NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Rangers have acquired Frank Vatrano from the Florida Panthers for a 2022 fourth-round pick. The move gives the Rangers the kind of veteran forward general manager Chris Drury was looking for and clears more than $2.5 million in salary cap space for the Panthers. Vatrano has 10 goals
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The Oregon Department of Forestry’s Central Oregon District said Wednesday it is accepting applications from landowners in several areas of Central Oregon who are interested in completing fuel reduction projects around their homes.
Continue ReadingBy Web staff Click here for updates on this story NORWALK, California (kcal) — A driver lost control of a car on the 105 Freeway offramp in Norwalk early Wednesday morning, sending it careening through a brick wall and crashing into a vacant home, knocking out power to nearly 200 Southern California Edison customers in
Continue ReadingBy ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — Canada will no longer require a pre-arrival COVID-19 test for vaccinated travelers as of April 1. A senior government official confirmed the change Wednesday. Last month, Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos announced that travelers coming to Canada would be able to present a negative rapid-antigen test at the
Continue ReadingBy Geneva Sands and Corinne Dorsey, CNN The Department of Homeland Security is reevaluating how the United States and United Kingdom share intelligence following the hostage standoff in Colleyville, Texas, which was carried out by a British man who flew to the US weeks before the attack. In January, Malik Faisal Akram engaged in an
Continue ReadingBy DENNIS WASZAK Jr. AP Pro Football Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Jets and quarterback Joe Flacco have agreed on a one-year contract. The move keeps Zach Wilson’s veteran backup in place. Flacco’s agency JL Sports announced the deal on Twitter on Wednesday. A person familiar with the deal asays the Jets
Continue ReadingCHELTENHAM, England (AP) — Two-time Grand National winner Tiger Roll was unable to finish his racing career with one final victory at the Cheltenham Festival. The 12-year-old Tiger Roll placed second in the Cross Country Chase after being overtaken with 200 yards (meters) to go by stablemate Delta Work. It was the 45th and last
Continue ReadingBy DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer An American aircraft-leasing company with some of its planes stuck in Russia says it is making progress in getting planes back. But the chairman of Los Angeles-based Air Lease Corporation didn’t give any specifics on Wednesday — such as saying how many planes the company has recovered. Russian airlines
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Continue ReadingBy RICH DUBROFF Associated Press SARASOTA, Fla. (AP) — Baltimore Orioles rookie catcher Adley Rutschman has a strained right triceps and probably won’t be ready to start the season. Rutschman, the top prospect in minor league baseball and the overall top draft pick in 2019, suffered the injury last Friday in a minor league intrasquad
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson Nueva York (CNN Business) — El presidente Joe Biden está utilizando su posición para llamar la atención sobre la tendencia de los precios de la gasolina a subir como un cohete cuando el precio del petróleo se dispara, pero caen como pluma cuando éste se desploma. Biden publicó un tuit este miércoles por
Continue ReadingATLANTA (AP) — The Atlanta Braves have signed outfielder Eddie Rosario, the 2021 NLCS MVP, to a two-year contract with $18 million guaranteed. The Braves added more outfield depth by signing Alex Dickerson to a $1 million, one-year deal that is not guaranteed. The addition of Rosario adds important depth to an outfield that may
Continue ReadingBy STEPHEN HAWKINS AP Sports Writer Mark Adams being Texas Tech’s head coach is the realization of a decades-old dream for the 65-year coach who rarely got too far from home. The Red Raiders are 25-9 and a No. 3 seed in the NCAA Tournament in his first season. Adams got the job when Chris
Continue ReadingCNN By Katie Bo Lillis, Natasha Bertrand, Jeremy Herb and Zachary Cohen, CNN Slovakia has preliminarily agreed to provide Ukraine with a key Soviet-era air defense system to help defend against Russian airstrikes, according to three sources familiar with the matter, but the US and NATO are still grappling with how to backfill that country’s
Continue ReadingBy FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ Associated Press ZITACUARO, Mexico (AP) — Six weeks ago, journalist Armando Linares choked up in a video announcing the killing of a colleague and promised to continue doing journalism that exposed the corrupt. Now Linares too has been gunned down — the eighth journalist killed in Mexico this year. Linares continued to
Continue ReadingRENTON, Wash. (AP) — The Seattle Seahawks made their first two deals outside of their own free agents, agreeing to terms on contracts with defensive end Uchenna Nwosu and cornerback Artie Burns on Wednesday. Burns’ deal is for one year and worth up to $2 million, while Nwosu’s deal is for two years and worth
Continue ReadingCNN By Eliza Mackintosh and Oleksandra Ochman, CNN Lviv, Ukraine (CNN) — When Serhii woke up to news reports that a bomb had flattened Mariupol’s Drama Theater, where hundreds of people had been sheltering, he couldn’t breathe. His wife and their two daughters were inside. A day before the attack, the 56-year-old editor, who lives
Continue ReadingBy KATHLEEN FOODY Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — A physicist who theorized the existence of solar wind and became the first person to witness the launch of a spacecraft bearing his name has died. Eugene Parker’s son says he died Tuesday in Chicago at the age of 94, a decade after being diagnosed with Parkinson’s
Continue ReadingBy AARON BEARD AP Basketball Writer A diversity report for graduation rates among this year’s NCAA Tournament teams found the gap between white and Black men’s players has shrunk compared to last season. The study was released Wednesday from The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport at Central Florida. It found that racial gap
Continue ReadingALMATY, Kazakhstan (AP) — Kazakhstan’s president has vowed to implement sweeping political reforms and share more powers with a bolstered legislature, two months after his country was rocked by deadly nationwide unrest. Kassym-Jomart Tokayev told a joint session of the oil-rich former Soviet nation’s parliament Wednesday that a transition away from its super-presidential system was
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