’ “The Late Late Show” but that doesn’t mean he’s stopped chatting with celebrities. The multiple Emmy- and Tony Award-winner who gave the world “Carpool Karaoke” is launching a new weekly show set for early 2024
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