By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — A 23-year-old man is under arrest after a body encased in concrete was discovered in a Hawaii home’s bathtub. U.S. Marshals and Los Angeles police found Juan Tejedor Baron hiding in a Greyhound bus crawl space in Anaheim, California. The bus was going to Mexico. A
Continue ReadingBy DAVE SKRETTA AP Basketball Writer KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Kansas coach Bill Self watched West Virginia counterpart Bob Huggins pick up two technical fouls in quick succession, then stalk off to the locker room to watch the final 30 minutes of their Big 12 quarterfinal matchup. Nobody was more upset about the situation
Continue ReadingCNN By Lauren Fox and Jeremy Herb, CNN After two weeks of unity surrounding the Biden administration’s swift and sweeping response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, patience is quickly thinning on Capitol Hill, with Republicans — and even some Democrats — challenging the administration to go further to help Ukrainian allies under attack. The tension
Continue ReadingBy Lauren Fox and Jeremy Herb, CNN After two weeks of unity surrounding the Biden administration’s swift and sweeping response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, patience is quickly thinning on Capitol Hill, with Republicans — and even some Democrats — challenging the administration to go further to help Ukrainian allies under attack. The tension comes
Continue ReadingBy TALI ARBEL AP Business Writer A shrinking number of well-known companies are still doing business in Russia even after hundreds of others have announced plans to curtail ties. The pace of businesses exiting Russia accelerated over the past week as the deadly violence and humanitarian crisis in Ukraine worsened, and as Western governments ratcheted
Continue ReadingBy TALI ARBEL AP Business Writer A shrinking number of well-known companies are still doing business in Russia even after hundreds of others have announced plans to curtail ties. The pace of businesses exiting Russia accelerated over the past week as the deadly violence and humanitarian crisis in Ukraine worsened, and as Western governments ratcheted
Continue ReadingBy Peter Valencia Click here for updates on this story QUEEN CREEK, Arizona (KTVK, KPHO) — A recent ranking placed four Arizona communities as some of the best places to raise a family in the West. And Queen Creek was ranked at No. 1. Dwellics analyzes city data, factoring in things like quality of life,
Continue ReadingSOUTHAMPTON, England (AP) — Newcastle has moved further away from relegation trouble with a 2-1 over Southampton thanks to goals from two January signings that joined the club after this rearranged match was supposed to be played. Chris Wood equalized in the first half and Bruno Guimaraes netted a second-half winner in a game that
Continue ReadingBy JOHN MARSHALL AP Basketball Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — Christian Koloko scored 24 points, Bennedict Mathurin added 20 and No. 2 Arizona held off Stanford 84-80 in the Pac-12 quarterfinals. The top-seeded Wildcats had a hard time shaking the Cardinal in a win late in the regular season and faced a similar issue to
Continue ReadingBy JAKE SEINER AP Baseball Writer Carlos Correa, Freddie Freeman and Kris Bryant are among 138 free agents set to resume looking for a spot after a freeze on roster transactions lifts with the signing of baseball’s new labor deal. Teams combined to commit $1.4 billion to free agents in the hours before the lockout
Continue ReadingLuis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN Español) — El Gobierno de Nicaragua informó este jueves que retiró a su embajador en España, a través de una breve carta dirigida a la cancillería de ese país. “El Gobierno de Reconciliación y Unidad Nacional de la República de Nicaragua, a través de su Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores, comunica
Continue ReadingBy SUDHIN THANAWALA Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Civil rights leader Andrew Young drew hundreds of people to Atlanta’s Centennial Olympic Park for a peace walk organized for his 90th birthday. The former congressman, United Nations ambassador and Atlanta mayor told the crowd Thursday that he wanted a “quiet, prayerful march for peace.” Young was
Continue ReadingNORWICH, England (AP) — Chelsea overcame the chaos of a turbulent day off the pitch to grind out a 3-1 win at Norwich and stay in the driving seat for Champions League qualification. The Blues took to the field at Carrow Road hours after learning owner Roman Abramovich had been sanctioned by the UK Government
Continue ReadingBy ANNE M. PETERSON AP Sports Writer Major League Soccer will leverage a $25 million loan from a coalition of Black-owned banks in an effort to promote economic equity and justice. The partnership announced Thursday with the nonprofit National Black Bank Foundation aims to grow the banks’ capital through interest earned and fees — which
Continue ReadingBy ANNE M. PETERSON AP Sports Writer Major League Soccer will leverage a $25 million loan from a coalition of Black-owned banks in an effort to promote economic equity and justice. The partnership announced Thursday with the nonprofit National Black Bank Foundation aims to grow the banks’ capital through interest earned and fees — which
Continue ReadingBy MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A federal judge is evaluating the mental health of a woman charged with kidnapping, firearms and terrorism-related counts nearly four years after authorities arrested her and four other adults from an extended family at a squalid New Mexico compound while recovered the remains of a
Continue ReadingNEW YORK — Ryan Kalkbrenner had 14 points, nine rebounds and three assists and Ryan Hawkins recorded 18 points as Creighton defeated Marquette 74-63 in the Big East Conference Tourney quarterfinals. Darryl Morsell led the Golden Eagles on Thursday with 18 points.
Continue ReadingBy Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN Latino, Black and Native American populations were significantly undercounted in the 2020 census, officials announced Thursday. The undercount rate for the Latino population was more than three times the rate for that group in 2010, according to Census estimates. Overall, officials estimate .24% of the nation’s population, or about 782,000
Continue ReadingBy THOMAS PEIPERT Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Prosecutors plan to drop a second-degree murder charge against a former television station security guard who shot a pro-police demonstrator following protests in downtown Denver in 2020. The district attorney’s office said Thursday it could not prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. Matthew Dolloff was hired by
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Hansler, Sonnet Swire and Jeremy Herb, CNN US Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield said Thursday that actions committed by Russia against the Ukrainian people constitute war crimes, marking the first time a senior US official has directly accused Moscow of war crimes since last month’s attack on Ukraine began. “They constitute
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