By KYLE HIGHTOWER AP Sports Writer BOSTON (AP) — The Celtics were a team in search of direction following a buzzer-beating loss to the Knicks on Jan. 6 that dropped them to 11th place in the Eastern Conference. It turned out to be an inflection point. Boston is an East-best 29-8 since then, buoyed by
Continue ReadingBy DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri’s candidacy filing period for Congress has ended without new U.S. House districts in place. More than five dozen people signed up to run for U.S. House seats without knowing exactly how those district lines will be drawn. The state House on Tuesday refused
Continue ReadingBy KABC Staff Click here for updates on this story EAST LOS ANGELES (KABC) — Homicide detectives are investigating the shooting death of a man in East Los Angeles Sunday night. Deputies with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department responded to the 5500 block of Whittier Boulevard just before 10 p.m. and found a 27-year-old
Continue ReadingBy LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press Alopecia is an autoimmune disorder that affects millions of people around the world. But to many women it is much more, especially Black women. Hair’s significance in beauty, race and culture can make its loss all the more poignant. So during the 94th Academy Awards ceremony Sunday night when comedian
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Gray, CNN Exactly one week after the Deep South faced a deadly tornado outbreak, another round of severe weather is taking shape in the same areas Tuesday and Wednesday for over 50 million people at risk. Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Jackson, Mississippi; and Tuscaloosa, Alabama, are all under a level 4 out of 5
Continue ReadingCNN By Jennifer Gray, CNN Exactly one week after the Deep South faced a deadly tornado outbreak, another round of severe weather is taking shape in the same areas Tuesday and Wednesday for over 50 million people at risk. Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Jackson, Mississippi; and Tuscaloosa, Alabama, are all under a level 4 out of
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Mackey Click here for updates on this story LOS ANGELES (KABC) — Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón on Monday joined family members of Cliff Hibbert Jr., a 22-year-old CSUN student who was shot and killed 14 years ago. “It took me nine months to carry my son in my stomach, 22
Continue ReadingRocío Muñoz-Ledo (CNN) — Whoopi Goldberg, miembro de la junta directiva de la Academia de Artes y Ciencias Cinematográficas, advirtió que habrá “grandes consecuencias” después de que Will Smith subió al escenario durante la ceremonia de los Oscar el domingo por la noche y abofeteó a Chris Rock. Madre y hermana de Will Smith rompen
Continue ReadingMANALAPAN, Fla. (AP) — Stretching the salary cap into the playoffs was one of the subjects touched on by the NHL’s 32 general managers at their annual meetings in Florida. NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman says the system has worked well since the league’s hard cap was introduced in 2005. Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly outlined how
Continue ReadingBy STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — One of the more reliable warning signals for a recession is starting to shine. The “yield curve” is watched for clues to how the bond market is feeling about the U.S. economy’s long-term prospects. On Tuesday, a closely followed part of the yield curve gave
Continue ReadingBy STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — One of the more reliable warning signals for a recession is starting to shine. The “yield curve” is watched for clues to how the bond market is feeling about the U.S. economy’s long-term prospects. On Tuesday, a closely followed part of the yield curve gave
Continue ReadingBy Christiane Amanpour, Jo Shelley and Maddie Araujo, CNN Lesia Vasylenko is coming to terms with her country’s new reality. “There we go,” the Ukrainian member of parliament tells CNN as the air raid sirens sound across Kyiv’s morning sky. “That sort of disturbs your day, but you learn to live with it.” Vasylenko wanted
Continue ReadingCNN By Christiane Amanpour, Jo Shelley and Maddie Araujo, CNN Lesia Vasylenko is coming to terms with her country’s new reality. “There we go,” the Ukrainian member of parliament tells CNN as the air raid sirens sound across Kyiv’s morning sky. “That sort of disturbs your day, but you learn to live with it.” Vasylenko
Continue ReadingBy COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press The history of racial violence in the U.S. is the backdrop as President Joe Biden signs the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act into law. The act is the result of the first bill to specify lynching as a federal hate crime. It allows for the prosecution of actions as lynchings if
Continue ReadingBy CHUCK KING Associated Press WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Houston Astros ace Justin Verlander won’t pitch on opening day as the team plans around the early-season schedule. Manager Dusty Baker says skipping Verlander on April 7 at the Los Angeles Angels better positions the 39-year-old right-hander to take advantage of the three off-days
Continue ReadingBy MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press The U.S. Census Bureau is looking at ways to possibly adjust its annual population estimates to account for the undercounts of some minority groups in the 2020 census numbers. A top official at the statistical agency said Tuesday that a research team within the Census Bureau is looking at the
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press ROCKVILLE, Md. (AP) — A wealthy stock trader has been resentenced to five years in prison for his role in the fiery death of a man who was helping him secretly dig tunnels for a nuclear bunker under a home in a Maryland suburb of Washington, D.C. Noting that Daniel
Continue ReadingBy Theresa Waldrop, Jenn Selva and Amanda Watts, CNN A Kentucky grand jury has indicted Quintez Brown, the man accused of shooting at a Louisville mayoral candidate, on charges of attempted murder and first-degree wanton endangerment. Brown allegedly entered the office Craig Greenberg, a Democratic candidate, and fired a gun at him on February 14.
Continue ReadingBy ANNE M. PETERSON AP Sports Writer An independent investigation into the Portland Timbers’ handling of domestic abuse accusations leveled at midfielder Andy Polo concluded that the team’s offers to help his estranged wife were not meant to persuade her to drop charges. The investigation by the law firm Proskauer Rose LLP concluded the Timbers
Continue ReadingBy ANNE M. PETERSON AP Sports Writer An independent investigation into the Portland Timbers’ handling of domestic abuse accusations leveled at midfielder Andy Polo concluded that the team’s offers to help his estranged wife were not meant to persuade her to drop charges. The investigation by the law firm Proskauer Rose LLP concluded the Timbers
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