By BRENDAN FARRINGTON Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill Friday to give parents a say in the books that schools can and can’t have in their libraries. Saying Florida public schools are making sexually explicit books available to children, It will force all elementary schools to provide a
Continue ReadingBy Web staff Click here for updates on this story MIAMI, Florida (WFOR) — Miami-Dade Animal Services is urging dog owners to keep a watch on their pets out in public as a new highly contagious disease spreads across South Florida. It’s called Canine Infectious Respiratory Disease Complex (CIRDC). “Canine infectious respiratory disease complex is
Continue ReadingBy Holmes Lybrand and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN The FBI is offering a $15,000 reward for information on a January 6 fugitive accused of assaulting multiple officers during the attack on the US Capitol, who the agency has been trying to arrest since June. Jonathan Daniel Pollock — one of a group of Floridians accused of
Continue ReadingBy RACHEL LA CORTE Associated Press OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Washington Gov. Jay Inslee has signed a nearly $17 billion, 16-year transportation revenue package that will pay for a variety of projects across the state, including building four new hybrid electric ferries. In addition to the new ferries, it electrifies two existing ferries and provides
Continue ReadingPARKLAND, Wash. (AP) — A memorial for slain Pierce County deputy Dominique “Dom” Calata is underway Friday near Tacoma. The 35-year-old was shot and killed last week during a SWAT arrest operation in which Sgt. Rich Scaniffe was shot and wounded. A procession began at the Washington State Fairgrounds, following a route that concluded at
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 The Associated Press. This accounting of attacks on medical facilities is part of a
Continue ReadingBy Web staff Click here for updates on this story LOS ANGELES (KCAL) — The Los Angeles Fire Department will make history Friday as it prepares to swear in Kristin Crowley as its first female fire chief. Crowley, a 22-year veteran of the Los Angeles Fire Department, will also be the agency’s first LGBTQ and
Continue ReadingThe Associated Press A COVID-19 outbreak on the Japanese team at the women’s curling world championships forced them to compete one player down in one match and forfeit another. The team skipped by Ikue Kitazawa had been in playoff contention heading into the final day of the round-robin before losing to first-place Switzerland in the
Continue ReadingBy Oliver Darcy, CNN Business A judge in Washington D.C. on Thursday dismissed a high-profile case filed by a Washington Post politics reporter who alleged that the newspaper and its former top editor subjected her to unlawful discrimination after she publicly said that she had been the victim of sexual assault. The reporter, Felicia Sonmez,
Continue ReadingBy TRAVIS LOLLER Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A former Tennessee nurse has been found guilty of criminally negligent homicide in the accidental death of a patient because of a medication error. She was also found guilty of gross neglect of an impaired adult.The jury reached its verdict Friday. RaDonda Vaught in 2017 injected
Continue ReadingBy GERALD IMRAY AP Sports Writer CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Mohamed Salah had his say this time as Egypt beat Sadio Mané’s Senegal 1-0 in the first leg of their World Cup playoff in Cairo. A Salah shot came off the crossbar and forced an own goal to give Egypt a slender lead
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Un niño de 14 años murió después de caer el jueves por la noche desde la torre de caída que se inauguró recientemente en el complejo de entretenimiento ICON Park del área de Orlando, Florida, dijeron las autoridades. Tire Sampson, de Missouri, cayó de la atracción Orlando FreeFall, descrita por
Continue ReadingBy Kim Passoth Click here for updates on this story LAS VEGAS, Nevada (KVVU) — At their board meeting Thursday night, CCSD Trustees voted to implement a program called “Dads in Schools”, allowing dads and others to volunteer and serve as school campus monitors. Those behind the program maintain a strong male presence on a
Continue ReadingBy Lauren Martinez Click here for updates on this story LAS VEGAS, Nevada (KVVU) — On Thursday night, the public weighed in on what regulations should look like for short-term rentals in unincorporated Clark County with a summer deadline looming. Well over 100 people attended a town hall hosted by Commissioner Justin Jones at Desert
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has brushed off comments by a senior U.S. military official who said there are more Russian spies in Mexico than anywhere else in the world. That was an apparent reference to Russia’s huge embassy in Mexico City, which has a decades-old reputation for being an
Continue ReadingBy DAVE SKRETTA AP Basketball Writer There were 17.3 million brackets filled out in ESPN’s Tournament Challenge this year, and the quest for a perfect one was done before the first weekend of the NCAA Tournament. And the two favorites to win it all, Gonzaga and Arizona, were done before the second weekend. Another topsy-turvy
Continue ReadingAMHERST, Mass. (AP) — UMass has found a leader for its basketball program, hiring Frank Martin as its new coach. The 56-year-old Martin takes over the Minutemen program from Matt McCall, who was fired this month after going 58-81 over five seasons in Amherst. Martin arrives following his own dismissal from South Carolina last week
Continue ReadingBy DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The 25-foot (7.6 meter) tall sculpture of a shark crashing through the roof of Magnus Hanson-Heine’s house in rural Oxford, England, is now a protected landmark — and he’s not happy about it. Hanson-Heine loves the installation, erected by his father and a local sculptor in 1986
Continue ReadingBy CHARLES ODUM AP Sports Writer VENICE, Fla. (AP) — Five months later, the Atlanta Braves’ decision to have Dylan Lee start last season’s World Series Game 4 against Houston is still shocking. Even on a depleted staff, Lee was the most unlikely choice to start. Lee made history as the first pitcher to make
Continue ReadingBy AMY FORLITI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Federal prosecutors have dropped their appeal of a judge’s decision to overturn the death sentence for a Minnesota man convicted in the 2003 kidnapping and killing of Dru Sjodin — but they say they still intend to seek the death penalty when he is resentenced. Alfonso Rodriguez
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