By MICHAEL R. BLOOD and ADAM BEAM Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — When California Gov. Gavin Newsom needed to fill the U.S. Senate seat of his late mentor Dianne Feinstein, he could have turned to a big-city mayor, a member of Congress or a powerful legislator. Instead, he chose Laphonza Butler, a former union
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By JANIE HAR Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — An alternative mental health court program designed to fast-track people with untreated schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders into housing and medical care — potentially without their consent — kicked off in seven California counties, including San Francisco, on Monday. Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom created the new
Continue ReadingBy Joe Sutton, CNN (CNN) — A North Dakota state senator, his wife and their two young children died in a plane crash as they were traveling through Utah, officials announced Monday. State Sen. Doug Larsen was piloting a plane as he traveled with his wife, Amy, and two of their sons Sunday evening in
Continue ReadingBy JOHN O’CONNOR Associated Press SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Preliminary autopsies show that five people who were killed in a central Illinois crash involving a semitruck carrying anhydrous ammonia died from exposure to the caustic chemical. The Effingham County Coroner Kim Rhodes on Monday completed autopsies of the victims of the accident Friday night in
Continue ReadingLAKE PLACID, N.Y. (AP) — Former NFL tight end Russ Francis, a three-time Pro Bowl selection with the New England Patriots who won a Super Bowl with the 1984 San Francisco 49ers, was killed along with another aviation enthusiast when their small plane crashed after takeoff from an upstate New York airport, authorities said Monday.
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL R. BLOOD and ADAM BEAM Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — When California Gov. Gavin Newsom needed to fill the U.S. Senate seat of his late mentor Dianne Feinstein, he could have turned to a big-city mayor, a member of Congress or a powerful legislator. Instead, he chose Laphonza Butler, a former union
Continue ReadingBy JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer Justin Herbert is not expected to miss any playing time despite having a broken middle finger on his non-throwing hand. The Los Angeles Chargers quarterback fractured the middle finger on his left hand late in the third quarter after it got caught in the helmet of Las Vegas Raiders
Continue ReadingBy DENISE LAVOIE AP Legal Affairs Writer RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A U.S. Army lieutenant who was struck and pepper-sprayed by two police officers during a traffic stop in Virginia is asking for a new trial. Video of the 2020 encounter between Lt. Caron Nazario and Windsor police officers was viewed millions of times and
Continue ReadingBy Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Rome (CNN) — Pope Francis has suggested for the first time that people in same-sex unions could be blessed by Catholic priests on a “case-by-case” basis, a seeming reversal of previous statements. The Pope made the suggestion in a letter to his harshest critics within the Catholic ranks, written in
Continue ReadingBy JANIE McCAULEY AP Sports Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Warriors star Klay Thompson would seriously consider playing for his father’s native country of the Bahamas in the Paris Olympics next year. “That’d be cool,” Thompson, 33, said at Monday’s media day, “because my dad never got the opportunity.” The Golden State guard won a
Continue ReadingCNN By Jake Tapper, Anchor and Chief Washington Correspondent (CNN) — John Kelly, the longest-serving White House chief of staff for Donald Trump, offered his harshest criticism yet of the former president in an exclusive statement to CNN. Kelly set the record straight with on-the-record confirmation of a number of damning stories about statements Trump
Continue ReadingPOINT REYES NATIONAL SEASHORE, Calif. (AP) — Authorities searched a remote section of California’s Point Reyes National Seashore on Monday for a swimmer missing since a possible shark attack during the weekend. The swimmer was reported missing late Sunday morning near Point Reyes, northwest of San Francisco Bay, said U.S. Coast Guard Petty Officer Hunter
Continue ReadingPOINT REYES NATIONAL SEASHORE, Calif. (AP) — Authorities searched a remote section of California’s Point Reyes National Seashore on Monday for a swimmer missing since a possible shark attack during the weekend. The swimmer was reported missing late Sunday morning near Point Reyes, northwest of San Francisco Bay, said U.S. Coast Guard Petty Officer Hunter
Continue ReadingPROVINCETOWN, Mass. (AP) — A 95-year-old painter and his family who were threatened with eviction from their dune shack at the Cape Cod National Seashore in Massachusetts have won a reprieve. Lawyers for the painter worked out a deal with federal officials allowing Salvatore Del Deo and his family to continue living in the shack
Continue ReadingINDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Two Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department officers indicted for shooting a Black man who was sleeping in a car outside his grandmother’s house have entered not guilty pleas. Officers Carl Chandler and Alexander Gregory entered the pleas Monday to charges of battery and criminal recklessness charges. Marion County Prosecutor Ryan Mears announced Friday
Continue ReadingBy MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s government on Monday began removing thousands of non-Indigenous people from two native territories in a move that will affect thousands who live in the heart of the Amazon rainforest. The South American nation’s intelligence agency ABIN said in a statement that the goal is to
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Two Republican members of Congress say the federal government should investigate potential fraud in one of its largest anti-poverty programs. In a letter to Comptroller General Gene Dodoro made public Monday by Mississippi’s state auditor, U.S. Reps. Jason Smith, of Missouri, and Darin LaHood,
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL R. SISAK, JAKE OFFENHARTZ and JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Aggrieved and defiant, former President Donald Trump spent a day in court Monday for the sometimes testy start of a trial in a fraud lawsuit that could cost him control of Trump Tower and other prized properties. “Disgraceful trial,” he
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL HILL Associated Press MOREAU, N.Y. (AP) — Around 400 people are now involved in a search of an upstate New York park for a 9-year-old girl who vanished during a camping trip over the weekend. Authorities say Charlotte Sena may have been abducted while riding her bicycle Saturday evening in Moreau Lake State
Continue ReadingKALISPELL, Mont. (AP) — A 73-year-old woman was hospitalized after she was attacked by a bear west of Glacier National Park and just south of the U.S.-Canadian Border. The Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks says the woman, her husband and a dog were in the Flathead National Forest Sunday afternoon when the bear
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