By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — On Friday, Darius Rucker released “Carolyn’s Boy,” an album in tribute to his late mom, who died in 1992 from a heart attack. That was two years before his band, Hootie and the Blowfish, released their debut record “Cracked Rear View.” It went No. 1
Continue ReadingBy WAYNE PARRY Associated Press NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — The families of two New Jersey firefighters who were killed battling a July blaze inside a cargo ship say a malfunctioning vehicle being used to load cargo caused the fire. Relatives of Newark firefighters Augusto Acabou and Wayne Brooks Jr. say upcoming litigation will blame the
Continue ReadingBy JACK DURA Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A federal judge in North Dakota won’t temporarily allow out-of-state petition circulators to help supporters of a measure proposing congressional age limits. Supporters want to use the circulators to gather signatures for their proposed ballot measure. U.S. District Judge Daniel Hovland on Thursday said their request
Continue ReadingBy JACK JEFFERY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — An aid group says heavy artillery fire killed at least 11 people and wounded 90 in a major city in conflict-torn Sudan. Doctors Without Borders said the attack took place in the city of Omdurman, just next to the capital of Khartoum, on Thursday but did not
Continue ReadingBy CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Police in Nigeria have identified a nurse as the “principal suspect” in the mysterious death of a Nigerian Afrobeat star which triggered dayslong protests demanding justice. The Lagos police chief told reporters on Friday that investigations into the death of Ilerioluwa Aloba who is better known
Continue ReadingBy STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A massive health care strike over wages and staffing shortages entered its final day on Friday without a deal between industry giant Kaiser Permanente and the unions representing the 75,000 workers who picketed this week. The three-day strike carried out in multiple states is set to
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Las cuadrillas ya iniciaron los trabajos de reparación en la rampa de la Bob Hope que entronca con el freeway 10 rumbo al este en Racho Mirage donde la tormenta del pasado 20 de agosto causó severos daños, por lo que dicha rampa fue cerrada hoy entre 7 de la mañana y 1 de la
Continue ReadingCNN By Melanie Zanona and Jeremy Herb, CNN (CNN) — House speaker candidates have pulled out of a planned joint interview on Fox News next week just hours after it was announced amid fierce blowback from GOP lawmakers, the latest sign of how simmering tensions within the conference are boiling over as Republicans scramble to
Continue ReadingBy STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Attorneys who’ve been defending MyPillow chief executive and election denier Mike Lindell against defamation lawsuits by voting machine companies are seeking court permission to quit, saying he owes them unspecified millions of dollars and can’t pay the millions more that he’ll owe in legal expenses going forward.
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El próximo mes de febrero será sentenciado un sujeto que se declaró culpable de tratar de raptar a una niña de 12 años que caminaba de su casa a la escuela el pasado mes de enero en Moreno Valley. Se trata de Arturo Cisneros de 31 años quien traía una pistola con la que amenazó
Continue ReadingBy MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Amazon launched the first test satellites for its planned internet service on Friday as a rival to SpaceX’s broadband network. United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V rocket blasted off with the pair of test satellites, kicking off a program that aims to improve global internet
Continue ReadingBy WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Iowa’s Democratic Party says it will hold a caucus on Jan. 15 but won’t release the results until early March. Friday’s announcement is the state party’s attempt to retain Iowa’s leadoff spot on the presidential nominating calendar without violating a new national party lineup endorsed by President
Continue ReadingBy AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden says that he could potentially meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of next month’s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in San Francisco. Biden told reporters at the White House on Friday that a meeting has not yet been set up “but it
Continue ReadingBy Alex Marquardt, CNN (CNN) — Two Russian diplomats have been expelled from Moscow’s embassy in Washington, the US State Department confirmed Friday. The expulsion is in response to Russia’s “specious expulsion of two US Embassy Moscow diplomats” last month, a spokesperson said, adding that “the State Department reciprocated by declaring persona non grata two
Continue ReadingCNN By Kevin Liptak, MJ Lee and Kayla Tausche, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden on Friday acknowledged he’s facing an unwelcome political obstacle: The disarray engulfing his political opponents has only made it more difficult for his message to break through. Biden this week used his White House appearances to highlight his record in
Continue ReadingBy MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A New Mexico state judge has ruled against a Republican Party challenge of new congressional boundaries approved by Democrats that divvied up a politically conservative oil-producing region. In an order published on Friday. Judge Fred Van Soelen wrote that the redistricting plan enacted by Democratic
Continue ReadingBy Daniel Dale, CNN Washington (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump falsely claimed Thursday that murder and violent crime in New York have hit record highs. Trump made the claim on his social media platform while attacking New York Attorney General Letitia James over her civil fraud lawsuit against him, which led to the trial
Continue ReadingBy RAF CASERT and IAIN SULLIVAN Associated Press GRANADA, Spain (AP) — European Union leaders are acknowledging that just as aspiring members must meet exacting criteria to join the bloc, the 27 member nations also must work hard to reform the EU to make sure it can work smoothly with 30-plus nations. Although Ukraine has
Continue ReadingBEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s police say prisoners set their cells on fire in a jail in eastern Lebanon, leaving three inmates dead and 16 others injured. The police statement said the fire started in several cells Friday in the main prison in the eastern city of Zahle after an apparent escape attempt. It said 19
Continue ReadingBy KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Voting rights advocates are locked in a court fight with Louisiana’s top Republicans over whether the state must follow Alabama’s court-ordered path in drawing a new, Black-majority congressional district. Louisiana is among multiple states still wrangling over congressional districts after the U.S. Supreme Court decided in
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