By BERNIE WILSON AP Sports Writer After a week of mayhem on lively San Francisco Bay, it’s not unrealistic to think that SailGP’s $1 million, winner-take-all Season 2 championship will go to the last F50 catamaran remaining in one piece. It’s been that kind of season for tech tycoon Larry Ellison’s globe-trotting league, which has
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN Singer and rapper Doja Cat signaled she may be taking a break from music following an online exchange on Thursday. Doja was scheduled to perform as part of the Asunciónico festival in Paraguay earlier this week, which was canceled due to flooding. Some on Twitter expressed disappointment that the artist
Continue ReadingYEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — The defense ministry of Nagorno-Karabakh says three of its soldiers were killed in a strike by Azerbaijani drones. The Friday incident raised concerns about the stability of a cease-fire that ended the 2020 war between Azerbaijan and Armenia over the territory. More than 5,500 soldiers were killed in the six-week war
Continue ReadingBy GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Some attorneys and voters are using a rarely cited section of the 14th Amendment dealing with insurrection to try to stop some U.S. House members from running for re-election this year. First-term Republican firebrands Madison Cawthorn of North Carolina and Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — Federal immigration authorities announced that they’ll stop housing detainees at an Alabama jail with a history of problems and will limit the use of three other detention centers. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement says the decisions announced Friday reinforce a commitment by Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to review detention facilities to
Continue ReadingPONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — A 19-year-old man is facing murder charges in the fatal drive-by shooting of a 7-year-old girl outside her Detroit-area home. The Oakland County sheriff’s office says Justin Rouser was arraigned Friday on first-degree murder, assault with intent to commit murder and other charges. Ariah Jackson was in the rear seat of
Continue ReadingBy Web staff Click here for updates on this story ROCKWALL, Texas (KTVT) — Law Enforcement officials detained five Royce City High School students for participating in the TikTok ‘Orbeez Challenge’ on March 25. The viral challenge involves using air guns to shoot Orbeez — gel beads that expand in water — at people. The
Continue ReadingBy JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is giving the Navy a freer hand determining what job assignments it gives to 35 sailors who sued after refusing on religious grounds to comply with an order to get vaccinated against COVID-19. The high court in a brief order Friday sided with the
Continue ReadingBy Web staff Click here for updates on this story DANVERS, Massachusetts (WBZ) — The North Shore NAACP is demanding changes in the Danvers Police Department because of a hazing scandal involving the high school hockey team. A Danvers officer was the coach at the time. In a public meeting Thursday night, a representative from
Continue ReadingBy DOROTHY TUCKER, CAROL THOMPSON Click here for updates on this story CHICAGO (WBBM) — Joseph Walawski opened a mattress shop in the 5700 block of busy West Fullerton Avenue three years ago. “I enjoy selling mattresses,” he said. But it’s been a struggle. Walawski has had to juggle other jobs with trying to get
Continue ReadingBy DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The Black News Channel shut down on Friday after failing to meet its payroll and losing the support of its chief investor, Jacksonville Jaguars owner Shahid Khan. The network, founded by former GOP congressman J.C. Watts, relaunched last year following an investment by Khan, hiring
Continue ReadingThe Associated Press Stocks wound up mostly higher on Wall Street Friday after another day of bouncing around as traders try to figure out what’s next for the economy. It was a fitting ending for a bumpy week that had both gains and losses for major U.S. indexes. Treasury yields rose sharply again and crude
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Friday: Cutera, Titan rise; Huntsman, General Motors fall.
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL BIESECKER, ERIKA KINETZ and BEATRICE DUPUY Associated Press LVIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces have repeatedly attacked Ukrainian medical facilities, striking at hospitals, ambulances, medics, patients and even newborns — with at least 34 assaults independently documented by The Associated Press. This accounting of attacks on medical facilities is part of a larger
Continue ReadingBy DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Parole has been recommended for the last of three men convicted of hijacking a school bus full of children for $5 million ransom in 1976. Two parole commissioners acted Friday in the case of 70-year-old Frederick Woods. Gov. Gavin Newsom can send the decision to the
Continue ReadingBy SAMUEL PETREQUIN and RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — EU leaders struggled for hours Friday to find a compromise on a deal aimed at curbing energy prices that have gone through the roof and hurt households and businesses across the 27-nation bloc. There was a clear rift between southern and northern nations during
Continue ReadingBy SAMUEL PETREQUIN and RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — EU leaders struggled for hours Friday to find a compromise on a deal aimed at curbing energy prices that have gone through the roof and hurt households and businesses across the 27-nation bloc. There was a clear rift between southern and northern nations during
Continue ReadingBy Web staff Click here for updates on this story CHICAGO (WBBM) — A rideshare driver with a license to carry shot and wounded a would-be carjacker in the South Austin community on the city’s West Side Thursday evening. Police said at 6:32 p.m., the driver – a 30-year-old man – picked up three men
Continue ReadingBy Web staff Click here for updates on this story MIAMI, Florida (WFOR) — In an effort to put the brakes on the rowdy late night, sometimes violent, behavior of the spring break crowds on Miami Beach, a curfew has gone into effect in the city’s entertainment district. The nightly curfew started at 11:59 p.m.
Continue ReadingBy Casey Barber, CNN Baked, fried, roasted, mashed, creamy, crunchy, salty and starchy — potatoes seem designed to appeal to everyone, and I’d be hard-pressed to find a person who’s not a fan. After all, as author A.A. Milne wrote, “(I)f a man really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.”
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